[libxml-devel] Code snippet to crash libxml (segfault)

[Dan Janowski]

C sure is lovely, isn't it. I will try to reproduce this. If you would  
not mind, please post this as a bug so I can track it at:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1971&group_id=494&func=browse

Dan


On Feb 7, 2008, at 03:36, Saurabh Nanda wrote:

>> Are you sure it is the doc reference and not the GC finalizers
>> running? Put a print statement after it and see what happens.
>
> Probably what you're saying is right. I don't fully understand what
> effect the GC finalizers have, but I've tried the following script
> (same script without the doc reference) in two cases:
>
> 1. ruby /tmp/xml/rb -- segfaults
> 2. copy paste script in an irb session. Doesn't segfault at that
> moment. However, as soon as you exit irb, it segfaults.
>
> require 'xml/libxml'
> x=XML::Parser.string("<test>something</test>")
> doc=x.parse
> x.parse
>
>
> What could the problem be?
>
> Nandz.
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