Hi,
I have answered my own question - it was a case of bad C programming :-(
Cheers.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 10:57:59AM +0000, Piers Harding wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am currently trying to build a package to access an SAP system ( Inspired by
>Brian's talk at the German Perl Workshop ) using a third party library supplied by
>SAP AG. ( http://www.sap.com ) using Inline::C.
>
> I have scoured the Inine::C-Cookbook, and there have been many helpfull examples
>that I have more or less directly plagiarised from inorder to develop a routine that
>returns a reference to a complex nested hash ( also with nested arrays ). This works
>just fine in the script context, but when I work it into the package context I end up
>getting segmentation faults when I, for instance, use Dumper to print out the complex
>structure.
>
> Has anyone got any pointers on what sort of things to specifically look out for when
>trying to bind third party libraries using Inline -eg. an easily accessable example -
>that might help me understand what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I can supply all the code - but unfortunately unless you have access to an SAP
>system it is fairly meaning less ( these are the problems with closed source systems
>:-( ).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Piers harding.
