On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:24:14PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> I get this error message in my embedded perl app. I used to get it, then
> I cleaned up some refcounting bugs, and it went away. Later, it came
> back (very probably due to a different cause). I know I'm not giving
> enough information to go on, but can anyone tell me what this means and
> give me any tips on how to go about tracking it down?
Well, it comes about because the source SV type passed to sv_setsv() isn't
one of the types it can cope with. It's not expecting to copy hashes (or
arrays or a few other things), and usually everyone passes references to
the complex types. I know how to provoke the error with pure perl, but only
for IOs:
$ perl -e '$a = ${*STDOUT{IO}}'
Bizarre copy of IO in sassign at -e line 1.
As to what the debugger is doing, or how to diagnose this better, I don't
really have any clues.
Nicholas Clark
