On 08/07/2011 11:59 PM, Erland Sommarskog wrote:
int
executebatch(sqlsrv, rows_affected = NULL)
SV * sqlsrv;
SV * rows_affected;
In one place in one test script, this XS routine returns undef. This is a
core routine, so it is called well over thousand times in the test suite.
And in one specific case it returns undef. I've traced it so far that the
underlying C++ function does really execute to the end and returns TRUE.
Apparently something goes wrong in the part that comes after? Why? Maybe
something was clobbered, so maybe I have a bad pointer somewhere. But
they usually cause a lot more problem than a single miss in 1000 executions.
Anyway, that's why I stick with -O2.
Check the C code generated by xsubpp. Then insert ludicrous amounts of
printf()'s into the code that comes after the actual C++ function
invocation.
Since you're passing around SV*'s the bug might be in the code that you
wrote to handle the Perl datastructures if it's more than just a simple
SvIV on rows_affected or SvPV_nolen() on sqlsrv. Sometimes, the time of
destruction of "mortal"s may not be what you expect (generally during
nextstate ops, though), so if you have a mortal SV that gets destroyed
early... err. No. Then you typically get a segmentation fault, not an
SV* that just happens to point at &PL_sv_undef. Nevermind my drivel. :)
Hope this helps a little bit.
Steffen