mod_perl and Sablotron ?

[Jamie]

Hi All,

Sablotron looks extremely promising, and as a command line utility it's
already useful, but I'm having some problems getting it to work under apache
with mod_perl.

The problem is it gets a segfault when it runs, I think it's related to the
SablotFree(foo); routine. 

I'm not a native C coder, but I did find something interesting.

This doesn't crash under mod_perl, but it doesn't work either. :-( The 
fprintf(stderr,"Result: %s\n",result); line prints something completely
different (in the apache error log file) under mod_perl then it does under 
regular perl. 

It prints some kind of binary data, leading me to believe it's a memory 
allocation mix-up of some kind, particular to mod_perl.

Any idea on whats happening?

Thanks

Jamie

----------| Sablotron.xs |-------------------

int
SablotProcessStrings(sheet,input,result)
        char *          sheet
        char *          input
        char *          result
        PREINIT:
        char anything;         // ???
        char *foo = &anything;
        CODE:
        RETVAL = SablotProcessStrings(sheet, input, &foo);
        perror("We're here");
        result = foo;
        OUTPUT:
        result
        RETVAL
        CLEANUP:
        perror("Just before cleanup");
        fprintf(stderr,"Result: %s\n",result);
        SablotFree(foo);
        perror("We're After cleanup");