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You can use gdb to debug perl. It is not ideal, but when you have core dumps it should help.
# start gdb gdb /usr/bin/perl # inside gdb run the script run script.pl # after it segv's get the stack trace bt
You can inspect the c data that was in memory at the time of the segv and probably figure out what caused the core dump. See the gdb man page for more details.

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Re: How to debug a segfault?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Nov 19, 2003 at 16:31 UTC
    If you want to debug a segfault (or a memory leak) in perl itself, I like to use valgrind. It's popular on p5p as well.

    Abigail