Hi, I'm trying to maintain an update a crufty Perl CGI I've inherited, and it has one behaviour which is really baffling me.

When I run the CGI I'm getting what looks like Perl internals printed to Apache's error_log.

e.g. 

SV = RV(0x87a4af0) at 0xbffff530
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (ROK,READONLY)
  RV = 0x87f86a0
SV = RV(0x87a4b3c) at 0x87f876c
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (ROK)
  RV = 0x87f8778
SV = RV(0x88001c0) at 0xbffff2b0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (ROK,READONLY)
  RV = 0x87f8778
I have no idea why it is doing this. It doesn't seem to be effecting the application, but it is bugging me not to understand it.

Apache is a simple httpd, no mod_perl. The CGI uses DBI, and a few other modules, but nothing all that interesting. I'm not using Devel::Peak or something else that would make me expect to see Perl guts.

Any ideas?

In reply to CGI spilling Perl internals into error log by kellan

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