Hello All,

I am having a problem with my script causing the interpreter to crash (as in causing a windows error message box) when it exits. This is after all of my code is executed, so apparently it is during the garbage collection or some other cleanup.

I am using some regexes that refer to each other recursively with the experimental (??{}) construct within qr// strings, so my first thought was that this might be causing a circular reference problem of some sort for garbage collection. However, it makes no difference if I undef all of these myself.

Unfortunately, my script is quite long, so I'm not certain where to look. The error started appearing when I added a large segment of code that includes the aforementioned regexes, as well as several recursive functions.

Does anyone have any general insight on what sort of thing would cause a crash like this? Is there a possibility that there is some sort of case with recursion that could cause garbage collection problems? Are the experimental regex features just living up to their name?

Update: Running in the debugger does not shed any light on the situation. In fact, the crash still happens, but when I exit the debugger.

Thanks in advance,
ColonelPanic


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In reply to Interpreter crashes on script exit by ColonelPanic

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