My fear is, that as I have now built all those packages in conjunction with 5.8.7, whatever malady is the root cause of the segfault may now be compiled into, (via errors in the Perl header files?), all the (XS components of) packages that I built in conjunction with it.

I think that fear is misplaced - I think it would be a rare case that a perl extension will need to be re-compiled (or benefit in any way from re-compiling) when you switch to perl 5.8.8.

Anyway, time will tell .... :-)

The error can still arise in perl 5.8.8. If you have a compiler, and Inline::C installed, and you run the Object Oriented Inline example from Inline's C-Cookbook.pod, you should get the "Free to wrong pool ..." error on Windows. That error still persists with perl 5.8.8 - but that's because it's the code in the Cookbook example that's in need of correction.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^5: Segfault on second (identical) call to a sub by syphilis
in thread Segfault on second (identical) call to a sub by BrowserUk

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