Hello.

I keep getting segfaults when I attempt to parse an XML with Czech diacritic characters encoded in UTF-8. I experienced this no matter what parser package I used, except for PurePerl. The segfault only happens for XML files above 2 KB or so... I'm including the code that causes the fault and a link to the minimal XML file giving me the error (if I delete a line, it runs normally).

This has been happening since July roughly and I've been solving it by using PurePerl which now seems to have a bug in it, so I decided to ask help on this matter first.

My perl and machine are: v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
Gentoo Linux for amd64 on Core2 Duo, Kernel 2.6.19 with Gentoo patches.

The XML file

#!/usr/bin/perl

{
    package Handler;
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use encoding 'utf8';

    sub new { bless +{} }
}

use strict;
use warnings;
use encoding 'utf8';
use XML::SAX::ParserFactory;

$XML::SAX::ParserPackage = "XML::LibXML::SAX";
open (my $file, '<:encoding(utf8)', 'train.m.xml');
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(
    "Handler" => Handler->new() );
$parser->parse_file($file);
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