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Re: perl-5.8.5-3 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch coredump
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- Cc: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>, cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, pod-people at perl dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:30:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: perl-5.8.5-3 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch coredump
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <41949DE6.8040405@x-ray.at> <4194AC4C.1020603@x-ray.at> <4194B6BC.3040707@familiehaase.de>
- Reply-to: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb at nyckelpiga dot de>
Gerrit wrote:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>>> perl -mPod::Simple::HTMLBatch -ePod::Simple::HTMLBatch::go \
>>> @INC /www/docs/perl/pod2html
>>>
>>> For me it always dumps core at the same place.
>>> When writing pods/perltoc.html:
> [...]
>> And it is not an error on parsing the problematic file.
>> perltoc.pod is by far the largest file with the most links.
> It is 355440 bytes, which IMO is not that large.
>> perl -mPod::Simple::HTML -ePod::Simple::HTML::go \
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/pods/perltoc.pod > perltoc.html
>>
>> works fine.
>> And after renaming /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/pods/perltoc.pod to
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/pods/perltoc.pod~
>> it also works fine.
> Since this file is skipped then, yes.
>> So it's clearly a cygwin or perl specific memory issue.
> Hmmm. perl uses about 23 MB memory in total for me before it dies.
> I think this is again the 2 MB stack issue, I have the stack for perl at
> 8 MB now, maybe t needs more. Do you want to recompile yourself to test
> this? Get the cygwin perl source package for this and look into
> perl-5.8.5/cygwin/perlld.in to change the default stack size there to
> eg. 16 MB or 32 MB instead of 8 MB. I'll try this now anyway, so wait a
> minute...
Reini, please file a bug report, it fails for me too even when using a perl
compile with 16 MB stack size (I have tried with perl-5.9.2 now where it
fails too on the same file).
Gerrit
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