From william.charles@csfb.com

Folks, I know that this is a long shot, but has anyone seen core
dumps with perl5.005_03 (hv.c), Solaris 2.5.1 & the SunPro
compilers v4.2?

This is what gdb shows me -- an attempt to dereference a NULL
pointer?...

Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation Fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libintl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmp.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libw.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /app/csha/perl5/lib/5.00503/sun4-solaris/auto/Socket/Socket.so...done.
Reading symbols from /app/csha/perl5/lib/5.00503/sun4-solaris/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so...done.
Reading symbols from /app/csha/lib/sun4-solaris/auto/Shadow/Shadow.so...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/nss_compat.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/nss_nis.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/nss_files.so.1...done.
#0 0x9e284 in Perl_share_hek (str=0x2b98e0 "16341", len=5, hash=60108031) at hv.c​:1202
1202 if (HeHASH(entry) != hash) /* strings can't be equal */
(gdb) bt
#0 0x9e284 in Perl_share_hek (str=0x2b98e0 "16341", len=5, hash=60108031) at hv.c​:1202
#1 0x9b030 in Perl_hv_store_ent (hv=0x18760c, keysv=0x1b225c, val=0x1ab444, hash=60108031) at hv.c​:411
#2 0x9a5ac in Perl_hv_fetch_ent (hv=0x18760c, keysv=0x1b225c, lval=1, hash=60108031) at hv.c​:254
#3 0xaaf18 in Perl_pp_helem () at pp_hot.c​:1358
#4 0x1375a4 in Perl_runops_standard () at run.c​:30
#5 0x24994 in perl_run (sv_interp=0x16400c) at perl.c​:1100
#6 0x1fd14 in main (argc=3, argv=0xeffffe1c, env=0xeffffe2c) at perlmain.c​:51
(gdb) list
1197 xhv = (XPVHV*)SvANY(PL_strtab);
1198 /* assert(xhv_array != 0) */
1199 LOCK_STRTAB_MUTEX;
1200 oentry = &((HE**)xhv->xhv_array)[hash & (I32) xhv->xhv_max];
1201 for (entry = *oentry; entry; i=0, entry = HeNEXT(entry)) {
1202 if (HeHASH(entry) != hash) /* strings can't be equal */
1203 continue;
1204 if (HeKLEN(entry) != len)
1205 continue;
1206 if (memNE(HeKEY(entry),str,len)) /* is this it? */
(gdb) print *entry
$1 = {hent_next = 0x0, hent_hek = 0x0, hent_val = 0x0}

I'll try compiling with gcc to eliminate compiler error as the
cause, but any other thoughts would be much appreciated...

Thanks,
W.

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William Charles ___________________________________________________
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