Odd perl 5.8.0 error
Andrew DeFaria
Andrew@DeFaria.com
Fri Aug 29 16:07:00 GMT 2003
Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
>> All of a sudden a Perl script of mine that has been working fine for a
>> long time stopped working. I've traced it down to the following line in
>> Perl:
>
>> my $nbr_msgs = `grep -ce "^From " "$returned_dir/$sender"`;
>
>> Seems innocent enough right? Here's the error message:
>
>> C:\Cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** couldn't release memory 0x9D4000(1032192)
>> for 'C:\Cygwin\lib\perl5\5.8.0\cygwin-multi-64int\auto\Fcntl\Fcntl.dll'
>> alignment, Win32 error 487
>
>> 13 [main] perl 1040 sync_with_child: child 5780(0x648) died before
>> initialization with status code 0x1
>
>> I searched winerror.h to find;
>
>> #define ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS 487L
>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> Looks like a rebase issue, though I thought that only Win95/98/ME are
> affected by this.
Ugh! I hate rebase things. Just feels like a kludge to me. Anyways,
assuming it is rebase issue how do I fix it (what's the command (ah
duh, rebase I know) and it's parameters?)
> Does the failure happens sporadically or on regular basis now?
Well if I put the above Perl snippet into a small script it works OK but
in my larger script it fails. I can step through the Perl debugger to
that statement and then attempt to step through it and it fails every
time. After the above error I get the same error again and again...
> You don't have updated perl or cygwin before this happend the first time?
I do believe I updated Cygwin about a week or two ago. Haven't run into
this problem until last night. Then again I don't think I ran this
particular script until last night either...
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