Re: [xml] xpathEval namespace axis corruption/segfault

["William M. Brack" <wbrack mmm com hk>]

Martin (gzlist) wrote:
> I attach a simple python script (libxml2_crash.py) that seems to
>  reference uninitialised memory, or crash the interpreter.
>
<snip>
>  I tried the simplest C equivalent I could cook up from the docs
>  (attached libxml2_nocrash.c) which behaves itself, perhaps
> suggesting
>  the problem's in the python bindings. Could someone with a good
>  understanding of the lib can get a better idea of what exactly is
> up?
>
>  Martin

I traced through quite a bit, and was able to isolate where and what
the problem is.  Unfortunately, I can't spend much time on libxml2
for the next couple of weeks, so I have opened a bug
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521699) which describes
how far I got with it.

Perhaps another list member may be able to pursue this?  Python
bindings are always fun to work on....

Bill