Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!ig!ames!uhccux!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!russell From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: perl -d often dies or runs out of memory Message-ID: <1991Jan16.004240.21329@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Date: 16 Jan 91 00:42:40 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lines: 18 I am having very little luck running perl under the debugger. I am at patch level 36 but have also tried some of these scripts at PL 44. [ I am on an SGI 4D series running Irix 3.3.1.] What happens it that when I step through a script with the debugger it almost always dies when the script calls a subroutine or attempts to read a file. Sometimes it gets a segmentation fault and dumps core and other times prints the message 'out of memory' and exits. Can any body help? Cheers, Russell. -- Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.