I provoked DBI into calling Perl_sv_dump by having a derived class of DBI::db that also contained an 'underlying' database handle as a member, and called methods on that. I saw in the DBI code that the dump should be accompanied by a croak() message but for some reason I didn't see the croak(). I've since fixed my code (which was never intended to have both inheritance and containment together) so I can't give many more details about exactly what happened. -- Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>Thread Previous