From: Robert McGovern <robertm@...>
Date: 2002-12-05T19:50:55+09:00
Subject: Re: require 'tk' causes segfault later

Phil Tomson wrote:
> hundred nodes and I found that the script segfaults.  I turned off the 
> tree drawing feature thinking that that was the problem, but it still 
> segfaulted which was odd (as far as I knew the script was back to the 
> state it was in prior to adding the drawing feature).  Then I noticed that 
> I still had the 'require "tk"' at the top of the script.  After commenting 
> that out the problem went away.
> 
> Does requiring Tk take a lot of memory or something?  Any ideas?

Which version of Ruby are you using and on which platform?

Rob