"new shapefileObj" causing bizarre errors

[Sean O'Hagan]

Hello List:

First, here is the troublesome call:

$shapefile = new shapefileObj('/path/to/my/first/dataset/DATA1',-1);

I get the following warnings:

perl in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
perl in free(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense.
perl in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
perl in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
perl in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.

The DATA1 file is about 10.3MB in size. I have a second file DATA2 of 10.8MB
which works fine.

If I add an "or die('unable to ...')" to the end of the line, I get a perl
core dump.

Any ideas? THanks,

Sean.
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