Bad free() with perl, DBI, Informix and blobs

Hi, After much playing about, I finally managed to get blobs in and out of an Informix database using DBI. However, there is a problem. I have a function that returns the blob as a scalar. Whenever I have a script that calls it, I get the following error: Bad free() ignored at <program name> line <x> where program name is the name of the script calling the function and x is the line number. This always occurs whenever I try to extract a blob from the database. The error occurs (according to the line number) on the line *immediately after* the function call even if the scalar is not used within that line. The scalar contains the blob as required but this error message is littering my web pages. I don't know whether this is a perl, DBI or Informix problem - can anyone help? Best wishes, Steven smith@avl.com