[ID 20000222.009] assertion botched running utf8 warnings

This is a bug report for perl from rmb1@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl v5.5.660.


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perl5.5.660 failed one test.  A simple example is:

% ./perl -Ilib -Mutf8 -we 'my $a = "snøstorm";'
Malformed UTF-8 character at -e line 1.
assertion botched (chunk's tail overwrite?):
*((char *)((caddr_t)ovp + nbytes - sizeof (unsigned int) + i)) == 0x55

I'm afraid this one's beyond me to suggest a patch.

Robin 
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Site configuration information for perl v5.5.660:

Configured by rmb1 at Tue Feb 22 12:55:19 GMT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 660) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos tempest 5.7 generic_106541-04 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '
    config_args='-Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=~/appl'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
    usesocks=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
    use64bits=define uselargefiles=define usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O -g', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release)
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DUSE_64_BITS -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib '
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.5.660:
    lib
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/5.5.660/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/5.5.660
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.5.650/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.5.650
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.5.640/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.5.640
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.5.660:
    HOME=/home/rmb1
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/rmb1/appl/script:/usr/tempest/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/Admigration/exec:/usr/local/hotjava/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/rmb1/appl/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/csh

• [ID 20000222.009] assertion botched running utf8 warnings by Robin Barker
• Re: [ID 20000222.009] assertion botched running utf8 warnings by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: [ID 20000222.009] assertion botched running utf8 warnings by Jarkko Hietaniemi