[ID 20010124.002] segfault with debugger and FileHandle

This is a bug report for perl from gellrich@linux.local,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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Hi,

perl -MFileHandle -d -e 1

and then, in the debugger,
V (to see variables)

leads to 

@- = (
   0 Signal SEGV at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/dumpvar.pl line 372
        main::dumpvar('main') called at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/perl5db.pl line 668
        require 0 called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/perl5db.pl line
668
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Flags:
        DB::DB called at -e line 1 category=library
Abgebrochen         

severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by gellrich at Tue May  2 13:33:21 CEST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.13, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux linux 2.2.13 #1 mon nov 8 15:51:29 cet 1999 i686
unknown '
    config_args='-d'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include
-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=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /home/gellrich/src
    /home/gellrich
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/gellrich
    LANG=de_DE
    LANGUAGE (unset)
   
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/netscape:/opt/kde/lib:/opt/netscape:/opt/netscape:/opt/netscape:
    LOGDIR (unset)
   
PATH=/usr/local/JSDK2.0/bin:/home/gellrich/src:/usr/local/teTeX/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:.:/usr/lib/pgsql/bin:/home/gellrich/ilf/bin:/usr/local/eclipse/bin/i386_linux
    PERL5LIB=/home/gellrich/src:/home/gellrich
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [ID 20010124.002] segfault with debugger and FileHandle by andreas.tanner