Re: [perl #21316] Bus error from C<sub $a>

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:52:47AM -0000, Robin Barker wrote:
> This short piece of code
> 	perl -e 'sub { sub $a; open my $f; die; }'
> produces
> 	Bus error
> 
> If you change anything 'sub', 'open', 'my' or 'die'
> you get a syntax error (and sometimes a bus error).


it gives the following in bleedperl:

$ ./perl -e 'sub { sub $a; open my $f; die; }'
Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine at -e line 1.


IIRC correctly, this was fixed by the patch that handled "sub;".

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• [perl #21316] Bus error from C<sub $a> by Robin Barker
• Re: [perl #21316] Bus error from C<sub $a> by Dave Mitchell