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Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #24704] Regex replace looses chars

From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
December 21, 2003 14:57
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Re: [perl #24704] Regex replace looses chars
Message ID:
20031221225734.GD94211@plum.flirble.org
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:39:50PM +0000, Marty Pauley wrote:
> If you're feeling paranoid, a safer place to unOOK is much closer to the
> start of pp_subst, just before we take the first pointer to the inside
> of the PV.

What do I do if I'm feeling really paranoid, and wondering if there are a
whole class of bugs like these?

[taking pointers to the insides of SVs that are then moved around because
of upgrading. Hack the core to create all scalars as OOK, and see which
tests fail?]

Nicholas Clark



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