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On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 09:25:01PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Finding a patch there would have violated several known laws of physics,
> most importantly it would have involved time travel.
Umm, much as I hate being the tider of bad news, with that patch and on a
-Dusemymalloc build, this code:
for my $index (8114,8119) {
my $c = chr($index);
my $a = uc $c;
}
warn "exiting\n";
outputs:
$ ./perl -Ilib /tmp/a.pl
exiting
assertion botched (chunk's tail overwrite?): ((caddr_t)ovp + nbytes - sizeof (unsigned int))[i] == 0x55 (malloc.c:2075)
Aborted
--
The Enterprise's efficient long-range scanners detect a temporal vortex
distortion in good time, allowing it to be safely avoided via a minor
course correction.
-- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #21
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