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RE: [perl #36667] Lengthy parameter passed to eval leads to bus error on FreeBSD 5.4

From:
John Narron
Date:
July 27, 2005 12:28
Subject:
RE: [perl #36667] Lengthy parameter passed to eval leads to bus error on FreeBSD 5.4
Message ID:
200507271331982.SM00369@goliath

The following script also produces similar results:

perl -e 'my $x = q[if ($h->{ALPHA}->{BETA}->{q{stuff}}) {] . "\n" . q[
stuff($h, @_);] . "\n}\n\n"; $x x= 7238; $x =~ s/stuff/"stuff" .
++$count/eg; eval $x' 

Adjusting the x= XXXX makes a bit more flexible test case.  7238 doesn't
crash, but 7239 does.




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