> [mith@ceh.ac.uk - Mon Aug 15 06:22:48 2005]: > > > This is a bug report for perl from mith@ceh.ac.uk, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.6. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please enter your report here] > > An application I've written that uses regular expressions to > search for repetitive sequences in genomes sometimes segfaults. > I've reproduced this on Linux and SunOS. The problem does not > occur when perl 5.9.2 is used (installed separately in /opt/perl). > A script containing the affected parts of the application is > here: > http://www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk/~milo/perl/testcode.pl > This data causes the segfault: > http://www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk/~milo/perl/fault_yes.fasta (2.7M) > This data does not: > http://www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk/~milo/perl/fault_no.fasta (2.6M) > The problem may be connected to large numbers of "N" bases in > the sequence. These should be ignored by the script, but have > to be included in the sequence. > Due to permissions, the test code cannot be accessed. Please fix the permissions so the code can be accessed. steve@kirk:~/smoke/perl-current$ wget http://www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk/~milo/perl/testcode.pl --11:31:23-- http://www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk/~milo/perl/testcode.pl => `testcode.pl' Resolving www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk... 192.171.160.230 Connecting to www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk|192.171.160.230|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 11:31:24 ERROR 403: Forbidden.