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Re: [PATCH] Bug in Hash::Util::FieldHash

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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
April 21, 2007 01:55
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Bug in Hash::Util::FieldHash
Message ID:
b77c1dce0704210155w6ae8d125u65eb47539a4c661a@mail.gmail.com
On 21/04/07, Anno Siegel <anno4000@mailbox.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> The recent discussion of Hash::Util::FieldHash has alerted me to
> a bug in the current version.  It is possible to bypass garbage
> collection in a field hash through innocent-looking actions like
>
>      %fieldhash_target = %fieldhash_orig;
>
> The target field hash will not be garbage-collected.  That's a
> serious oversight, fortunately easily corrected:

Thanks, applied as #31001.
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