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Re: 5.12: inplace sort <*> segfault (gcc 4.5.0 bug?)

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
May 11, 2010 08:38
Subject:
Re: 5.12: inplace sort <*> segfault (gcc 4.5.0 bug?)
Message ID:
20100511153840.GJ2576@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:31:16PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:26:45AM -0600, Curtis Jewell wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 May 2010 15:22 +0100, hv@crypt.org wrote:
> > > hv@crypt.org wrote:
> > > :Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > ::$  ./perl -Ilib/ -e 'sort glob("*")'
> > > ::Segmentation fault
> > > :
> > > :I get the same result with gcc-4.5.0 here, only with -Dusemultiplicity.
> > > [...]
> > > :I'll try to distil this down to a bug report for gcc.
> > > 
> > > Now submitted as <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44081>.
> > 
> > And already marked as invalid there (it may have been distilled too far
> > for them to notice the bug?)
> 
> I suspect that the reader/rejector assumed that the indexes for notnull()
> start at 0. They start at 1. If you make that mistake, you would conclude
> (wrongly) what the rejector did.

Gah. I think I'm wrong here. I'm not convinced that the test case is correct.

Nicholas Clark

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