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From:
Ben Morrow
Date:
September 1, 2010 06:40
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.12.2-RC1 is now available
Message ID:
20100901133939.GA45347@osiris.mauzo.dyndns.org
Quoth doughera@lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty):
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> > However, this is new in this RC:
> > 
> >     op/stash.t
> > (Wstat: 0 Tests: 31 Failed: 0)
> >       TODO passed:   26
> > 
> > Which is:
> > 
> >     ok 25 - ...and an __ANON__ stash
> >     Segmentation Fault - core dumped
> >     not ok 26 - anon CVs in undefed stash don't segfault # TODO anon
> > CVs not accounted for yet
> >     # Failed at t/op/stash.t line 148
> 
> I can't reproduce the "TODO passed" on either Solaris 8/SPARC or 
> OpenSolaris/x86, either on 5.12.1 or 5.12.2-RC1.

IIRC it's a segfault caused by chasing a freed pointer, so it's entirely
possible for it to sometimes randomly fail to segfault.

Ben
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