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From:
Dave Mitchell
Date:
September 1, 2010 07:12
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.12.2-RC1 is now available
Message ID:
20100901141239.GA2892@iabyn.com
On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 02:39:39PM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
> 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.

Yes. It's been fixed in blead, but (rightly) not backported to maint.

-- 
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it
happens.
    -- Woody Allen

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