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Thanks, applied to bleadperl. Hoping it's portable, the smokes will tell ! On 19 August 2010 20:38, Bram <p5p@perl.wizbit.be> wrote: > Resend of original patch which was never applied. > The bug was fixed by Nicholas on 18th February. > > Best regards, > > Bram > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:57:12 +0100, Bram <p5p@perl.wizbit.be> wrote: > >> Attached is a patch that adds test for [perl #72922] which was already >> fixed by Nicholas. >> >> Example when the code crashed: >> my $re1 = qr/foo/; >> my $re2 = $re1; >> weaken($re2); >> my $re3 = qr/$re1/; >> >> What happened was that $re3 is a copy from $re1 which included the >> magic from $re1. (The magic of $re1 has a back-reference to $re2.) >> >> >> This patch uses runperl because the test script (on a broken perl) >> results in double free's and/or segfaults. >> >> In the test 3 things are checked: >> a) that it does not crash; >> b) that the 'value' of the regex remains intact; >> c) that the refcounts behave as expected; >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Bram > > > >Thread Previous | Thread Next