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Re: [perl #91032] Invalid free in t/op/write.t

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From:
Robin Barker
Date:
May 21, 2011 10:09
Subject:
Re: [perl #91032] Invalid free in t/op/write.t
Message ID:
1305997771.1521.7.camel@Spade-Ubuntu
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 08:56 -0700, Karl Williamson via RT wrote:
> Git bisect results:
> 
> 37ffbfcca347ea751c9514463873b90f8a496be0 is the first bad commit
> commit 37ffbfcca347ea751c9514463873b90f8a496be0
> Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
> Date:   Mon May 2 12:37:30 2011 +0100

But this is just when the test in t/op/write.t was introduced.

The underlying failure is present in perl5.12.0

> env PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=1 perl5.12.0 -e 'my $foo=[qw(foo)]; formline
$foo'
*** glibc detected *** perl5.12.0: free(): invalid next size (fast):
0x08ab3f90 ***
...
Abort
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