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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
October 22, 2016 19:12
Subject:
newly crashing test
Message ID:
fc810783-d0f8-d8b8-5a5c-475f6122af6a@iki.fi
The new test added in

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/111da7867221d4c747d002c775d64f4cc5c00f80

seems to consistently crash in my OS X boxes:

sh: line 1: 81278 Segmentation fault: 11  /Users/jhi/perl5/perl/perl 
"-I../lib" "tmp81276A" 2>&1

Looks like it has already been found to be problematic in FreeBSD:

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e7619ccdfa0f8562897ad922b44837e5f65194e9

Maybe the problem should be fixed before adding the test?

(Adding per-platform exceptions may not be a maintainable solution.)

While in general TODO tests are a good idea, if the test is flakey
and/or potentially resource-grabbing, up to the point of 
machine-killing, maybe less brilliant of an idea.







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