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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
November 7, 2016 16:59
Subject:
[perl #130010] v5.25.5-184-ga5540cf breaks texinfo
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-21672-1478537977-1779.130010-15-0@perl.org
On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:29:40 GMT, jkeenan wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:47:55 GMT, jkeenan wrote:
> >
> > The question is:  What is it about this the pattern:
> >
> > #####
> > /([^\S\x{202f}\x{00a0}]+)|(\p{InFullwidth})|((?:[^\s\p{InFullwidth}]|[\x{202f}\x{00a0}])+)/
> > #####
> >
> > ... that (a) as of commit C<a5540cf> but not previously; and (b) in
> > the context of this test suite but not in isolation, perceives
> > something to be a read-only value not subject to modification?
> 
> My next brainstorm:  Add "use re 'debug';" to sub add_text() in
> tp/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm.
> 
> When I did so and ran the debugging program found in one of my
> previous attachments, I got this output:
> 
> #####
> Texinfo::Convert::ParagraphNonXS::add_text(../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm:329):
> 329:      my @segments = split
> 330:
> /([^\S\x{202f}\x{00a0}]+)|(\p{InFullwidth})|((?:[^\s\p{InFullwidth}]|[\x{202f}\x{00a0}])+)/,
> 331:        $text;
>   DB<6> n
> Matching REx
> "([^\S\x{202f}\x{00a0}]+)|(\p{InFullwidth})|((?:[^\s\p{InFull"...
> against "This is "
>    0 <> <This is >           |   0| 1:BRANCH(18)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   1|  2:OPEN1(4)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   1|  4:PLUS(16)
>                              |   1|  ANYOF[\t\n\x0B\f\r \x85][1680
> 2000-200A 2028-2029 205F 3000] can match 0 times out of 2147483647...
>                              |   1|  failed...
>    0 <> <This is >           |   0| 18:BRANCH(34)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   1|  19:OPEN2(21)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   1|
> 21:ANYOF[+utf8::Texinfo::Convert::ParagraphNonXS::InFullwidth](32)
>                              |   1|  failed...
>    0 <> <This is >           |   0| 34:BRANCH(68)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   1|  35:OPEN3(37)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   1|  37:CURLYM[0]{1,INFTY}(66)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   2|   39:BRANCH(51)
>    0 <> <This is >           |   3|    40:ANYOF[^\t\n\x0B\f\r
> \x85\xA0{+utf8::Texinfo::Convert::ParagraphNonXS::InFullwidth}1680
> 2000-200A 2028-2029 202F 205F 3000](64)
> Modification of a read-only value attempted at
> ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm line 329.
>  at ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm line 329.
>         Texinfo::Convert::ParagraphNonXS::add_text(Texinfo::Convert::ParagraphNonXS=HASH(0x35ba938),
> "This is ") called at ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm line 308
>         Texinfo::Convert::Info::_info_header(Texinfo::Convert::Info=HASH(0x35b3038))
> called at ../../tp/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm line 81
>         Texinfo::Convert::Info::output(Texinfo::Convert::Info=HASH(0x35b3038),
> HASH(0x35ab7c0)) called at ../texi2any.pl line 1348
> panic: POPSTACK
> Debugged program terminated.
> #####
> 
> Since I have never previously used the regex debugger, I have no idea
> if there are any clues to a solution in that output.
> 

Compiling perl at what has been identified as the last good commit, and then running the test program through the debugger, I got much better output.  It's quite long, so I'm posting it here:

https://gist.github.com/jkeenan/184d2aaf914e4aa0410fe2ea1f36da91

Thank you very much.

-- 
James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)

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