1 Article 13355 of comp.lang.perl:
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4 From: asherman@fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman)
5 Subject: Re: perl 5a2 cannot "die" (plus current list o' bugs)
6 In-Reply-To: wjm@feenix.metronet.com's message of Fri, 20 Aug 1993 21:32:10 GMT
7 Message-ID: <ASHERMAN.93Aug23094250@uboat.fmrco.com>
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13 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 14:42:50 GMT
17 >>>>> wjm@feenix.metronet.com (Bill Middleton) said:
19 wjm> asherman@fmrco.COM writes:
21 >An interesting pair of bugs can be seen in the following output:
23 wjm> I dont think so. Could be in the compilation or something. Did it
24 wjm> pass all tests? Each of the following work fine here on this HP.
26 I tried compiling with Sun's native CC and GCC. Both worked fine, but
27 caused this problem. I'll try it with Larry's original version when I
30 wjm> perl5 -e 'die "hello $. \n";
33 Ah. But, note that the $. STILL isn't working. So only ONE of those
36 This is my current list of bugs (not complete, but what I've had time
37 to note). Hope it helps:
39 "perl -e die" will cause a seg-fault
43 Memory leak for anonymous arrays:
44 while(1) { @a = (1, 2, 3, [4, 5], 6); @a = (); }
45 Will keep allocating and not freeing memory.
47 "perl -e 'sub foo {print 1} foo'" should either complain or call foo,
48 but does neither. Or, did Larry not impliment the &-less
49 function calling that he was talking about?
51 "perl -le 'sub foo {1} $a = \&foo; print &{$a}; print &{$a} + 1'" should
58 Aaron Sherman I-Kinetics, Inc.
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