Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph

Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph

In article <m0x4ZGj-000EZYC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>,
Stephen McCamant  <alias@mcs.com> wrote:
> Jochen Wiedmann writes:
>  > The following command dumps core on my machine:
>  >
>  >     [joe@laptop joe]$ perl -d -MSys::Syslog
>  >     Signal SEGV at /sw/linux-i386/perl-5.004.03/lib/site_perl/syslog.ph
>  > line 1
>  >             require syslog.ph called at
>  > /sw/share/perl-5.004.03/lib/Sys/Syslog.pm line 111
>  >      [...]
>  >     IOT trap/Abort (core dumped)
>  >
>  > Without "-d" or without loading "syslog.ph" all works fine.
>
> This is almost certainly the same problem Greg Ward reported about a
> week ago:
>
> Greg Ward wrote:
>  > In fact, I was able to reduce the bug to
>  >
>  > % perl -d -e "BEGIN { eval 'sub LOG_KERN () {0<<3;}' }"
>
> I still haven't seen anything from Ilya (whose reply was apparently
> lost in the UPenn changeover), so in the spirit of needing it twice,
> here's a patch:
>
> --- perl5.004_02/pp_ctl.c	Sat Aug  9 00:11:51 1997
> +++ perl5.004_02+/pp_ctl.c	Fri Aug 29 16:51:36 1997
> @@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@

Lemme try again.  In my missing message I explained that the same
problem may hunt my (?{...}) stuff for regexps.

I removed the monstrous patch proposed in the previous message, here
is the alternative:

Credited: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>

p5p-msgid: 1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu