Skip tests in t/magic.t that use formline on 5.8.1 and 5.8.2

Those versions have a buggy formline that can trigger an assertion failure.

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ef94d1c..444da7b 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ Revision history for Perl extension Devel::Size.
 0.77_50 2012-02-10 nicholas
  * t/globs.t was failing on 5.15.6 and later due to side effects of a change
    to strict.pm [CPAN #73998]
+ * skip tests in t/magic.t that use formline on 5.8.1 and 5.8.2, as those
+   versions have a buggy formline that can trigger an assertion failure.
 
 0.77 2011-05-16 nicholas
  [no changes]

diff --git a/t/magic.t b/t/magic.t
index 8dfb6de..97770ab 100644 (file)
--- a/t/magic.t
+++ b/t/magic.t
@@ -15,7 +15,12 @@ require Tie::Scalar;
           'size increases due to magic');
 }
 
-{
+SKIP: {
+    # bug in perl added in blead by commit 815f25c6e302f84e, fixed in commit
+    # f5c235e79ea25787, merged to maint-5.8 as 0710cc63c26afd0c and
+    # 8298b2e171ce84cf respectively.
+    skip("This triggers a formline assertion on $]", 4)
+       if $] > 5.008000 && $] < 5.008003;
     my $string = 'Perl Rules';
     my $before_size = total_size($string);
     formline $string;