On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:04:56PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > forwarded 350369 perl5-porters@perl.org > thanks > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:40:23AM +0000, Neil Turton wrote: > >Package: perl-base > >Version: 5.8.7-10 > > > >Perl shouldn't get a segmentation fault on valid or invalid input. I > >think the following code is valid, even if it is ghastly. :) > [snip: see http://bugs.debian.org/350369] > > In short, the following segfaults: > > $ perl -e '*a=$a=*b; $a=42' > Memory fault > > I'm assuming that the problem is a circular assignment within the > expression (since '$a=*b; *a=$a; $a=42' doesn't break). > > The simple answer is "don't do that". This would appear never to have > worked (certainly as far back as 5.005 crashes).
It even segfaults on 5.000. Abigail
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