Bug#512796: [PATCH] setpgrp() should extend the stack before modifying it

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 08:21:24PM +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> The following program dies for me on perl v5.8.8 with:
> Can't call method "foo" without a package or object reference at a line 10.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------->8---
> package A;
> sub new { bless {}, shift }
> sub foo { }
> sub getref { setpgrp() }
> 
> package main;
> my $o = A->new;
> # my $r = A::getref;
> # $o->foo($r);
> $o->foo(A::getref);
> -------------------------------------------------------->8---
> 
> However just uncomment the commented lines, and comment the last one,
> and it works! :-O

Thanks for the report. 

This bug is still present in bleadperl. The attached patch should fix it.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
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