Bug#624689: perl: segfaults (dereferencing a null pointer) while evaluating a pattern match

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:34:57PM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.1-20
> Severity: normal

> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> In the piece of code I'm running, an object's DESTROY method has various
> cleanup that it is doing.  As part of that cleanup, it calls through
> various functions and ends up evaluating a pattern match.  This pattern
> match, the last line in the below snippet, ends up crashing Perl.

Would it be possible to get a recipe for reproducing this?

Cheers,
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org