Bug#582925: perl: Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Sat May 21 07:02:44 UTC 2011


retitle 582925 perl: stack should be reference counted
forwarded 582925 http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77706
thanks

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:18:19AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 05:09:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > 
> > >   # expecting: Regexp ((?-xism:Unexpected experience))
> > >   # found: Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign at /usr/share/perl/5.12/Carp.pm line 95.
> > 
> > Looking at the nasty things Test::Exception does with the help of
> > Sub::Uplevel to trigger this, I'm lowering the severity of this bug.
> 
> And indeed it was identified as a bug in Test::Exception, fixed in
> 0.31.
> 
> The underlying problem still exists if the upstream report is
> to be believed, but it won't manifest in the way this bug report
> suggests, so I'm not sure whether it makes sense to leave this open.

OK, let's leave it open to track the whole stack ref counting issue.
Changing the forwarded pointer to the upstream meta-bug.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org






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