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

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Sat May 21 00:18:19 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 09:38:45PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> severity 582925 normal
> thanks
> 
> 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.

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