Bug#479580: Can't reproduce bug

[Martín Ferrari]

Hi again,

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM, David Caldwell <david at porkrind.org> wrote:

>> I'm also using the same libflac version as you, so I don't understand
>> what could be happening here. Could you try this again, before and
>> after updating to the latest versions from unstable? I now have perl
>> 5.10 so if this was fixed with that transition, I cannot test it now.
>
> It now works for me too--I just updated to perl 5.10 yesterday. To verify
> that that was indeed the source of the fix, I poked around in the perl
> sources. The bug was passing a NULL pointer to newSVpv() (with len=0).
> Here's the relevant source for 5.8.8 and 5.10:

Oh, that was hard to spot, thanks a lot for your research!

I have just forwarded this bug upstream, as I think that it should be
fixed because many people will still use perl 5.8 for a long time.

Cheers, Tincho.
-- 
Martín Ferrari