I've somehow broken my perl. It always crashes with a memory exception in S_regmatch(). I don't know what library supplies this function, or even if it's a problem with the library, or a problem with some other perl component. Any ideas? Is there a "perl-only" isntaller that would allow me to fix this without having to reinstall the who shebang? Can I just rebuild from source?
thanks, -steve [vh10-33:~] steve% gdb perl GNU gdb 5.0-20001113 (Apple version gdb-203) (Wed Nov 7 16:28:57 GMT 2001) (UI_OUT) Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "powerpc-apple-macos10". Reading symbols for shared libraries ... done (gdb) set args -V (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/perl -V [Switching to thread 1 (process 5295 thread 0x1603)] Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. 0x719df5d8 in S_regmatch () (gdb) bt #0 0x719df5d8 in S_regmatch () #1 0x719ddb24 in S_regtry () #2 0x719dce98 in Perl_regexec_flags () #3 0x71995a6c in Perl_pp_subst () #4 0x71990694 in Perl_runops_standard () #5 0x7194411c in S_call_body () #6 0x71943dc8 in perl_call_sv () #7 0x719477f8 in S_call_list_body () #8 0x7194737c in Perl_call_list () #9 0x7196e60c in Perl_newATTRSUB () #10 0x7196ac78 in Perl_utilize () #11 0x71962ce8 in Perl_yyparse () #12 0x71942df8 in S_parse_body () #13 0x7194215c in perl_parse () #14 0x00002664 in ?? () #15 0x00002528 in ?? () #16 0x00002358 in ?? ()
