> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Mon Mar 19 03:05:40 2001]:
>
>
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> [Please enter your report here]
>
> Using freshly rsync'ed (through diff 9240)
> I invoked perl in the perl-current build directory as
> ./perl -Ilib -de 1
> and enter the command "V"
>
> The perl starts printing out the variables,
> then gets stuck in a loop of seg faults
>
> the following command also dies the same way
> ./perl -Ilib -e 'do "dumpvar.pl"; dumpvar("main")'
> .........
> @_ = (
> 0 0
> 1 '_'
> Segmentation fault
>
> Two problems
> 1) why does the seg fault occur?
> 2) why does it appear to loop in the debugger?
>
>
>
> [Please do not change anything below this line]
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> ---
> Flags:
> category=core
> severity=medium
> ---
> Site configuration information for perl v5.7.0:
>
> Configured by dcd at Mon Mar 19 09:57:21 PST 2001.
>
> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 7 subversion 0)
> configuration:
> Platform:
> osname=linux, osvers=2.4.3-pre2, archname=i686-linux
> uname='linux dd 2.4.3-pre2 #1 mon mar 5 08:49:56 pst 2001 i686 '
> config_args='-Dinstallusrbinperl -Dusedevel -Doptimize=-O3 -g -de
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
> usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
> usemultiplicity=undef
> useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
> use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
> Compiler:
> cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing
> -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
> optimize='-O3 -g',
> cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
> ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66.1 19990314/Linux (egcs-
> 1.1.2 release)', gccosandvers=''
> intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
> d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define,
> longdblsize=12
> ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
> lseeksize=4
> alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
> Linker and Libraries:
> ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
> libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
> libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
> perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc
> libc=/lib/libc.so.5.4.44, so=so, useshrplib=false,
> libperl=libperl.a
> Dynamic Linking:
> dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-
> rdynamic'
> cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'
>
> Locally applied patches:
> DEVEL9212
>
> ---
> @INC for perl v5.7.0:
> lib
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.0/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.7.0
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.0/i686-linux
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.7.0
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
> .
>
> ---
> Environment for perl v5.7.0:
> HOME=/home/dcd
> LANG (unset)
> LANGUAGE (unset)
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
> LOGDIR (unset)
>
PATH=/home/dcd/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/samba:/home/hobbes/tools/scripts:/home/hobbes/tools/linux:/usr0/hobbes/tools/scripts:/usr0/dcd/bin:/apps/general/bin:/usr/public
> PERL_BADLANG (unset)
> SHELL=/bin/bash
>
>
No core dump on 5.8.5.
> ./perl -Ilib -e 'do "dumpvar.pl"; dumpvar("main")'
$/ = '
'
FileHandle(stderr) => fileno(2)
$" = ' '
FileHandle(stdout) => fileno(1)
FileHandle(stdin) => fileno(0)
@INC = (
)
%INC = (
)
%ENV = (
)
$$ = 12385
$- = 0
$0 = '-e'
$^H = 256
$@ = ''
FileHandle(STDOUT) => fileno(1)
$^X = './perl'
$^W = 0
@_ = (
)
FileHandle(STDERR) => fileno(2)
FileHandle(STDIN) => fileno(0)