On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 07:12:58PM -0000, bstrand @ switchmanagement. com wrote:
> On Suse 9.2, perl 5.8.5 x86 or x86-64, the following perl snippet
> hangs the compiler with 100% CPU usage:
>
> perl -we 'BEGIN { print "compile-time\n"; } use strict; my $type = 2; print
> join(" ", grep $type (1,2,3,2,4,2,5)), "\n"; BEGIN { print "never get
> here\n"; }'
Confirmed on OS X 5.8.6.
> The behavior under Suse 8.2, perl 5.8.0 x86 is the rather bizarre (or perhaps
> I'm
> misunderstanding grep):
>
> compile-time
> never get here
> 1 2 3 2
Confirmed on OS X 5.8.1RC3. That is bizarre.
