On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 06:28:49PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 5 Jul 2005 10:22:53 -0000, Steve Peters via RT > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool! The new panic recently added caught this case. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/perl-fix$ ./perl rt_3451.pl > > panic: sv_upgrade to unknown type 255 at rt_3451.pl line 2. > > That's not a fix. This bad upgrade really shouldn't happen, and > probably indicates access to corrupted memory or something. So the > risk of segfault is probably still there. >
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Its not a fix, but we do have a good idea as to why the segfault did occur. A little more detective work is needed to fix the actual problem.