[perl #31600] dlfunc should never lead to a PANIC

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osname= linux
osvers= 2.6.4
arch=   i586-linux-thread-multi
cc=     cc 
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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
    ack=no
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dlfunc causes a PANIC if the passed in signature is invalid
(or no wrapper function could be created).
Instead, it should do something less critical, for example raise
an exception.

Note: the actual culprit is build_call_func() in src/nci.c

 
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Summary of my parrot 0.1.0 configuration:
  configdate='Wed Sep 15 14:18:51 2004'
  Platform:
    osname=linux, archname=i586-linux-thread-multi
    jitcapable=1, jitarchname=i386-linux,
    jitosname=LINUX, jitcpuarch=i386
    execcapable=1
    perl=/usr/bin/perl
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS  
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags='',
    cc_ldflags='',
    libs='-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lrt'
  Dynamic Linking:
    so='.so', ld_shared='-shared -fPIC',
    ld_shared_flags=''
  Types:
    iv=long, intvalsize=4, intsize=4, opcode_t=long, opcode_t_size=4,
    ptrsize=4, ptr_alignment=1 byteorder=1234, 
    nv=double, numvalsize=8, doublesize=8

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Environment:
    HOME    LANG    LANGUAGE    LD_LIBRARY_PATH    LOGDIR    PATH    SHELL