Status update: Right now this is no longer a Null PMC access error on Parrot but we get a segfault on Moar as well:
$ perl6-m -e 'my $a ($b, $c); $b = 42;' Segmentation fault $ perl6-p -e 'my $a ($b, $c); $b = 42;' Cannot assign to an immutable value in block <unit> at -e:1 $ perl6-j -e 'my $a ($b, $c); $b = 42;' java.lang.NullPointerException in block <unit> at -e:1