Control: reassign 839218 nama Control: retitle 839218 nama: FTBFS because of perl's lack of stack reference counting
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:33:29AM +0200, Balint Reczey wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > Hi Niko, > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:30:11AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > >> I'll also work a bit on reducing the test further when I find the time. > > > > I got it down to this: > > > > my $a = [ 0, 1 ]; > > sub f { > > my $arg = shift; > > my @a1 = @$a; > > @$a = @a1; > > return(); > > } > > map{ f($_) } @$a; > > > > > > This looks to me like an instance of the general stack-not-refcounted > > issue, see https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77706 et al. > > > > But let's see what upstream says, I'll follow up there as well. > > Thanks! > > Seeing that they confirmed that and the refcounting issue is rather old > I think it would be reasonable to apply a workaround in nama. > The attached patch made nama build in current unstable. Thanks, reassigning back to Nama so the workaround can be considered. The underlying problem in perl is tracked in #582925. Dominic.