On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:08:37PM +0000, var Arnfjr Bjarmason wrote:
> On 2/2/08, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What else did I forget?
>
> The unpack/potentially rx related segfault mauke reported a while back
> which I did some initial analysis of still hasn't been solved in 5.8.x
> or 5.10.x. It would be nice if yourself or someone with more optree
It wasn't solved in 5.8.8 so it's not a regression.
> tuits would take a look at it. Maybe it's trivial to fix and if so it
The optree is not my strong point at all.
> would be a shame if we shipped a perl with known segfaults, especially
> as those might always be potential security issues.
>
> $ perl -le 'split //, unpack("(B)*", "ab")'
> Segmentation fault
Curiously, the (I believe) functionally equivalent non-grouping version is
fine:
$ perl -le 'split //, unpack("B*", "ab")'
$
Andreas, is your binary search able to work out when this problem appeared?
Nicholas Clark
