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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: possible patchlevel 37 bug (memory leak?)
Message-ID: <10163@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 30 Oct 90 00:54:34 GMT
References: <COMPOSER.90Oct24220939@chem.bu.edu> <10108@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1195@digi.lonestar.org>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1195@digi.lonestar.org> kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
: Several people here use the perl debugger quite a lot.  We all got bit by this
: $0 problem causing a "segmentation fault".  Rather than back out pl 37, I
: thought it should be easy to fix perly.c myself, encouraged by your comment
: above.  Well, I tried and failed.  Your comment suggested to me that the
: following change should be made:
: 
:     From:  magicalize("!#?^~=-%0123456789.+&*()<>,\\/[|`':\024");
:       To:  magicalize("!#?^~=-%123456789.+&*()<>,\\/[|`':\024");
: 
: which just deletes "0" from the list.  It did not work.  Am I missing
: something obvious?

You also have to say

    713c713
    <       str_set(STAB_STR(tmpstab),origfilename);
    ---
    >       str_set(stab_val(tmpstab),origfilename);

Larry