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From: mooring@grimoire (Ed Mooring)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Bug in concat or repeat operator?
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Date: 18 Jan 91 21:06:37 GMT
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It manifested itself as occasional core dumps on SUN3's, and a 
'Bad free ignored at line xx' message on my Sparcstation.  I isolated 
it to the following:

	Script started on Fri Jan 18 12:33:08 1991
	mooring@grimoire% perl -e 'print ":".time x 9' '
	Corrupt malloc ptr 0x33363634 at 0x6a0c0
	:664230813mooring@grimoire% ^D
	script done on Fri Jan 18 12:33:38 1991

Simplifying the expression by splitting it into two statements works
fine.
Environment: Sparcstation 1+,SUNOS 4.1. 
CFLAGS = -O -DDEBUGGING
Compiler: cc

$JAPA = "Just Another Perl Addict";
Ed Mooring (mooring@antares.tymnet.com)