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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Bug in concat or repeat operator?
Message-ID: <11109@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 18 Jan 91 23:24:09 GMT
References: <4037@tymix.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <4037@tymix.UUCP> mooring@grimoire (Ed Mooring) writes:
: 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.

Fixed in 4.0.  Thanks.

Larry