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From: dbc@tc.fluke.COM (Dan Carson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: PL44 bugs
Keywords: debugger, eof(), look.pl
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.181520.9112@tc.fluke.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 91 18:15:20 GMT
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Lines: 39


A couple of bugs in 3.0.1.10 patch level 44:

The debugger won't take 'do' from the keyboard.  It confuses it with
the 'd' debugger command.  In testing this, I saw an unrelated anamoly:


  DB<1> do 'look.pl'
  DB<2> &look
Undefined subroutine "main'look" called at /usr/local/lib/perl/perldb.pl line 508.

  DB<3> require 'look.pl'

  DB<4> &look
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
perl> 



Also, I previously posted the following, but it didn't seem to get past
the large Seattle-area company beginning with a 'B' :

#! /usr/local/perl
# A big input file not terminated with a newline makes
# this program dump core, e.g. :
# echo -n "hi" | cat /etc/termcap - | this_prog
while(<>)
  {
   eof();
   eof;
  }


Also, in 'look.pl', the "dictionary order" flag, $dict, is
missing from the 'local(...)=@_;' statement.


Dan Carson               "This PERL I cast before thee."
dbc@tc.fluke.com