Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!eagle!data.nas.nasa.gov!nameserver.nas.nasa.gov!davel From: davel@bedbug.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Liebreich) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: 4.0 core dumps when starting debugger (sunos 4.1) Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 22:26:58 GMT Sender: news@nas.nasa.gov Distribution: comp Organization: NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA Lines: 65 Is anyone else having this problem? perl 4.0 dumps core when given the -d flag. My setup: SunOS 4.1, Sun 4/490 using yacc and Sun's malloc localtime patch applied to libc and libc.so I used perl3.44 with the same system and this problem was not present Help. last couple of lines of "perl -D14 -d rmfrom" (in ./eg): 482 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: I: 1.DOUBLE = '($@, $!, $[, $,, $/, $\) = @sav ed;package main; $DB'signal |= do {;}; &DB'save' 482 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: ITEM RETURNS "($@, $!, $[, $,, $/, $\) = @save d;package main; $DB'signal |= do {;}; &DB'save" 482 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: 1.EXPR = '($@, $!, $[, $,, $/, $\) = @saved;pa ckage main; $DB'signal |= do {;}; &DB'save' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: (Pushing label #0 _EVAL_) 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: EXPR (9e660) r9e608 t0 a0 n9e850 cs0 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! ASSIGN (9e608) 2 args: 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: 1.LEXPR => 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: LIST (9e798) 6 args: 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: L: 1.LVAL $@ = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: L: 2.LVAL $! = 'No such file or directory' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: L: 3.LVAL $[ = 'num(0)' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: L: 4.LVAL $, = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: L: 5.LVAL $/ = ' ' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: L: 6.LVAL $\ = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: LIST RETURNS 6 ARGS ("",...,"") 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: 1.LEXPR = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: 2.EXPR => 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: ARRAY (9e578) 1 args: 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: A: 1.NULL = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: ARRAY RETURNS 6 ARGS ("",...,"") 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! A: 2.EXPR = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! ASSIGN RETURNS ("6") 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: EXPR (9e850) r9e7f8 t0 a0 n9e8c0 cs0 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! BIT_OR (9e7f8) 2 args: 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! B: 1.LVAL $signal = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! B: 2.CMD (0) => 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! B: 2.CMD = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! BIT_OR RETURNS "0.000000" 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: EXPR (9e8c0) r9e890 t0 a0 n0 cs0 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! DBSUBR (9e890) 2 args: 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! D: 1.NULL = '' 1 E! S: I! t_ E! e_ E! S: E! E: E! D: 2.NULL = '' Segmentation fault (core dumped) Thanks in advance Dave -- ========================================================================= Dave Liebreich davel@george.arc.nasa.gov Computer Security Specialist (415) 604-4794 Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center Mail Stop 233-15 Moffett Field, CA 94035 "The opinions expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer" doo dah doo dah