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From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl 4.0 Bad free() problem
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Date: 21 Mar 91 21:13:55 GMT
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In article <1581@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>, pej@richsun.cpg.trs.reuters.com (Paul Jatkowski) writes:
|> I have just compiled Perl 4.0 on a Sun Sparstation 1+ (sunos 4.1).
|> t/lib/big.t prints "Bad free() ignored at ../lib/bigint.pl line 65 (and
|> the test passes).
|> 
|> Anybody got any ideas/fixes before I roll up my sleeves and try to
|> figure this one out?

I've seen this bug (last night, in fact) in:

This is perl, version 3.0

$Header: perly.c,v 3.0.1.9 90/11/10 01:53:26 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 41

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Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems     (415) 336-7627       ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com