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From: pej@richsun.cpg.trs.reuters.com (Paul Jatkowski)
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Subject: Re: Perl 4.0 Bad free() problem
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Date: 22 Mar 91 15:33:46 GMT
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In article <27E92953.12651@orion.oac.uci.edu>,
meggers@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mark Eggers) writes:
|> 
|> I had this problem with Perl 4.0 on a Sparc running 4.03c.  I used the
|> malloc that came with SunOS and the problems went away.
|> 
|> /mde/


Yea it does, but if you link with the debugging malloc libraries sun
supplies and
call malloc_debug(2) out of main the sun malloc complains all over the
place that it's
heap is corrupted. The problem is still there, the standard malloc
routines just don't
notice.

I also have some perl scripts that use type globbing that cause core
dumps under both
Perl 3.0 patch level 44 and 4.0 that appear to be related to this problem.

Paul Jatkowski
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