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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: possible perl bug (was Re: compiling perl patch 10 on HPUX)
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Date: 20 Jun 91 03:44:43 GMT
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>I believe this test tickles a bug involving a bad pointer
>dereference.  When the regexec() function is called from do_match() at
>line 197 the variable "s"

Someone reported this early last week.  In reference to the new m//g
operator, something gets allocated with New() rather than Newz(),
which leaves garbage in a structure that gets dereferenced as a
pointer.  I didn't save the article and I don't have a patch handy,
but if anyone's interested, I can track down the bug again.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu