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From: eay@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Eric Young)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl-4.010 bug?
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.043517.12512@grunt.psy.uq.oz.au>
Date: 25 Jun 91 04:35:17 GMT
Sender: eay@psych (Eric Young)
Organization: Psychology, Queensland University, Australia.
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The following core dumps because of line 138 in array.c
(*strp++)->str_pok &= ~SP_TEMP;
*strp is NULL.
I believe it is crashing in the subroutine call.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$a[1]=1;
&routine(@a);
sub routine { local(@a)=@_; }

I was using 
perl v 4.0.1.4  pl 10 on a sparc 2   sunOS 4.1.1
It does not coredump for
perl v 3.0.1.10 pl 44 on a sun 3/260 sunOS 4.1 

eric
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