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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: panic: do_assign; bus errors
Message-ID: <100016@convex.convex.com>
Date: 18 Feb 90 23:48:30 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.Com (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: Convex Computer Corp, Richardson, TX
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I'd been having various problems with perl giving me 
a bus errors when I did a
    $_ = '';
so I made it local to an enclosing block and got
    panic: do_assign at ./makewhatis line 41, <FILE> line 106.
which is perl's internal gripe, not a die() of my own.

The problem went away when I changed all references to 
$_ to $aline, as well as 
    while ($nameline = &getline) {
to this one
    while ($nameline = &getline()) {

Note that I don't reference @_ in getline(), but
I do reference a local($_) in there.

Has anyone else seen this?  

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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