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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl 3.0 pl 12
Message-ID: <7322@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 7 Mar 90 19:51:55 GMT
References: <1990Mar7.032442.2312@kfw.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Mar7.032442.2312@kfw.COM> dan@charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) writes:
: The summary pretty much says it; perl 3.0 pl12 is dumping core on trying
: to debug Tom Christiansen's makewhatis.pl, posted recently.  I've narrowed
: it down to the point in cons.c:make_sub(), line 78; at that point, 
: cmd->c_next is NULL, so of course the assignment to cmd->c_next->c_flags is
: not very copacetic.  I have not been able to determine the cause yet; I'm
: remaking with LEAKTEST on.
: 
: This seems to be at the point just after the last subroutine in the target
: perl program is read (i.e., on the make_sub() call for the last sub in
: makewhatis.pl, which is extract_names); not sure if that will help.

The conditional based on perldb is bogus there--it should always use
cmd->c_flags.  Will be fixed in patch 13.

Which won't take as long as patch 9.

Larry