[comp.lang.perl] Bug in concat or repeat operator?

mooring@grimoire (Ed Mooring) (01/19/91)

It manifested itself as occasional core dumps on SUN3's, and a 
'Bad free ignored at line xx' message on my Sparcstation.  I isolated 
it to the following:

	Script started on Fri Jan 18 12:33:08 1991
	mooring@grimoire% perl -e 'print ":".time x 9' '
	Corrupt malloc ptr 0x33363634 at 0x6a0c0
	:664230813mooring@grimoire% ^D
	script done on Fri Jan 18 12:33:38 1991

Simplifying the expression by splitting it into two statements works
fine.
Environment: Sparcstation 1+,SUNOS 4.1. 
CFLAGS = -O -DDEBUGGING
Compiler: cc

$JAPA = "Just Another Perl Addict";
Ed Mooring (mooring@antares.tymnet.com)

lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (01/19/91)

In article <4037@tymix.UUCP> mooring@grimoire (Ed Mooring) writes:
: It manifested itself as occasional core dumps on SUN3's, and a 
: 'Bad free ignored at line xx' message on my Sparcstation.  I isolated 
: it to the following:
: 
: 	Script started on Fri Jan 18 12:33:08 1991
: 	mooring@grimoire% perl -e 'print ":".time x 9' '
: 	Corrupt malloc ptr 0x33363634 at 0x6a0c0
: 	:664230813mooring@grimoire% ^D
: 	script done on Fri Jan 18 12:33:38 1991
: 
: Simplifying the expression by splitting it into two statements works
: fine.

Fixed in 4.0.  Thanks.

Larry