tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) (02/19/90)
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 -- Tom Christiansen {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist Convex Computer Corporation tchrist@convex.COM "EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"