On Thursday 29 May 2008 06:21:03 Will Coleda wrote:

> While this may have served a pedagogical purpose some time ago*, it's
> better left in the docs as an example of what not to do (and that even
> if core parrot is safe, we need to be careful of dynamically loaded
> opcodes! They're not safe!), but as has been pointed out many times in
> many tickets, it's just a waste of time for people trying to help us
> test parrot.
>
> Regards.
>
> *I'm being generous, I'm pretty sure it was something stupid that's
> mostly my fault.

I changed the implementation in r28001, so now instead of trying to maintain a 
testable, portable segfault, we can rely instead on a C89-compliant compiler 
and libc.

abort() should be good enough for now.

-- c

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