[perl #57900] solaris hints no longer work

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Johnson via RT
On Wed Aug 13 10:41:22 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does this patch help? Almost, you just missed the executable itself (-o arg). This patch works for me. - Andrew Index: solaris.pm === --- solaris.pm (revision 30211) +++ so

[perl #56636] [BUG] [PATCH] segfault from sort if comparison is always 1

2008-07-06 Thread Andrew Johnson via RT
On Sun Jul 06 11:03:37 2008, japhb wrote: > > Better yet, we should replace the inherently insecure quicksort > algorithm (insecure in the "vulnerable to algorithmic attack" sense) > with a more secure mergesort like perl5 uses. IIRC, perl5's mergesort > is also carefully crafted to be as sensibl

[perl #56448] [BUG] tailcalls cause segfault when invoked from C

2008-06-30 Thread Andrew Johnson via RT
The segfault occurs inside clone_key_arg() inside src/inter_call.c (at line 871), which has the following leading POD description (committed by chromatic who also committed most of the implementation): Replaces any src registers by their values (done inside clone). This needs a test for tailcalls