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core dump on a syntax error.
Perl 5.001m on FreeBSD dumps core when it sees the following:

send send_files
{
my (@files) = @_;
my $f;
my @pf;
}

1;
Re: core dump on a syntax error. [ In reply to ]
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 00:07:59 PDT, David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
>
>Perl 5.001m on FreeBSD dumps core when it sees the following:
>
>send send_files
>{
> my (@files) = @_;
> my $f;
> my @pf;
>}
>
>1;
>

This is a known bug, fixed by the patch available as:

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~gsar/op-segfault.patch
ftp://mox.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/op-segfault.patch

- Sarathy.
gsar@engin.umich.edu
Re: core dump on a syntax error. [ In reply to ]
: Perl 5.001m on FreeBSD dumps core when it sees the following:
:
: send send_files
: {
: my (@files) = @_;
: my $f;
: my @pf;
: }
:
: 1;

Seems to be fixed here. Check again in 5.002.

Larry