Bug#582925: perl: Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign

[Niko Tyni]

severity 582925 normal
thanks

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 05:09:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

>   # expecting: Regexp ((?-xism:Unexpected experience))
>   # found: Bizarre copy of ARRAY in sassign at /usr/share/perl/5.12/Carp.pm line 95.

Looking at the nasty things Test::Exception does with the help of
Sub::Uplevel to trigger this, I'm lowering the severity of this bug.

IIUC, the root problem is that the stack isn't reference counted,
so modifying things that are on the stack may get them freed
prematurely.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org