Bug#638676: perl: Carp leaks memory

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 09:45:48PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> As reported upstream by Marc Lehmann:
> 
>  perl -e 'use Carp; Carp::shortmess while 1'
> 
> leaks memory.
> 
> Fixed upstream with
> 
>  http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/af80dd8
> 
> This seems to be a regression from squeeze (introduced in 5.12.2 and
> 5.14.0), so we should probably backport the fix.

Yup, makes sense. I wonder whether there is any point in waiting for
them to appear in maint branches first, though.

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