perl 5.003_07: perl.c

perl 5.003_07: perl.c

Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}

I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
(the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries
is frightning!).

If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range
of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:

Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>

Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.