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On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:51:36PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote:
Has anyone noticed that a call to bytes::substr() sends perl into a
seemingly infinite loop
under v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level?
use bytes;
print bytes::substr( "abc", 0, 1 );
This appears to have been solved by 5.8.1 release.
I also noticed that a call to a non-existent bytes subroutine will
cause an infinite loop under v5.8.2 built for i686-linux.
use bytes;
print bytes::twtowtdi()
Were these problems resolved in later releases of Perl?
This appears to have been solved by 5.8.7
Nicholas Clark