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Date:      Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:57:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: formline $^A var causes SEGV (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961017095622.464i-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com>

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Just a note... can we have this upgrade in place before the next
release? 

 -branson

=============================================================================
 Branson Matheson       | Ferguson Enterprises  | If Pete and Repeat were 
 System Administrator   | W: (804) 874-7795     | sittin on a fence and Pete
 Unix, Perl, WWW        | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:51:13 -0500
From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
To: branson@widomaker.com
Subject: Re: formline $^A var causes SEGV 

This error has been corrected in a newer release.

-sp

Strange sunspot activity caused Branson Matheson <branson@toth.hq.ferg.com> to 
write:
| 
| This is a bug report for perl from branson@widomaker.com,
| generated with the help of perlbug 1.12 running under perl 5.002.
| 
| [Please enter your report here]
| 
|  When using the command formline from pp169 of the perl 5 book, As
|  soon as I try to access the $^A variable after running the formline
|  command it causes the program to SEGV. Example of code to follow:
| 
|  $desig="1";
|  $net="IN";
|  $type="PTR";
|  formline "@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<\t@<<<<<<\t@<<<<<<\n", $desig,$net,$type;
|  $dataout=$^A ."\t". $dataout;
| 
|   -branson
| 
| 
| Site configuration information for perl 5.002:
| 
| Configured by asami at Thu Jun 13 01:56:04 PDT 1996.
| 
| Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 2) configuration:
|   Platform:
|     osname=freebsd, osver=2.1-stable, archname=i386-freebsd
|     uname='freebsd admin1.calweb.com 2.1-stable freebsd 2.1-stable #0: wed ju
> n 12 02:02:30 pdt 1996 admin@admin1.calweb.com:usrsrcsyscompileadminone i386 
> '
|     hint=recommended, useposix=true 
|   Compiler:
|     cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.6.3
|     cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
|     ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
|     stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=, usevfork=true
|     voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=, d_castneg=define
|     intsize=4, alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=y, randbits=31
|   Linker and Libraries:
|     ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
|     libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
|     libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
|     libc=/usr/lib/libc.so.2.2, so=so
|   Dynamic Linking:
|     dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=define, ccdlflags=' '
|     cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-Bshareable  -L/usr/local/lib'
| 




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