Bug#9067: #9067: segmentation fault from perl cmp
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Perl is at the mercy of qsort(3) but 5.005 may have it's own sort
routine and won't be...
- From perlfunc(1p), sort entry at the end:
The comparison function is required to behave. If it returns
inconsistent results (sometimes saying $x[1] is less than $x[2] and
sometimes saying the opposite, for example) the Perl interpreter will
probably crash and dump core. This is entirely due to and dependent
upon your system's qsort(3) library routine; this routine often avoids
sanity checks in the interest of speed.
Darren
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