> In long: Brendan O'Dea, Debian's Perl maintainer, has verified that > HTML::Parser built under 5.8.0 fails with 5.8.1, but works with 5.8.1 > and the Plan C patch. Since there's just the one bug and HTML::Parser > tickled it, this is enough proof for me that Plan C works. > > Brendan has uploaded the patched 5.8.1 to Debian unstable, so it will > get significant usage, but only by users who are relatively tolerant > of breakage. (Debian unstable is ideal for this kind of thing.) Speaking of breakage, I've just isolated a new problem with HTML::Parser, one which reliably causes Perl to segfault: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217616 It's getting late, and so I may not be making any sense, but from the backtrace in the original bug report and from the contents of the test case, this seems to be vaguely hash-related. Since it just cropped up yesterday, I'm thinking that it could be a Debian-specific problem related to Brendan's latest change. However, I don't right now have a non-Debian Perl 5.8.1 environment to test in, so I'm not sure. The test case (attached to the bug report) is pretty small. Does anyone have time to take a peek at the bug report and let me know what they think? Thanks, KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
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