[Phoenix-pm] perlbug-followup at perl.org: [perl #39747] crash in unpack

[Brock]

On 2006.07.07.15.40, Scott Walters wrote:
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| Hello,
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| $ perl -e 'unpack "(Z*)*", "a"'
| $ perl -e 'unpack "(Z*)*", "aa"'
| Segmentation fault
| $
| 
| It looks like unpack crashes if there's more than one non-null character in
| the source string.

These super-short crash conditions are always good reminders to me that
it is very difficult to implement such a powerful language. I like to
ponder them, and even ponder their fleetingness (because where there is
a bugreport, there is eventually a bugfix) and their pervasiveness.

--Brock