Re: bytes pragma problems

[Ed Summers]

heh, thanks!

On 4/16/07, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I don't think that anyone ever replied to this.

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