On Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 08:43 AM, Steve Spicklemire wrote:
>
> I've somehow broken my perl. It always crashes with a memory exception in
> S_regmatch(). I don't know what library supplies this function, or even
> if it's a problem with the library, or a problem with some other perl
> component. Any ideas? Is there a "perl-only" isntaller that would allow
> me to fix this without having to reinstall the who shebang? Can I just
> rebuild from source?
>
> thanks,
> -steve
>
> [vh10-33:~] steve% gdb perl
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> 2001) (UI_OUT)
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> This GDB was configured as "powerpc-apple-macos10".
> Reading symbols for shared libraries ... done
> (gdb) set args -V
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /usr/bin/perl -V
> [Switching to thread 1 (process 5295 thread 0x1603)]
>
> Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
> 0x719df5d8 in S_regmatch ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0x719df5d8 in S_regmatch ()
> #1 0x719ddb24 in S_regtry ()
> #2 0x719dce98 in Perl_regexec_flags ()
> #3 0x71995a6c in Perl_pp_subst ()
> #4 0x71990694 in Perl_runops_standard ()
> #5 0x7194411c in S_call_body ()
> #6 0x71943dc8 in perl_call_sv ()
> #7 0x719477f8 in S_call_list_body ()
> #8 0x7194737c in Perl_call_list ()
> #9 0x7196e60c in Perl_newATTRSUB ()
> #10 0x7196ac78 in Perl_utilize ()
> #11 0x71962ce8 in Perl_yyparse ()
> #12 0x71942df8 in S_parse_body ()
> #13 0x7194215c in perl_parse ()
> #14 0x00002664 in ?? ()
> #15 0x00002528 in ?? ()
> #16 0x00002358 in ?? ()
just for reference, this is what i get when i run:
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/perl -V
[Switching to thread 1 (process 327 thread 0x1603)]
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=5.3, archname=darwin-thread-multi
uname='darwin localhost 5.3 darwin kernel version 5.3: thu jan 24
22:06:02 pst 2002; root:xnuxnu-201.19.obj~1release_ppc power macintosh
powerpc '
config_args='-des -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile
-Dldflags=-flat_namespace -Dusethreads'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define
usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-pipe -fno-common -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
optimize='-O3',
cppflags='-pipe -fno-common -DHAS_TELLDIR_PROTOTYPE
-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='Apple devkit-based CPP 6.02', gccosandvers='
'
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags ='-flat_namespace -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
libs=-lm -lc
perllibs=-lm -lc
libc=/System/Library/Frameworks/System.framework/System, so=dylib,
useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dyld.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-flat_namespace -bundle -undefined suppress
-L/usr/local/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
Built under darwin
Compiled at 03/15/02 15:50:31
@INC:
/System/Library/Perl/darwin-thread-multi
/System/Library/Perl
/Library/Perl/darwin-thread-multi
/Library/Perl
/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl/darwin-thread-multi
/Network/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl
.
Program exited normally.
(gdb)
maybe you get a hint of some issue there.
i have let CPAN upgrade me to perl 5.6.1
osx 10.1.4
