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
