On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:11:02PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >There's a bug fix in 5.8.2 in the code which deals with code refs in @INC,
> >which PAR uses. I hope that 5.8.2 solves your problem, but I suspect that
>
> Ok, this would, somehow, solve the panic's? How would that be?
The patch fixes an off by one error on the internal perl stack
(should have said)
> My understanding (meagre though it may be) is that the panic
> is happening with code that HAS been included, not with code
> that it can't find to include.
Yes, valid observation for almost every other sort of bug.
My understanding (which isn't perfect) is that perl stack bugs can cause
pretty much anything else to go wrong in really strange ways - they are
effectively the "undefined behaviour" (nasal demons) of the perl internals.
Nicholas Clark
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