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Id: 2264
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Clone
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: patrick.mulvany [...] tuskerdirect.com
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: 0.13
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Thu Mar 20 04:40:43 2003 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Clone 0.13 cuases Segfault
<a href=http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2252>Bug 2252</a> in Hash::Merge has Identified a couple of issues in Clone. perl -e 'use Clone qw(clone); $a = \$b; undef $a; $c = clone $a;' and perl -e 'use Clone qw(clone); $a ={}; undef $a; $c = clone $a;' Cause Seg faults but perl -e 'use Clone qw(clone); undef $a; $c = clone $a;' and perl -e 'use Clone qw(clone); $a =""; undef $a; $c = clone $a;' does not cause this issue. For further information please see Hash::Merge <a href=http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2252>Bug 2252</a> Thank you Paddy
  Sun Sep 07 02:33:40 2003 rdf [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I just uploaded a new version, Clone-0.14 that fixes this problem. The issue was that when a reference is created and then undef'ed the SV still has a type of RV and so Clone was treating it as an a reference. However, due to the undef the reference was not referencing anything and the attempt to Clone the null pointer resulted in a segfault.
  Sun Sep 07 02:33:41 2003 rdf [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'