| CC: | bug-Text-Markdown [...] rt.cpan.org |
| Subject: | Re: Text::Markdown Input That Coredumps Perl 5.8.[58] |
| Date: | Tue, 27 May 2008 08:52:41 +0100 |
| To: | "Greg Knauss" <greg [...] eod.com> |
| From: | Tomas Doran <bobtfish [...] bobtfish.net> |
On 27 May 2008, at 01:43, Greg Knauss wrote:
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> Hi, Tomas. I've found a case -- confirmed under Perl 5.8.5 and
> 5.8.8 on Red
> Hat -- where certain Text::Markdown (1.0.19) input coredumps Perl
> itself.
> Don't know if there's anything to be done about it, given that it's
> obviously a bug in Perl itself, but it might be worth adding to
> MDtest or
> re-implementing the dying section, to see if it can be worked around.
>
I've seen it before - I'd guess that this is due to recursive
regexes, and will be fixed with 5.10 (as 5.10's regex engine is
reenterant)...
I managed to work around the last one I saw, so it's possibly not all
doom...
Show quoted text> Here's the input:
>
> -----------8<-------------
> * Unordered
> 1. Ordered
>
> Text
>
> * Unordered
> 1. Ordered
> -----------8<-------------
>
> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
Nono, not at all - I'm glad of the bug report, thanks!
Cheers
Tom
P.S. I've cc'd rt.cpan.org in, and I'll cc you to the ticket I create
and do further updates in there.