The error happens after the day list is built. It may be a perl memory
allocation bug.
I tried this simple test:
In DateTime::Set line 524:
---
sub as_list {
[...]
print "done\n";
return @result;
}
---
$ perl -Ilib bug_recurrence.pl
done
Segmentation fault
Flávio S. Glock
2009/7/16
http://www.openidfrance.fr/nils.grunwald via RT
<bug-DateTime-Set@rt.cpan.org>:
Show quoted text> Thu Jul 16 12:06:06 2009: Request 47945 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by
http://www.openidfrance.fr/nils.grunwald
> Queue: DateTime-Set
> Subject: segfault when using as_list on large enough sets
> Broken in: 0.27
> Severity: Important
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: nils.grunwald@gmail.com
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47945 >
>
>
> Hello,
>
> here is a test case for this bug, which causes a segfault:
>
> use DateTime::Set;
> use DateTime;
>
> my $span = DateTime::Span->from_datetimes( start => DateTime->new( year
> => 1971 ), end => DateTime->new( year => 2009 ) );
>
> my $set = DateTime::Set->from_recurrence(
> recurrence => sub {
> return $_[ 0 ] if $_[ 0 ]->is_infinite;
> return $_[ 0 ]->truncate( to => 'day' )->add( days => 1 );
> },
> );
>
> my @array = $set->as_list( span => $span );
>
>
> I have tested it on two machines with the same result, with perl 5.8.8
> and perl 5.10 under Linux. Memory comsumption is well under what is
> available. If starting date is 1980 or more, everything runs fine.
>
