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Id: 59608
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Device-USB
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Owner: cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org
Requestors: MSULLAND [...] cpan.org
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Bug Information
Severity: Important
Broken in: 0.34
Fixed in: 0.35

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  Wed Jul 21 18:39:39 2010 MSULLAND [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Seg. faults after upgrade from 0.31 to 0.34
Hi. Some strange segmentation faults have been encountered with the releases after 0.31. The change from a void pointer into a char pointer seems to not work completely correctly. My system runs the libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 package delivered with debian. Is there any more information I can provide to help solve the problem? Have tried playing with the C code and it looks like any change from void to char results in a memory problem.
  Wed Jul 21 23:10:53 2010 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Jul 21 23:10:59 2010 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Taken
  Wed Jul 21 23:17:13 2010 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Correspondence added
On Wed Jul 21 18:39:39 2010, MSULLAND wrote: Show quoted text
> Hi. > > Some strange segmentation faults have been encountered with the
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> after 0.31. The change from a void pointer into a char pointer seems
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> not work completely correctly.
Thanks for reporting this. There really shouldn't be any difference at the C level between the char* and void*. I suspect that the previously supplied patch went a little overboard. I'll see if I can tease out the actual changes that need to be made and get a correction in place shortly. G. Wade
  Wed Jul 21 23:37:33 2010 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Correspondence added
After looking at the discussion on Perl Monks that lead to the submitted patch. I can see what the other poster was trying to do and where the patch went wrong. I have just uploaded release 0.35 as an attempted fix for the problem. It should be indexed and available on CPAN in a few hours.
  Thu Jul 22 15:49:31 2010 MSULLAND [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Tested the updated version now and everything looks to be working perfectly. On Wed Jul 21 23:37:33 2010, GWADEJ wrote: Show quoted text
> After looking at the discussion on Perl Monks that lead to the submitted > patch. I can see what the other poster was trying to do and where the > patch went wrong. > > I have just uploaded release 0.35 as an attempted fix for the problem. > > It should be indexed and available on CPAN in a few hours.
  Thu Jul 22 15:49:32 2010 MSULLAND [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Sat Jul 24 15:42:19 2010 cpan.wade [...] anomaly.org - Fixed in 0.35 added