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Hi, this is just a heads up about a bug report I just filed to p5p and the maintainer of Data::Dumper. If you set $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=1 and do not set $Data::Dumper::Useperl=1 under 5.6.1 (win32 at least) you will end up with either erroneous data or a segfault. If you set both at the same time this problem doesnt arise.

Note that this bug does not appear to affect 5.8.0 at all.

use Data::Dumper; use strict; use warnings; $|++; printf "D::D version %s\n",Data::Dumper->VERSION; for my $sk (0,1) { print "\$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=$sk\n"; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=$sk; for my $up (1,0) { print "\$Data::Dumper::Useperl=$up\n"; $Data::Dumper::Useperl=$up; my %rev; my %name; print "Dumper:\n",Dumper(\%rev,\%name),"\n"; } } print "Done\n"; __END__ D::D version 2.121 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=0 $Data::Dumper::Useperl=1 Dumper: $VAR1 = {}; $VAR2 = {}; $Data::Dumper::Useperl=0 Dumper: $VAR1 = {}; $VAR2 = {}; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys=1 $Data::Dumper::Useperl=1 Dumper: $VAR1 = {}; $VAR2 = {}; $Data::Dumper::Useperl=0 Use of uninitialized value in print at c:\temp\test_dd.pl line 15. Dumper: $VAR2 = {};

I post this only as a public service, as I know many people here depend on DD in many ways, and this is a serious bug that is not picked up by the test suite.

Cheers,


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demerphq

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