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moderated >> Crashing perl by pod.

by pkaluski » Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:32:35 GMT

Hi,
I am under an impression that badly formatted pod in a module can make
perl crash. I didn't find a simple pattern, which would allow to easily
recreate the problem. And in general I find the problem difficult to
recreate.
I am not 100% sure that pod is the culprit here. Therefore I am currious
if anyone had perl crashing due to invalid pod syntax in his/her *.pm files.

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moderated >> Crashing perl by pod.

by Michael Carman » Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:07:37 GMT



I don't think that POD can make perl crash unless it isn't properly delimited.
In that case perl would try to parse it as code and your module wouldn't
compile. Assuming a module compiles, though, there is no way that I'm aware of
for POD to cause any problems. It should be treated as a comment (and thus be
syntactically inert.)

-mjc
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moderated >> Crashing perl by pod.

by Andrei Voropaev » Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:22:38 GMT


Which version of perl you have? I remember long time ago with one of the
first perl5 versions we had crashes like you describe. If I remember
correctly in our case this was lonely =cut somewhere in the middle of
the module. With latest perl we don't expirience anything like that.


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moderated >> Crashing perl by pod.

by pkaluski » Wed, 02 Feb 2005 02:21:13 GMT


This is the most recent release taken from www.activestate.com.
OK. It seams that it is not that common to crash perl by pod.
I will come back to this thread once I have a good example.

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