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perl -e'@a=(1..10);@a=sort{@a=(1);0}@a'

That works fine for me on 5.8.0 buts segfaults on 5.8.7.

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Re^4: How to kill perl?
by robin (Chaplain) on Nov 05, 2005 at 00:50 UTC
    Since 5.8.4, @foo = sort @foo is optimised to be an in-place sort of @foo, which is what makes it die so messily.
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