I was checking something with the debugger and a typo made the debugger actually hang, ignoring ^C. Originally the "whatever" below was a call to a sub I'd defined but "//" or "chop" produce the same behaviour.

Does it hang for anyone else?
Why is it hanging?

$ perl -de 1             
[...]
  DB<1> ($a,b) = whatever
Terminated
# I have to kill it

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I'm using v5.6.1 built for i386-linux.

Update:

$ ltrace output stops in a free..?
free(0x082004f0)                                 = <void>
free(0x081054d0)                                 = <void>
free(0x08119288)                                 = <void>
free(0x0832cf98 <unfinished ...>

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In reply to perl -d hanging on some input by bsb

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