I got a similar problem just this morning. I have a perl script that has problems getting parsed correctly (on i386 Suse-Linux in an utf8 environment). In one case 'perl -c script.pl' even results in a segmentation fault.

The effect vanishes as soon as I add 'use utf8;' to the script which hints at the cause of the problem.

Will update to perl 5.8.8 and see what that does.

Update:

My problem still exists with perl 5.8.8:

> perl -c EB/vb.pm
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x000000000
+071f880 ***
Abbruch

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If someone wants to try out, this produces a segmentation fault on my machine: 
package EB::Parse;

use strict;
use 5.008;
use warnings;
use encoding 'utf8';


use Carp;


my($parser);



$parser=  q{

{ my $execute=0; }


all :  /[:\\s]*/ zeitortobjekt(s? /[:\\s]*/)  befehl(s? /[:\\ ]*/) /.*
+/
gug : '1'
#------------


};



1;

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In reply to Re: Perl debugging vs. utf8: I'm losing by jethro
in thread Perl debugging vs. utf8: I'm losing by graff

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