I'm having a hard time with it. I've narrowed down, I think, the crash to this regex in Template::Parser: 

    while ($text =~ s/
           ^(.*?)               # $1 - start of line up to directive
           (?:
            $start          # start of tag
            (.*?)           # $2 - tag contents
            $end            # end of tag
            )
           //sx) {

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But what's odd is that if I eliminate all of Template Toolkit, and just use that while loop in my main script, no seg fault. What's even more curious is that if I leave that while in there and then run process, then there's still no segfault. I thought that maybe it's leaving the \G marker or something around, but even assigning to pos($text) doesn't reintroduce the segfault. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;
#use Template::Parser;

my $template = Template->new({});

my $text = "[% SET content='" . ("stuff "x20_000) . "' %]";

my $start = qr/\Q[%/;
my $end   = qr/\Q%]/;
while ($text =~ s/
       ^(.*?)               # $1 - start of line up to directive
       (?:
       $start          # start of tag
       (.*?)           # $2 - tag contents
       $end            # end of tag
       )
       //sx) {
    #print "1=$1\n2=$2\n";
}

pos($text) = 0;

$template->process(\$text, {});

print "Processed\n";

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This script works (rather, it doesn't segfault), and leaves me more confused than when I started.

(Perl 5.8.8 here)

In reply to Re: Challenge, try to fix the bug by Tanktalus
in thread Challenge, try to fix the bug by tilly

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