in reply to @- Bug on the loose, lets isolate it

Perl from Debian's unstable version segfaults:

skx@mystery:~$ cat t.pl #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $string = "abc"; while( $string =~ /b/g ) { print "@-\n"; } skx@mystery:~$ perl t.pl Segmentation fault

Version information:

skx@mystery:~$ perl --version This is perl, v5.8.4 built for i386-linux-thread-multi

dpkg shows the perl package as v5.8.4-8