i <3 caffeine. (perl bug)

EvanCarroll has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Just found this little gem, segfault bug in perl 5.6+ (including 5.6.7) tested on two versions in linux (debian).
I just revealed bug to #perl on irc.freenode.net, everyone experienced it, make sure you have the right file and not a meta refresh.

1- Download the file at: http://evancarroll.no-ip.com/perlbug.txt

2- Run: perl -e'map { print reverse } reverse <>' ./perlbug.txt

Evan Carroll
business -@t- evancarroll.com

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Re: i <3 caffeine. (perl bug) by Joost (Canon) on Jul 14, 2005 at 10:01 UTC
It would help if you submit the bug through perlbug. (with a more descriptive title than this post :-) ) That's pretty nasty code by the way: you should be using something like `perl -e'print map { scalar reverse } reverse <>' #or perl -e'print scalar reverse for reverse <>' perlbug.txt` [download] Ofcourse, those don't segfault.. :-) "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: i <3 caffeine. (perl bug) by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2005 at 10:10 UTC
thanks for perlbug suggestion, never heard of, or used it before. It has been submitted.	[reply]
Re: i <3 caffeine. (perl bug) by ysth (Canon) on Jul 14, 2005 at 16:50 UTC
Works for me on 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x, and bleadperl (that is, correctly prints nothing, since list-context reverse doesn't default to working on $_).	[reply]
Re: i <3 caffeine. (perl bug) by parv (Parson) on Jul 14, 2005 at 15:21 UTC
That does not print anyting in Perl 5.8.7 (unthreaded) on FreeBSD 5.3-p17; perl process exits w/ code 0.	[reply]
Re: i <3 caffeine. (perl bug) by rev_1318 (Chaplain) on Jul 14, 2005 at 09:50 UTC
But what is your question? Paul	[reply]