Tk Text Regex Search Crashes debugger

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

Why does this crash the debugger on a wide range of platforms and Perl versions?

use Tk; 
my $m = MainWindow->new;
my $t = $m->Text->pack;
$t->search('-regexp', '', '1.0', 'end'); # debugger crash
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Re: Tk Text Regex Search Crashes debugger by GrandFather (Saint) on Feb 25, 2012 at 06:05 UTC
What further help do you expect from this follow up post to Tk Text regex crashes debugger given that our initial investigation uncovered a reproducible problem with Tk::Text that you have reported as rt://74612? True laziness is hard work	[reply]
Re: Tk Text Regex Search Crashes debugger by Anonymous Monk on Feb 25, 2012 at 07:49 UTC
"-regexp" https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk/blob/master/pTk/mTk/generic/tkText.c TextSearchCmd	[reply]