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authorEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-05-06 23:42:31 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@80x24.org>2019-05-07 00:25:52 +0000
commit3bd8bec866f5540b6dce33ffcaaf4714249dcb22 (patch)
treedaca7de7782554cac70bcf8fcb3c75745d69b694 /HACKING
parentce18b29d175ef5f01f05d59c95bcf8e0cd40e611 (diff)
downloadpublic-inbox-3bd8bec866f5540b6dce33ffcaaf4714249dcb22.tar.gz
Noticed while testing on FreeBSD 11.2 amd64 with the optional
Inline::C extension using clang 6.0.0.  The end result on
FreeBSD was spawning processes failed badly and things were
immediately unusable with this enabled.

av_len is a misleading API, and I failed to read the API
comments in perl:/av.c which state:

> Note that, unlike what the name implies, it returns
> the highest index in the array, so to get the size of
> the array you need to use "av_len(av) + 1".
> This is unlike "sv_len", which returns what you would expect.

If this bug affected anybody, it would've only affected users
using both the optional Inline::C module AND set the
PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY environment variable.

That said, I've never seen any evidence of it on Debian
GNU/Linux + gcc on any x86 variant.  That includes full 64-bit
systems, a full 32-bit system, a 64-bit system with 32-bit
userspace, across multiple gcc versions since 2016.
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