Re: bytes pragma problems

heh, thanks!

On 4/16/07, Nicholas Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't think that anyone ever replied to this.
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:51:36PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote:
> > Has anyone noticed that a call to bytes::substr() sends perl into a
> > seemingly infinite loop
> > under v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level?
> >
> >       use bytes;
> >       print bytes::substr( "abc", 0, 1 );
>
> This appears to have been solved by 5.8.1 release.
>
> > I also noticed that a call to a non-existent bytes subroutine will
> > cause an infinite loop under v5.8.2 built for i686-linux.
> >
> >       use bytes;
> >       print bytes::twtowtdi()
> >
> > Were these problems resolved in later releases of Perl?
>
> This appears to have been solved by 5.8.7
>
> Nicholas Clark
>