Fw: Segmentation Fault with Markdown

[Stefan Tilkov]

Sorry - hit "send" too fast. It's got to be a bug in Perl, since no Perl 
program should ever be able to cause a segfault - right?

Stefan Tilkov/innoQ wrote on 23.05.2004 00:04:30:

> 
> John Gruber wrote on 22.05.2004 23:43:02:
> 
> > Jonathan Ploudre <jploudre at fastmail.fm> wrote on 05/22/04 at 2:20pm:
> > 
> > > I actually was getting segmentation faults which is what led me to 
> > > discover the perl -w command. My university is running an old 
version 
> > > of perl (5.6.0) but that's out of my realm to change.
> > 
> > I've received other reports of this, all of them from people running
> > Markdown with Perl 5.6.0. I am certain that it is a bug in that
> > specific version of Perl.
> > 
> 
> It *must* be a bug in Perl 5.6.0 - 
> 
> > 
> > > I noticed that the errors on Markdown 1.0b5 only happens on certain 
> > > pages on my blosxom site but haven't figured out what text creates 
the 
> > > Malformed UTF-8 error.
> > 
> > I think I've worked around the 5.6.0 crashing bug starting with
> > 1.0b5, but I have no idea what could be causing the "malformed
> > UTF-8" warning you're seeing. I'm pretty sure that Markdown.pl
> > contains no non-ASCII characters.
> > 
> > If you can reduce this to specific reproducible steps, it'd be a
> > help.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > -J.G.
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