Re: Problems with Math::Pari and perl 5.8.6

[Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:37:28PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:34:56PM -0600, John Perkins wrote:
> > 
> > I've been trying to get Math::Pari running with perl 5.8.6 for Solaris 8
> > and Tao 1.0 Linux.  I get a number of core dumps when running a 
> > "make test".  I've tried building Math::Pari against pari 2.1.5 and 
> > pari 2.1.6, both of which compiled using the assember-less pieces of 
> > the pari distribution.
> 
> I got one more report on this.  Apprently, 5.8.6 busted something;
> 5.8.5 is reported to be OK.

I uploaded a new version to PAUSE.  Should propagate to CPAN in a few
hours.

Actually, the analysis of the previous report I got was misleading;
so it is NOT a failure of Perl 5.8.6.  This new version just uses a
new algorithm to determine that an array is empty (for the purpose of
DESTROY'ing the elements).  Those who construct arrays by hand
should take notice that AvALLOC == 0 is not enough for the array to be
considered empty.

Yours,
Ilya