This is a bug report for perl from jlawrenc@[...].com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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By assigning $ARGV[1] to a variable:
 $lang=$ARGV[1] || "e";
and then later using it in hash references:
 $blort{'e'}="Happy day"
 print $blort{$lang}
I sometimes core dump.

Work around by creating new string from value of $ARGV[1] thus
breaking reference?:
 $lang="$ARGV[1]" || "e";
core dump goes away.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by root at Wed Jul 26 11:45:39 EDT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.16-3, archname=i586-linux
    uname='linux infonium.com 2.2.16-3 #1 mon jun 19 18:10:14 edt 2000 i586 unknown '
    config_args='-de -Dprefix=/usr -Duselargefiles=undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=undef 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=4
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/jlawrenc
    LANG=en_US
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:
/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/jdk1.2.2/bin/:/home/jlawrenc/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/j
dk1.2.2/bin/:/home/jlawrenc/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash