perl weirdness

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Mon May 23 05:22:00 GMT 2011


2011/5/22 Charles Wilson:
> On 5/22/2011 9:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> while looking into memory collision problems, I noticed something weird
>> in the perl package.  While all other executables are based at
>> 0x00400000, perl5.10.1 and the a2p executable are based at 0x55690000
>> and 0x55630000 respectively.
>
> IIRC, it's because perlrebase (the script) includes those executables in
> its list-of-stuff-to-rebase.
>
>> Is there any reason to do so?
>
> Not that I can see, since 0x00400000 is supposed to be well outside the
> range of any dll load address anyway.

Thanks, this is an error.

perl-5.14.0-1 is almost ready, I want to test it a bit more and upload
a test package to enable updating of all dependent packages.
The new perlrebase will exclude the exe.
-- 
Reini Urban
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