[perl #58866] calling a PIR sub with 206 params segfaults parrot

[Christoph Otto via RT]

On Thu Sep 18 16:13:46 2008, cotto wrote:
> On Thu Sep 18 08:52:10 2008, julianalbo wrote:
> > I changed the fix in r31230 to allocate char instead of char *,
> > adjusted the formula for buffer size and added a comment explaining it
> > to lower the level of black magic, and added a check for each item,
> > dropping the XXX comment that asked for it.
> > 
> > I hope this is enough understanding of the error ;)
> > 
> 
> Thanks.  I think neither of us read the code quite correctly, but your
> patch was a significant improvement.  It also fixed a hard-to-reproduce
> bug that GeJ was running into on FreeBSD 7.1.  
> In looking at the code, I can see some ways to make the test more
> comprehensive.  I'm going to reopen it as a way to remind me to write
> some more exhaustive tests which exercise sub signatures as well as sub
> calls.

I added a test for this in r36536.  This ticket is now closed.