alexandr ciornii ztoiqonrsagmailcom hello porters 20071115 steve peters via rt wed nov 14 161630 2007 kqbkfrplfhuthomsoncom wrote bug report perl kqbkfrplfhuthomsoncom generated help perlbug 135 running perl v587 bug manifests aix solaris cygwin able find version program reproduces bug linux box perl 585 usrbinperl w use strict 1 d1 d2 _ abc xxxxx pos 0 x abcg print n x pos _ produces 041 bug visible also aix output 0805468008 many variations sometimes producing huge values causes perl abort memory example copying another array bug seems manifest different ways depending exact code script example aix remove otherwise useless d1 line get 0251658240 however remove also useless d2 line get 00 think shifting behavior indicates getting value random area memory affected apparently random way depending state apparentlyunrelated areas memory get manifest solaris need remove d1 d2 lines usrbinperl w use strict 1 _ abc xxxxx pos 0 x abcg print n x pos _ gives 019529970 clear expecting output 0 contain one element perl 588 win32 00 linux 588 5100 devel32015 alexandr ciornii httpchornynet fri 08 aug 2008 085152 0200 perl 47467 bizarre value