Re: Infinite loop generating QEMU docs after upgrade to Perl 5.28.0

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Melvin Mawhin <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:23:22 +0000
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> After some more testing it seems to be an encoding issue...
> 
> If the job is started with the following it works:
> 
> LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 makeinfo --no-split --number-sections -I docs 
> -I . -I . --no-headers
> --html qemu-doc.texi -o qemu-doc.html
> 
> if started by the make script it doesnt:
> 
> LC_ALL=C makeinfo --no-split --number-sections -I docs -I . -I . --no-headers 
> --html qemu-doc.texi -o
> qemu-doc.html
> 
> Same applies to the glibc build...

How can this be an encoding issue, when the left brace is an ASCII
character, and thus is unaffected by UTF-8 encoding?

My guess is that this is a bug in Perl, perhaps just a bug in
detecting the unescaped brace.