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

[Melvin Mawhin]

Escaping the left brace does not solve the loop 😊 it solves the error message but not the loop.

Kr

Mel

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From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 9:33 PM
To: Melvin Mawhin
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Infinite loop generating QEMU docs after upgrade to Perl 5.28.0

 

> 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.