Excerpts from Andrew Dunstan's message of jue ene 05 19:06:54 -0300 2012:
> 
> On 01/05/2012 12:05 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > Work around perl bug in SvPVutf8().
> >
> > Certain things like typeglobs or readonly things like $^V cause
> > perl's SvPVutf8() to die nastily and crash the backend. To avoid
> > that bug we make a copy of the object, which will subsequently be
> > garbage collected.
> >
> > Back patched to 9.1 where we first started using SvPVutf8().
> >
> > Per -hackers discussion. Original problem reported by David Wheeler.
> >
> 
> Ugh. This broke the regression tests. I'll get it fixed.

Yeah, notice that it's causing crashes, not just different results.

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