Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:And the segfault doesn't occur with the maint-5.10 branch either, so 5.10.1 will be fine too.
On my machine, this only segfaults on perl 5.10.0. It works fine (i.e. it throws an exception but continues to work) on 5.8.9 and on blead. So apparently, this is a bug introduced in 5.10.0 that has since been fixed.