BBC: Blead Breaks Statistics::CaseResampling

[cjg-cguevara]

This is a bug report for perl from "Carlos Guevara" [email protected],
generated with the help of perlbug 1.43 running under perl 5.41.6.

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BBC: Blead Breaks Statistics::CaseResampling

Please see http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Statistics::CaseResampling

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Flags

• category=core
• severity=low

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Perl configuration

Site configuration information for perl 5.41.6:

Configured by cpan at Sun Oct 20 22:36:51 EDT 2024.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 41 subversion 6) configuration:
  Commit id: cb2baa70118e364c1428dc77cb8f9c614060c26e
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@INC for perl 5.41.6:
    /home/cpan/bin/perl/lib/site_perl/5.41.6/x86_64-linux
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    /home/cpan/bin/perl/lib/5.41.6/x86_64-linux
    /home/cpan/bin/perl/lib/5.41.6

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Environment for perl 5.41.6:
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    LANGUAGE (unset)
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[mauke]

Error message:

Unparseable XSUB parameter: 'confidence...' in CaseResampling.xs, line 325

[jkeenan]

Breaking commit:

a399a4923c7f15aa1aa5bdb38a5dccf59ef51678 is the first bad commit
commit a399a4923c7f15aa1aa5bdb38a5dccf59ef51678
Author: David Mitchell <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Sep 23 18:52:11 2024 +0100

    ParseXS: refactor: XSUB signature-processing

[iabyn]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 09:52:52PM -0700, mauke wrote: Error message: ``` Unparseable XSUB parameter: 'confidence...' in CaseResampling.xs, line 325

Thus one is slightly different than the other recent XS breakages. The XS declaration is: median_simple_confidence_limits(sample, confidence...) It seems likely that the author intended to write median_simple_confidence_limits(sample, confidence, ...) but the ellipsis handling in XS was broken. It would basically do s/\.\.\.//g, so anything with an ellipsis would get broken. For example foo(int a, char *s = "and so ...") used to convert the default value to: foo(int a, char *s = "and so ") So IMHO, it's definitely a bug in the XS module, and the fix in XS in the XS parser is correct and should remain.

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