Commit d583356f49 for perl
commit d583356f49b904179871204ab315b34563c239ab
Author: Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org>
Date: Fri Oct 23 12:47:16 2026 -0600
Revert x 4 "Debugging GH #17671."
This reverts commit 4e98a48cc732fda7eebc13e9aece45ad5144186d.
That commit restored a flapping test to see if it was still a problem.
It is, and needs further investigation. So turn off the test in
production code to avoid distracting smoke noise.
diff --git a/lib/charnames.t b/lib/charnames.t
index 46f6bfea93..be260af290 100644
--- a/lib/charnames.t
+++ b/lib/charnames.t
@@ -157,6 +157,10 @@ sub test_vianame ($$$) {
$wildcard_count++;
+ # XXX temporary to see if the failure we are occasionally seeing is
+ # confined to this code point. GH #17671
+ next if $i == 0;
+
# Because wildcard name matching is so real-time intensive, do it less
# frequently than the others
if ($wildcard_count >= 10) {