[ID 20010226.008] parser confused by autoloaded subroutine

This is a bug report for perl from gsar@ActiveState.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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Here's a much reduced test case of a curious problem.

The bug is sensitive to the number of characters between the two
"EOT"s and the Getopt::Long::Configure() call (hence all those
hash marks).  Assuming you preserved the whitespace in the test
case, you should see the following when you run it:

  String found where operator expected at (eval 1) line 20, near "GetOptions("a""
  xxx

This can be reproduced under Linux and Windows.

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use Getopt::Long;
eval q[
print <<EOT;
xxx
EOT

#############################################
#############################################
#############################################

if ($x) {
 print <<EOT;
yyy
EOT
}

#############################################
#############################################
##############
Getopt::Long::Configure("ignore_case");
GetOptions("a", \$a);];
print $@;
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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by build at Wed Aug 30 16:29:46 PDT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.15, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux churn.activestate.com 2.2.15 #1 smp thu may 25 03:22:16 pdt 2000 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-des -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_email=ActivePerl@ActiveState.com -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Dprefix=/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/5.6.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/5.6.0
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/gsar
    LANG=en_US
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/gsar/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh

• [ID 20010226.008] parser confused by autoloaded subroutine by gsar
• Re: [ID 20010226.008] parser confused by autoloaded subroutine by Gurusamy Sarathy