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[ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local

From:
pimlott
Date:
November 14, 1999 14:48
Subject:
[ID 19991114.001] dangerous behavior from local
Message ID:
m11n9Ex-000SFGC@nolfolan.idiomtech.com
This is a bug report for perl from pimlott@idiomtech.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.


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[Please enter your report here]

A coworker accidentally did:

{
    local($/ = undef);
    ...
}

This did not localize $/ .  I don't know what it did do.  There was no
warning.  Could I get a warning out of it?

Thanks,
Andrew

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by torin at Wed Sep 22 00:18:38 PDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.0.36, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux perv 2.0.36 #2 wed nov 18 03:00:48 pst 1998 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.1 19990809 (prerelease)
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, 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:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /home/pimlott/idiom/perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/pimlott
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/pimlott/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/home/pimlott/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
    PERL5LIB=/home/pimlott/idiom/perl
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh



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