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[ID 19991118.012] Anonymous glob breaks when assigned through

From:
mjd
Date:
November 18, 1999 22:00
Subject:
[ID 19991118.012] Anonymous glob breaks when assigned through
Message ID:
19991119060135.8519.qmail@plover.com

This is a bug report for perl from mjd@plover.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00502.


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[Please enter your report here]

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	
	$x = \*F;
	print "$x\n";
	*{$x} = sub {};
	print "$x\n";
	print *$x, "\n";
	
	print "-------------------------\n";
	
	$y = \do { local *F };
	print "$y\n";
	*{$y} = sub {};
	print "$y\n";
	print *$y, "\n";


I want these two sections of code to do the same thing.  I make a glob
reference.  Then I try to assign a subroutine to the CODE part of the
glob.  If the reference is to a glob like *F, it works as it should.
But if the reference is to a fake glob, as in the second section, the
assignment turns the globref into a scalar ref.

The output of the program is:

	GLOB(0x81308a4)
	GLOB(0x81308a4)
	*main::F
	-------------------------
	GLOB(0x812a23c)
	SCALAR(0x812a23c)
	Not a GLOB reference at /tmp/oops.pl line 15.

I want it to be:
	
	GLOB(0x81308a4)
	GLOB(0x81308a4)
	*main::F
	-------------------------
	GLOB(0x812a23c)
	GLOB(0x812a23c)
	*main::F

The behavior is the same under perl 5.005_02, _55, _56, _57, _61, and _62.

[Please do not change anything below this line]
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This perlbug was built using Perl 5.00502 - Sun Oct 18 04:25:09 CDT 1998
It is being executed now by  Perl 5.00556 - Wed May 19 22:26:34 EDT 1999.

Site configuration information for perl 5.00502:

Configured by root at Sun Oct 18 04:25:09 CDT 1998.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.0.35, archname=i586-linux
    uname='linux darkstar 2.0.35 #10 tue oct 13 18:04:13 cdt 1998 i586 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    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
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /shlib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc
    libc=/lib/libc.so.5.4.46, 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 5.00502:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00502
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00502:
    HOME=/home/mjd
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/mjd/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin/mh:/data/mysql/bin:/home/mjd/TPI/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash



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