[ID 19991121.001] Inaccuracy in perldiag

This is a bug report for perl from mcafee@waits.facilities.med.umich.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.


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The perldiag man page includes the following paragraph:

     Can't use an undefined value as %s reference
         (F) A value used as either a hard reference or a
         symbolic reference must be a defined value.  This helps
         to delurk some insidious errors.

In fact, it appears that this is only a fatal error when strict refs is in
effect.  It's not an error at all, otherwise.



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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by mcafee at Tue Aug 31 13:06:59 EDT 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos waits.facilities.med.umich.edu 5.6 generic_105181-03 sun4u sparc '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/ -B/usr/ccs/bin/', optimize='-O', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc -B/usr/ccs/bin/ -B/usr/ccs/bin/', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .

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Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/export/home/mcafee
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=en_US
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/gnome/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/um/tcl/lib:/usr/um/tk/lib:/usr/local/qt/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/export/home/mcafee/bin:/usr/local/gnome/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/um/gnu/bin:/usr/um/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/um/perl/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/qt/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash

• [ID 19991121.001] Inaccuracy in perldiag by Sean McAfee
• Re: [ID 19991121.001] Inaccuracy in perldiag by Ronald J Kimball
• Re: [ID 19991121.001] Inaccuracy in perldiag by Sean McAfee