my sendmail isn't agreeing with perlbug, so...

This is a bug report for perl from jeffp@crusoe.net,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00502.


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  #!/usr/bin/perl
  sub bar;
  print $main::{'bar'};

That printed -1.  "Guh?"
  
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  sub bar ($@);
  print $main::{'bar'};

That gave my $@ (or whatever prototype I'd assigned &bar.

It's a bit puzzling to me, since I've been told from #perl-folk that it   
prints *main::bar (not -1) in 5.004.

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00502:

Configured by jeffp at Wed Mar 24 18:23:10 EST 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 2) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.5.1, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos friday 5.5.1 generic_103640-22 sun4m sparc sunw,sparcstation-5 '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='/usr/local/bin/gcc', optimize='-O', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    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='/usr/local/bin/gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib -L/opt/gnu/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /opt/gnu/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldb -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 -L/opt/gnu/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.00502:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/sun4-solaris
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502
    /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 5.00502:
    HOME=/home/jeffp
    LANG (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sbin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin:/crusoe/appl/bin:/usr/local/netscape:/usr/ccs/bin:.:/home/jeffp/utils:/home/jeffp/local/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh

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