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[ID 20000410.002] Prototypes defined too late - warning forrecursive subroutines
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From:
Henrik Tougaard
Date:
April 10, 2000 05:59
Subject:
[ID 20000410.002] Prototypes defined too late - warning forrecursive subroutines
Message ID:
Pine.OSF.3.95.1000410145750.22120C-100000@sula1.foa.dk
This is a bug report for perl from ht000@foa.dk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
Note: Originally entered as [ID 20000327.001] but seems to have
disappeared during the perlbug update period.
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[Please enter your report here]
When running with -w flag you get a warning if a function with a
prototype is used recursively before the end of the function.
Eg:
$ cat fail.pl
sub fail($) {
return 1 unless $_[0] == 1;
fail(4);
}
fail (1);
$ perl5.6.0 -wc fail.pl
main::fail() called too early to check prototype at fail.pl line 3.
fail.pl syntax OK
Perl5.005_03 does not exhibit this behaviour (possibly because the
prototype tests were not so restrictive - the warning is new anyway).
$ perl5.00503 -wc fail.pl
fail.pl syntax OK
The warning can be avoided by prototyping the subroutine just before
its definition - which does look a bit silly:
$ cat ok.pl
sub fail($);
sub fail($) {
return 1 unless $_[0] == 1;
fail(4);
}
fail (1);
$ perl5.6.0 -wc ok.pl
ok.pl syntax OK
A more intuitive behaviour would be that the prototype is known at the
start of the subroutine block, not at the end.
At the least a warning/note should be added in perlfunc.pod
documenting this not too intuitively clear behaviour.
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Henrik Tougaard ht000@foa.dk
FOA Trade Union for Public employees Denmark.
#include <disclaim.std>
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Flags:
category=core
severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:
Configured by ht000 at Thu Mar 23 07:46:36 MET 2000.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=dec_osf, osvers=4.0, archname=alpha-dec_osf
uname='osf1 panama2.foa.dk v4.0 1091 alpha '
config_args=''
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', optimize='-O4', gccversion=
cppflags='-std -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
ccflags ='-std -fprm d -ieee -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -DLANGUAGE_C'
stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/shlib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc /usr/lib /var/shlib
libs=-ldbm -ldb -lm -liconv
libc=/usr/shlib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-rpath,/tools/perl/lib/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf/CORE'
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-shared -expect_unresolved "*" -O4 -msym -std -s -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
/usr/local/lib/perlmod
/tools/perl/lib/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf
/tools/perl/lib/5.6.0
/tools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/alpha-dec_osf
/tools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0
/tools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.005/alpha-dec_osf
/tools/perl/lib/site_perl/5.005
/tools/perl/lib/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
HOME=/usr/users/ht
LANG=da_DK.ISO8859-1
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ingres_oa/ingres/lib:/usr/shlib
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/tools/perl/bin:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/opt/networker/bin:/progs/CVS/cvs-1.10/bin:/usr/users/ht/bin:/ingres_oa/ingres/utility:/ingres_oa/ingres/bin
PERL5LIB=/usr/local/lib/perlmod
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
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[ID 20000410.002] Prototypes defined too late - warning forrecursive subroutines
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