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From:
Robin Barker
Date:
April 28, 2000 11:52
Subject:
[PATCH] Re: [ID 20000322.006] incorrect pod2man output from long =item paragraphs
Message ID:
200004281851.TAA08234@tempest.npl.co.uk

> 
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:24:46 BST, Robin Barker wrote:
> >I was not sure how to deal with perldiag.pod, does the =item line
> >need to match the warning message?
> 
> I'm sure diagnostics can be fixed up to grok whatever format we end
> up with.
> 
> 
> Sarathy
> gsar@activestate.com
> 

% perl -we 'use diagnostics; my @x= 0..2; $x[-10]=1'
Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -10 at -e line 1 (#1)
Uncaught exception from user code:
        Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -10 at -e line 1.

I have looked at diagnostics.pm and noticed the following:
(1) %d should be translated to /-?\d+/; e.g. -10 above.
(2) Fatal errors are trapped by diagnostics _and_ 
    then reported as "Uncaught exception from user code"
(3) There are reference to $RS in the code, but no C<use English>

The patch below does the following:
 *  shortens the =item lines in perldiag.pod to solve the original problem,
    and put the full message in a C<=for diagnostics> paragraph;
 *  fixes (1) above;
 *  reads messages from C<=for diagnostics> paragraphs in preference to 
    the =item lines;
 *  replaces references to $RS by C<local $/> and 
    generally adds C<use strict;>, C<my> and C<our>;
 *  does NOT fix (2), can't see what's going on here.

Robin

--- pod/perldiag.pod	2000/04/28 10:33:01	1.1
+++ pod/perldiag.pod	2000/04/28 17:54:34	1.2
@@ -1879,13 +1879,19 @@
 
 Another way is to assign to a substr() that's off the end of the string.
 
-=item Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript %d
+=for diagnostics
+Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript %d
+
+=item Modification of non-creatable array value attempted
 
 (F) You tried to make an array value spring into existence, and the
 subscript was probably negative, even counting from end of the array
 backwards.
 
-=item Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, subscript "%s"
+=for diagnostics
+Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, subscript "%s"
+
+=item Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted
 
 (P) You tried to make a hash value spring into existence, and it couldn't
 be created for some peculiar reason.
@@ -2600,7 +2606,10 @@
 (F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were used.  Probably indicates
 an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy.
 
-=item Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method '%s' in package '%s'
+=for diagnostics
+Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method '%s' in package '%s'
+
+=item Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method '%s' 
 
 (F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were encountered while invoking a
 method.  Probably indicates an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy.
@@ -2867,7 +2876,10 @@
 the way to match "abc" provided that it is followed by three
 repetitions of "xyz" is C</abc(?=(?:xyz){3})/>, not C</abc(?=xyz){3}/>.
 
-=item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'
+=for diagnostics
+Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'
+
+=item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' 
 
 (P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation stubs.
 Stubs should never be implicitely created, but explicit calls to C<can>
--- lib/diagnostics.pm	2000/04/28 12:46:12	1.1
+++ lib/diagnostics.pm	2000/04/28 18:33:25	1.5
@@ -167,19 +167,23 @@
 
 =cut
 
+use strict;
 use 5.005_64;
 use Carp;
 
-$VERSION = v1.0;
+our $VERSION = v1.0;
+our $DEBUG;
+our $VERBOSE;
+our $PRETTY;
 
 use Config;
-($privlib, $archlib) = @Config{qw(privlibexp archlibexp)};
+my($privlib, $archlib) = @Config{qw(privlibexp archlibexp)};
 if ($^O eq 'VMS') {
     require VMS::Filespec;
     $privlib = VMS::Filespec::unixify($privlib);
     $archlib = VMS::Filespec::unixify($archlib);
 }
-@trypod = (
+my @trypod = (
 	   "$archlib/pod/perldiag.pod",
 	   "$privlib/pod/perldiag-$Config{version}.pod",
 	   "$privlib/pod/perldiag.pod",
@@ -189,19 +193,19 @@
 	  );
 # handy for development testing of new warnings etc
 unshift @trypod, "./pod/perldiag.pod" if -e "pod/perldiag.pod";
-($PODFILE) = ((grep { -e } @trypod), $trypod[$#trypod])[0];
+(my $PODFILE) = ((grep { -e } @trypod), $trypod[$#trypod])[0];
 
 $DEBUG ||= 0;
 my $WHOAMI = ref bless [];  # nobody's business, prolly not even mine
 
-$| = 1;
-
+local $| = 1;
 local $_;
 
+my $standalone;
+my(%HTML_2_Troff, %HTML_2_Latin_1, %HTML_2_ASCII_7);
+
 CONFIG: {
-    $opt_p = $opt_d = $opt_v = $opt_f = '';
-    %HTML_2_Troff = %HTML_2_Latin_1 = %HTML_2_ASCII_7 = ();  
-    %exact_duplicate = ();
+    my $opt_p = my $opt_d = my $opt_v = my $opt_f = '';
 
     unless (caller) { 
 	$standalone++;
@@ -221,11 +225,12 @@
 
     if (caller) {
 	INCPATH: {
-	    for $file ( (map { "$_/$WHOAMI.pm" } @INC), $0) {
+	    for my $file ( (map { "$_/$WHOAMI.pm" } @INC), $0) {
 		warn "Checking $file\n" if $DEBUG;
 		if (open(POD_DIAG, $file)) {
 		    while (<POD_DIAG>) {
-			next unless /^__END__\s*# wish diag dbase were more accessible/;
+			next unless
+			    /^__END__\s*# wish diag dbase were more accessible/;
 			print STDERR "podfile is $file\n" if $DEBUG;
 			last INCPATH;
 		    }
@@ -274,6 +279,7 @@
     # etc
 );
 
+our %HTML_Escapes;
 *HTML_Escapes = do {
     if ($standalone) {
 	$PRETTY ? \%HTML_2_Latin_1 : \%HTML_2_ASCII_7; 
@@ -284,20 +290,20 @@
 
 *THITHER = $standalone ? *STDOUT : *STDERR;
 
-$transmo = <<EOFUNC;
+my $transmo = <<EOFUNC;
 sub transmo {
     #local \$^W = 0;  # recursive warnings we do NOT need!
     study;
 EOFUNC
 
-### sub finish_compilation {  # 5.001e panic: top_level for embedded version
+my %msg;
+{
     print STDERR "FINISHING COMPILATION for $_\n" if $DEBUG;
-    ### local 
-    $RS = '';
+    local $/ = '';
     local $_;
+    my $header;
+    my $for_item;
     while (<POD_DIAG>) {
-	#s/(.*)\n//;
-	#$header = $1;
 
 	unescape();
 	if ($PRETTY) {
@@ -321,29 +327,35 @@
 		} 
 		s/^/    /gm;
 		$msg{$header} .= $_;
+	 	undef $for_item;	
 	    }
 	    next;
 	} 
-	unless ( s/=item (.*)\s*\Z//) {
+	unless ( s/=item (.*?)\s*\z//) {
 
 	    if ( s/=head1\sDESCRIPTION//) {
 		$msg{$header = 'DESCRIPTION'} = '';
+		undef $for_item;
 	    }
+	    elsif( s/^=for\s+diagnostics\s*\n(.*?)\s*\z// ) {
+		$for_item = $1;
+	    } 
 	    next;
 	}
 
 	# strip formatting directives in =item line
-	($header = $1) =~ s/[A-Z]<(.*?)>/$1/g;
+	$header = $for_item || $1;
+	undef $for_item;	
+	$header =~ s/[A-Z]<(.*?)>/$1/g;
 
 	if ($header =~ /%[csd]/) {
-	    $rhs = $lhs = $header;
-	    #if ($lhs =~ s/(.*?)%d(?!%d)(.*)/\Q$1\E\\d+\Q$2\E\$/g)  {
-	    if ($lhs =~ s/(.*?)%d(?!%d)(.*)/\Q$1\E\\d+\Q$2\E/g)  {
+	    my $rhs = my $lhs = $header;
+	    if ($lhs =~ s/(.*?)%d(?!%d)(.*)/\Q$1\E-?\\d+\Q$2\E/g)  {
 		$lhs =~ s/\\%s/.*?/g;
 	    } else {
-		# if i had lookbehind negations, i wouldn't have to do this \377 noise
+		# if i had lookbehind negations,
+		# i wouldn't have to do this \377 noise
 		$lhs =~ s/(.*?)%s/\Q$1\E.*?\377/g;
-		#$lhs =~ s/\377([^\377]*)$/\Q$1\E\$/;
 		$lhs =~ s/\377([^\377]*)$/\Q$1\E/;
 		$lhs =~ s/\377//g;
 		$lhs =~ s/\.\*\?$/.*/; # Allow %s at the end to eat it all
@@ -369,25 +381,23 @@
     print STDERR $transmo if $DEBUG;
     eval $transmo;
     die $@ if $@;
-    $RS = "\n";
-### }
+}
 
 if ($standalone) {
     if (!@ARGV and -t STDIN) { print STDERR "$0: Reading from STDIN\n" } 
-    while (defined ($error = <>)) {
+    while (defined (my $error = <>)) {
 	splainthis($error) || print THITHER $error;
     } 
     exit;
-} else { 
-    #$old_w = 0;
-    $oldwarn = ''; $olddie = '';
-}
+} 
+
+my $olddie;
+my $oldwarn;
 
 sub import {
     shift;
-    #$old_w = $^W;
-    $^W = 1; # yup, clobbered the global variable; tough, if you
-	     # want diags, you want diags.
+    $^W = 1; # yup, clobbered the global variable; 
+	     # tough, if you want diags, you want diags.
     return if $SIG{__WARN__} eq \&warn_trap;
 
     for (@_) {
@@ -421,7 +431,6 @@
 
 sub disable {
     shift;
-    #$^W = $old_w;
     return unless $SIG{__WARN__} eq \&warn_trap;
     $SIG{__WARN__} = $oldwarn;
     $SIG{__DIE__} = $olddie;
@@ -465,6 +474,10 @@
 	# into an indirect recursion loop
 };
 
+my %exact_duplicate;
+my %old_diag;
+my $count;
+my $wantspace;
 sub splainthis {
     local $_ = shift;
     local $\;
@@ -473,7 +486,7 @@
     my $orig = $_;
     # return unless defined;
     s/, <.*?> (?:line|chunk).*$//;
-    $real = s/(.*?) at .*? (?:line|chunk) \d+.*/$1/;
+    my $real = s/(.*?) at .*? (?:line|chunk) \d+.*/$1/;
     s/^\((.*)\)$/$1/;
     if ($exact_duplicate{$orig}++) {
 	return &transmo;
@@ -541,9 +554,6 @@
     return $line;
 } 
 
-
-# have to do this: RS isn't set until run time, but we're executing at compiletime
-$RS = "\n";
 
 1 unless $standalone;  # or it'll complain about itself
 __END__ # wish diag dbase were more accessible

-- 
Robin Barker                        | Eail:  Robin.Barker@npl.co.uk
CMSC, Building 10,                  | Phone: +44 (0) 20 8943 7090
National Physical Laboratory,       | Fax:   +44 (0) 20 8977 7091
Teddington, Middlesex, UK. TW11 OLW | WWW:   http://www.npl.co.uk

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