[ID 20000816.010] perl_eval_{sv,pv} does not trap syntax errors

This is a bug report for perl from gisle@aas.no,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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I have this application (actually Python) that embeds perl and calls
perl_eval_pv() to pass code to it.  One problem with this is that
perl_eval_pv(code, FALSE) does not set ERRSV (aka $@) on syntax
errors.

This is a little example program showing this behaviour:

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#include <EXTERN.h>
#include <perl.h>

int main(int argc, char**argv, char**env)
{
  int i;
  char *embedding[] = {"", "-e", "0"};
  PerlInterpreter *my_perl = perl_alloc();
  perl_construct(my_perl);
  perl_parse(my_perl, NULL, 3, embedding, NULL);
  perl_run(my_perl);

  perl_eval_pv("sub { ", TRUE);
  /*** the program ought to abort here ***/

  if (SvTRUE(ERRSV))
       PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log, "XXX %s", SvPV_nolen(ERRSV));
  perl_eval_pv("1/0", TRUE);
  if (SvTRUE(ERRSV))
       PerlIO_printf(Perl_debug_log, "YYY %s", SvPV_nolen(ERRSV));
  /*** it aborts here ***/

  printf("done\n");
}

/*
  Compile with: cc check-eval-syntax-error.c `perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts -e ldopts`
 */
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This program prints:

   $ ./a.out
   Illegal division by zero at (eval 2) line 2.

instead of something with "syntax error in (eval 1)".


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by gisle at Mon May 22 17:07:41 CEST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux eik 2.2.5 #1 mon sep 13 14:53:01 cest 1999 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/local/perl/5.6.0_priv -Doptimize=-g -ders'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    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
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, 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 v5.6.0:
    /local/perl/5.6.0_priv/lib/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /local/perl/5.6.0_priv/lib/5.6.0
    /local/perl/5.6.0_priv/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /local/perl/5.6.0_priv/lib/site_perl/5.6.0
    /local/perl/5.6.0_priv/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/gisle
    LANG=POSIX
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=...
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [ID 20000816.010] perl_eval_{sv,pv} does not trap syntax errors by gisle
• [perl #3719] perl_eval_{sv,pv} does not trap syntax errors by George Greer via RT
• Re: [perl #3719] perl_eval_{sv,pv} does not trap syntax errors by Leon Timmermans
• Re: [perl #3719] perl_eval_{sv,pv} does not trap syntax errors by Dave Mitchell
• [perl #3719] perl_eval_{sv,pv} does not trap syntax errors by Father Chrysostomos via RT