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[ID 20010305.012] chop() against list assignment returns charchopped from el zero

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From:
dwollmann
Date:
March 5, 2001 20:24
Subject:
[ID 20010305.012] chop() against list assignment returns charchopped from el zero
Message ID:
200103060420.f264Kch22676@thumper.puttybox.local
This is a bug report for perl from converter@dalnet-perl.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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chop() against a list assignment should return the last character
from the last element of the list. Instead, it returns the last
character from the first element of the list:

@a = ('ab','cd','ef');

print chop(@a = @a);
# b

print chop(@a);
# f


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

Configured by root at Fri Sep  1 07:13:58 CDT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.16-9mdk, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux thumper.puttybox.local 2.2.16-9mdk #1 thu jul 6 19:57:01 cdt 2000 i686 unknown '
    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=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -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 -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.3.so, 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:
    /home/boss/perllib
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/boss
    LANG=en
    LANGUAGE=en_US:en
    LC_COLLATE=en
    LC_CTYPE=en
    LC_MESSAGES=en
    LC_MONETARY=en
    LC_NUMERIC=en
    LC_TIME=en
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/boss/bin:/home/boss/bin/wfwdir
    PERL5LIB=/home/boss/perllib
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash


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