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[perl #20933] \substr reuses lvalues (sometimes)

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Date:
February 13, 2003 13:48
Subject:
[perl #20933] \substr reuses lvalues (sometimes)
Message ID:
rt-20933-51171.0.305219357641846@bugs6.perl.org
# New Ticket Created by  Joshua b. Jore 
# Please include the string:  [perl #20933]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
# <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=20933 >


This is a bug report for perl from josh@lavendergreens.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.6.1.


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[Please enter your report here]

The following code prints "abbb" when it should be "abab". BrowserUK
of perlmonks.org clued me into this error.

$s = "ab";
$r[0] = \ substr $s, 0, 1;
$r[1] = \ substr $s, 1, 1;
print ${ $r[0] };
print ${ $r[1] };

$r[$_] = \ substr $s, $_, 1 for (0, 1);
print ${ $r[0] };
print ${ $r[1] };

[Please do not change anything below this line]
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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.1:

Configured by root at Mon Feb  3 03:46:05 CST 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=openbsd, osvers=3.2, archname=i386-openbsd
    uname='openbsd'
    config_args='-Dopenbsd_distribution=defined -dsE'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010125 (prerelease)', gccosandvers='openbsd3.2'
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    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 =''
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lutil
    perllibs=-lm -lc -lutil
    libc=/usr/lib/libc.so.28.5, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.6.1
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=define, ccdlflags='-Wl,-R/usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC ', lddlflags='-shared -fPIC '

Locally applied patches:


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@INC for perl v5.6.1:
    /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.6.1
    /usr/libdata/perl5
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd
    /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd
    /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.1:
    HOME=/home/josh
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh



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