[perl #22290] scalar untie doesn't always work

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This is a bug report for perl from muir@charm.idiom.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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---------- begin program ----------
#!/usr/bin/perl -I.

my $x = 7;
tie $x, 'Overlay', 8;
print "tied x = $x.\n";
untie $x;
print "untied x = $x.\n";

package Overlay;

sub TIESCALAR
{
	my $pkg = shift;
	my $y = shift;
	return bless \$y, $pkg;
}

sub FETCH
{
	my $self = shift;
	return "<$$self>";
}

sub STORE { }
---------- end program ----------

In the above program, the untie only partially works.  After
the untie, tied($x) no longer returns anything however, if I
access $x, the value I get is "<8>" instead of the "7" it should
have reverted to.

If I add UNTIE or DESTROY methods to Overlay, they are called.

If I drop the 'print "tied x = $x.\n";' line then $x remains at "7".


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=high
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by muir at Wed Dec 18 00:21:13 PST 2002.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.7-release, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd charm.idiom.com 4.7-release freebsd 4.7-release #4: thu oct 10 22:04:24 pdt 2002 muir@charm.idiom.com:charmbuildobjcharmbuildsrcsyscharm i386 '
    config_args='-sde -Dprefix=/usr/local -Darchlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/mach -Dprivlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0 -Dman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/man/man3 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/mach -Dsitelib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 -Ui_malloc -Ui_iconv -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dccflags=-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/BSDPAN" -Ui_gdbm -Dusemymalloc=n'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O -pipe -m486 -mcpu=i686 -march=pentiumpro ',
    cppflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]', gccosandvers=''
    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, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC', lddlflags='-shared  -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/mach
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/BSDPAN
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/mach
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/muir
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=.:/home/muir/bin/charm:/home/muir/bin:/home/muir/bin/share:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/shbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/ptybin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/tex/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/bin:/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/games:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/lib/uucp:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/openwin/bin/xview:/usr/openwin/demo:/usr/adm:/home/muir/tmp
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh

• [perl #22290] scalar untie doesn't always work by David Muir Sharnoff
• Re: [perl #22290] scalar untie doesn't always work by David Muir Sharnoff
• Re: [perl #22290] scalar untie doesn't always work by Graham Barr