[perl #24074] pack()ing problem

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This is a bug report for perl from jgeisler@css.tayloru.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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For some values for pack(), the wrong bits are being set.  I don't
know where those extra bits come from.  This problem exists for the i
and I templates.  The following should illustrate the problem well.

    [236] john:~/JGG/marie % cat JGG.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    print_instruction(10 << 12);

    sub print_instruction {
	my $instruction = shift;

	if (0) {
	    print "$instruction\n";
	} else {
	    print pack("L", $instruction);
	}
    }
    [237] john:~/JGG/marie % ./JGG.pl | od -x
    0000000 c200 00a0 0000
    0000005
    [238] john:~/JGG/marie % 

As you can see, the extra bits "c2" are added to the packed value.
10 << 12 is definitely positive and the correct value should be
0000 00a0 since this is a little endian machine.

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

Configured by bhcompile'
cf_email='bhcompile at Tue Feb 18 22:17:47 EST 2003.

Summary of my rderl (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-2.48smp, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux str'
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -g -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchname=i386-linux -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl -Ubincompat5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef'
 useithreads=define usemultiplicity=
    useperlio= d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=un uselongdouble=
    usemymalloc=, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.2.2 20030213 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.2-1)', gccosandvers=''
gccversion='3.2.2 200302'
    intsize=e, longsize= , ptrsize=p, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long'
k', ivsize=4'
ivtype='long'
known_ext, nvtype='double'
o_nonbl', nvsize=, Off_t='', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc'
l', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
ldf'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libper
    gnulibc_version='2.3.1'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so', d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC'
ccdlflags='-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5', lddlflags='s Unicode/Normalize XS/A'

Locally applied patches:
    MAINT18379

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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/users11/jgeisler
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/users11/jgeisler/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh
    dlflags='-share (unset)

• [perl #24074] pack()ing problem by perlbug-followup
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