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Date:
October 14, 2003 17:03
Subject:
[perl #24200] string corruption with lvalue sub
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rt-24200-65995.2.5728929040902@rt.perl.org
# New Ticket Created by  mconst@csua.berkeley.edu 
# Please include the string:  [perl #24200]
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This is a bug report for perl from mconst@csua.berkeley.edu,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.1.


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Under perl v5.8.1 on my i386 Debian Linux system, this script:

    $foo = "a";
    sub bar: lvalue { substr $foo, 0 }
    bar = "XXX";
    print bar, "\n";

produces the output "X".  I would have expected it to output "XXX",
like it does if you make the calls to substr directly instead of
through the lvalue function.

I get the same behaviour with perl v5.6.1 on an i386 FreeBSD system.

If you run the program under a debugging perl, you can actually see
the value change -- substr returns the string I expect, but by the
time bar returns, the value is different:

    (./bugtest:2)   substr
    Pad 0x81c0be0[0x81c1950] sv:      3 sv=0x81c0c1c

    STACK 0: MAIN
      CX 0: BLOCK  => *
      retop=const
      CX 1: SUB    => PVLV("XXX"\0)

    (./bugtest:2)   leavesublv

    STACK 0: MAIN
      CX 0: BLOCK  => *  <T>PVNV("X"\0)

Am I doing something wrong?

[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 v5.8.1:

Configured by Debian Project at Tue Sep 30 21:35:53 EST 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.22-xfs+ti1211, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux kosh 2.4.22-xfs+ti1211 #1 wed sep 24 21:17:59 est 2003 i686 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i386-linux -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.8.1 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8.1 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.1 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.1 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.8.1 -Dd_dosuid -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O3',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)', 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 =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.1
    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
  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 v5.8.1:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.1
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.1
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.8.1
    /usr/share/perl/5.8.1
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.1:
    HOME=/home/mconst
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/mconst/bin:/home/mconst/env/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh


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