[perl #67830] Output of complex objects differs when program is debugged with perl -d

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This is a bug report for perl from ericp@activestate.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.


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The output of this program behaves differently depending on
whether it's from the command-line, or debugged with perl5db.pl:

The program:
#!/usr/bin/env perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $obj = Obj->new();
$obj->alias("Fred")="Flintstone";
print Dumper $obj;

package Obj;
use strict;

sub new (%) {
    my ($class, %params)=@_;
    bless \%params, $class;
}

sub alias($$) : lvalue {
    my ($self, $alias)=@_;
    $self->{alias}->{$alias};
}

#=============

Output from the command-line:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'alias' => {
                              'Fred' => 'Flintstone'
                            }
               }, 'Obj' );


#=============

Output from a `perl -d ...' session:

C:>perl -d bug83805a.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.3
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help.

main::(bug83805a.pl:5): my $obj = Obj->new();

  DB<1> c
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'alias' => {}
               }, 'Obj' );
Debugged program terminated.  Use q to quit or R to restart,
  use o inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
  h q, h R or h o to get additional info.

  DB<1> q

C:>

#=============

The discrepancy is most likely due to the way the debugger
uses the overload module, but I can't figure out why.  Any insight?


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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0:

Configured by ActiveState at Wed May 14 05:06:16 PDT 2008.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.21-297-default, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux gila 2.4.21-297-default #1 sat jul 23 07:47:39 utc 2005 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-ders -Dcc=gcc -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Ud_sigsetjmp -Uinstallusrbinperl -Ulocincpth= -Uloclibpth= -Accflags=-DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -Duselargefiles -Accflags=-DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -Dprefix=/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003 -Dprivlib=/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/lib -Darchlib=/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/lib -Dsiteprefix=/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/site -Dsitelib=/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/site/lib -Dsitearch=/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/site/lib -Dsed=/bin/sed -Duseshrplib -Dcf_by=ActiveState -Dcf_email=support@ActiveState.com'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    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='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPRIVLIB_LAST_IN_INC -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)', 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='gcc', ldflags =''
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/lib/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2'

Locally applied patches:
    ACTIVEPERL_LOCAL_PATCHES_ENTRY
    33741 avoids segfaults invoking S_raise_signal() (on Linux)
    33763 Win32 process ids can have more than 16 bits
    32809 Load 'loadable object' with non-default file extension
    32728 64-bit fix for Time::Local

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@INC for perl 5.10.0:
    /home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/site/lib
    /home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/lib
    .

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Environment for perl 5.10.0:
    HOME=/home/ericp
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/ericp/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/ericp/opt/ruby-1.8.6/bin:/home/ericp/opt/ActivePython-2.6.1.1/bin:/home/ericp/bin:/home/ericp/svn/apps/komodo/util/black:/home/ericp/opt/PDK-Pro-7.0.0.277058-linux/bin:/home/ericp/opt/ActivePerl-5.10.0.1003/bin:/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/ericp/opt/ActiveTcl8.5.4.0/bin:/home/ericp/opt/ActivePython-3.1.0.1/bin:/home/ericp/bin
    PERLDOC_PAGER=less
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #67830] Output of complex objects differs when program is debugged with perl -d by Eric Promislow
• Re: [perl #67830] Output of complex objects differs when programis debugged with perl -d by Bram
• Re: [perl #67830] Output of complex objects differs when programis debugged with perl -d by Bram
• Re: [perl #67830] Output of complex objects differs when program is debugged with perl -d by Joshua ben Jore