Re: [perl #77994] Initialized variable incorrectly mentioned in"uninitialized value" warning

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 09:54:43AM -0700, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
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> This is a bug report for perl from mjd@plover.com,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.
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> % perl -wle 'opendir $d, "." or die; print "ok"; print ">>", fileno $d'
> ok
> Use of uninitialized value $d in print at -e line 1.
> >>
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> The error message claims that $d is uninitialized, which is incorrect.
> $d contains a dirhandle.  The message is generated because fileno($d)
> is returning undefined.
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I can confirm this is still the case in 5.12.2 and in blead.



Abigail

• [perl #77994] Initialized variable incorrectly mentioned in "uninitialized value" warning by Mark-Jason Dominus
• Re: [perl #77994] Initialized variable incorrectly mentioned in"uninitialized value" warning by Abigail