[perl #30807] Misleading error message from Storable

On Sat Jul 24 08:20:35 2004, rickdelaney wrote:
> 
> This is a bug report for perl from rick@bort.ca,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.3.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> % perl -MStorable=thaw -e 'thaw("a")'
> Magic number checking on storable string failed at
>    ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into
>    ../../lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 358, at -e line 1
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> % perl -MStorable=thaw -e 'thaw("aa")'
> Storable binary image v48.97 more recent than I am (v2.6) at
>    ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into
>    ../../lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 358, at -e line 1
> 
> It would be nice if the second had the same error as the first.
> 

I can confirm that, notwithstanding minor changes in the error messages,
this bug is still present in the Storable that ships with Perl 5.14.2:
$ perl -MStorable=thaw -e 'thaw("a")'
Magic number checking on storable string failed at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/darwin-2level/Storable.pm line 416, at -e line 1

$ perl -MStorable=thaw -e 'thaw("aa")'
Storable binary image v48.97 more recent than I am (v2.8) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/darwin-2level/Storable.pm line 416, at -e line 1

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

• [perl #30807] Misleading error message from Storable by James E Keenan via RT