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On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:55:03PM -0800, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:
> On Sat Dec 24 15:55:23 2011, ikegami@adaelis.com wrote:
> > 2011/12/22 Olivier Mengu� <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
> >
> > > # New Ticket Created by Olivier Mengu�
> > > # Please include the string: [perl #106864]
> > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
> > > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=106864 >
> > >
> > >
> > > This is a bug report for perl from dolmen@cpan.org,
> > > generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.10.1.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > > With the following expression:
> > >
> > > my $x = sub { };
> > >
> > > the refcount of $x is 2 instead of 1.
> > > There is no such problem if the sub, instead of behind a simple sub,
> > > is a closure.
> > >
> >
> > >perl -MDevel::Peek -e"for (1..3) { push @a, sub {}; } Dump($a[0]);"
> > SV = IV(0x57b650) at 0x57b654
> > REFCNT = 1
> > FLAGS = (ROK)
> > RV = 0x57b624
> > SV = PVCV(0x4a9dd4) at 0x57b624
> > REFCNT = 4
> > FLAGS = (PADMY,ANON,WEAKOUTSIDE,CVGV_RC)
> > COMP_STASH = 0x57b444 "main"
> > START = 0x4d2cb8 ===> 0
> > ROOT = 0x4d2c9c
> > GVGV::GV = 0x4a961c "main" :: "__ANON__"
> > FILE = "-e"
> > DEPTH = 0
> > FLAGS = 0x490
> > OUTSIDE_SEQ = 96
> > PADLIST = 0x4a954c
> > PADNAME = 0x4a960c(0x4a12f4) PAD = 0x4a98fc(0x4a0c64)
> > OUTSIDE = 0x57b6b4 (MAIN)
> >
> > 4, one for each element in @a, and one to the sub alive until sub {} needs
> > it next.
> >
> > With closures, there would be 4 CVs with one reference each instead of
> 1 CV
> > with 4 reference.
>
> I think this is a bug, in that mentioning a variable in a sub shouldn’t
> change whether $x has the only reference after ‘$x = sub{}’.
>
> It also causes the blessing bug in ticket #3306.
Oh good, that's already reported - I just ran into that a couple months
ago, and forgot to report it.
-doy
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