[perl #34495] h2ph is unable to catenate constant strings in macros

On Sat Mar 19 09:59:21 2005, at@altlinux.ru wrote:
> This is a bug report for perl from aasdf,
> generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.6.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> [Please enter your report here]
> 
> h2ph is unable to produce acceptible output for the following
>    construct:
> 
> $ cat cat.h
> #define STR \
>         "abc" \
>         "xyz"
> $ h2ph -d . cat.h
> cat.h -> cat.ph
> $ perl -c cat.ph
> syntax error at cat.ph line 6, near ""abc" "xyz""
> cat.ph had compilation errors.
> $ cat cat.ph
> require '_h2ph_pre.ph';
> 
> no warnings 'redefine';
> 
> unless(defined(&STR)) {
>     sub STR () {        "abc" "xyz";}
> }
> 1;
> $
> 

Trying this tonight with Perl 5.14.2 on Darwin/PPC, I got slightly
different output from 'h2ph -d . cat.h', but the result remains a file
that does not compile:

#####
require '_h2ph_pre.ph';

no warnings qw(redefine misc);

unless(defined(&STR)) {
    sub STR () {    "abc" "xyz";}
}
1;
#####
$ perl -c cat.ph
syntax error at cat.ph line 6, near ""abc" "xyz""
cat.ph had compilation errors.
#####

Any ideas?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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• [perl #34495] h2ph is unable to catenate constant strings in macros by James E Keenan via RT