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bulk 88
Date:
May 16, 2012 13:12
Subject:
[perl #112964] SvEND is not end of string
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-4610-1337199105-1441.112964-75-0@perl.org
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This is a bug report for perl from bulk88@hotmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.12.2.


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[Please describe your issue here]

In perapi it says
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SvEND

Returns a pointer to the last character in the string which is in the SV. See SvCUR . Access the character as *(SvEND(sv)).
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The pointer is not the last character in the string. Example, run the following XS sub
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void
BadSVEND()
PREINIT:
    SV * sv;
CODE:
    sv = newSVpv("JAPH", sizeof("JAPH")-1);
    if(*SvEND(sv) != 'H')
    croak("SvEND is not end of the string lastchar =%c addr of last char=%x SvEND=%x",
          SvPVX(sv)[SvCUR(sv)-1],
          &(SvPVX(sv)[SvCUR(sv)-1]),
          SvEND(sv)
          );
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I get
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SvEND is not end of the string lastchar =H addr of last char=10a0b0f SvEND=10a0b10 at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\svend.pl line 3.
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CUR is counted from 1. Char arrays count from 0. For obvious reasons, the SvEND macro can not be fixed. I suggest the documentation be fixed instead. I tried using SvEND in memcmp and ran into this problem with the docs of SvEND. Reading sv.h solved the mystery, but the docs are still wrong.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl 5.12.2:

Configured by Owner at Wed Mar 23 08:05:23 2011.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 12 subversion 2) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=5.1, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    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='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -GF -W3 -Od -MD -Zi -DDEBUGGING -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO',
    optimize='-Od -MD -Zi -DDEBUGGING',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='13.10.3077', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug  -libpath:"c:\perl512\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth="c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\lib"
    libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib comctl32.lib msvcrt.lib
    perllibs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib  comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib comctl32.lib msvcrt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=perl512.lib
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug  -libpath:"c:\perl512\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.12.2:
    C:/perl512/site/lib
    C:/perl512/lib
    .

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Environment for perl 5.12.2:
    HOME (unset)
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=C:\perl512\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\BIN;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin\prerelease;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem;
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    PERL_JSON_BACKEND=JSON::XS
    PERL_YAML_BACKEND=YAML
    SHELL (unset)

 		 	   		  


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