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[perl #119501] can change the value of 4
From:
Zefram
Date:
August 28, 2013 09:47
Subject:
[perl #119501] can change the value of 4
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-1873-1377683219-930.119501-75-0@perl.org
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This is a bug report for perl from zefram@fysh.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.19.3.
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[Please describe your issue here]
$ perl5.19.3 -lwe 'for(1..3) { my $x = \(3+1); print $$x; $$x = 5; }'
4
5
5
I'd expect that the sequence "my $x = \(3+1); print $$x;" would always
print 4. Whether assignment to $$x is then permitted is up for debate,
but such assignment mustn't break the behaviour of the next execution
of that 4-printing code.
Perl 5.19.2 and earlier do not permit the assignment ("Modification of
a read-only value attempted"). Because it's immutable, it's acceptable
for \(3+1) to reference the same 4 each time. 5.19.3 is also referencing
the same scalar each time, but now it's a variable, so referencing the
same one each time is semantically significant.
Interestingly, if "\(3+1)" is replaced with "\4" then 5.19.3 prohibits
the assignment, just as earlier Perls do. Also, if it's replaced with
"\(3+$z)", with $z initialised to 1, both 5.19.3 and earlier Perls permit
the assignment and print 4 each time, indicating that they're generating
a fresh variable each time.
I think FC was aiming to resolve the inconsistency of what the addition
operator returns. He seems to have aimed for a literal expression to
consistently return an immutable scalar while an arithmetic expression
consistently returns a mutable scalar. The bit that's missing is that
it needs to consistently be a *fresh* mutable scalar.
[Please do not change anything below this line]
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Flags:
category=core
severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl 5.19.3:
Configured by root at Wed Aug 21 10:26:55 UTC 2013.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 19 subversion 3) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.6.32-5-686, archname=i686-linux-64int-ld
uname='linux beryllium.photobox.priv 2.6.32-5-686 #1 smp mon feb 25 01:04:36 utc 2013 i686 gnulinux '
config_args='-des -Dusedevel -Uversiononly -Duseshrplib -Duse64bitint -Duselongdouble -Uusethreads -Uusemultiplicity -Dprefix=/opt/perl-5.19.3 -Dsiteprefix=/opt/perl-5.19.3 -Dvendorprefix=/opt/perl-5.19.3/vendor -Doptimize=-ggdb -O2 -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -O2 -pipe'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=define
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-ggdb -O2',
cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.2', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib/i386-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib /usr/lib
libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat
perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so
gnulibc_version='2.13'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/opt/perl-5.19.3/lib/5.19.3/i686-linux-64int-ld/CORE'
cccdlflags='-fPIC -O2 -pipe', lddlflags='-shared -ggdb -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'
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@INC for perl 5.19.3:
/opt/perl-5.19.3/lib/site_perl/5.19.3/i686-linux-64int-ld
/opt/perl-5.19.3/lib/site_perl/5.19.3
/opt/perl-5.19.3/vendor/lib/vendor_perl/5.19.3/i686-linux-64int-ld
/opt/perl-5.19.3/vendor/lib/vendor_perl/5.19.3
/opt/perl-5.19.3/lib/5.19.3/i686-linux-64int-ld
/opt/perl-5.19.3/lib/5.19.3
.
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Environment for perl 5.19.3:
HOME=/root
LANG (unset)
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/opt/perl-5.19.3/bin:/root/pub/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin:/root/pub/common/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:/opt/geoip/bin:/opt/httpd/bin:/opt/perl/bin
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
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[perl #119501] can change the value of 4
by Zefram