[perl #126731] Commandline option -C breaks numeric arguments in5.22.0

On Wed Nov 25 09:23:09 2015, jvoeckler@sdl.com wrote:
> I frequently use perl to investigate Unicode code points from the
> astral
> planes. In order to avoid warnings, I am using the -C runtime option.
> In
> version 5.22.0 the numerical arguments are no longer accepted, but the
> symbolic arguments still work:
> 
> $ /opt/perl-5.22.0/bin/perl -C7 -le 'print chr(0x1F340)'
> Wide character in print at -e line 1.
> ...
> 
> $ /opt/perl-5.22.0/bin/perl -CS -le 'print chr(0x1F340)'
> ...
> 
> Please restore the numerical arguments to the -C option. It works fine
> in version 5.20.2:
> 
> $ /opt/perl-5.20.2/bin/perl -C7 -le 'print chr(0x1F340)'
> ...

This is a duplicate of 125381, which was fixed in blead in 89d84ff965b644c21c4c0633253e4cb21f72b62c and is was backported to 80a44ccd0e06e0bdb488a39d1ff986b50fbd1b84 in maint-5.22, so it will be fixed in 5.22.1.

Thanks for the report.

Tony

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• [perl #126731] Commandline option -C breaks numeric arguments in5.22.0 by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #126731] Commandline option -C breaks numeric arguments in5.22.0 by Zefram
• [perl #126731] Commandline option -C breaks numeric arguments in5.22.0 by Tony Cook via RT