[perl #130397] Unnecessary whitespace skipping inPerl__swash_to_invlist

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This is a bug report for perl from andy@petdance.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.24.0.


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[Please describe your issue here]

At line 4754 of utf8.c, in Perl__swash_to_invlist, I stumbled
across these two lines of code.

    while (isSPACE(*l)) l++;
    l = (U8 *) after_atou;

The first line is skipping whitespace, but it has no effect, because
the second line sets the value of l.

The immediately obvious thing to do would be to remove the first line,
but it makes me wonder how the code got to be like this, and if there
was supposed to be something else that happened here.


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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.24.0:

Configured by andy at Sun Jun  5 23:28:46 CDT 2016.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 24 subversion 0) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64, archname=x86_64-linux
    uname='linux clifford 3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 #1 smp thu may 12 11:03:55 utc 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-de -Dprefix=/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0 -Aeval:scriptdir=/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/bin'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678, doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16, longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib /lib/../lib64 /usr/lib/../lib64 /lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.17.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.17'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'

Locally applied patches:
    Devel::PatchPerl 1.38

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@INC for perl 5.24.0:
    /home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/lib/site_perl/5.24.0/x86_64-linux
    /home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/lib/site_perl/5.24.0
    /home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/lib/5.24.0/x86_64-linux
    /home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/lib/5.24.0
    .

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Environment for perl 5.24.0:
    HOME=/home/andy
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/bin:/home/andy/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin
    PERLBREW_BASHRC_VERSION=0.75
    PERLBREW_HOME=/home/andy/.perlbrew
    PERLBREW_MANPATH=/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/man
    PERLBREW_PATH=/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/bin:/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0/bin
    PERLBREW_PERL=perl-5.24.0
    PERLBREW_ROOT=/home/andy/perl5/perlbrew
    PERLBREW_VERSION=0.75
    PERLCRITIC=/home/andy/tw/Dev/perlcriticrc
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

• [perl #130397] Unnecessary whitespace skipping inPerl__swash_to_invlist by Andy Lester via RT
• [perl #130397] Unnecessary whitespace skipping inPerl__swash_to_invlist by Karl Williamson via RT
• [perl #130397] Unnecessary whitespace skipping inPerl__swash_to_invlist by Andy Lester