Stop tell($glob_copy) from clearing PL_last_in_gv

This bug is a side effect of rv2gv’s starting to return an incoercible
mortal copy of a coercible glob in 5.14:

$ perl5.12.4 -le 'open FH, "t/test.pl"; $fh=*FH; tell $fh; print tell'
0
$ perl5.14.0 -le 'open FH, "t/test.pl"; $fh=*FH; tell $fh; print tell'
-1

In the first case, tell without arguments is returning the position of
the filehandle.

In the second case, tell with an explicit argument that happens to
be a coercible glob (tell has an implicit rv2gv, so tell $fh is actu-
ally tell *$fh) sets PL_last_in_gv to a mortal copy thereof, which is
freed at the end of the statement, setting PL_last_in_gv to null.  So
there is no ‘last used’ handle by the time we get to the tell without
arguments.

This commit adds a new rv2gv flag that tells it not to copy the glob.

By doing it unconditionally on the kidop, this allows tell(*$fh) to
work the same way.

Let’s hope nobody does tell(*{*$fh}), which will unset PL_last_in_gv
because the inner * returns a mortal copy.

This whole area is really icky.  PL_last_in_gv should be refcounted,
but that would cause handles to leak out of scope, breaking programs
that rely on the auto-closing ‘feature’.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/opcode.h b/opcode.h
index d747d9ad48..00d27f876c 100644
--- a/opcode.h
+++ b/opcode.h
@@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ EXT Perl_check_t PL_check[] /* or perlvars.h */
 	Perl_ck_fun,		/* sysread */
 	Perl_ck_fun,		/* syswrite */
 	Perl_ck_eof,		/* eof */
-	Perl_ck_fun,		/* tell */
+	Perl_ck_tell,		/* tell */
 	Perl_ck_fun,		/* seek */
 	Perl_ck_trunc,		/* truncate */
 	Perl_ck_fun,		/* fcntl */