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author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-05-31 17:09:15 -0700 |
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committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-05-31 17:09:15 -0700 |
commit | fd6c41ce5607a262d2124271d289aa2a0213c049 (patch) | |
tree | 491ece948e641e2b9584450ac33cf7417078e58c /pp_hot.c | |
parent | c73030b8a71ef564254d3a858775de115ce7f6b5 (diff) | |
download | perl-fd6c41ce5607a262d2124271d289aa2a0213c049.tar.gz |
Allow lvalue subs to return TEMPs
This is perhaps not ideal, but it fixes (or allows to be fixed) seve-
ral bugs.
I was hoping that the cases that this perhaps erroneously allows
through would fall back to the warning I added in commit 8fe85e3, but,
unfortunately, in all these cases the refcount is greater than 1 when
pp_sassign is reached.
To be less vague: ‘foo() = 3’ warns if foo() returns a TEMP with no
set-magic and a refcount of 1 (meaning it will be freed shortly). But
truly temporary values returned by pure-Perl lvalue subs have a refer-
ence count of at least 2, and as many entries on the mortals stack.
I cannot distinguish between truly temporary values and those that
are but nominally temporary (marked TEMP because the refcount will go
down, but not to zero) by checking for a refcount <= 2 in pp_sassign,
because this example returns with a refcount of 2:
+sub :lvalue { return delete($_[0]), $x }->($x) = 3; # returns a TEMP
There’s no logical reason why that shouldn’t work, if this does:
+sub :lvalue { return foo(), $x }->($x) = 3; # not TEMP
as they are conceptually identical.
The advantages to this change:
• The delete example above will work.
• It allows XS lvalue subs that return TEMPs to work in the debugger
[perl #71172], restoring the bug fix that b724cc1 implemented but
c73030b reverted.
• It makes these three cases identical, as they should be. Note that
only two of them return TEMPs:
+sub :lvalue { return shift }->($x) = 3;
+sub :lvalue { \@_; return shift }->($x) = 3; # returns a TEMP
+sub :lvalue { return delete $_[0] }->($x) = 3; # returns a TEMP
So I think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
Diffstat (limited to 'pp_hot.c')
-rw-r--r-- | pp_hot.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -2725,9 +2725,7 @@ PP(pp_leavesublv) MARK = newsp + 1; EXTEND_MORTAL(1); if (MARK == SP) { - /* Temporaries are bad unless they happen to have set magic - * attached, such as the elements of a tied hash or array */ - if ((SvFLAGS(TOPs) & (SVs_TEMP | SVs_PADTMP) || + if ((SvPADTMP(TOPs) || (SvFLAGS(TOPs) & (SVf_READONLY | SVf_FAKE)) == SVf_READONLY ) && @@ -2762,7 +2760,7 @@ PP(pp_leavesublv) EXTEND_MORTAL(SP - newsp); for (mark = newsp + 1; mark <= SP; mark++) { if (*mark != &PL_sv_undef - && (SvFLAGS(*mark) & (SVs_TEMP | SVs_PADTMP) + && (SvPADTMP(*mark) || (SvFLAGS(*mark) & (SVf_READONLY|SVf_FAKE)) == SVf_READONLY ) |