For 5.12: saner behaviour for `length`

(Make C<length undef> return undef).
Patch mostly by Rafael, with some fine tuning by me.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32969

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sv.h b/sv.h
index 1d7555f502..9ab1c94f87 100644
--- a/sv.h
+++ b/sv.h
@@ -1685,6 +1685,8 @@ Like C<sv_catsv> but doesn't process magic.
 #define SV_COW_SHARED_HASH_KEYS	512
 /* This one is only enabled for PERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE */
 #define SV_COW_OTHER_PVS	1024
+/* Make sv_2pv_flags return NULL if something is undefined.  */
+#define SV_UNDEF_RETURNS_NULL	2048
 
 /* The core is safe for this COW optimisation. XS code on CPAN may not be.
    So only default to doing the COW setup if we're in the core.