2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sv.c b/sv.c
index 4c186ec3c4..c9a44027e8 100644
--- a/sv.c
+++ b/sv.c
@@ -3676,7 +3676,7 @@ Perl_sv_setsv_flags(pTHX_ SV *dstr, register SV *sstr, I32 flags)
 	SvFLAGS(dstr) |= sflags & (SVf_IOK|SVp_IOK|SVf_NOK|SVp_NOK|SVf_UTF8
 				   |SVf_AMAGIC);
 	{
-	    const MAGIC * const smg = SvVOK(sstr);
+	    const MAGIC * const smg = SvVSTRING_mg(sstr);
 	    if (smg) {
 		sv_magic(dstr, NULL, PERL_MAGIC_vstring,
 			 smg->mg_ptr, smg->mg_len);
diff --git a/sv.h b/sv.h
index 92a8e7fa26..554fe69ea3 100644
--- a/sv.h
+++ b/sv.h
@@ -949,7 +949,11 @@ in gv.h: */
 				    SvFLAGS(sv) |= (SVf_POK|SVp_POK))
 
 #define SvVOK(sv)		(SvMAGICAL(sv)				\
+				 && mg_find(sv,PERL_MAGIC_vstring))
+/* returns the vstring magic, if any */
+#define SvVSTRING_mg(sv)	(SvMAGICAL(sv) \
 				 ? mg_find(sv,PERL_MAGIC_vstring) : NULL)
+
 #define SvOOK(sv)		(SvFLAGS(sv) & SVf_OOK)
 #define SvOOK_on(sv)		((void)SvIOK_off(sv), SvFLAGS(sv) |= SVf_OOK)
 #define SvOOK_off(sv)		((void)(SvOOK(sv) && sv_backoff(sv)))