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overload::constant and number of arguments. #2534

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p5pRT opened this issue Aug 31, 2000 · 3 comments
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overload::constant and number of arguments. #2534

p5pRT opened this issue Aug 31, 2000 · 3 comments
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p5pRT commented Aug 31, 2000

Migrated from rt.perl.org#4060 (status was 'resolved')

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p5pRT commented Aug 31, 2000

From @Abigail

Created by @Abigail

#!/opt/perl/bin/perl -w

use overload;

BEGIN {overload​::constant q => sub {print "Got ", scalar (@​_), " arguments\n";
  $_ [1]}};

my $foo = "foo";
__END__
Got 4 arguments

However, the documentation only mentions three arguments​:

  The corresponding values are references to functions which
  take three arguments​: the first one is the initial string
  form of the constant, the second one is how Perl inter­
  prets this constant, the third one is how the constant is
  used.

What is this 4th argument (which seems to be a coderef)?

(bleedperl also has 4 arguments).

Abigail

Perl Info 

Flags:
    category=library
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by abigail at Wed Jun 14 21:00:02 EDT 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.13, archname=i686-linux-64int
    uname='linux alexandra 2.2.13 #5 tue feb 8 15:37:54 est 2000 i686 unknown '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl -d -Uinstallusrbinperl -Doptimize=-g -Dusemorebits'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /home/abigail/Perl
    /home/abigail/Sybase
    /opt/perl/lib/5.6.0/i686-linux-64int
    /opt/perl/lib/5.6.0
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux-64int
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.0
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.005
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl
    .


Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/abigail
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/abigail/Lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib:/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib:/opt/tcl/lib:/opt/tk/lib/tk8.0
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/abigail/Bin:/opt/perl/bin:/opt/tcl/bin:/opt/tk/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/X11/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/povray/bin:/opt/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:/opt/python/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/abigail/Perl:/home/abigail/Sybase
    PERLDIR=/opt/perl
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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p5pRT commented Aug 31, 2000

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

On 31 Aug 2000 19​:32​:07 -0000, abigail@​foad.org wrote (in part)​:

abigail> What is this 4th argument (which seems to be a coderef)?
abigail> (bleedperl also has 4 arguments).

It's the code ref to the called routine. It seems to be a
left-over from earlier thinking about doing a method call rather
than a subroutine call, based on how the stack gets set up there.
(S_new_constant in toke.c)

  --s.

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p5pRT commented Aug 31, 2000

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15​:58​:11 -0400, responding to abigail, I wrote​:

sb> It's the code ref to the called routine. It seems to be a
sb> left-over from earlier thinking about doing a method call
sb> rather than a subroutine call, based on how the stack gets
sb> set up there. (S_new_constant in toke.c)

Indeed, "make test" is still perfectly happy after the following patch.

  --s.

Inline Patch 
--- toke.c.DIST	Sun Aug 13 14:37:03 2000
+++ toke.c	Thu Aug 31 16:05:01 2000
@@ -5742,13 +5742,12 @@ S_new_constant(pTHX_ char *s, STRLEN len
     SAVETMPS;
     
     PUSHMARK(SP) ;
-    EXTEND(sp, 4);
+    EXTEND(sp, 3);
     if (pv)
  	PUSHs(pv);
     PUSHs(sv);
     if (pv)
  	PUSHs(typesv);
-    PUSHs(cv);
     PUTBACK;
     call_sv(cv, G_SCALAR | ( PL_in_eval ? 0 : G_EVAL));

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