From wolf-dietrich_moeller@t-online.de

The following error is a regression in Perl 5.28.
No assignment to the "my" variable $m, but correct
assignment to $t.

my $m = 'TEST_my';
$t = 'TEST___';
$k = 'k';
($m = '??'.$k) .= ' m';
($t = '??'.$k) .= ' t';
print $m,"\n",$t,"\n";

output for Perl 5.26.2.1 (correct)

??k m
??k t

output for Perl 5.28.0.1 (no assignment in line 4 to $m)

TEST_my
??k t

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Flags:
category=core
severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl 5.28.0:

Configured by strawberry-perl at Sat Jun 23 11:55:17 2018.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 28 subversion 0) configuration:

Platform:
osname=MSWin32
osvers=10.0.17134.112
archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int
uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.28.0.1 #1 Sat Jun 23 11:54:23 2018 i386'
config_args='undef'
hint=recommended
useposix=true
d_sigaction=undef
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usemultiplicity=define
use64bitint=define
use64bitall=undef
uselongdouble=undef
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default_inc_excludes_dot=define
bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc'
ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO
-DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
-DUSE_PERLIO -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields'
optimize='-s -O2'
cppflags='-DWIN32'
ccversion=''
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gccosandvers=''
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ivtype='long long'
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Off_t='long long'
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8
prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='g++'
ldflags ='-s -L"C:\Perl\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\Perl\c\lib"'
libpth=C:\Perl\c\lib C:\Perl\c\i686-w64-mingw32\lib
C:\Perl\c\lib\gcc\i686-w64-mingw32\7.1.0
libs= -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr
-lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
perllibs= -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr
-lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
libc=
so=dll
useshrplib=true
libperl=libperl528.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_win32.xs
dlext=xs.dll
d_dlsymun=undef
ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags=' '
lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\Perl\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C:\Perl\c\lib"'


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@INC for perl 5.28.0:
C:/Perl/perl/site/lib
C:/Perl/perl/vendor/lib
C:/Perl/perl/lib

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Environment for perl 5.28.0:
HOME (unset)
LANG (unset)
LANGUAGE (unset)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=C:\Perl\c\bin;C:\Perl\perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\perl\bin ## some
entries deleted
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL (unset)

From @iabyn

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 01​:11​:15PM -0700, Wolf-Dietrich Moeller (via RT) wrote​:

### test program ###
my $m = 'TEST_my';
$t = 'TEST___';
$k = 'k';
($m = '??'.$k) .= ' m';
($t = '??'.$k) .= ' t';
print $m,"\n",$t,"\n";
### end test program

### output for Perl 5.26.2.1 (correct)
??k m
??k t
### end

### output for Perl 5.28.0.1 (no assignment in line 4 to $m)
TEST_my
??k t
### end

The optimiser is misinterpreting the optree in the ($m = '??'.$k) .= ' m'
case. I'll look into it further on monday

--
O Unicef Clearasil!
Gibberish and Drivel!
  -- "Bored of the Rings"

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @iabyn

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 11​:03​:34PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote​:

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 01​:11​:15PM -0700, Wolf-Dietrich Moeller (via RT) wrote​:

### test program ###
my $m = 'TEST_my';
$t = 'TEST___';
$k = 'k';
($m = '??'.$k) .= ' m';
($t = '??'.$k) .= ' t';
print $m,"\n",$t,"\n";
### end test program

### output for Perl 5.26.2.1 (correct)
??k m
??k t
### end

### output for Perl 5.28.0.1 (no assignment in line 4 to $m)
TEST_my
??k t
### end

The optimiser is misinterpreting the optree in the ($m = '??'.$k) .= ' m'
case. I'll look into it further on monday

Now fixe din blead with the following commit. This is suitable for
backporting to 5.28.x.

commit 0fe04e1
Author​: David Mitchell <davem@​iabyn.com>
AuthorDate​: Wed Aug 29 14​:32​:24 2018 +0100
Commit​: David Mitchell <davem@​iabyn.com>
CommitDate​: Wed Aug 29 14​:32​:24 2018 +0100

  multiconcat​: mutator not seen in (lex = ...) .= ...
 
  RT #133441
 
  TL;DR​:
  (($lex = expr1.expr2) .= expr3) was being misinterpreted as
  (expr1 . expr2 . expr3) when the ($lex = expr1) subtree had had the
  assign op optimised away by the OPpTARGET_MY optimisation.
 
  Full details.
 
  S_maybe_multiconcat() looks for suitable chains of OP_CONCAT to convert
  into a single OP_MULTICONCAT.
 
  Part of the code needs to distinguish between (expr . expr) and
  (expr .= expr). This didn't used to be easy, as both are just OP_CONCAT
  ops, but with the OPf_STACKED set on the second one. But...
 
  perl also used to optimise ($a . $b . $c) into ($a . $b) .= $c, to
  reuse the padtmp returned by the $a.$b concat. This meant that an
  OP_CONCAT could have the OPf_STACKED flag on even when it was a '.'
  rather than a '.='.
 
  I disambiguated these cases by seeing whether the top op in the LHS
  expression had the OPf_MOD flag set too - if so, it implies '.='.
 
  This fails in the specific case where the LHS expression is a
  sub-expression which is assigned to a lexical variable, e.g.
 
  ($lex = $a+$b) .= $c.
 
  Initially the top node in the LHS expression above is OP_SASSIGN, with
  OPf_MOD set due to the enclosing '.='. Then the OPpTARGET_MY
  optimisation kicks in, and the ($lex = $a + $b) part of the optree is
  converted from
 
  sassign sKPRMS
  add[t4] sK
  padsv[a$] s
  padsv[$b] s
  padsv[$lex] s
 
  to
  add[$lex] sK/TARGMY
  padsv[a$] s
  padsv[$b] s
 
  which is all fine and dandy, except that the top node of that optree no
  longer has the OPf_MOD flag set, which trips up S_maybe_multiconcat into
  no longer spotting that the outer concat is a '.=' rather than a '.'.
 
  Whether the OPpTARGET_MY optimising code should copy the OPf_MOD from
  the being-removed sassign op to its successor is an issue I won't
  address here. But in the meantime, the good news is that for 5.28.0
  I added the OPpCONCAT_NESTED private flag, which is set whenever
  ($a . $b . $c) is optimised into ($a . $b) .= $c. This means that it's
  no longer necessary to inspect the OPf_MOD flag of the first child to
  disambiguate the two cases. So the fix is trivial.

--
Little fly, thy summer's play my thoughtless hand
has terminated with extreme prejudice.
  (with apologies to William Blake)

This is fixed in 5.30. @jkeenan do we need to label this before closing it?

This is fixed in 5.30. @jkeenan do we need to label this before closing it?

I'm not sure what label you would want to apply? Can you clarify?

I was thinking we need to label it with a mile stone or something so we know where it was fixed?