From @cpansprout

Attributes applied to a scalar confuse the code that checks the number of arguments.

$ perl -e 'caller my $x : m'
Too many arguments for caller at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

caller takes one argument and I supplied one argument.

$ perl -le 'sub MODIFY_SCALAR_ATTRIBUTES{()} $,=" " ; print 1,2,3,(atan2 my $x : m),4,5,6'
1 2 1.5707963267949 4 5 6

atan2 takes two arguments, but I only supplied one, and corrupted the stack in the process. (What happened to the 3?)

This bug exists in bleadperl, and goes back at least to 5.12, and probably to 5.6.

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Father Chrysostomos

From @cpansprout

On Sun Mar 01 13​:06​:03 2015, sprout wrote​:

Attributes applied to a scalar confuse the code that checks the number
of arguments.

$ perl -e 'caller my $x : m'
Too many arguments for caller at -e line 1, at EOF
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

caller takes one argument and I supplied one argument.

$ perl -le 'sub MODIFY_SCALAR_ATTRIBUTES{()} $,=" " ; print
1,2,3,(atan2 my $x : m),4,5,6'
1 2 1.5707963267949 4 5 6

atan2 takes two arguments, but I only supplied one, and corrupted the
stack in the process. (What happened to the 3?)

This bug exists in bleadperl, and goes back at least to 5.12, and
probably to 5.6.

If we fix this, we may be able to revert the C part of 6b2b48a.

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Father Chrysostomos

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