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in-place sort retains blessedness #16304

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p5pRT opened this issue Dec 15, 2017 · 4 comments
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in-place sort retains blessedness #16304

p5pRT opened this issue Dec 15, 2017 · 4 comments

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p5pRT commented Dec 15, 2017

Migrated from rt.perl.org#132584 (status was 'open')

Searchable as RT132584$

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p5pRT commented Dec 15, 2017

From zefram@fysh.org

Created by zefram@fysh.org

Suppose I have an array of which an element is blessed. (That is, the
element scalar itself is blessed; the element is not a reference to a
blessed thing.) List assignment of the array to itself would of course
drop the blessedness, by virtue of copying the blessed scalar's value
to a fresh, unblessed scalar. But if I assign the result of a sort on
the array back to the array, blessedness remains​:

$ perl -lwe '@​a = qw(a b c); bless(\$a[1]); print ref(\$a[1]); @​a = sort @​a; print ref(\$a[1]); @​a = ((), sort @​a); print ref(\$a[1])'
main
main
SCALAR

Obviously this is another fault of the in-place sort optimisation,
similar to the recently-rectified treatment of weak references.

Perl Info

Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low

Site configuration information for perl 5.27.6:

Configured by zefram at Tue Nov 21 05:42:59 GMT 2017.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 27 subversion 6) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux
    osvers=3.16.0-4-amd64
    archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux barba.rous.org 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 smp debian 3.16.43-2+deb8u2 (2017-06-26) x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Dprefix=/home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52 -Duselargefiles -Dusethreads -Uafs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dusedevel -Uversiononly -Ui_db'
    hint=recommended
    useposix=true
    d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define
    usemultiplicity=define
    use64bitint=define
    use64bitall=define
    uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n
    default_inc_excludes_dot=define
    bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc'
    ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2'
    optimize='-O2'
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion=''
    gccversion='4.9.2'
    gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4
    longsize=8
    ptrsize=8
    doublesize=8
    byteorder=12345678
    doublekind=3
    d_longlong=define
    longlongsize=8
    d_longdbl=define
    longdblsize=16
    longdblkind=3
    ivtype='long'
    ivsize=8
    nvtype='double'
    nvsize=8
    Off_t='off_t'
    lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8
    prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc'
    ldflags =' -fstack-protector-strong -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=libc-2.19.so
    so=so
    useshrplib=true
    libperl=libperl.so
    gnulibc_version='2.19'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs
    dlext=so
    d_dlsymun=undef
    ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52/lib/5.27.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC'
    lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong'



@INC for perl 5.27.6:
    /home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52/lib/site_perl/5.27.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52/lib/site_perl/5.27.6
    /home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52/lib/5.27.6/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
    /home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52/lib/5.27.6


Environment for perl 5.27.6:
    HOME=/home/zefram
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/zefram/usr/perl/perl_install/perl-5.27.6-i64-f52/bin:/home/zefram/usr/perl/util:/home/zefram/pub/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin:/home/zefram/pub/common/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games
    PERLDOC=-oman
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh

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p5pRT commented Dec 15, 2017

From @cpansprout

On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 00​:01​:36 -0800, zefram@​fysh.org wrote​:

This is a bug report for perl from zefram@​fysh.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.41 running under perl 5.27.6.

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[Please describe your issue here]

Suppose I have an array of which an element is blessed. (That is, the
element scalar itself is blessed; the element is not a reference to a
blessed thing.) List assignment of the array to itself would of
course
drop the blessedness, by virtue of copying the blessed scalar's value
to a fresh, unblessed scalar. But if I assign the result of a sort on
the array back to the array, blessedness remains​:

$ perl -lwe '@​a = qw(a b c); bless(\$a[1]); print ref(\$a[1]); @​a =
sort @​a; print ref(\$a[1]); @​a = ((), sort @​a); print ref(\$a[1])'
main
main
SCALAR

Obviously this is another fault of the in-place sort optimisation,
similar to the recently-rectified treatment of weak references.

We already have the infrastructure to unbless-in-place. See S_curse in sv.c. That could be used in fixing this.

--

Father Chrysostomos

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p5pRT commented Dec 15, 2017

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

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p5pRT commented Dec 15, 2017

From zefram@fysh.org

Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote​:

We already have the infrastructure to unbless-in-place.

Doing that would not be correct, because of DESTROY methods. S_curse()
does call the DESTROY method; it would be wrong not to call it at all.
But it is inevitably called on a reference to the actual blessed object,
which it may mutate. One cannot rely on the object still containing
its former value after being cursed. The DESTROY method also has the
opportunity to store another reference to the object somewhere, so one
can't rely on still having the only reference to it.

To avoid mutation, sort will have to use the newSVsv() slow path for
blessed scalars.

-zefram

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