Re: Can't pack literals as pointers

Re: Can't pack literals as pointers

MHO, pack("p","foo") should evaluate to a pointer that's valid in the
urrent context.  pack("p",undef) should return the NULL value.
urrently, they both produce the error "Modification of a read-only
alue attempted".

This looks pretty easy to fix, so I've prepared a diff against the
5.004_01 distribution.  This tests fine on my Linux.  I hope I'm not
introducing a memory leak or other ailment...

Credited: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Credited: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>