Stop regexp assignment from clobbering magic
$ perl5.10.0 -le '$1 = ${qr||}; print "ok"'
Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 1.
$ perl5.12.0 -le '$1 = ${qr||}; print "ok"'
ok
Wonderful!
It can also cause blessings to be lost, or so I thought:
sub curse {
for my $obj ( ${$_[0]} ) {
my $save = $obj;
$obj = ${qr||};
$obj = $save;
}
}
$y = bless \$x;
print $y, "\n"; # main=SCALAR(0x825b70)
curse $y;
print $y, "\n"; # Bus error
The OBJECT flag gets left on, but SvSTASH is null.
Commit
b9ad13acb set SvSTASH to null after copying the regexp struct.
Commit
703c388dc did the same with SvMAGIC. In both cases, this was
to avoid bugs involving magic and blessings being copied by = which
should not happen. But both changes caused other bugs.
Three months later,
6e1287864cd changed the order of the struct, such
that SvMAGIC and SvSTASH are no longer copied from the parent regexp,
rendering the aforementioned changes no longer necessary.