Fix for
authorDavid Dyck <david.dyck@fluke.com>
Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:19:16 +0000 (10:19 -0700)
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Mon, 6 Nov 2000 00:18:00 +0000 (00:18 +0000)
Subject: [ID 20000728.005] perl -P broken
Message-Id: <200007290019.RAA08484@dd.tc.fluke.com>

(hopefully).  The fix is also not complete, it seems to break
BOM swallowing for libc5 systems, but until someone figures
out a way to do this without ftell(), this will do.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7570

toke.c

diff --git a/toke.c b/toke.c
index 64b6925..98ef9b9 100644 (file)
--- a/toke.c
+++ b/toke.c
@@ -2520,8 +2520,26 @@ Perl_yylex(pTHX)
            goto retry;
        }
        do {
-           bool bof;
-           bof = PL_rsfp && (PerlIO_tell(PL_rsfp) == 0); /* *Before* read! */
+           bool bof = PL_rsfp ? TRUE : FALSE;
+           if (bof) {
+#ifdef PERLIO_IS_STDIO
+#  ifdef __GLIBC__
+#    if __GLIBC__ == 1 /* Linux glibc5 */
+#      define FTELL_FOR_PIPE_IS_BROKEN
+#    endif
+#  endif
+#endif
+#ifdef FTELL_FOR_PIPE_IS_BROKEN
+               /* This loses the possibility to detect the bof
+                * situation on perl -P when the libc5 is being used.
+                * Workaround?  Maybe attach some extra state to PL_rsfp?
+                */
+               if (!PL_preprocess)
+                   bof = PerlIO_tell(PL_rsfp) == 0;
+#else
+               bof = PerlIO_tell(PL_rsfp) == 0;
+#endif
+           }
            s = filter_gets(PL_linestr, PL_rsfp, 0);
            if (s == Nullch) {
              fake_eof: