Re: Bug in debugger (or my code): Bizarre copy of ARRAY...

Peter Scott wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 04:46:36 -0700, vnick@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Bizarre copy of ARRAY in leave at testtest.pl line 65.
> [snip]
> > So the question is why Perl (5.8.5) only reports this bizarre error
> > when I use the debugger?? Do I still have a bug in my code though it
> > works and I do not see where it could be or is that a debugger bug?
>
> If you can reduce this to a *much* shorter example and demonstrate it on
> the latest version of perl, please report it to the Perl 5 Porters list.
> While bugs like this in the debugger are notoriously difficult to fix,
> the bug report will be accepted. It should be impossible to get this
> message by accident regardless of poor programming practices.

#!/usr/bin/perl -d
use strict;
use warnings;

my $i;
my $aref = [1..10];
for ($i=0; $i<=$#{@$aref}; $i++){
print "$i: $aref->[$i]\n";
}

__END__

$ ./clpm.pl
Default die handler restored.

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.07
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.

main::(./clpm.pl:5): my $i;
DB<1> c
Bizarre copy of ARRAY in leave at ./clpm.pl line 7.
Debugged program terminated. Use q to quit or R to restart,
use O inhibit_exit to avoid stopping after program termination,
h q, h R or h O to get additional info.
DB<1>


(I'll send this to the porters as well)

Paul Lalli

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