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Re: Perl Bug?


From: Derek R. Price
Subject: Re: Perl Bug?
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 19:37:30 -0500

"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
>
> > But in the very same function, if I use $_ instead of @_, which is
> > what the following line does:
>
> $_ isn't set upon function entry in perl.  Only @_.  The value of your $_ is 
> left over from
> somewhere.
>
> By the way, I think I have amtraces 99% working.  Are we going to bump heads?

Heh.  I think I just found the same bug you did.  scan_autoconf_config_files 
was, probably
erroneously, expecting its argument in $_.  It worked previously because the 
only place it was
ever called from passed in $_ as an argument, so it was accidentally set 
properly inside the
function.

Derek

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