Re: Sparc/Linux/ithreads unhappy @12391 [PATCH]

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / sv.c

diff --git a/sv.c b/sv.c
index 3457353..48d0e2d 100644 (file)
--- a/sv.c
+++ b/sv.c
@@ -4278,8 +4278,15 @@ Perl_sv_catsv_flags(pTHX_ SV *dsv, register SV *ssv, I32 flags)
     if (!ssv)
        return;
     if ((spv = SvPV(ssv, slen))) {
-       bool sutf8 = DO_UTF8(ssv);
-       bool dutf8;
+       /*  sutf8 and dutf8 were type bool, but under USE_ITHREADS,
+           gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux) for
+           Linux xxx 2.2.17 on sparc64 with gcc -O2, we erroneously 
+           get dutf8 = 0x20000000, (i.e.  SVf_UTF8) even though 
+           dsv->sv_flags doesn't have that bit set.
+               Andy Dougherty  12 Oct 2001
+       */
+       I32 sutf8 = DO_UTF8(ssv);
+       I32 dutf8;
 
        if (SvGMAGICAL(dsv) && (flags & SV_GMAGIC))
            mg_get(dsv);