It doesn't point to an OP owned by the current OP - it is used to form a linked
list that reset uses to find regexps to reset. Moreover, prior to 5.8.0 it can
end up pointing to freed memory, which results in much jollity.
[Bug
20010301.005, a.k.a. RT #5935, fixed in cb55de95c99e4650]
#if PERL_VERSION < 9 || (PERL_VERSION == 9 && PERL_SUBVERSION < 5)
op_size(aTHX_ cPMOPx(baseop)->op_pmreplroot, st);
op_size(aTHX_ cPMOPx(baseop)->op_pmreplstart, st);
- op_size(aTHX_ (OP *)cPMOPx(baseop)->op_pmnext, st);
#endif
/* This is defined away in perl 5.8.x, but it is in there for
5.6.x */