Remove a dead case from the error reporting in

Perl_gv_fetchmethod_flags()

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33707

diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 0b17aec..20eb17e 100644 (file)
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -624,6 +624,11 @@ Perl_gv_fetchmethod_flags(pTHX_ HV *stash, const char *name, U32 flags)
 
     if (SvTYPE(stash) < SVt_PVHV)
        stash = NULL;
+    else {
+       /* The only way stash can become NULL later on is if nsplit is set,
+          which in turn means that there is no need for a SVt_PVHV case
+          the error reporting code.  */
+    }
 
     for (nend = name; *nend; nend++) {
        if (*nend == '\'') {
@@ -677,14 +682,9 @@ Perl_gv_fetchmethod_flags(pTHX_ HV *stash, const char *name, U32 flags)
                STRLEN packlen;
                const char *packname;
 
-               assert(error_report);
-
                if (nsplit) {
                    packlen = nsplit - origname;
                    packname = origname;
-               } else if (SvTYPE(error_report) == SVt_PVHV) {
-                   packlen = HvNAMELEN_get(error_report);
-                   packname = HvNAME_get(error_report);
                } else {
                    packname = SvPV_const(error_report, packlen);
                }