From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:35:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: No point in checking the length before we know whether the pointer X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22c522dff2af214d7ac14a8885bb5f213c997ba5;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git No point in checking the length before we know whether the pointer is bogus or not, fixes Abigail's odbm failures in Linux. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8555 --- diff --git a/sv.c b/sv.c index 93188df..ed7ebdc 100644 --- a/sv.c +++ b/sv.c @@ -3530,16 +3530,17 @@ void Perl_sv_setpvn(pTHX_ register SV *sv, register const char *ptr, register STRLEN len) { register char *dptr; - { - /* len is STRLEN which is unsigned, need to copy to signed */ - IV iv = len; - assert(iv >= 0); - } + SV_CHECK_THINKFIRST(sv); if (!ptr) { (void)SvOK_off(sv); return; } + else { + /* len is STRLEN which is unsigned, need to copy to signed */ + IV iv = len; + assert(iv >= 0); + } (void)SvUPGRADE(sv, SVt_PV); SvGROW(sv, len + 1);