[perl #75656] lvalue subs don't copy on write

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This is a bug report for perl from [email protected],
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.10.1.


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[Please describe your issue here]

$ perl -e 'sub a : lvalue { $a }; $a = __PACKAGE__; a = 1'

The code dies with "Can't return a readonly value from lvalue subroutine".

My quick reasoning:

__PACKAGE__ is FAKE flagged, according to Devel::Peek::Dump().

Checking with perl's source, that seems to be the meanings of the copy on write implementation. 

Consequent, $a is faked and the actual assignment is to be delayed until modification is attempted.

pp_hot.c:2558 where the error comes from doesn't handle the flag.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=high
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.1:

Configured by Gentoo at Fri Nov 20 14:44:03 EET 2009.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.31.5, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux oz 2.6.31.5 #2 preempt tue oct 27 16:02:10 eet 2009 i686 intel(r) pentium(r) m processor 1.86ghz genuineintel gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Duseshrplib -Darchname=i686-linux -Dcc=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -Doptimize=-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Dscriptdir=/usr/bin -Dprefix=/usr -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux -Dvendorlib=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux -Dsitelib=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 -Dsitearch=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.10.1 -Dlocincpth=  -Duselargefiles -Dd_semctl_semun -Dinc_version_list=5.10.0 5.10.0/i686-linux -Dcf_by=Gentoo -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dinstallusrbinperl=n -Ud_csh -Uusenm -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_db'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.3.4', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lpthread -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc -lgdbm_compat
    perllibs=-lpthread -lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.9.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.10.1
    gnulibc_version='2.9'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.10.1:
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.1
    .

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Environment for perl 5.10.1:
    HOME=/home/toma
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/arm-elf/gcc-bin/4.4.2:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.3.4:/opt/sancho:/usr/games/bin
    PERL5LIB=
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/zsh