Full_Name: Hallvard B Furuseth Version: 2.4.17-2.4.26 OS: URL: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc/browse_thread/thread/151f... Submission from: (NULL) (193.71.61.60) Submitted by: hallvard

back-perl initialization broken

PERL_SYS_INIT3() is called with wrong arguments. Introduced by ITS#5658.

Fixing it to do the same as the Perl main program, but I can not test it on a system where these params are used so it is relevant - e.g. Windows.

- arg 3 (env) is NULL, but Perl:proto.h requires non-NULL. Fixing to use PERL_SYS_INIT() instead.

That also affects Perl versions before 5.6. 5.6 introduced INIT3, INIT is older. The alternative would be to pass &(char **environ) to PERL_SYS_INIT3(), but who knows what Perl does with the environment. Seems simpler to avoid it.

- PERL_SYS_INIT/INIT3() can change their arguments. back-perl passed the changed argc but not the changed argv to perl_parse(). Fixing to pass both the changed argc and the changed argv.

- arg 2 is passed char *(*argv)[3]. Fixing to pass as a char ***argv: char *embedding[] = { "", "-e", "0", NULL }, **argv = embedding; char ***old = (char ***) &embedding, ***corrected = &argv; 'old' is how the address was passed, 'new' is how it should be passed. 'old' holds the address of the embedding array, but it should hold the address of a variable which holds that address.

See comp.lang.perl.misc discussion "PERL_SYS_INIT()" from Oct 31 2011.