[perl #39807] [BUG] load_bytecode of .pir files fails (sometimes)

[chromatic]

On Sunday 04 January 2009 06:38:08 Klaas-Jan Stol via RT wrote:

> On Sun Jan 04 06:03:03 2009, rurban wrote:

> > The imcc problem is still there. Found by testing TT #127.
> > The trace shows some off-by-one string failures:
> >
> >     98 get_class P0, "Data::Dumper"     P0=PMCNULL
> >    101 if_null P0, 5                    P0=PMCNULL
> >    106 load_bytecode "Data/Dumper.pbc"
> >      0 get_class P1, "Data::Dumper"     P1=PMCNULL
> >      3 if_null P1, 5                    P1=PMCNULL
> >      8 load_bytecode "Data/Dumper/Default."
> >      0 get_class P1, "Data::Dumper::Defaul"     P1=PMCNULL
> >      3 if_null P1, 5                    P1=PMCNULL
> >      8 load_bytecode "Data/Dumper/Base"
>
> I doubt whether it's IMCC. Compiling this to bytecode:
>
> .sub main
>     load_bytecode "test.pir"
> .end
>
> and disassembling gives:
>
>   Seq_Op_Num- Relative-PC SrcLn#:
> Current Source Filename loadbc.pir
> 000000000000-000000000000 000002:       load_bytecode_sc "test.pir"
> 000000000001-000000000002 000002:       set_returns_pc PMC_CONST(2)
> 000000000002-000000000004 000002:       returncc
>
> So, the string test.pir is still there, implying imcc parses it
> correctly, I think.

That's correct.  Parrot's tracing output only displays the first n characters 
of STRINGs.

-- c