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Diffstat (limited to 'src/pl/plperl/plperl_helpers.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/pl/plperl/plperl_helpers.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/plperl_helpers.h b/src/pl/plperl/plperl_helpers.h index ac0a97d7aa6..c671820468a 100644 --- a/src/pl/plperl/plperl_helpers.h +++ b/src/pl/plperl/plperl_helpers.h @@ -50,8 +50,14 @@ sv2cstr(SV *sv) /* * get a utf8 encoded char * out of perl. *note* it may not be valid utf8! + * + * SvPVutf8() croaks nastily on certain things, like typeglobs and + * readonly object such as $^V. That's a perl bug - it's not supposed to + * happen. To avoid crashing the backend, we make a mortal copy of the + * sv before passing it to SvPVutf8(). The copy will be garbage collected + * very soon (see perldoc perlguts). */ - val = SvPVutf8(sv, len); + val = SvPVutf8(sv_mortalcopy(sv), len); /* * we use perls length in the event we had an embedded null byte to ensure |