From: Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:10:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backout change 22606 (make gv_fullname() include a literal '^')
X-Git-Tag: perl-5.9.2~1136
X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/257984c0f3908c69bf7c9da69ef001a4c39a7cce?hp=38c076c778be4d77b58837d5c13b55bd2f5fb50e;ds=inline

backout change 22606 (make gv_fullname() include a literal '^')
it breaks select.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22608
---

diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index b2ae13c..8a27065 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -1096,13 +1096,7 @@ Perl_gv_fullname4(pTHX_ SV *sv, GV *gv, const char *prefix, bool keepmain)
 	sv_catpv(sv,name);
 	sv_catpvn(sv,"::", 2);
     }
-    if (((unsigned int)*GvNAME(gv)) <= 26) { /* handle $^FOO */
-	Perl_sv_catpvf(aTHX_ sv,"^%c", *GvNAME(gv) + 'A' - 1);
-	sv_catpvn(sv,GvNAME(gv)+1,GvNAMELEN(gv)-1);
-    }
-    else
-	sv_catpvn(sv,GvNAME(gv),GvNAMELEN(gv));
-    
+    sv_catpvn(sv,GvNAME(gv),GvNAMELEN(gv));
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/t/op/gv.t b/t/op/gv.t
index 851f6b1..5b1237a 100755
--- a/t/op/gv.t
+++ b/t/op/gv.t
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ BEGIN {
 
 use warnings;
 
-print "1..53\n";
+print "1..52\n";
 
 # type coersion on assignment
 $foo = 'foo';
@@ -242,9 +242,6 @@ print $j[0] == 1 ? "ok 43\n" : "not ok 43\n";
     print $x || "not ok 52\n";
 }
 
-# stringified typeglob should escape leading control char
-print *^A eq "*main::^A" ? "ok 53\n" : "not ok 53\n";
-
 __END__
 ok 44
 ok 48