I have a test for this exact thing in Sub::Quote. It uses the B module to check the flags. Rather than having individual functions for each flag, or generating a data structure, my test just generates a string of what flags are set, since that was simplest and gave the nicest debugging results.
From quotify.t:
my %flags;
{
no strict 'refs';
for my $flag (qw(
SVs_TEMP
SVs_OBJECT
SVs_GMG
SVs_SMG
SVs_RMG
SVf_IOK
SVf_NOK
SVf_POK
SVf_OOK
SVf_FAKE
SVf_READONLY
SVf_PROTECT
SVf_BREAK
SVp_IOK
SVp_NOK
SVp_POK
)) {
if (defined &{'B::'.$flag}) {
$flags{$flag} = &{'B::'.$flag};
}
}
}
sub flags {
my $flags = B::svref_2object(\($_[0]))->FLAGS;
join ' ', sort grep $flags & $flags{$_}, keys %flags;
}
then
later:
is flags($copy), flags($value),
"$value_name: quotify doesn't modify input";