in reply to AUTOLOAD fails in perl 5.8.0

same here on win32, broken in both 5.8 and 5.7.3, but works on 5.6

I don't know where in the perl source this taken care of, or where it's tested, but apparently this scenario is not being tested, so some serious source-diving/patching needs to be done.

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