dragonchild has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Has anyone ever run into this?? <code> scorpion:/export/home/kinyonro-> dprofpp -g 'SmartReference::load' Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 at /usr/local/bin/dprofpp line 584, <fh> line 335. <code>

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Re: Bug with dprofpp?
by grinder (Bishop) on Oct 17, 2001 at 00:53 UTC

    Yes I have. The program is doing something like this:

    perl -e '$arr[-1] = "foo"'

    update: but see tye's clarification below.

    Of course, the question as to why dprofpp is doing that is a very good question indeed. It's not something I have encountered before. Is the tmon.out file tremendously big, or is there something out of the ordinary going on? update to dragonchild's follow-up, tremendously huge is approximately equal to 2Gb. 15Mb tmon.out are pretty standard (at least AFAIAC).

    I remember you saying a few hours ago in the CB that Devel::DProf wanted a perl binary with -DDEBUGGING. In my experience this is not necessary, so I would tend to suspect that your installation is a bit whacked.

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      Just to clarify... $arr[-1]= only gives the noted error if @arr is empty. $arr[-2]= gives a similar error if @arr has fewer than 2 elements, etc.

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      Yes, my tmon.out file is rather huge, on the order of 15M. But, I would think that this shouldn't be an issue ... should it?

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