pb with perl5.005_03

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#857 (status was 'resolved')

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From alain.mellan@st.com

I think i have found a problem in perl. I'm writing here since I have
no Web nor news access from the office :-(

Here is the code snippet​:

@​_ = ("a", "cell AN2");
split(' ', $_[1]);

print $_[0], "\n";

It was working fine with the perl5.004_01 we had, but with the latest
version, it gives garbage.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=solaris, osvers=2.5.1, archname=sun4-solaris
  uname='sunos crx593 5.5.1 generic_103640-24 sun4m sparc '
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
  cppflags=''
  ccflags =''
  stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =''
  libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
  libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
  libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at Jun 9 1999 12​:58​:52
  @​INC​:
  /soft/contrib/src/perl-5.0/run/5/share/lib/5.00503/sun4-solaris
  /soft/contrib/src/perl-5.0/run/5/share/lib/5.00503
  /soft/contrib/src/perl-5.0/run/5/share/lib/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris
  /soft/contrib/src/perl-5.0/run/5/share/lib/site_perl/5.005

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Alain Mellan alain.mellan@​st.com
Central R&D +33 4 76 92 67 45
STMicroelectronics
Crolles, France

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

implicit split from @​_ to @​_ is broken but depreciated.

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From The RT System itself

implicit split from @​_ to @​_ is broken but depreciated.