Package: perl
Version: 5.002-3
For a long time I couldn't figure out where this message was coming from:
Number found where operator expected at (eval 180) line 1, near ") 0"
(Missing operator before 0?)
Apparently this is provoked by perl5 programs which:
require 'sys/socket.ph';
Tracing the error was difficult, but I suspect it may be caused by the
following code in /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002/linux/types.ph:
if (!defined &NULL) {
eval 'sub NULL {(( &void *) 0);}';
}
This is but one of several null-pointer-casts which will probably only cause
trouble for programs that try to use the files they're contained in.
I think this is a bug in h2ph, but that has its own caveat emptor, found in
the h2ph man page (which, btw, isn't installed by the perl package):
It's only intended as a rough tool. You may need to
dicker with the files produced.
So, can we dicker with the files to at least eliminate the warning, or is
there a better plan?
Thanks.
--
Robert Leslie
rob@mars.org