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I've found through experience that running Devel::Cover to perform
coverage analysis on my code sometimes turns up problems that don't
appear when running 'prove' or 'make test' without Devel::Cover.
This was the case just now when, for the first time in a couple of
months, I ran coverage analysis on Parrot::Pmc2c::Utils and its
associated test suite, t/tools/pmc2cutils/*.t. See attached file.
Note the warning, "Subroutine prederef redefined at Users/jimk/work/
fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm line
10." This occurs in each of the 8 files in the test suite. It
*only* appears when I'm running prove with Devel::Cover:
PERL5OPT=-MDevel::Cover=-db,coverage/pmc2c prove t/tools/
pmc2cutils/*.t "$@"
It does *not* appear when I run:
prove -v t/tools/pmc2cutils/*.t
These warnings do not impede any test from passing. But where
there's smoke ....
The facts that this warning (a) did not appear when I was running
coverage analysis on this code back in November and December (b)
occurs in each test file suggest that the offending line is:
use Parrot::Pmc2c::PMETHODs;
... because that was put into Parrot::Pmc2c::Utils since I last
worked on it. But I haven't yet looked into PMETHODs to see how it
relates to STMRef.
Googling for 'Subroutine prederef redefined' turns up 0 exact
matches, but the closest match refers to Parrot.
Ideas?
Thank you very much.
kid51
PERL5OPT=-MDevel::Cover=-db,coverage/pmc2c prove t/tools/pmc2cutils/*.t "$@"
t/tools/pmc2cutils/00-qualify........Devel::Cover: Can't open -e for MD5
digest: No such file or directory
t/tools/pmc2cutils/00-qualify........ok 1/9Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/00-qualify........ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/01-pmc2cutils.....ok 1/26Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/01-pmc2cutils.....ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/02-find_file......ok 1/7Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/02-find_file......ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/03-dump_vtable....ok 9/12Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/03-dump_vtable....ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/04-dump_pmc.......ok 113/117Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/04-dump_pmc.......ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/05-gen_c..........ok 63/68Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/05-gen_c..........ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/06-print_tree.....ok 33/55Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/06-print_tree.....ok
t/tools/pmc2cutils/07-open_file......ok 19/23Subroutine prederef redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 10.
Subroutine raw_deref redefined at
/Users/jimk/work/fresh/t/tools/pmc2cutils/../../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/STMRef.pm
line 34.
t/tools/pmc2cutils/07-open_file......ok
All tests successful.
Files=8, Tests=317, 136 wallclock secs (111.11 cusr + 9.24 csys = 120.35 CPU)
