On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:53:01AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a non-trivial CGI script that ran fine with an older Perl and
> mod_perl, even with -w ans use strict. Recently I upgraded to Perl-5.6
> and mod_perl-1.24, and I get this new warning in Apache:
>
> [Tue Feb 27 15:52:15 2001] bugCGI.pl: main::validate_token() called too
> early to check prototype at /usr/local/httpd/cgi-bin/bugCGI.pl line
> 1454.
sub validate_token($);
> # validate current token @@@line 1339
> sub validate_token($)
> {
> my $q = shift;
> ...
> } else { # invalid token
> $q->delete($tokenname);
> validate_token($q); # get a new token @@@trouble line
> }
> }
>
>
> Am I right that this is not a programming error on my side?
Probably. Either provide a forward declaration of the sub, or don't use
a prototype.
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