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[chiark-tcl.git] / hbytes / parse.c

diff --git a/hbytes/parse.c b/hbytes/parse.c
index 5e1f918d99d886a829fb06c8cf8afefa5888cb91..44f00e2a25727c2333b07ccb4f67a2700931e08c 100644 (file)
--- a/hbytes/parse.c
+++ b/hbytes/parse.c
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ int pat_hbv(Tcl_Interp *ip, Tcl_Obj *var, HBytes_Var *agg) {
   rc= Tcl_ConvertToType(ip,val,&hbytes_type);
   if (rc) return rc;
 
-  Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(val);
   if (Tcl_IsShared(val)) {
     val= Tcl_DuplicateObj(val);
     agg->copied= 1;
   }
+  Tcl_InvalidateStringRep(val);
   agg->obj= val;
 
   agg->hb= OBJ_HBYTES(val);