* transcode.c (str_encode): returns duplicated string if nothing

  changed.  [ruby-core:18578]


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@19349 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/transcode.c b/transcode.c
index 4d1107ddc4..1c1126fcce 100644
--- a/transcode.c
+++ b/transcode.c
@@ -2570,7 +2570,12 @@ str_encode(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE str)
     int encidx = str_transcode(argc, argv, &newstr);
 
     if (encidx < 0) return rb_str_dup(str);
-    RBASIC(newstr)->klass = rb_obj_class(str);
+    if (newstr == str) {
+	newstr = rb_str_dup(str);
+    }
+    else {
+	RBASIC(newstr)->klass = rb_obj_class(str);
+    }
     return str_encode_associate(newstr, encidx);
 }