-New things
-----------
- The -w switch is much more informative.
+Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
+between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
+list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information,
+please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
+release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN
+site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
+or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
+releases.)
- References. See t/op/ref.t for examples. All entities in Perl 5 are
- reference counted so that it knows when each item should be destroyed.
+----------------
+Version 5.003_11
+----------------
- Objects. See t/op/ref.t for examples.
+This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of
+value.
- => is now a synonym for comma. This is useful as documentation for
- arguments that come in pairs, such as initializers for associative arrays,
- or named arguments to a subroutine.
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
- All functions have been turned into list operators or unary operators,
- meaning the parens are optional. Even subroutines may be called as
- list operators if they've already been declared.
+ Title: "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y
- More embeddible. See main.c and embed_h.sh. Multiple interpreters
- in the same process are supported (though not with interleaved
- execution yet).
+ Title: "Don't reset $. on open()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
- The interpreter is now flattened out. Compare Perl 4's eval.c with
- the perl 5's pp.c. Compare Perl 4's 900 line interpreter loop in cmd.c
- with Perl 5's 1 line interpreter loop in run.c. Eventually we'll make
- everything non-blocking so we can interface nicely with a scheduler.
+ Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c
- eval is now treated more like a subroutine call. Among other things,
- this means you can return from it.
+ Title: "Don't let expression context force return context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
- Format value lists may be spread over multiple lines by enclosing in
- a do {} block.
+ Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doio.c sv.c
- You may now define BEGIN and END subroutines for each package. The BEGIN
- subroutine executes the moment it's parsed. The END subroutine executes
- just before exiting.
+ Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
- Flags on the #! line are interpreted even if the script wasn't
- executed directly. (And even if the script was located by "perl -x"!)
+ Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
- The ?: operator is now legal as an lvalue.
+ Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c toke.c
- List context now propagates to the right side of && and ||, as well
- as the 2nd and 3rd arguments to ?:.
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
- The "defined" function can now take a general expression.
+ Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c sv.h
- Lexical scoping available via "my". eval can see the current lexical
- variables.
+ Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
- The preferred package delimiter is now :: rather than '.
+ Title: "Fix line numbers near control structures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h
- tie/untie are now preferred to dbmopen/dbmclose. Multiple DBM
- implementations are allowed in the same executable, so you can
- write scripts to interchange data among different formats.
+ Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
- New "and" and "or" operators work just like && and || but with
- a precedence lower than comma, so they work better with list operators.
+ Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
- New functions include: abs(), chr(), uc(), ucfirst(), lc(), lcfirst(),
- chomp(), glob()
+ Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c util.c
- require with a number checks to see that the version of Perl that is
- currently running is at least that number.
+ Title: "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH doop.c
+ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h handy.h
+ hv.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c
- Dynamic loading of external modules is now supported.
+ Title: "Less malloc in magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c
- There is a new quote form qw//, which is equivalent to split(' ', q//).
+ Title: "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611281150.GAA06884@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:50:58 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
- Assignment of a reference to a glob value now just replaces the
- single element of the glob corresponding to the reference type:
- *foo = \$bar, *foo = \&bletch;
+ Title: "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c
- Filehandle methods are now supported:
- output_autoflush STDOUT 1;
+ PORTABILITY AND TESTING
- There is now an "English" module that provides human readable translations
- for cryptic variable names.
+ Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
- Autoload stubs can now call the replacement subroutine with goto &realsub.
+ Title: "hints/dgux.sh update"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500
+ Files: hints/dgux.sh
- Subroutines can be defined lazily in any package by declaring an AUTOLOAD
- routine, which will be called if a non-existent subroutine is called in
- that package.
+ Title: "BUG in hints/hpux.sh"
+ From: Jeff McDougal <jmcdo@cris.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32A42C11.7FA2@cris.com>
+ Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 08:33:05 -0500
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
- Several previously added features have been subsumed under the new
- keywords "use" and "no". Saying "use Module LIST" is short for
- BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; }
- The "no" keyword is identical except that it calls "unimport" instead.
- The earlier pragma mechanism now uses this mechanism, and two new
- modules have been added to the library to implement "use integer"
- and variations of "use strict vars, refs, subs".
+ Title: "VMS patches for 5.003_10"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICMALO8NMS001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:40:12 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: EXTERN.h INTERN.h old_perl_exp.SH perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH
+ pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c toke.c util.c
+ utils/perldoc.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h
- Variables may now be interpolated literally into a pattern by prefixing
- them with \Q, which works just like \U, but backwhacks non-alphanumerics
- instead. There is also a corresponding quotemeta function.
+ Title: "_10+ under OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612011107.GAA10805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:07:19 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c os2/diff.configure
- Any quantifier in a regular expression may now be followed by a ? to
- indicate that the pattern is supposed to match as little as possible.
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
- Pattern matches may now be followed by an m or s modifier to explicitly
- request multiline or singleline semantics. An s modifier makes . match
- newline.
+ Title: "{in,ob}structive pods"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199611301652.JAA24201@toy.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:52:57 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Template.pm lib/File/stat.pm
+ lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm lib/Net/protoent.pm
+ lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm
+ lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm
- Patterns may now contain \A to match only at the beginning of the string,
- and \Z to match only at the end. These differ from ^ and $ in that
- they ignore multiline semantics. In addition, \G matches where the
- last interation of m//g or s///g left off.
+ Title: "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto>
+ Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm
- Non-backreference-producing parens of various sorts may now be
- indicated by placing a ? directly after the opening parenthesis,
- followed by a character that indicates the purpose of the parens.
- An :, for instance, indicates simple grouping. (?:a|b|c) will
- match any of a, b or c without producing a backreference. It does
- "eat" the input. There are also assertions which do not eat the
- input but do lookahead for you. (?=stuff) indicates that the next
- thing must be "stuff". (?!nonsense) indicates that the next thing
- must not be "nonsense".
+ Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
- The negation operator now treats non-numeric strings specially.
- A -"text" is turned into "-text", so that -bareword is the same
- as "-bareword". If the string already begins with a + or -, it
- is flipped to the other sign.
+ Title: "10+ debugger patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612011137.GAA10864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:37:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldebug.pod
-Incompatibilities
------------------
- @ now always interpolates an array in double-quotish strings. Some programs
- may now need to use backslash to protect any @ that shouldn't interpolate.
+ Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
- Ordinary variables starting with underscore are no longer forced into
- package main.
+ Title: "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199612031445.PAA19056@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:27 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3
- s'$lhs'$rhs' now does no interpolation on either side. It used to
- interplolate $lhs but not $rhs.
+ Title: "DB_File 1.07"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t
+ t/lib/db-recno.t
- The second and third arguments of splice are now evaluated in scalar
- context (like the book says) rather than list context.
+ Title: "DB_File 1.08"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
- Saying "shift @foo + 20" is now a semantic error because of precedence.
- "open FOO || die" is now incorrect. You need parens around the filehandle.
+----------------
+Version 5.003_10
+----------------
- The elements of argument lists for formats are now evaluated in list
- context. This means you can interpolate list values now.
+This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and
+valuable changes, but nothing dramatic.
- You can't do a goto into a block that is optimized away. Darn.
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
- It is no longer syntactically legal to use whitespace as the name
- of a variable, or as a delimiter for any kind of quote construct.
+ Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
- Some error messages will be different.
+ Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions
+ From: John L. Allen <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Files: toke.c
- The caller function now returns a false value in a scalar context if there
- is no caller. This lets library files determine if they're being required.
+ Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
- m//g now attaches its state to the searched string rather than the
- regular expression.
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
- "reverse" is no longer allowed as the name of a sort subroutine.
+ Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regexec.c
- taintperl is no longer a separate executable. There is now a -T
- switch to turn on tainting when it isn't turned on automatically.
+ Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h
- Symbols starting with _ are no longer forced into package main, except
- for $_ itself (and @_, etc.).
+ Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
- Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $ or @.
+ Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
- Negative array subscripts now count from the end of the array.
+ Title: "Better support for UVs"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h
- The comma operator in a scalar context is now guaranteed to give a
- scalar context to its arguments.
+ Title: "Minor locale cleanups"
+ (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
+ 'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c
- The ** operator now binds more tightly than unary minus.
+ Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c
- Setting $#array lower now discards array elements so that destructors
- work reasonably.
+ Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c
- delete is not guaranteed to return the old value for tied arrays,
- since this capability may be onerous for some modules to implement.
+ Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp_sys.c
- Attempts to set $1 through $9 now result in a run-time error.
+ Title: "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Namespace cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h
+
+ Title: "Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Reliable signal patch"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "3_09: minor patches for OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs
+ os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL
+ os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL
+ os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h
+
+ Title: "Re: 5.003_09 and QNX"
+ From: nort@bottesini.harvard.edu (Norton Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp
+ t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h
+
+ Title: "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICB648K2XG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:28:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: t/op/sysio.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Minor patch to debugger"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611290533.AAA08053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD optimization"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199611231954.TAA09921@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:54:52 GMT
+ Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm
+
+ Title: "Diagnostic cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@ibcinc.com>
+ Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_09
+----------------
+
+This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
+many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable
+scoping and locale handling.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Lexical locales"
+ (make effectiveness of locales depend on C<use locale>)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: too many to list
+
+ Title: "Lexical scoping cleanup"
+ (tighten scoping of lexical variables, somewhat on the
+ new constructs and somewhat on the old)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: many... but mostly perly.y and toke.c
+
+ Title: "Re: memory corruption / security bug in sysread,syswrite + pa
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199611251946.VAA30459@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:31 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+ t/op/sysio.t
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: proto.h
+
+ Title: "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1,
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Msg-ID: <01BBD6EE.E915C860@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:27:06 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can"
+ From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com
+ Msg-ID: <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto>
+ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT
+ Files: universal.c
+
+ Title: "die -> croak"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611212111.QAA17070@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:11:21 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Patch for embed.pl when !EMBED && !MULTIPLICITY"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: embed.pl
+
+ Title: "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym
+
+ Title: "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Cleanups from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: gv.c malloc.c pod/perlguts.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for unpack('w') on 64-bit systems."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611260308.WAA02677@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:08:27 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Hash key sharing improvements from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c hv.h proto.h
+
+ Title: "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post-5.003_08"
+ From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey)
+ Msg-ID: <1996Nov22.181631.1603238@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:16:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c pp_ctl.c
+ utils/h2xs.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c
+ vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611241147.GAA00490@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 06:47:25 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: README.os2 hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs
+ os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm os2/os2.c
+
+ Title: "HP patches didn't make it into _08 (fwd)"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199611260215.AA100414526@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 18:15:26 PST
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs
+
+ Title: "Another HP "patch" that didn't make it (new hints file)"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Title: "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t
+
+ Title: "minimal timelocal.pl for _09"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9611191854.AA19586@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:23 +0100
+ Files: lib/Time/Local.pm
+
+ Title: "Socket test improvement from Ilya."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/io_sock.t
+
+ Title: "Re: blib"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199611230917.JAA00471@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:17:40 GMT
+ Files: lib/blib.pm
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perldiag documentation patch."
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9611201607.AA12729@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 16:07:28 GMT
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "a missing perldiag entry"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199611212024.PAA15758@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:24:02 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch for pod/perlpod.pod"
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961120235016.6666A-100000@hammer.chu.cam.ac.uk
+ Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:54:41 +0000 (GMT)
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod
+
+ Title: "Update locale documentation."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perli18n.pod
+
+ BUNDLED UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: x2p/util.c
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_08
+----------------
+
+This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
+many people. Here are some of the more significant changes.
+
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make C<no FOO> fail if C<unimport FOO> fails"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Bitwise op sign rationalization"
+ (Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use
+ integer> is in effect. Includes initial support for UVs.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlop.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp.h
+ pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c t/op/bop.t
+
+ Title: "Defined scoping for C<my> in control structures"
+ (Finally defines semantics of "my" in control expressions,
+ like the condition of "if" and "while". In all cases, scope
+ of a "my" var extends to the end of the entire control
+ structure. Also adds new construct "for my", which
+ automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits
+ its scope to the loop.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')"
+ (This patch makes Perl correctly ignore SvIVX() if either
+ NOK or POK is true, since SvIVX() may be a truncated or
+ overflowed version of the real value.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: opcode.pl
+
+ Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.y
+
+ Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: proto.h toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fixes for pack('w')"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t
+
+ Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h
+
+ Title: "Fix for formline()"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c
+ t/op/write.t
+
+ Title: "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym"
+ (New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by
+ avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST embed.pl ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h global.sym handy.h malloc.c
+ perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h regexec.c toke.c util.c
+ x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/handy.h x2p/util.h
+
+ Title: "Support old embedding for people who want it"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym
+
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/timelocal.pl
+ perl.h perl_exp.SH proto.h t/TEST t/io/read.t
+ t/lib/findbin.t t/lib/getopt.t util.c utils/h2xs.PL
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
+ vms/perlvms.pod vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "DJGPP patches (MS-DOS)"
+ From: "Douglas E. Wegscheid" <wegscd@whirlpool.com>
+ Files: doio.c dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c handy.h
+ lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Find.pm malloc.c perl.c
+ perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Plan 9 update"
+ From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@infinet.com>
+ Files: plan9/buildinfo plan9/config.plan9 plan9/exclude
+ plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc
+
+ Title: "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm
+ lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.05"
+ From: Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Title: "Getopts::Std patch for hash support"
+ From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Std.pm
+
+ Title: "Kludge for bareword handles"
+ (Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module"
+ From: hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Hammen)
+ Files: Configure config_h.SH ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+ ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t
+
+ BUNDLED UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_07
+----------------
+
+This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
+in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
+testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004.
+
+If it doesn't work for you, try
+
+ LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
+
+for Bourne shell users, or
+
+ setenv LC_ALL C
+
+for C-shell users. Some versions of IRIX are reported to have
+problems with sort when the locale is other than C. This manifests
+as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step.
+
+The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Support for BER compressed integers. See perlfunc.pod for
+ documentation on the 'w' option.
+
+ -untaint support added to IO extension.
+
+o Changes in Core Internals
+
+ -Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
+ as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
+ with 5.003. (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.)
+
+ -Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4.
+
+o Configure and build enhancements
+
+ -improved SCO hints. Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but
+ they may be right.
+
+ -OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -print sort (4,1,3,2);
+
+ -group numbers are integers again.
+
+ -other things. See the specific changes for details.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07.
+
+ Fixed a spelling error.
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc.
+ Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test
+ program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of
+ Configure have moved around unchanged. The patch is big but the
+ effect is little.
+
+ Allow for both <sys/select.h> and <time.h> in fd_set tests.
+ Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one
+ or the other in the hints file for now.
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values.
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ os2/Changes added.
+
+Index: Makefile.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with
+ shared library target, which is delegated to
+ $osname/Makefile.SHs if found.
+ config.h should depend on config_h.SH.
+
+ Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly
+ sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked).
+
+Index: README.os2
+
+ New version.
+
+Index: config_H
+
+ Update SH_PATH comment.
+
+Index: config_h.SH
+
+ Update SH_PATH comment.
+
+Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad
+ things it can do.
+
+Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
+ I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
+ and we might need to hide it.
+
+Index: gv.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Better error message for overload.
+
+Index: hints/os2.sh
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some
+ memory present - 32M should be quite enough).
+ Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately.
+ libc was in .../st/... instead of mt.
+ README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod.
+
+Index: hints/sco.sh
+
+ Don't include <sys/select.h> along with <time.h>.
+
+Index: installperl
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install).
+
+Index: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be
+ done outside of OS/2 too?).
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ `bool' entry added.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!).
+
+Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Subject: Cleanup after new test
+
+ Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just
+ plain broken under OS/2 and VMS)
+
+Index: lib/FindBin.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module
+
+Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Update to version 2.4.
+
+Index: lib/lib.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400
+ From: "Brent B. Powers" <powers@ml.com>
+ Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm
+
+ Ignore undefined entries.
+
+Index: lib/newgetopt.pl
+
+ Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long.
+
+Index: makedepend.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH
+ (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH
+ with more than two '.' Such names are illegal on some systems.)
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 ()
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06
+
+ The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error
+ introduced in 5.003_06. This patch is required to fix the bug:
+
+Index: os2/Changes
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
+ updates for fork()ing.
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ added.
+
+Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Convoluted process to create chimera executables added.
+ aout_clean is done automatically on clean.
+
+Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Use `unlink' where appropriate.
+
+Index: os2/diff.configure
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: os2/os2.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ /bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe.
+ popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now).
+ builtins added for the sake of path manipulation.
+
+Index: os2/os2ish.h
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
+ updates for fork()ing.
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ Change to subversion 7.
+
+Index: perl.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}
+
+ I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
+ (the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries
+ is frightning!).
+
+ If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range
+ of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
+ Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
+ I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
+ and we might need to hide it.
+
+Index: plan9/aperl
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/buildinfo
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/config.plan9
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/exclude
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/fndvers
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/genconfig.pl
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/mkfile
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/plan9.c
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/plan9ish.h
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/setup.rc
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: plan9/versnum
+
+ Updated for 5.003_07
+
+Index: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE.
+ OS/2-specific messages added.
+
+Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: pod/perli18n.pod
+
+ Updated version with high bits intact.
+
+Index: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Crossrefs corrected.
+
+Index: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4
+ and perl5.
+
+Index: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ $^E under OS/2.
+
+Index: pp.c
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT
+ From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
+
+ The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened
+ with write privileges for chsize to work correctly.
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work
+
+ >> > print sort (4,1,2,3);
+ >> >
+ >> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort. Bug? Feature?
+
+ This broke between 5.001n and 5.002. There was a long winded thread
+ about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around
+ the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on
+ p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that
+ the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called:
+
+ Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above
+ code breaks! Here's a patch against 5.00306.
+
+Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ Better error message on dying.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_taint.t
+
+ Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
+
+ This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
+ IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
+ that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
+ said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
+
+ This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
+ pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
+ adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
+
+ Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle.
+
+Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/odbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
+ nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
+ for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
+ no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
+ database code.
+ So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
+
+Index: t/lib/socket.t
+
+ Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX)
+
+ fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is
+ rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases.
+
+Index: t/op/pack.t
+
+ Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
+
+Index: t/op/sort.t
+
+ Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+ uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined
+ as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does).
+
+Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
+ From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Subject: Re: sh Configure?
+
+ Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
+ in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
+ pathname of the file being extracted.
+
+Index: x2p/cflags.SH
+
+ Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
+ From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
+ Subject: Re: sh Configure?
+
+ Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
+ in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
+ pathname of the file being extracted.
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_06
+----------------
+This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
+and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003.
+The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for
+ locales, including LC_COLLATE. See the new pod/perli18n.pod.
+ Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi.
+
+ -new version of Math::Complex, with test suite. Ought to be
+ backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex.
+
+ -Pre-extending hashes now works. keys %hash = 5000 will pre-size
+ %hash.
+
+ -__DATA__ filehandle is untainted.
+
+o Changes in Core Internals
+
+ -gv_fullname and gv_efullname have reverted to their pre-5.003_03
+ versions for binary compatibility. Actually, they are implemented
+ as stubs pointing to the new 3-argument forms gv_fullname3 and
+ gv_efullname3.
+
+ -Perl's malloc is once again called 'Mymalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
+ as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
+ with 5.003.
+
+o Configure and build enhancements
+
+ -many new tests for the standard library.
+
+ -test suite now locale-friendly.
+
+ -a2p.man and s2p.man now made into pods.
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -whitespace lexer errors fixed.
+
+ -many, many other things. See details below.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+# This is my patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl5.003_05
+# The full description is below.
+# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
+# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
+# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+
+# We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them
+# executable.
+for t in abbrev.t autoloader.t basename.t checktree.t complex.t \
+ env.t fatal.t filecache.t filecopy.t filefind.t filepath.t \
+ findbin.t getopt.t hostname.t parsewords.t searchdict.t \
+ selectsaver.t symbol.t texttabs.t textwrap.t timelocal.t
+do
+ touch t/lib/$t
+ chmod +x t/lib/$t
+done
+
+# The a2p.man and s2p.man pages have been changed into pods.
+rm -f x2p/a2p.man x2p/s2p.man
+
+exit 0
+
+
+This is patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl version 5.003_05.
+This takes you from 5.003_05 to 5.003_06.
+
+To apply this patch, run the above commands,
+cd to your perl source directory and then type
+
+ patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_06.pat
+
+The changes are described after each /^Index:/ line below. This is
+designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
+
+ csplit -k perl5.003_06.pat '/^Index:/' '{999}'
+
+(Of course, since there are more than 100 Index entries, your
+csplit may complain, since many csplit's have an arbitrary limit of 100
+files. Still, you can manually split the file or roll your own.)
+
+Patch and enjoy,
+
+ Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
+ Dept. of Physics
+ Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Updated for 5.003_06.
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Add -Wl,rpath option for irix* to find the installed shared
+ libperl.so
+
+ Add /shlib to libpth. It is used by Digital Unix 4.0.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
+ From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
+
+ Detect Cygnus Win32, or at least don't let Configure get fooled
+ into thinking it's OS/2.
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ added LC_COLLATE doc.
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+ Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
+
+ Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ added perli18n.pod.
+
+Index: README
+
+ Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
+
+Index: configpm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: configure
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
+ From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
+
+ Warn the user of case-insensitive file systems that they may have
+ accidentally gotten 'configure' instead of 'Configure'.
+
+Index: doio.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: doop.c
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+Index: dump.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+Index: embed.h
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+Index: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Updated to IO-1.12.
+
+Index: ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl
+
+ Perl 5.003_05 compiles on DYNIX/ptx 4.0 (v4.1.3), and passes all tests.
+ The only change needed is in "ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL" - on this system,
+ ndbm is actually contained in the libc library, and must be linked against
+ -lc when compiling. (this is for dynamic ELF executables, I didn't compile
+ statically)
+
+Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
+
+ The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm:
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ enhanced setlocale() docs and introduced the one-argument variant doc.
+
+Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ setlocale() allowed one argument only,
+ call to perl_init_fold() (in util.c) if setlocale() succeeded.
+
+Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl
+
+ Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
+
+ Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
+
+Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
+ 5.003.
+
+Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: global.sym
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ added var lc_collate_active and func mem_collxfrm.
+
+Index: gv.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+Index: handy.h
+
+ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
+
+ This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
+ since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
+ applied, use this one instead.
+
+ The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
+ ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
+
+Index: hints/machten.sh
+
+ Add notes about MachTen 4.0.3 SYSV IPC.
+
+Index: hints/next_3.sh
+
+ Replace optimize="-g" by optimize="" since we're just trying to turn off
+ the optimizier.
+
+ Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
+
+ Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
+
+Index: hv.c
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
+
+ I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
+ to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
+ I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
+ needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
+ hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
+
+ Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
+ The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
+ flag.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+Index: hv.h
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
+
+ I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
+ to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
+ I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
+ needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
+ hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
+
+ Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
+ The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
+ flag.
+
+Index: installman
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: installperl
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm
+
+ Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent
+
+ > This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
+ This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+
+ The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
+ since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
+ filename manipulations:
+
+ Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix
+
+ It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
+ function. With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit
+ from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems.
+
+ This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by
+ updating its documentation.
+
+Index: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST)
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Subject: a really really tiny typo
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Cwd.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Env.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Remove unwantd space after the I in -I$Config[archlib}
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Change a reference from perlapi(1) to perlxs(1).
+
+Index: lib/File/Basename.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS
+
+ The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when
+ fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect:
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: File::Basename documentation patch
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+
+ For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for
+ File::Basename was also wrong:
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/File/Find.pm
+
+ Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:37:44 +0200
+ From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@it.com.pl>
+ Subject: File::Find assumes $_ remains unchanged; bug
+
+ The File::Find perl module assumes that the $_ variable remains unchanged
+ through the user defined function which is callbacked from find. It carries
+ out a stat operation
+
+ Simplest fix is merely to document this
+
+Index: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/FindBin.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ deprecated and trapped (will whine if called and tell to migrate away)
+
+Index: lib/IPC/Open2.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ ord() is a dangerous thing.
+
+Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
+ # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
+ # New version. Should be backwards compatible, but please
+ # check it out if you use it.
+
+Index: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm
+
+ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/
+
+ The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead
+ of tr/A-Z/a-z/. This will make folding of non-english letters work if
+ the locale is set up correctly.
+
+Index: lib/SelfLoader.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
+
+ perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)'
+
+ I don't understand why the module want to initialize %global from
+ <DATA> in the first place. Perhaps we want to apply this patch
+ instead.
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm
+
+ Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Patch for Term::Cap
+
+ 'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The
+ patch below avoids the warning.
+
+ [The $entry .= $_ usage is idiomatic enough that it ought to be
+ ok, I would think, but the patch certainly is ok too.]
+
+Index: lib/Term/Complete.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
+
+ Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
+
+ This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
+ and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
+
+Index: lib/Text/Tabs.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/Time/Local.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
+
+ Add in stub file.
+
+Index: lib/bigint.pl
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ ord() is a dangerous thing.
+
+Index: lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/overload.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work
+
+Index: lib/splain
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: lib/strict.pm
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: makedepend.SH
+
+ Add explicit $touch $firstmakefile for QNX which apparently
+ preserves modification times for a 'cp' command.
+ I worry, though, that touch might not be portable to OS/2.
+ If it is, then I'll remove the fancy case statement.
+
+Index: malloc.c
+
+ Not all sbrks return zeroed memory.
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $!
+
+ This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related
+ to the numeric value of $!.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E
+
+ This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c,
+ related to the numeric values of $! and $^E. This patch *REPLACES*
+ the one I posted earlier, which was only effective for $!.
+
+ [Some of this is superceded by similar stuff in the VMS patches.]
+
+Index: op.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+Index: opcode.h
+
+ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
+ From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
+ Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
+
+ The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
+ into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
+ C++ compiler.
+
+Index: opcode.pl
+
+ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
+ From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
+ Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
+
+ The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
+ into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
+ C++ compiler.
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ Change to subversion 6.
+
+Index: perl.c
+
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC
+
+ support C<perl -e'attached code'>
+
+ Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch)
+ Message-Id: <199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+
+ The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv. Here's a patch.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
+
+ This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
+ since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
+ applied, use this one instead.
+
+ The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
+ ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+ Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
+ 5.003.
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+Index: perl_exp.SH
+
+ Add new function perl_init_fold. (I'm not sure it goes here.)
+
+Index: perlio.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58 PDT
+ From: Hunter Kelly <retnuh@zule.pixar.com>
+ Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
+
+ Fix PerlIO_reopen parameters.
+
+Index: perlsdio.h
+
+ Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:24:01 -0400
+ From: John Stoffel <jfs@jfs.fluent.com>
+ Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
+
+ Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: pod/Makefile
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ perli18n.pod (and perlapio.pod, btw) added.
+
+Index: pod/buildtoc
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ perli18n advertised.
+
+Index: pod/perlapio.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+Index: pod/perlbook.pod
+
+ Updated for Second Edition.
+
+Index: pod/perlcall.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perldata.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perldebug.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: pod/perldsc.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlform.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+ Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch
+
+ Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This
+ incorporates and supersedes Dean's patch.
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perli18n.pod
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ written.
+
+Index: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perllol.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Subject: documentation for $? in END
+
+ Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
+
+Index: pod/perlobj.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
+
+ Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
+
+Index: pod/perlpod.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlre.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
+
+ Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
+
+Index: pod/perlref.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlsec.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlstyle.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlsyn.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perltie.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
+
+Index: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: a perl425 trap
+
+ Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory.
+ [interpolation issues]
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Subject: documentation for $? in END
+
+ Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
+
+Index: pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
+ From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
+ Subject: POD spelling patches
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+ Bugs found in pod2man
+
+ The following bugs were noticed, and some fixed:
+
+ 1. Where a L<> link extends over more than one line, pod2man does not
+ treat it as a link but displays it literally, and so these have been
+ rearranged to place the link on one line. This is the only bug worked
+ around. [Fixed; the rearrangements, which were done beforehand,
+ remain in some cases, but are no longer necessary, and pod paragraphs
+ can now be safely reformatted to whatever width is desired in the pod,
+ without breaking links.]
+
+ 2. It seems to swallow spaces after certain links: for example, part
+ of the "open" entry in the perlfunc manpage comes out as "the
+ \f(CWbinmode\fR entry elsewhere in this documentfor tips", the source
+ having been "L</binmode> for tips". [Fixed.]
+
+ 3. 'L</"Pass by Reference">', in perlsub.pod, comes out as '\fI/"Pass
+ by Reference\fR', that is, with an initial '/"'.
+
+ 4. If a pod line begins with ".", nothing is done to prevent [tng]roff
+ from treating it as a [tng]roff instruction.
+
+ 5. When the paragraph below =head1 NAME has more than one line, this
+ confuses pod2man: so in the case of Term::Readline, the manpage begins
+ with a stray line 'no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead
+ of basic functions."'.
+
+ Of course, it would be better to fix pod2man; I hope that the new Pod
+ modules, when ready, will not have these defects.
+
+Index: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ sortcmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
+
+Index: pp_hot.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
+
+ This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
+ on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
+ file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
+ There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
+ before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
+ reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
+ on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
+ pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
+ this should not introduce any insecurity.
+
+ This patch *does not*:
+
+ * Add the "untaint" keyword.
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
+
+ This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
+ on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
+ file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
+ There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
+ before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
+ reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
+ on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
+ pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
+ this should not introduce any insecurity.
+
+ This patch *does not*:
+
+ * Add the "untaint" keyword.
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:26:57 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: Patch to patch for untainting
+
+ The following patch ensures that a glob used as a filehandle that
+ has had the UNTAINT flag set will not carry that flag over on a
+ re-open. In a nutshell, a re-open of the DATA filehandle would be
+ considered untainted, and an object of class IO::Handle (or one of
+ its sub-classes) that is marked untainted with the untaint method,
+ then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+
+ First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a
+ miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the
+ library and the creation of Makefiles for the extensions didn't
+ work. Worse, it didn't just fail to open files, it dumped core.
+
+Index: proto.h
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ mem_collxfrm() and perl_init_fold() added.
+
+Index: run.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
+ Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+ I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the
+ fast I/O fiddling with stdio in sv_gets(). These were useful
+ to me in setting up the VMS fast I/O, and I left them in in
+ case they're useful to someone in the future. However, if you
+ think it overloads -DP too much, feel free to drop it. (-DP
+ already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.)
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ sv_cmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
+
+Index: sv.h
+
+ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
+
+ This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
+ on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
+ file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
+ There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
+ before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
+ reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
+ on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
+ pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
+ this should not introduce any insecurity.
+
+ This patch *does not*:
+
+ * Add the "untaint" keyword.
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
+
+ I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
+ to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
+ I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
+ needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
+ hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
+
+ Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
+ The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
+ flag.
+
+Index: t/base/term.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ \n not necessarily lt ' '.
+
+Index: t/comp/package.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ XYZ not necessarily gt xyz.
+
+Index: t/lib/abbrev.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+ Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
+
+ This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
+ and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
+
+Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/autoloader.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+
+ The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
+ since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
+ filename manipulations:
+
+Index: t/lib/basename.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+
+ Fix the number of tests.
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+ A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends.
+
+Index: t/lib/checktree.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
+ # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
+
+ Tests for new version.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/env.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/fatal.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/filecache.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/filecopy.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/filefind.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/filepath.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/findbin.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/getopt.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/hostname.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/odbm.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/parsewords.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/lib/searchdict.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/symbol.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+
+ The various new lib/*.t tests didn't all work. For some, it was
+ only because the count of tests was wrong:
+
+Index: t/lib/texttabs.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/textwrap.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/lib/timelocal.t
+
+ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Subject: More standard library test scripts
+
+ This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
+ Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
+ out are applied.
+
+Index: t/op/each.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
+
+ The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
+ "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
+ pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
+ when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
+ improved.
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/op/glob.t
+
+ Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: Re: glob test 1 failing...bad test or bug
+
+ Under AIX 4.1.4, with LOCALE set en_GB (British english) glob test one
+ fails because <op/*> sorts op/re_* before op/rea*, while
+ $otherway = `echo op/*` sorts op/re_* after op/re[a-z]*.t
+
+ This version doesn't rely on the sorting order.
+
+Index: t/op/magic.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+Index: t/op/readdir.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: t/op/sort.t
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ A not necessarily gt a.
+
+Index: toke.c
+
+ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch)
+
+ I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately
+ overwrite oldbufptr and oldoldbufptr (which are used in making
+ expectation decisions in the lexer).
+
+ Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: perl lexer won't accept C<my($a,$b);$a<=>$b;>
+
+ Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
+
+ This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
+ on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
+ file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
+ There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
+ before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
+ reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
+ on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
+ pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
+ this should not introduce any insecurity.
+
+ This patch *does not*:
+
+ * Add the "untaint" keyword.
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Subject: LC_COLLATE.
+
+ Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
+
+ rewrote perl_init_i18n() completely.
+ - reworded to be much more friendly and clear.
+ - perl_init_fold() split to its own function.
+ wrote mem_collxfrm().
+
+Index: utils/c2ph.PL
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500
+ From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ Subject: h2xs bug fix
+
+ The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from
+ finding #define statements and filling the constant() function. This patch
+ fixes that. The h2xs_test program found this--maybe people who are
+ modifying h2xs should get a copy of the test program.
+
+ This also adds a -d to enable debugging messages (there's just one for now).
+ I've also placed some of the doc-related things in alphabetical order.
+
+ h2xs_test can be found in my directory on CPAN. Those of you modifying
+ xsubpp should know there's a test suite for that, too, called XSTEST which
+ can also be found in my directory on CPAN.
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
+ 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
+
+Index: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: perldoc patch
+
+ Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2.
+
+Index: vms/config.vms
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: vms/descrip.mms
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: vms/genconfig.pl
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: vms/perlvms.pod
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: vms/vms.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
+
+Index: x2p/a2p.pod
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ This patch just changed the old a2p.man page into a pod page.
+
+Index: x2p/s2p.PL
+
+ Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
+ From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
+ Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
+
+ This patch just changed the old s2p.man page into a pod page.
+ I then embedded the pod into the s2p script.
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_05
+----------------
+
+This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
+the remaining issues from in 5.003_04. The details are described below.
+A very brief summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Add support for a READLINE method to tied filehandles.
+
+ -times function now uses CLK_TCK if HZ is not available, rather
+ than just defaulting to 60. times output might change on some
+ systems, but should be correct now.
+
+ -AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
+ Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select
+ order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still
+ the same.
+
+o Configure and build enhancements
+
+ -Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
+ BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
+ [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
+
+ -You can now build a shared libperl.so without running through
+ the LD_RUN_PATH hoops, if your system supports appropriate
+ ld command-line options. Solaris, NetBSD, and Linux are currently
+ supported. Others are easy to add. (This makes like a lot easier
+ for embedders.)
+
+ -VMS updates.
+
+ -Fix installperl and installman so that the -n option really only
+ prints commands. (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -debugger ought to work.
+
+ -A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH is now quoted. This prevented
+ 5.003_04 from working most places.
+
+ -numerous smaller ones, detailed below.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+# This is my patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl5.003_04
+# The full description is below.
+# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
+# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
+# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+
+# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
+# executable.
+touch t/io/read.t
+chmod +x t/io/read.t
+
+exit 0
+
+
+This is patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl version 5.003_04.
+This takes you from 5.003_04 to 5.003_05.
+
+To apply this patch, run the above commands,
+cd to your perl source directory and then type
+
+ patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_05.pat
+
+The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
+designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
+
+ csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
+
+Patch and enjoy,
+
+ Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
+ Dept. of Physics
+ Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Updated for 5.003_05.
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Allow command line or hint-file overrides of $afs.
+
+ Allow trailing spaces in nm output for HPUX10.
+
+ Check for newer BIND 'search' directives in /etc/resolv.conf as well
+ as older 'domain' directive.
+
+ Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
+ BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
+ [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
+
+ Include -s in the -h summary of available options.
+
+ Allow command-line override of $afs.
+
+ Handle trailing spaces in nm-output on HPUX10.
+
+ Set shrpenv for handling LD_RUN_PATH, if needed. (This used to
+ be in Makefile.SH. Now it's available for other modules too.)
+
+ When using shared libperl, avoid LD_RUN_PATH if possible by adding
+ correct ld flags. Currently, Solaris and NetBSD get the correct
+ -R $archlibexp/CORE, and Linux gets its
+ -Wl,-rpath,$archlibexp/CORE flag. Other contributions are
+ welcome.
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Correct libperl5 -> libperl typo.
+
+ Describe MakeMaker's Warning (will try anyway) messages.
+
+ More info on where and how to send reports.
+
+ Add info on non-Unix ports.
+
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ Add new test t/io/read.t.
+
+ Add new hints files for ODBM_File for ultrix and hpux.
+
+ Add new pod checker script.
+
+Index: Makefile.SH
+
+ A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH needs to be quoted.
+
+ shrpenv stuff moved to Configure.
+
+Index: Porting/Glossary
+
+ Updated to match Configure.
+
+Index: README.vms
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: av.h
+
+ Subject: turbidity in av.[ch]
+ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+
+ Some unclean code that I noticed today.
+
+Index: config_H
+
+ Updated to match newest config_h.SH.
+
+Index: config_h.SH
+
+ Updated to match Configure.
+
+ Changed the DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE comment to
+ /**/ to conform to metaconfig style.
+
+Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el
+
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Subject: Newer CPerl-mode
+
+Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+ Update to DB_File 1.03.
+
+Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Update to DB_File 1.03.
+
+Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl
+
+ Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading.
+
+Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
+
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0
+
+ This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin.
+
+Index: ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
+
+ Attempt to correct for "Bad free" in Ultrix and HPUX versions of
+ odbm.
+
+Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/hpux.pl
+
+ Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().
+
+Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/ultrix.pl
+
+ Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().
+
+Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+
+ Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm
+
+ This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless
+ auto/Socket/autosplit.ix.
+
+Index: handy.h
+
+ Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
+
+Index: hints/convexos.sh
+
+ Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle
+ this now.
+
+Index: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Add note about possible gcc GR3 warning message.
+
+ Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle
+ this now.
+
+Index: hints/sco.sh
+
+ Turn off optimization for stock cc. This appears to
+ prevent miniperl core dumps.
+
+Index: hints/solaris_2.sh
+
+ Catch GNU ld even though it doesn't identify itself as a GNU tool.
+ Thanks to Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>.
+
+Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+
+ Describe solution for the __lib_version problem with acc on
+ SunOS.
+
+Index: hv.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: minor misc. cleanup
+
+ This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
+ in functionality whatsoever.
+
+ Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:52:21 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+
+ Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04)
+
+ I have tried to avoid copying of hash keys that are passed to
+ magical hashes, but it seems that copying may be unavoidable
+ since the hv_*_ent() functions could be PADTMPs (and other
+ SVs that may get reused) as keys.
+
+ VMS dynamic %ENV fix
+
+Index: installman
+
+ From: scotth@sgi.com
+ Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)
+
+ Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
+ (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
+
+ an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
+ to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
+ *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)
+
+Index: installperl
+
+ From: scotth@sgi.com
+ Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)
+
+ Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
+ (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
+
+ an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
+ to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
+ *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)
+
+Index: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
+
+ AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
+ Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select
+ order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still
+ the same.
+
+
+ Add helpful "die" message to end of AnyDBM_File. Previously
+ it would return a 0, and the failure would eventually show up
+ somewhere else in the script and be hard to track down. It is
+ a failure if perl can't open AnyDBM_File. The test regression
+ suite is supposed to indicate this as a failure too.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+ Fix for VMS utime.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.39 to allow CFLAGS in hint files.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
+
+Index: lib/File/Find.pm
+
+ From: Michael Mahan <mahanm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu>
+ Subject: Cwd::fastcwd in File::Find
+
+ Is there a good reason why File::Find uses Cwd::fastcwd instead of
+ Cwd:cwd when fastcwd isn't as portable?
+ [In particular, fastcwd() doesn't work on AFS.]
+
+Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm
+
+ There was a mistake in the sqrt routine in lib/Math/Complex.pm that
+ gave wrong answers when the magnitude of the imaginary part of the
+ argument exceeded the magnitude of the real part. Line 69 had too
+ many sqrt($y)'s. Further, expressions were re-arranged so that
+ calls to the expensive real sqrt() routine were reduced from 4 to 2
+ in this case.
+
+Index: lib/open3.pl
+
+ The I/O directions on the dad_wtr and kid_rdr were backwards.
+ IO/Open3.pm didn't have this error.
+
+Index: lib/syslog.pl
+
+ Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage
+
+ syslog.pl tries but fails to use
+ Socket.pm, the problem is that use doesn't return a true value. This
+ module should be recast in terms of Sys::Syslog, of course.
+
+Index: makedepend.SH
+
+ This patch eliminates "\|" in sed patterns in makedepend.SH, since
+ they're not really needed anyway in this one case.
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Ok, here's a tested patch for the debugger problem.
+ I was missing the fact that DB::dbline magic is actually
+ uppercase (which means hv_store_ent() etc., will pass SV keys
+ to the vtbl_dbline handlers).
+
+ Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
+ the simple MgPVKEY macro.
+
+ Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add
+ additional parens around the "mg".
+
+ (lines near 584) Part of VMS changes. I don't know what this did.
+
+ Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) >
+
+ This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers
+ (C<sv_setiv>) instead of floats. It also eliminates a warning from
+ C< local($)) >, via a hack similar to $!.
+
+Index: mg.h
+
+ Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
+ the simple MgPVKEY macro.
+
+ Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add
+ additional parens around the "mg".
+
+Index: nostdio.h
+
+ Add _STDIO_LOADED (VMS) to list of guard symbols.
+
+Index: op.c
+
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ Change to subversion 5.
+
+Index: perl.c
+
+ Make floating point constants Locale-friendly.
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
+ minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
+
+ Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
+
+ Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
+ BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
+ [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
+
+Index: perlio.c
+
+ Eliminate potential "signed vs. unsigned" warning
+
+ Add PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_cgetname functions.
+
+Index: perlsdio.h
+
+ Don't supply redundant parameters for PerlIO_open and PerlIO_fdopen.
+
+ Include PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_getname.
+
+ s/FILE_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE/STDIO_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE to fix a typo.
+ This had prevented SV_FAST_FGETS from working anywhere.
+
+ Include PerlIO_canset_cnt. I'm not sure how this is supposed to
+ differ from STDIO_CNT_LVALUE.
+
+Index: pod/Makefile
+
+ Remove trailing spaces in pods.
+ Include a call to the checkpods script in the Makefile (though it's
+ not ordinarily used by users).
+
+Index: pod/checkpods.PL
+
+ New script to check for common errors in pods. This is not
+ normally called during the perl build process, but you can
+ use it with B<make check>.
+
+Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
+
+ Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp.
+
+Index: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
+
+Index: pod/perlref.pod
+
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
+
+Index: pod/perltie.pod
+
+ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
+ From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
+ Subject: more TIEHANDLE
+
+ This adds support for a READLINE method.
+
+Index: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Here's documentation on the change in split's behavior between Perl 4
+ and Perl 5.
+
+ Subject: More (and less!) 425traps
+
+ Large integer traps
+
+ Precedence
+
+ warn STDERR
+
+ Change blank lines to empty lines.
+
+Index: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Be explicit about $/="" matching empty lines, that is, lines
+ with no spaces or tabs.
+
+ Change blank lines to empty lines.
+
+Index: pp.c
+
+ Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics
+
+ This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV
+ values when performing bitwise operations and modulus.
+
+ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
+
+ (double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv().
+
+Index: pp_hot.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: minor misc. cleanup
+
+ This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
+ in functionality whatsoever.
+
+ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
+ From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
+ Subject: more TIEHANDLE
+
+ This adds support for a READLINE method.
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
+ This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
+
+ Undef and then re-define my_chsize from Perl_my_chsize to
+ just plain chsize if this system HAS_CHSIZE. This probably only
+ applies to SCO. This shows the perils of having internal
+ functions with the same name as external library functions :-).
+
+ Use CLK_TCK if HZ is not available.
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Fix more spots where we had PerlIO_stderr() and should have had
+ Perl_debug_log instead.
+
+ Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation
+
+ I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it
+ would improve the safety of AV creation.
+
+ Remove potentially incorrect casts on PerlIO_set_ptrcnt.
+ 'ptr' is already STDCHAR, which is supposed to be the type of
+ char used in stdio.h, so we shouldn't have to cast it.
+
+Index: t/io/read.t
+
+ Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
+ This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
+
+ Update to DB_File 1.03.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
+
+ Update to DB_File 1.03.
+
+Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ Update to DB_File 1.03.
+
+Index: t/lib/io_sock.t
+
+ From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.m.isar.de>
+ Subject: Perl 5.003.03: race condition in t/lib/io_sock.t
+
+ io_sock.t works by forking a subprocess it can communicate with.
+ It has the subprocess wait for the main process by sleeping 10
+ seconds or until an alarm arrives.
+
+ With my setup, the alarm signal arrives *before* the child
+ has a chance to ignore the alarm signal.
+
+ I fixed this by moving the "$SIG{ALRM} = sub {};" up before the
+ fork. It does not hurt to have the parent ignore alarms, too.
+
+Index: t/op/inc.t
+
+ One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
+ minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
+
+Index: t/op/misc.t
+
+ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
+ From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
+ Subject: more TIEHANDLE
+
+ This adds support for a READLINE method.
+
+Index: t/op/pack.t
+
+ Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
+
+Index: t/op/ref.t
+
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
+
+Index: universal.c
+
+ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST
+ From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted
+
+ yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference
+ is an object, so the patch should be
+
+Index: unixish.h
+
+ Change comment style so that IBM's picky xlc compiler doesn't
+ think we've mistakenly tried to nest comments.
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
+ minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
+
+Index: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Subject: updated h2xs
+
+ Changes:
+ a) Docs and examples for -x updated;
+ b) Path to xxxx.h would not be changed to /usr/include/xxxx.h
+ unless this file exists (outside of VMS, I'm afraid to make an error
+ there). - Useful with -x option, when the file may be eaten via -I
+ inside -F.
+ c) .h file would be scanned only if needed.
+ d) typemap would be generated (with T_PTROBJ).
+ e) Documentation (=list) for autogenerated guys would be
+ included into POD.
+ f) duplicated XSUBs would not be generated;
+ g) arguments to XSUBs being arrays are recognized (note that
+ xsubpp would probably choke on such guys).
+
+ -x option requires C-Scan-0.3 (releases a couple of minutes ago to
+ ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
+ should propagate to CPAN soon).
+
+Index: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Fix typo $Config{'has_sockets'} ought to be $Config{'d_socket'};
+
+Index: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ More choices in the pager war. Unfortunately, we can't rely on
+ all users agreeing with the Sysadmin's choice, nor can we
+ assign a default preference order, since opinions vary. If the
+ user doesn't have $ENV{PAGER} set, we do want to pick up one that
+ at least works, so we'll try whatever Configure found.
+
+Index: vms/Makefile
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/config.vms
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/descrip.mms
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/ext/filespec.t
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/perlvms.pod
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/vms.c
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+Index: vms/vmsish.h
+
+ VMS 5.003_05 Update.
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_04
+----------------
+
+This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
+the changes made in 5.003_03. The details are described below.
+A very brief summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Allow and document permissions for FileHandle::new and
+ IO::File::new.
+ -glob in Safe compartment used to allow shell access; now
+ it's in the same category as `` and system().
+
+o Configure and build enhancements
+
+ -perl library name is again -lperl, not -lperl5 in some cases.
+ -Several hint files no longer set -g -DDEBUGGING by default.
+ Instead, they just turn off optimization, since that is
+ probably what was intended.
+ -Include OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -SEGV with $_[0] and circular references fixed.
+ -Ilya's debugger patch.
+ -FAKE typeglobs fixed.
+ -truncate with file name now works.
+ -lval substr() no longer coredumps with refs
+ -lval substr now clears lexicals in re-entered scopes.
+ -core dump in caller() for signal handler for __DIE__.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+# This is my patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl5.003_03
+# The full description is below.
+# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
+# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
+# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+
+# Obsolete perl4 hint file.
+rm -f hints/dnix.sh
+# Obsolete
+rm -f os2/notes
+
+# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
+# executable.
+touch t/op/gv.t
+chmod +x t/op/gv.t
+
+exit 0
+
+
+This is patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl version 5.003_03.
+This takes you from 5.003_03 to 5.003_04.
+
+To apply this patch, run the above commands,
+cd to your perl source directory and then type
+
+ patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_04.pat
+
+The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
+designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
+
+ csplit -k perl5.003_04.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
+
+Patch and enjoy,
+
+ Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
+ Dept. of Physics
+ Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
+
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Updated for 5.003_04.
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Change name of shared libperl library back to libperl.so.xxx,
+ so that a simple -lperl picks up either libperl.a or
+ libperl.so.xxx.
+
+ Check if $sh='' in case we've reloaded an old config.sh
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Change name of shared perl library to libperl, instead of
+ libperl5.
+
+ Add notes about fragility of shared libperl and the usefulness
+ of archlib to separate different binaries.
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ os2/notes removed
+
+ obsolete hints/dnix.sh removed.
+
+ New typeglob test.
+
+Index: Makefile.SH
+
+ For building shared libperl, relocate whole rule to
+ inside the if test -f $osname/Makefile.SHs case.
+
+Index: Porting/Glossary
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: README.os2
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: av.c
+
+ Subject: Re: SEGV with $_[0] and circular references
+
+ Subject: random cleanup
+
+ This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.
+
+Index: config_H
+
+ Updated. Note new comments to make AIX happy.
+
+Index: config_h.SH
+
+ Change /*#define../**/ into /*#define../ **/
+ to make IBM's xlc compiler shut up about nested comments.
+ The /*#define FOO /**/ is a perfectly legal un-nested comment, and
+ I wish IBM would fix it's blasted compiler instead. In the meantime
+ we'll take mercy on the poor AIX user and get rid of the screenfulls
+ of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth
+ <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for the fix.
+
+Index: dump.c
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
+
+ This patch documents the behavior of FileHandle::{new,open} with
+ regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
+ constants.
+
+ This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: FileHandle::new
+ didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: IO::File::new
+ didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch.
+
+ This patch documents the behavior of IO::File::{new,open} with
+ regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
+ constants.
+
+Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
+
+ Subject: Re: glob in Safe compartment allows shell access
+
+ I've moved the glob op into the same opcode tag as backticks and system
+ and added a comment.
+
+Index: gv.c
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: handy.h
+
+ Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
+
+ Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
+ should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
+ previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
+ symbols the complete set of
+ /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
+ those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
+ Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
+ and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
+ changed appropriately.
+
+ The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
+ limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
+ works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.
+
+ Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.
+
+Index: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Remove the d_bsdpgrp hint. The defaults should be ok.
+
+Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh
+
+ Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
+ unless that's what the user really wants.
+
+Index: hints/mpeix.sh
+
+ Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
+ unless that's what the user really wants.
+
+Index: hints/os2.sh
+
+ Fixes for sh vs. bin_sh + cleanup.
+
+Index: hints/ultrix_4.sh
+
+ Don't call optimize=-g, just call optimize=none. The -g
+ pulls in -DDEBUGGING, which might not be wanted.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ .C$(obj_ext) removed under OS/2 - conflicts with .c$(obj_ext).
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Fix SCOPE? (See pod/perlxs.pod).
+ Up version number to 1.938.
+
+Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Add a return value to runtests - non-zero if all tests ran ok,
+ zero otherwise.
+
+Index: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Ilya's debugger patch.
+ Undefined subroutine &Carp::longmess called at
+ /opt/perl5.003_03/lib/perl5db.pl line 1423.
+
+
+ Make perl5db compatible with the recent 'strict refs' enforcement
+ in %SIG.
+
+Index: malloc.c
+
+ A patch to perl5.003_02/malloc to give a sensible error abort() message
+ in ANSI C, and to give it to stderr instead of stdout.
+
+ Use config_h's STRINGIFY macro instead of pre-ANSI "p".
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
+
+ Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
+ in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
+ so in 5.001n).
+ The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
+ which might coerce its first arg to a string.
+
+ Sub-critical patch to conceivably fix some %SIG problems. (Shared hash key
+ weren't being properly detected by some of the sig magic, but as shared
+ hash keys wouldn't normally be used in %SIG it's unlikely this is a
+ significant problem.)
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: myconfig
+
+ Update perlio-related variables.
+
+Index: op.c
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: opcode.h
+
+ Updated. See opcode.pl.
+
+Index: opcode.pl
+
+ Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
+
+ The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
+ with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
+ I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
+
+ Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
+ C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
+
+Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
+
+ perllib vs. LIBPERL
+
+Index: os2/diff.configure
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: os2/os2.c
+
+ SH_PATH_INI vs. BIN_SH
+
+Index: os2/os2ish.h
+
+ SH_PATH_INI added (needed to redefine SH_PATH for binary
+ distribution).
+ SH_PATH is redefined.
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ SUBVERSION 4.
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
+
+ Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
+ should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
+ previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
+ symbols the complete set of
+ /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
+ those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
+ Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
+ and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
+ changed appropriately.
+
+ The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
+ limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
+ works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.
+
+ Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.
+
+Index: perlio.c
+
+ Removes an incorrect prototype for setlinebuf from
+ perlio.c because it conflicts with the correct declaration in
+ MachTen's stdio.h (and possibly other stdio's as well).
+
+ Secondly, the code in perlio.c is not handling the (!PERLIO_IS_STDIO &
+ HAS_F[GS]ETPOS) case. The patch fixes this omission (in a rather lumpen
+ manner). I don't think this should affect platforms which try to hack a
+ different path through the #ifdef forest, but this assertion would benefit
+ from testing...
+
+ Dominic Dunlop
+
+Index: plan9/config.plan9
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: plan9/fndvers
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: plan9/mkfile
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: plan9/setup.rc
+
+ Updated.
+
+Index: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
+
+ substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
+ an lvalue context.
+ The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
+ first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
+
+Index: pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ document xsubpp SCOPE:
+
+Index: pp.c
+
+ Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)
+
+ substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
+ are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
+ 1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.
+
+ Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
+
+ substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
+ an lvalue context.
+ The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
+ first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
+
+ Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
+
+Index: pp_ctl.c
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: pp_hot.c
+
+ Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: proto.h
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: run.c
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Subject: random cleanup
+
+ This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.
+
+ Subject: sv_setsv patch
+
+ This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
+ reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
+ code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
+
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY
+
+ When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY".
+ Although that flag improves the leak checking, it also breaks
+ destruction of global objects, because SVs aren't kept in captive
+ arenas any more.
+
+ This patch rectifies the problem by providing an alternative
+ method for keeping track of SVs when Perl is compiled for Purify.
+ It has no effect on normal operation.
+
+
+ Add comment about assert(len >=0) when len is unsigned anyway.
+
+Index: t/io/fs.t
+
+ Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
+
+ The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
+ with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
+ I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
+
+ Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
+ C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
+
+ The "not implemented" branch is missing a "\n".
+
+Index: t/op/gv.t
+
+ Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
+
+ Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
+ in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
+ so in 5.001n).
+
+ The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
+ which might coerce its first arg to a string.
+
+Index: t/op/substr.t
+
+
+ Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)
+
+ substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
+ are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
+ 1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.
+
+ Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
+
+ substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
+ an lvalue context.
+ The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
+ first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
+
+Index: toke.c
+
+ Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
+
+ The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
+ with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
+ I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
+
+ Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
+ C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 dumps core executing caller() in signal handler for
+ __DIE__ (with patch)
+
+ sv_2pv() might call croak() (which is not prepared to handle that
+ when it calls sv_2pv(), itself). Likewise for warn() (but under
+ slightly more esoteric circumstances--mg_get() in sv_2pv() might
+ trigger a call to warn()).
+
+
+ Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
+
+ PERL_BADLANG is examined by default before issuing a warning during
+ internationalization.
+
+Index: utils/h2xs.PL
+
+ Make leading =head NAME item a paragraph so pod2man finds it.
+
+Index: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Use col -x to filter out half-line feeds (ESC-9) from
+ HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS
+ doesn't support the -x option.)
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_03
+----------------
+
+Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation
+process more robust. The details are described below. A very brief
+summary is:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ -Support for tied filehandles.
+
+o Configure enhancements
+
+ -How to build and install a shared libperl.so is now documented
+ and supported, though it's not the default for most platforms.
+
+o Bug fixes
+
+ -Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
+
+ -If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
+ that can result in null matches, perl no longer coredumps.
+
+ -Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
+
+ -Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
+ rather than extraction time.
+
+o Specific Changes
+
+Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
+
+# This is my patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl5.003_02
+# The full description is below.
+# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
+# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
+# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+
+# Absorbed into Changes5.002
+rm -f Changes.Conf
+
+# Not needed.
+rm -f ext/POSIX/mkposixman.pl
+
+# Moved to README.os2. I'm not sure why the README files are
+# here rather than in the appropriate subdirectories.
+rm -f os2/README
+
+# Not needed.
+rm -f pod/Makefile.PL
+
+# New test for bit ops.
+touch t/op/bob.t
+
+# Patches that create new tests don't always make them executable.
+chmod +x t/*/*.t
+
+# Create a new directory for Porting and Patching info.
+mkdir Porting
+
+exit 0
+
+This is patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl version 5.003_02.
+This takes you from 5.003_02 to 5.003_03.
+
+To apply this patch, run the above commands,
+cd to your perl source directory and then type
+
+ patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_03.pat
+
+The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
+designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
+
+ csplit -k perl5.003_03.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
+
+Patch and enjoy,
+
+ Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
+ Dept. of Physics
+ Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
+
+Index: Changes
+
+ Include 5.003_03 change notes.
+
+ Move older change notes to separate files.
+
+Index: Changes5.000
+
+ New file. Changes from perl4.036 to 5.000.
+
+Index: Changes5.001
+
+ New file. Changes from 5.000 to 5.001
+
+Index: Changes5.002
+
+ New file. Changes from 5.001 to 5.002
+
+Index: Changes5.003
+
+ New file. Changes from 5.002 to 5.003
+
+Index: Configure
+
+ Relaxed warning about ksh on exotic machines.
+
+ Changed usesafe to useopcode.
+
+ Add search for gzip and zip.
+
+ Look more carefully for $sh (the Bourne-ish shell).
+ Use that info to set $startsh correctly.
+
+ Change prompts for PerlIO interface. See INSTALL
+ for how this is supposed to work. The default is
+ still the same as in 5.003_02, namely don't use
+ any fancy new PerlIO stuff.
+
+ Don't look for sigvec() since we don't actually use it.
+ (Plus, it used to print an alarming misleading message about
+ race conditions.)
+
+ Look for stdio's _filbuf under the possible names of
+ _filbuf, __filbuf, and _fill.
+
+ New $useshrplib variable to control whether we build a shared
+ libperl.so. The name of the library is in $libperl.
+ Always install it in $installarchlib/CORE/$libperl.
+
+ Check for <sys/resource.h> and <sys/wait.h> for NetBSD.
+
+ Replace old $altmake stuff with newer autoconf-ish
+ $make_set_make, which checks if $make sets $(MAKE). Now you
+ choose an alternate make with sh Configure -Dmake=gmake (or
+ whatever).
+
+ Remove 'ln' for the list of essential commands. Simulate
+ it with 'cp' if necessary.
+
+ Change `logname` prompts to handle extra gratuitous spaces in
+ Ultrix output.
+
+ Autodetect os2.
+
+ Fix silly bug in checking for fully-qualified names in /etc/hosts.
+
+ Generalize Gconvert tests. Give correct and more useful
+ error messages.
+
+ Use $obj_ext instead of literal '.o' in the dynaloader test.
+
+ Include appropriate header files in bcopy() and memcpy()
+ tests. Note whether memmove is available.
+
+ Check whether struct sigaction works (needed for Solaris 2.5
+ with -Xc).
+
+ Include appropriate header files for randbits test.
+
+Index: INSTALL
+
+ Add note about space requirements.
+
+ Update to match Configure changes (Opcode vs. Safe,
+ useperlio, useshrplib, etc.)
+
+ Reorganize the structure of some of the hints.
+
+ Miscellaneous clarifications.
+
+Index: MANIFEST
+
+ Updated. 5.003_02 introduced some massive patches, mostly
+ due to spacing changes. I didn't bother to sort them all out;
+ I just started with 5.003's MANIEFST.
+
+Index: Makefile.SH
+
+ Support the new simplified shared libperl mechanism.
+
+ Use new $make_set_make directive.
+
+ Remove redundant libperl Make variable.
+
+ Remove unnecessary MAB variable.
+
+ Remove dependency of minitest on lib/Config.pm, since it could
+ well have been a failure of configpm that inspired testing
+ miniperl in the first place!
+
+Index: Porting/Glossary
+
+ New file describing all the config.sh variables.
+ Eventually, I hope to fill this directory with other useful
+ stuff.
+
+Index: README.os2
+
+ Replace old README.os2 with more up-to-date os2/README.
+
+Index: config_H
+
+ Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
+ Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
+ dependencies in the metaconfig units.
+
+Index: config_h.SH
+
+ Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
+ Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
+ dependencies in the metaconfig units.
+
+ Include full descriptions of ARCHLIB, OLDARCHLIB, PRIVLIB,
+ SITEARCH, and SITELIB. Previous versions just included the
+ ~-expanded names (with unhelpful descriptions). No functionality
+ is changed, but maybe it's a little better documented now.
+
+Index: doio.c
+
+ Possibly Include <signal.h> and <unistd.h>
+
+Index: doop.c
+
+ No longer prefer bcmp over memcmp when order doesn't matter.
+
+ Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
+
+Index: embed.h
+
+ Auto-generated.
+
+Index: embed.pl
+
+ Expand warning at the top.
+
+Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
+
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
+
+Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Change the Mymalloc to match Perl_malloc in perl.h.
+
+Index: ext/util/make_ext
+
+ Typo change.
+ Get rid of unused altmake.
+
+Index: global.sym
+
+ Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
+
+Index: handy.h
+
+ Change safe*alloc functions to have prototypes that
+ match the system's malloc and free types. That is, use
+ Malloc_t instead of char *, and Free_t instead of void.
+ This is necessary so . . .
+
+ Safefree cast matches type of free() whether it's perl's
+ malloc/free or the system's malloc/free.
+
+Index: hints/README.hints
+
+ Remove out-of-date info.
+
+ Document a bit about how hint files work.
+
+Index: hints/aix.sh
+
+ qmaxmem hint doesn't apply to gcc.
+
+Index: hints/dgux.sh
+
+ Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.
+
+Index: hints/dynixptx.sh
+
+ Fix typo in comment.
+
+ Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.
+
+Index: hints/epix.sh
+
+ Use glibpth instead of libpth. This allows Configure to
+ add local directories, such as /opt/local/lib, etc.
+
+Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh
+
+ Include some info on cc -n32 compile.
+
+Index: hints/linux.sh
+
+ Configure now tests gcvt() more thoroughly.
+
+Index: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Update where to find dld.
+
+Index: hints/mips.sh
+
+ Use glibpth instead of libpth.
+
+Index: hints/next_3.sh
+
+ Build up $mab dynamically. Since $mab isn't used anywhere
+ anymore, this is useless. However, $mab was never used for
+ next_3.sh anyway, so there's been no change in functionality.
+
+Index: hints/next_4.sh
+
+ Get rid of extraneous isnext_4 variable. Configure and
+ Makefile.SH will use $osname and $osvers instead.
+
+ Build up $mab dynamically based on available architectures.
+
+ Absorb $mab into ccflags and ccdlflags. I hope that will
+ cover everything. (Configure should automatically remove
+ the -arch stuff from cppflags.)
+
+ Configure now knows next4 needs to use a shared libperl.5.so.
+
+ Allow users to use -Dprefix.
+
+Index: hints/os2.sh
+
+ Try to update to reflect newer shared libperl stuff.
+ I probably goofed :-).
+
+Index: hints/sco.sh
+
+ Additional notes on using icc.
+
+ Additional flags for dynamic loading.
+
+Index: hints/solaris_2.sh
+
+ Perl.h no longer prefers bcmp, so it's again ok if Configure
+ finds them, since perl will prefer the mem* versions anyway.
+
+Index: hints/sunos_4_0.sh
+
+ Don't include <unistd.h>
+
+Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
+
+ Add brief note about GNU as and ld.
+
+ Don't include <unistd.h>
+
+ Add notes about WHOA THERE messages.
+
+Index: hints/titanos.sh
+
+ Include sfio in libswanted.
+
+ Don't set libpth any more.
+
+Index: hints/umips.sh
+
+ New hint file.
+
+Index: hv.c
+
+ Use memcmp even in cases where ordering doesn't matter.
+
+ Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
+
+Index: installperl
+
+ Simplify installation of shared libperl.so.
+
+ Avoid reaching Command Failed!!! with /usr/bin/perl.
+
+Index: lib/AutoSplit.pm
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Remove MAB references.
+
+ Use 'useshrplib' instead of 'd_shrplib'
+
+Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Remove mab references.
+
+Index: lib/FindBin.pm
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Put back in the BEGIN { require 5.002; }. The version in
+ 5.003_02 wouldn't work in 5.002 anyway. Further, the whole
+ point of the construct is to catch 5.001m, so we can't use
+ syntax introduced after 5.001m to do that.
+
+Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Remove double 'use strict'.
+
+Index: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Add explicit '&' to avoid warnings under strict refs.
+
+Index: lib/sigtrap.pm
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: makedepend.SH
+
+ Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make variables.
+
+Index: mg.c
+
+ Include <unistd.h>
+
+ Use Safefree() macro instead of safefree() function with
+ a (possibly) incorrect cast. The whole point of the
+ Safefree() macro is that it does the correct cast for you.
+
+
+Index: patchlevel.h
+
+ Change to SUBVERSION 3.
+
+Index: perl.c
+
+ Include <unistd.h>
+
+Index: perl.h
+
+ No longer prefer bcmp slightly for comparisons that don't care
+ about ordering.
+
+ Rely on Configure setting SH_PATH.
+
+ Change the function name to Pause() instead of pause() to
+ avoid potential prototype problems. (This naming convention
+ is similar to the Fwrite and Fflush macros.)
+
+ Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
+
+ Work around crypt prototype problem on NeXT.
+
+Index: perlio.c
+
+ Fixes to support non-std stdio.
+
+Index: perlio.h
+
+ Try to document the various #defines a bit. This is far from
+ finished.
+
+ Remove a lot of trailing whitespace. (It's of no consequence, but
+ but I'm not going to redo the patch just to put back in the trailing
+ whitespace either.)
+
+Index: perlsdio.h
+
+ Fixes to support non-std stdio.
+
+Index: perly.c
+
+ Restore use of Safefree() macro.
+
+Index: perly.c.diff
+
+ Restore use of Safefree() macro.
+
+Index: perly.h
+
+ Delete duplicate line.
+
+Index: plan9/buildinfo
+
+ Update.
+
+Index: pod/perlapio.pod
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Fix typo.
+
+ Untaint port number.
+
+Index: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Fix a minor nit regarding Exporter.
+
+Index: pod/perlre.pod
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: pod/perltie.pod
+
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
+
+Index: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Clean up docmentation installation errors.
+
+Index: pp.c
+
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
+
+ If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
+ that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
+
+Index: pp_hot.c
+
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
+
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
+
+Index: pp_sys.c
+
+ Include <unistd.h>, <sys/wait.h>, and <sys/resource.h>.
+ (The latter two are especially for NetBSD.)
+
+ Don't assume sys/time.h and sys/select.h can't coexist.
+
+ Use Pause macro.
+
+Index: proto.h
+
+ Fix safe*alloc and safefree prototypes.
+
+Index: regexec.c
+
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
+
+Index: sv.c
+
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
+
+Index: t/lib/opcode.t
+
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
+
+Index: t/op/bop.t
+
+ Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
+
+Index: t/op/misc.t
+
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
+
+Index: t/op/split.t
+
+ If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
+ that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
+
+Index: toke.c
+
+ Include <unistd.h>.
+
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
+
+Index: util.c
+
+ Include <unistd.h>.
+
+ Use correct types for safe*alloc and safefree functions.
+
+Index: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
+ rather than extraction time.
+
+Index: writemain.SH
+
+ Remove unnecessary curlies. (They are a leftover from
+ an older auto_init mechanism.)
+
+Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
+
+ Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make.
+
+ Remove MAB stuff, since it's now in ccflags.
+
+ Keep 5.003's RCS info.
+
+Index: x2p/a2p.h
+
+ Keep 5.003's RCS info.
+
+Index: x2p/str.c
+
+ Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_02
+----------------
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+ - Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
+ - Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer
+ - Warning for un-qualified bareword as handler in $SIG{}.
+ - UNIVERSAL::isa can now be called as static method.
+
+o Changes in Core Internals
+ - PerlIO abstraction added.
+ Perl core and standard extensions no longer assume ANSI C's stdio is IO
+ mechanism, Default Configure mode is still to use stdio via set of C macros.
+ Alternate modes are to use stdio via one perlio.c module, or
+ to use sfio if available.
+
+ - Several bug fixs from perl5-porters
+ - Make sources non-ANSI C correct again.
+ - SUPER in gv.c
+ - Last of shared-hash-key patches
+ - eval '(0,1..3)'; # --> SegFault
+ - coredumps after simple subsitutes.
+ - Correction to UNIVERSAL::VERSION docs.
+ - Fixed io_udp test.
+ - Fixed another abuse of malloc'ed memory.
+ - Enabled DEBUGING_MSTATS whenever perl's malloc() is used.
+ - Reverted to default of not hiding perl's malloc (if used).
+
+o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
+ - Fixed MakeMaker for static SDBM and builing in a link tree.
+ - Upgraded to IO-1.09, and includes latest (still experimental) IO::Select.
+ - Documentation/test tweak to DB_File
+ - h2xs upgrade to allow use C::Scan module
+
+o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
+ - Attempted to re-created 5.003_01's NeXT support with metaconfig units.
+ - Updated MANIFEST
+ - make minitest now depends on lib/Config.pm, as some of tests require it.
+ - Included latest plan9 sub-directory
+ - Applied OS/2 patches.
+ - Typo patch for VMS.
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_01
+----------------
+
+Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since
+version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately
+kept simple. In addition to numerous small bugfixes in the core,
+library files, and documentation, this patch contains several
+significant revisions, summarized below:
+
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
+
+ - A port to Plan9 has been started, and changes are integrated into
+ the standard distribution. As of this release, the Perl core
+ and several common extensions are working.
+
+ - A set of basic methods in the UNIVERSAL class have been added to
+ the Perl core. Since UNIVERSAL is an implicit member of every
+ class's @ISA, the methods can be called via any object.
+
+ - A mandatory warning has been added for 'declarations' of lexical
+ variables using the "my" operator which mask an existing lexical
+ variable declared in the same scope, making the previous variable
+ inaccessible by its name.
+
+ - The "use" and "require" operators have been extended to allow
+ checking of the required module's version. The "use" operator
+ can now be used for an immediate version check of Perl itself.
+
+ - A new "strict" pragma, "strict untie", has been added, which
+ produces an error if a tied value is untied when other references
+ exist to the internal object implementing the tie.
+
+ - Barewords used as associative array keys (i.e. when specifying
+ an associative array element like $foo{__BAR} or on the left
+ side of the => operator) may now begin with an underscore as
+ well as an alphabetic character.
+
+ - Some of the configuration information previously produced by the
+ -v switch has been moved to the -V switch, in order to keep -v
+ output concise.
+
+o Changes in Core Internals
+
+ - Symbol table and method lookups have been made faster.
+
+ - Perl subroutines which just return a constant value are now
+ optimized at compile time into inline constants.
+
+ - Management of keys for associative arrays has been improved to
+ conserve space when the same keys are reused frequently, and
+ to pass true Perl values to tie functions, instead of stringified
+ representations.
+
+ - Messages normally output to stderr may be directed to another
+ stream when Perl is built. This allows some platforms to
+ present diagnostic output in a separate window from normal
+ program results.
+
+ - A bug which caused suiperl to fail silently, albeit securely,
+ in version 5.003 on some systems has been fixed.
+
+ - Management of Unix-style signal handlers via the %SIG associative
+ array has been made safer.
+
+ - Several global C symbols have been renamed to eliminate collisions
+ with system C header files or libraries on some platforms.
+ Unfortunately, this means that dynamic extensions compiled under
+ previous versions of Perl will need to be rebuilt for Perl
+ 5.003_01. We're in the process of cleaning up Perl's C
+ namespace to make it easier to link Perl with other binaries,
+ so this will probably happen again between now and version 5.004.
+ After that, we'll do our best to maintain binary compatibility
+ between versions.
+
+ - An alternate allocation strategy has been added to Perl's
+ optional private memory management routines. This strategy,
+ which may be selected when Perl is built, is designed to
+ conserve memory in programs which allocate many small
+ chunks of memory with sizes near a power of 2, as is often
+ the case in Perl programs.
+
+ - Several memory leaks in the creation and destruction of
+ multiple interpreters have been fixed.
+
+o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
+
+ - The Opcode extension, which allows you to control a program's
+ access to Perl operations, has been added to the standard
+ distribution. This extends the work begun in the original
+ Safe extension, and subsumes it. The Safe interface is still
+ available.
+
+ - The IO extension, which provides a set of classes for object-
+ oriented handling of common I/O tasks, has been added to the
+ standard distribution. The IO classes will form the basis
+ for future development of Perl's I/O interface, and will
+ subsume the FileHandle class in the near future. The default
+ class to which all Perl I/O handles belong is now IO::Handle,
+ rather than FileHandle.
+
+ - The ExtUtils::Embed library module, which provides a set
+ of utility function to help in embedding Perl in other
+ applications, has been added to the standard distribution.
+
+ - The Fatal library module, which provides a simple interface
+ for creating "do-or-die" equivalents of existing functions,
+ has been added to the standard distribution.
+
+ - The FindBin library module, which determines the full path
+ to the currently executing program, has been added to the
+ standard distribution.
+
+ - The DB_File extension, and the Getopt::Long, Test::Harness,
+ Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Time::Local and sigtrap library modules
+ have been updated to the authors' latest versions.
+
+ - The Carp library module now considers the @ISA chain when
+ determining the caller's package for inclusion in error messages.
+
+ - The h2xs, perlbug, and xsubpp utilities have been updated.
+
+ - The standard Perl debugger has been updated, and the information
+ provided to the debugger when an XSUB is called has been improved,
+ making it possible for alternate debuggers (such as Devel::DProf)
+ to do a better job of tracking XSUB calls.
+
+ - The pod documentation formatting tools in the standard distribution
+ can now handle characters in the input stream whose high bit is set.
+
+ - The cperl-mode EMACS editing mode has been updated.
+
+o Changes in Documentation
+
+ - Typographic and formatting errors have been corrected in the pod
+ documentation for the core and standard library files
+
+ - Explanations of several core operators have been improved
+
+ - The perldebug, perlembed, perlipc, perlsec, and perltrap documents
+ extensively revised.
+
+o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
+
+ - Support for the NeXT platform has been extended through
+ NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP 4.0, and now includes the ability to create MABs.
+
+ - Support for OS/2 has been extended as well, and now includes
+ options for building a.out binaries.
+
+ - Support for VMS has also been extended, incorporating improved
+ processing of file specification strings, optional suppression of
+ carriage control interpretation for record-structured files,
+ improved support for the -S command line switch, a number of
+ VMS-specific bugfixes, and significantly improved performance
+ in line-oriented reading of files.
+
+ - Several hints files have been added or updated: aux.sh (updated),
+ convexos.sh (updated), irix_4.sh (updated), irix_5.sh (updated),
+ irix_6_2.sh (updated), next_3.sh (updated), next_3_2.sh (new),
+ next_3_3.sh (new), next_4.sh (new), os2/sh (updated),
+ sco.sh (updated), and solaris_2.sh (updated).
+
+ - The test driver for the regression tests now reports when a set
+ of tests have been skipped (presumable because the operation
+ they're designed to test isn't supported on the current system).
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