--------------
-Version 5.002
--------------
-
-The main enhancement to the Perl core was the addition of prototypes.
-Many of the modules that come with Perl have been extensively upgraded.
-
-Other than that, nearly all the changes for 5.002 were bug fixes of one
-variety or another, so here's the bug list, along with the "resolution"
-for each of them. If you wish to correspond about any of them, please
-include the bug number (if any).
-
-Added APPLLIB_EXP for embedded perl library support.
-Files patched: perl.c
-
-Couldn't define autoloaded routine by assignment to typeglob.
-Files patched: pp_hot.c sv.c
-
-NETaa13525: Tiny patch to fix installman -n
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: installman
-
-NETaa13525: de-documented \v
-Files patched: pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod
-
-NETaa13525: doc changes
-Files patched: pod/perlop.pod pod/perltrap.pod
-
-NETaa13525: perlxs update from Dean Roehrich
-Files patched: pod/perlxs.pod
-
-NETaa13525: rename powerunix to powerux
-Files patched: MANIFEST hints/powerux.sh
-
-NETaa13540: VMS uses CLK_TCK for HZ
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
-
-NETaa13721: pad_findlex core dumps on bad CvOUTSIDE()
-From: Carl Witty
-Files patched: op.c sv.c toke.c
- Each CV has a reference to the CV containing it lexically. Unfortunately,
- it didn't reference-count this reference, so when the outer CV was freed,
- we ended up with a pointer to memory that got reused later as some other kind
- of SV.
-
-NETaa13721: warning suppression
-Files patched: toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13722: walk.c had inconsistent static declarations
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: x2p/walk.c
- Consolidated the various declarations and made them consistent with
- the actual definitions.
-
-NETaa13724: -MPackage=args patch
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: perl.c pod/perlrun.pod
- Added in the -MPackage=args patch too.
-
-NETaa13729: order-of-evaluation dependency in scope.c on leaving REGCONTEXT
-From: "Jason Shirk"
-Files patched: scope.c
- Did
-
- I32 delta = SSPOPINT;
- savestack_ix -= delta; /* regexp must have croaked */
-
- instead.
-
-NETaa13731: couldn't assign external lexical array to itself
-From: oneill@cs.sfu.ca
-Files patched: op.c
- The pad_findmy routine was only checking previous statements for previous
- mention of external lexicals, so the fact that the current statement
- already mentioned @list was not noted. It therefore allocated another
- reference to the outside lexical, and this didn't compare equal when
- the assigment parsing code was trying to determine whether there was a
- common variable on either side of the equals. Since it didn't see the
- same variable, it thought it could avoid making copies of the values on
- the stack during list assignment. Unfortunately, before using those
- values, the list assignment has to zero out the target array, which
- destroys the values.
-
- The fix was to make pad_findmy search the current statement as well. This
- was actually a holdover from some old code that was trying to delay
- introduction of "my" variables until the next statement. This is now
- done with a different mechanism, so the fix should not adversely affect
- that.
-
-NETaa13733: s/// doesn't free old string when using copy mode
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
- When I removed the use of sv_replace(), I simply forgot to free the old char*.
-
-NETaa13736: closures leaked memory
-From: Carl Witty
-Files patched: op.c pp.c
- This is a specific example of a more general bug, fixed as NETaa13760, having
- to do with reference counts on comppads.
-
-NETaa13739: XSUB interface caches gimme in case XSUB clobbers it
-From: Dean Roehrich
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- Applied suggest patch. Also deleted second gimme declaration as redundant.
-
-NETaa13760: comppad reference counts were inconsistent
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c toke.c
- All official references to comppads are supposed to be through compcv now,
- but the transformation was not complete, resulting in memory leakage.
-
-NETaa13761: sv_2pv() wrongly preferred IV to NV when SV was readonly
-From: "Jack R. Lawler"
-Files patched: sv.c
- Okay, I understand how this one happened. This is a case where a
- beneficial fix uncovered a bug elsewhere. I changed the constant
- folder to prefer integer results over double if the numbers are the
- same. In this case, they aren't, but it leaves the integer value there
- anyway because the storage is already allocated for it, and it *might*
- be used in an integer context. And since it's producing a constant, it
- sets READONLY. Unfortunately, sv_2pv() bogusly preferred the integer
- value to the double when READONLY was set. This never showed up if you
- just said
-
- print 1.4142135623731;
-
- because in that case, there was already a string value.
+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.)
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_95
+----------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "If C<perl -a>, do equivalent of C<use vars '@F'>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t
+ t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh"
+ From: Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
+ Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "Another MachTen Patch"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970324152150.20610P-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (five patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> and
+ nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c
+ lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t
+ t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t
+ win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c
+ win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t
+
+ Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Fix C<require> in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text"
+ From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <qumend4qq08.fsf@cyclone.stanford.edu>
+ Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w9DwX-0000Zr-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000
+ Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
+
+ Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020902af5d8e03c5ab@[194.51.248.84]>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100
+ Files: t/lib/complex.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:52:53 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document possible problems with -Mdiagnostics after upgrade"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Mention perldelta in INSTALL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Describe pod format at top of INSTALL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document C</a *b/x> fix"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Missing item in perldiag"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlref.pod
+
+ Title: "Pod problems & fixes"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod
+ pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod
+ pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "DB_File documentation fix"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+ Title: "FAQ update"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_94
+----------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h
+ sv.c
+
+ Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: regcomp.c
+
+ Title: "Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t
+
+ Title: "allow C<substr 'hello', -10>"
+ From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c sv.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints"
+ From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Msg-ID: <w47mjakw5t.fsf@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "More MachTen hints"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970316133852.27997A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:40:35 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "HP/UX hint comments"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t
+ utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms
+
+ Title: "vmsish.t and related patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c
+ Title: "Win32 update (four patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> and
+ Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm
+ lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness
+ t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t
+ t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t
+ t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t
+ t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t
+ t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t
+ t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c
+ win32/*
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h
+
+ Title: "Fix C<print> on tied default handle"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500
+ Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c
+ x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it"
+ From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT
+ Files: installman installperl
+
+ Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh
+ hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh
+ hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh
+ hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh
+ hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "New module: autouse.pm"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::Complex update"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <pzlo7ut03b.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500
+ Files: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perlfaq.pod"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
+ pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ"
+ From: gnat@frii.com
+ Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST)
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321112326.1414A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:25:32 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document that $. is not reset on implicit open"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Embedding success with _93 "
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Update site list"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch to document illegal characters"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Document trap with //o and closures"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Inline PI function"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310143125.22489V-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:33:20 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Illegal character in input"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "XSUB's doc fix"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Title: "Document return from do FILE"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document $^M in perlvar"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93"
+ From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com>
+ Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod
+ pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "clarify example in perlfunc"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_93
+----------------
+
+Me, last time:
+ "This release will be the public beta of 5.004,
+ or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger."
+Me, now:
+ "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500
+ Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+ vms/sockadapt.h
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS hint patch"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C<shift>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C<BEGIN{die}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c perl.c proto.h
+
+ Title: "perl -P path patch"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308120242.23766D-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:45:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: config_H config_h.SH perl.c plan9/config.plan9 t/comp/cpp.t
+ vms/config.vms win32/config.H
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix for Unisys UNIX and libperl.so"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.147328@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970306110532.11070A-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:15:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use 'test -f', not 'test -x'"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@web.zk3.dec.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703080053.TAA13943@web.zk3.dec.com>
+ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.147326@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
+ Files: perl_exp.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Carp with multiple arguments"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w3STZ-0007RW-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500
+ Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308131806.23766F-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 13:21:22 -0500 (EST)
+
+ Title: "Fix more E-Mail addresses in pods"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+ lib/diagnostics.pm pod/buildtoc
+
+ Title: "Warn about '.' terminating E-Mail"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlform.pod
+
+ Title: "OS/2 doc update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703080537.AAA25157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: README.os2
+
+ Title: "PODs corrections"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+ lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+ lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm
+ lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm
+ lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_92
+----------------
+
+This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't
+Larson T. Pettifogger.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "HP-UX hint update"
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970305091611.3572E-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "VMS patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h
+ t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms
+ vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c
+ pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c
+
+ Title: "Update copyright dates"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <pzg1yfuiza.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Newer ReadLine"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9"
+ From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Benchmark: using code refs"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000
+ Files: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix quotewords"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000
+ Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+
+ Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w"
+ From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com>
+ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Fix taint test for systems without csh"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Don't test locales if there is no setlocale()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Update pod2html"
+ From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton)
+ Msg-ID: <199703030025.QAA08106@ducks>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph"
+ From: (name lost)
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve sample module header"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>,
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify C<crypt> documentation"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970228131112.12357D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:18:25 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Update list of CPAN sites"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_91
+----------------
+
+This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c
+ t/op/runlevel.t
+
+ Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _90"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c
+ vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t"
+ From: Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>
+ Files: perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500
+ Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500
+ Files: op.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm"
+ From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w0Sqc-00046E-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test op/taint.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Patch to t/op/rand.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc"
+ From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>, Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970228112136.24038G-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:35:49 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Updates to perlfunc.pod"
+ From: Tom Phoenix (with help from M.J.T. Guy and Tom C.)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod"
+ From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix references to perlbug"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+ pod/perltoc.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_90
+----------------
+
+At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Ultrix hints"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500
+ Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl
+ ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100
+ Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t
+ t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t
+ t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
+ t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Hints for DC/OSx"
+ From: Stephen Zander <srz@loopback>
+ Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800
+ Files: hints/dcosx.sh
+
+ Title: "Update VMS version"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "'installperl -v' doesn't do enough"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sv722y.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+
+ Title: "Pod::Text fixes"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "C<use vars> didn't work until 5.002"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/vars.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/magic.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224170713.5700H-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:09:09 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Re: Hash key created by subroutine call? (fwd) "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman
+ utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224155702.5700D-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:06:02 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in 'Tolkien quotation typo' fix"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@hut.fi>
+ Files: Changes
+
+ Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970223182745.15989A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:41:02 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_28
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #6. If this isn't good enough to go beta,
+I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't let C<sub foo;> undefine &foo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: run.c
+
+ Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doop.c op.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()"
+ From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld)
+ Files: hints/aix.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _27"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile
+ vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl
+ vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes
+ os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
+ os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness
+ t/op/magic.t
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix a typo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Minor update to malloc.c"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perly.y
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Debugger patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
+ os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+
+ Title: "prototype error in File::stat"
+ From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com
+ Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT
+ Files: lib/File/stat.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/regexp.t
+
+ Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000
+ Files: t/op/misc.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL updates since _26"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970218155815.2014F-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document "$$0" change"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't recommend impossible //o for C<$x =~ $y>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Correct doc that claimed that <FH> was never false"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Add pumpkin.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl
+ pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_27
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <hwwsbpeq2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c
+
+ Title: "Allow C<setpgrp $$>"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzraigyshr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C<use vmsish qw(status exit time)>"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c
+ perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
+ vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+ win32/makedef.pl
+
+ Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h
+
+ Title: "Digital UNIX hints"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)"
+ From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl
+ vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump when embedding"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Re: Fragile signals"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pz7mkc1h0g.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500
+ Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c
+ perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix carriage-return message"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "In <=>, test for equality first"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure"
+ From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4"
+ From: Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoD
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:59:02 -0600 (CST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Update os2/diff.configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Remove Fatal.pm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Fatal.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/roffitall t/lib/fatal.t
+
+ Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.40"
+ From: Andy Dougherty, Andreas Koenig, Tim Bunce
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN.pm to 1.21"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Remove non-portable locale tests"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Msg-ID: <yfmzpxcimsa.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update To-Do list"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000
+ Files: Todo
+
+ Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_26
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _25"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl
+ vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c
+
+ Title: "Hints for BSDOS"
+ From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "On C<sysopen(..., O_APPEND)>, call C<fopen(..., "a")>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix value of C<foreach>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Regexp optimizations"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: regcomp.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <hbu9uz1si.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on C<print "a", last> in eval"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Catch C<use integer; $x % 0>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Files: configure.gnu
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Faster File::Compare"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100
+ Files: lib/File/Compare.pm
+
+ Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "perldoc -f <perlfunc>"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "return *FH pod patch"
+ From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY"
+ From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perltie.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_25
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make $] read-only"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c
+ perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches for _24"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs
+ lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t
+ t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "amigaos.sh"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix C<return @_> and associated stack bugs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C<select>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix /\G/g with patterns that match empty string"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix scalar leak in av_unshift"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Ignore refs to lexicals when making refs to lexicals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Don't create AV, HV, IO when assigning glob"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Configure updates for intsize and ssizetype"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST config_H config_h.SH handy.h
+
+ Title: "Ask about /usr/bin/perl iff STDIN and STDERR are terminals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.19"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702030406.XAA23029@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:06:34 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "In Symbol::gensym, don't make glob fake by copying it"
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Files: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Title: "Make POSIX::is*() eight-bit-clean"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "Make IO::Handle::gets() an alias of getline"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199701301103.MAA11291@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:03:15 +0100
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More Amiga test patches"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724725@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:07:33 +0100
+ Files: README.amiga t/lib/safe2.t t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "c2ph.PL fix"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301349.IAA16724@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:49:19 -0500
+ Files: utils/c2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "Make pod2man a little laxer for perltoc.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update to perl INSTALL file"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301338.IAA15878@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:38:23 -0500
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Update to perl.pod suggested"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301345.IAA16514@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:59 -0500
+ Files: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Title: "Document how extension pms go in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod tweaks"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <20526.854659255@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:20:55 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "new (Feb 1) perlembed.pod"
+ From: Jon Orwant <orwant@media.mit.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <9702012334.AA15747@fahrenheit-451.media.mit.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:34:59 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "Error lines must not have trialing periods"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_24
+----------------
+
+This release is the second candidate for a public beta test.
+It's, well, bunches better than _23.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "glob defaults to $_"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t
+
+ Title: "Re: an overloading bug "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<$\ = undef>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Win32 port"
+ From: Gary Ng <71564.1743@compuserve.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST win32/*
+
+ Title: "Amiga files"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ Title: "New dec_osf hints"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701271233.OAA21548@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:33:01 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Prevent premature death of @_ during leavesub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Deref old stash when re-blessing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't abort when RCHECK and DEBUGGING"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9701272339.AA16537@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:48 +0000
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "Fix overloading macro conflict with Digital 'cc -fast'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701272216.AAA04557@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:16:49 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: perl.h
+
+ Title: "global.sym: typo?"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701261937.VAA07556@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:37:59 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: global.sym
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Put all extensions' modules in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Configure fixes: set $archlib, omit _NO_PROTO"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Make configure{,.gnu} ignore --cache-file option"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Files: configure configure.gnu
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Version checking in XS bootstrap is optional"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: XSUB.h
+
+ Title: "Update $VERSION of DynaLoader and POSIX"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Text::Wrap to 97.011701"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Title: "Fcntl.xs: F_[GS]ETOWN were in wrong case branch"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701251510.RAA05142@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:10:20 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+
+ Title: "Fix $Is_VMS typo in Test::Harness"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow for really big keys in Tie::SubstrHash"
+ From: data-drift@so.uio.no
+ Msg-ID: <199701282014.VAA12645@selters.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:14:34 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
+
+ Title: "Avoid newRV_noinc() in IO, for compiling with old Perls"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test op/closure.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>, Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "xsubpp handing of void funcs breaks extensions using XST_m*()"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9701271659.AA15137@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:59:06 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perldelta Fcntl enhancement"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701251541.RAA04120@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:41:53 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod: localtime"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc diff: gmtime"
+ From: Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32EE1298.7B90@edison.ioppublishing.com>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:52:08 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to guts"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perltoot fixes"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <6807.854214205@jinete>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:43:25 -0800
+ Files: pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "5.003_23: small typo in perlsyn.pod"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270824.DAA01169@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:24:25 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_23
+----------------
+
+This release is our first candidate for a public beta test.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c
+
+ Title: "Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod
+ pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ Title: "Nested here-docs"
+ From: larry@wall.org (Larry Wall)
+ Msg-ID: <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org>
+ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
+
+ Title: "Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches for _22"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+ lib/Test/Harness.pm toke.c vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.h
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms
+
+ Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_21: OS/2 patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701170446.XAA28939@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:46:40 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/Changes os2/os2.c
+
+ Title: "Plan9 update"
+ From: lutherh@stratcom.com (Luther Huffman)
+ Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile
+
+ Title: "Bugfixes for AmigaOS"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724691@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:13:54 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh lib/File/Basename.pm
+
+ Title: "New dec_osf.sh hints file"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9701241058.AA29550@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:58:24 +0100
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "on NeXT: gdbm problem fixed"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199701210201.DAA17794@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 03:01:32 +0100
+ Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_3_0.sh
+
+ Title: "patch for hints/powerux.sh"
+ From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
+ Msg-ID: <9701181833.AA02602@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 97 13:33:26 -0500
+ Files: hints/powerux.sh
+
+ Title: "hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx"
+ From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com>
+ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh
+
+ Title: "patch for hints/cxux.sh perl5.003_22"
+ From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley)
+ Msg-ID: <9701192014.AA05722@amber.ssd.hcsc.com>
+ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 97 15:14:04 -0500
+ Files: hints/cxux.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000
+ Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix /\G.a/"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c
+
+ Title: "Extend stack in pp_undef (!)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Allow for sub to be redefined while executing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "When sorting, promote to PVNV only for built-in comparison"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Remove "suidperl security patch" message"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu
+
+ Title: "Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg and Charles Bailey
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH hints/lynxos.sh
+ os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h plan9/config.plan9 sv.c
+ utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com
+
+ Title: "Compile with optimization when testing memory functions"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Minor patch for Debian installation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701190455.XAA02579@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:54:59 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "DynaLoader enhancement: support RTLD_GLOBAL"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199701240937.JAA11443@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:37:18 GMT
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs
+ ext/DynaLoader/dl_dld.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
+ ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs
+ ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs
+
+ Title: "Fcntl: add more constants"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701191811.UAA16346@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 20:11:22 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+
+ Title: "Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_pipe.t
+
+ Title: "Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.15"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Add E* and SA_* constants"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Test nested here-docs"
+ From: hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk (Hugo van der Sanden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701210053.AAA02139@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:53:44 +0000 (GMT)
+ Files: t/base/lex.t
+
+ Title: "Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t
+
+ Title: "Patch tests for systems without fork()"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100
+ Files: t/io/pipe.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/io_sock.t
+ t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/fork.t
+
+ Title: "Test patches for OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t
+ os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_cmprt.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_dllld.t
+ os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_objcall.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_sql.test
+ os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tiesql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tievar.t
+ os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tieydb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_varset.t
+ os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_vrexx.t t/README t/cmd/while.t
+ t/comp/colon.t t/comp/multiline.t t/io/argv.t t/lib/anydbm.t
+ t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
+ t/op/cmp.t t/op/magic.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Translate \200 to È in pod2html"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL
+ pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL
+ utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL
+ utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms
+ x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
+
+ Title: "Allow MakeMaker 5.34 to use libraries containing '+' in name"
+ From: dennism@cyrix.com (Dennis Marsa)
+ Msg-ID: <9701172027.AA27861@orion.cyrix.com>
+ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 14:27:32 CST
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "First cut at INSTALL edit"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Document #line directive"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Title: "Perlguts version 30"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199701172117.AA116515863@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:17:43 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "delta for perldelta"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <804.854121463@jinete>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to perldelta"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlnews.pod
+
+ Title: "Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
+ pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "Remove bad advice from perllocale.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_22
+----------------
+
+This release is primarily made up of bug fixes, the foremost among
+which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix parsing of C< ${ xyz } >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Don't parse method calls in strings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix overly picky carping about leading '{' in regex"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regcomp.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix memory corruption from formats"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c perl.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix '_mopop' typo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Gut IO::Handle::DESTROY"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "RiscOS is case-insensitive"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/File/Basename.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix thinko in db-recno.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Make perlbug more cautionary and more verbose"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski and Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "NEW roffitall + INSTALL fix"
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <6058.853410121@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
+ Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 11:22:01 +0100
+ Files: INSTALL pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "srand() doc update"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <24195.853379065@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:44:25 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "documentation of configpm (perl5.003_20)"
+ From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vkU40-0004WAC@incom.rhein-main.de>
+ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:03:27 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: configpm
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_21
+----------------
+
+This release includes several important bug fixes, and a couple of
+minor but valuable language tweaks. Please read on for a list of the
+significant changes:
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t
+
+ Title: "Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c pod/perlguts.pod
+ pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c sv.c
+ t/op/method.t
+
+ Title: "Formats can be closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C<strict refs>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs
+
+ Title: "Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg and Andreas Koenig
+ Files: MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t
+
+ Title: "Fail regex that starts with '{'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regcomp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "VMS patches for _20"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h
+ t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t toke.c
+ unixish.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h
+ x2p/a2p.h x2p/str.c
+
+ Title: "Irix 6.3 & 6.4 and perl5.003_20"
+ From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199701132242.RAA14601@jfs.Fluent.COM>
+ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:42:50 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6_3.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Patch: MachTen hints, Configure"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03010d00af0123a93670@[194.51.248.75]>
+ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:43:13 +0100
+ Files: Configure hints/machten.sh
+
+ Title: "Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values"
+ From: "John Q. Linux" <jql@accessone.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970110193330.11249D-100000@jql.accessone.com>
+ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 19:47:16 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Keep array from dying during foreach(@array)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Fix infinite loop for undef function in @SIG{__WARN__,__DIE__}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: util.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Patch for Object subroutines"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: cop.h
+
+ Title: "Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Undo change that freed large pad vars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: scope.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Make MachTen hints file warn about db-recno failures"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03010d00aef92fba6aca@[194.51.248.78]>
+ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:07:18 +0100
+ Files: hints/machten.sh
+
+ Title: "5.003_20, FreeBSD 3.0 and minor patch"
+ From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
+ Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970108143747.roberto@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr>
+ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:47 +0100
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Make installperl quieter; only shared libraries need 0555"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: installperl
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Advice on TEST failure"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03010d01aefbaefcf3bc@[194.51.248.78]>
+ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:19:07 +0100
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "UNIVERSAL tests"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/universal.t
+
+ Title: "Test deletion of array during foreach"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Files: t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "patch for db-recno.t"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9701121509.AA11147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT)
+ Files: t/lib/db-recno.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/File/Basename.pm pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL
+ pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL
+ utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL
+ utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL
+ x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix for fd leak in IO::File::new_tmpfile"
+ From: Graham Barr and Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.6"
+ From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.10"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9701141247.AA21242@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 12:47:40 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Re: FileCache::cacheout clobbers $_"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pz3ewb3189.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:45:58 -0500
+ Files: lib/FileCache.pm lib/cacheout.pl
+
+ Title: "PATCH: AutoSplit"
+ From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <9603111010.AA29935@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1996 06:01:58 -0500
+ Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: Uninitialized value in Carp.pm ? "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701141815.NAA07960@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:15:25 -0500
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Avoid "uninitialized" warnings from POSIX::constant()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warning from C<use overload>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/overload.pm
+
+ Title: "low priority patches"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9701081655.AA27349@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:55:02 GMT
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm t/comp/redef.t t/lib/db-btree.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Re: xsubpp and Tk ==> segfault"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701080825.DAA15813@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 03:25:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "Re: MakeMaker and 'make uninstall'"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199701101243.NAA26400@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:43:39 +0100
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't search for pod if path is already valid"
+ From: Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199701082325.PAA04521@pdxlx008.intel.com>
+ Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:25:19 -0800
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Yet another perldoc option"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no>
+ Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzwwtoom8p.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Full documentation generation patch"
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <15309.853323388@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
+ Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 11:16:28 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc
+
+ Title: "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0vilLh-0000M6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
+
+ Title: "Document use of pos() and /\G/"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix example #4 in perlXStut"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701050739.CAA11112@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 02:39:45 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Title: "Document new closure warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Misc. doc patches missing in _20"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_20
+----------------
+
+The only language change in this release is the recension of support
+for named closures: Now, no subroutine declared "sub foo {}" can be
+a closure. (This is a return to the behavior of 5.003.) In addition,
+there are new warnings triggered by any apparent attempt to use named
+functions as closures.
+
+And, as usual, there are the usual little fixes, documentation
+updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!"
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Rescind named closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens"
+ From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32CE30F0.7E8425A5@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000
+ Files: perly.c perly.y
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix $^X on systems that set it to Perl's basename"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
+
+ Title: "Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
+ Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs"."
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: MANIFEST
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y
+
+ Title: "plug for safe/opcode leaks"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Finish OP= warnings: none on ^="
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp.c t/op/assignwarn.t
+
+ Title: "Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Start all helper scripts with $startsh"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Support libperl.so under FreeBSD"
+ From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
+ Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970105224149.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
+ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:41:49 +0100
+ Files: Configure Makefile.SH
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test: comp/proto.t"
+ From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32D0C21F.3FB28D51@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000
+ Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t
+
+ Title: "More magic variable tests"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <7043.852565192@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:39:52 -0500
+ Files: t/harness t/op/magic.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "File::Basename::dirname bugs"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <12393.9701071719@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 97 17:19:59 GMT
+ Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t
+
+ Title: "sigaction() problems"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm
+
+ Title: "Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03010d00aef53ac4d18a@[194.51.248.68]>
+ Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:25 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST hints/aux.sh hints/broken-db.msg hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "pod2html.PL patch (for 5.003-19)"
+ From: Fabien TASSIN <tassin@eerie.fr>
+ Msg-ID: <199701052347.AAA21297@solar5>
+ Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:47:01 +0100
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "tiny doc patches"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Title: "doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "doc patch: perldsc"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: constant function inlining"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzk9pp1b95.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 07 Jan 1997 15:27:50 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "scalar caller doc fix"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlpod.pod possible patches"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9701070756.AA1185@cas.org>
+ Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:56:30 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod
+
+ Title: "Misc perlfunc updates"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_19
+----------------
+
+Lots of internal cleanup in this patch, especially plugged memory
+leaks when embedded Perl interpreters shut down and restart. The
+method cache is now invisible to user code. And there is a new test
+directory, "t/pragma".
+
+IMHO, this is Beta quality code.
+
+Here's a list of the more significant changes...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make method cache invisible to user code"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: dump.c gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c perl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c
+ toke.c
+
+ Title: "Never parse "{m,s,y,tr,q{,q,w,x}}:{,:}" as package or label"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix $^X under HP-UX"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
+
+ Title: "New hints/hpux.sh"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612312309.AA283393772@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:09:32 -0800
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix segv when calling named closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t
+
+ Title: "Arrange for all "_<file" entries to be in %main::"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: gv.c lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701012042.PAA25994@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 15:42:05 -0500
+ Files: cv.h pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Reword 'may be "0"' warning per Larry; fix its line number"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
+ Files: perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t
+
+ Title: "Fix lost value from READLINE after TIEHANDLE"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Files: pp_hot.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Free memory of large lexical variables when leaving scope"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: scope.c
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH t/TEST t/comp/use.t t/lib/locale.t
+ t/op/overload.t t/op/use.t t/pragma/locale.t t/pragma/overload.t
+ t/pragma/strict-refs t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars
+ t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warn-global
+ t/pragma/warning.t
+
+ Title: "New tests: comp/colon.t and op/assignwarn.t"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Files: MANIFEST t/comp/colon.t t/op/assignwarn.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Make libs clean under '-w'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm lib/Env.pm
+ lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Pod/Functions.pm lib/Search/Dict.pm
+ lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/chat2.pl
+ lib/complete.pl lib/diagnostics.pm lib/ftp.pl lib/termcap.pl
+ lib/validate.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 28"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199701032110.AA102535846@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:10:46 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: perldelta, take 3"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9701031748.AA15335@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:48:46 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlnews.pod
+
+ Title: "Miscellaneous pod patches"
+ From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
+ Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "expanded flock() docs"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <4481.852337871@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Use Text::Wrap in buildtoc; run buildtoc"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod
+
+ Title: "Remove obsolete perlovl.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile
+ vms/descrip.mms
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_18
+----------------
+
+Yet further down the road to 5.004....
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Inherited overloading"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t
+
+ Title: "Hide lexicals from C<use>d or C<require>d module (!)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Closures at file scope must be anonymous"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or <FH>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn on 'undef $x; $x OP 1' where OP is *=, /=, %=, or **="
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Ultrix setlocale() workaround"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh util.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h gv.c op.c
+
+ Title: "Don't forget $c in C<(($a,$b,$c)=(1,2))=(3,4,5)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on perl_construct()/perl_destruct() loop"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Add missing syms to global.sym; update magic doc"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Expanded locale.t and misc.t"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Files: t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Expanded my.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/my.t
+
+ Title: "test harness for C<use x.xxxx>"
+ From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32C76882.3F3C7999@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:00:18 +0000
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/use.t
+
+ Title: "More tests"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961229170736.15213M-100000@solaris.teleport.co
+ Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:46:21 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/each.t t/op/oct.t t/op/quotemeta.t t/op/rand.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Improving Config.pm"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961230091244.13467L-100000@solaris.teleport.co
+ Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:24:16 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: configpm
+
+ Title: "File::Copy under OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612280347.WAA00293@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:47:24 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Updates to perllocale.pod"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+ Title: "Locale-related pod patches, take 2"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03007800aeea9e488b36@[194.51.248.77]>
+ Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:56:41 +0100
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlre.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ...""
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_17
+----------------
+
+The rate of patches is slowing down.... I see 5.004 at the end of the
+tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support named closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "perl5.003_15 and Interactive Unix"
+ From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vd254-0004oKC@incom.rhein-main.de>
+ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:45:45 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/isc.sh pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Suggest "usemymalloc='n'" for FreeBSD 2.*"
+ From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall)
+ Files: hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ Title: "Minor OS/2 fixes"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612252105.QAA11890@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:05:42 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/os2ish.h pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix {,un}tainting of $1 etc. when C<use locale>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Limit effects of "=pod" to a single file"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New tests: op/method.t and op/locale.t"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich and Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: MANIFEST t/lib/locale.t t/op/method.t
+
+ Title: "Test C< ()=() >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/op/misc.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.39"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "Newer debugger"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612261954.OAA12999@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:54:34 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 27"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612250144.AA059528263@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:44:23 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perlpod.pod patch for _16"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961224225906.337B-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:00:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod
+
+ Title: "tiny perllocale.pod diff for _16"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199612261306.PAA21161@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:06:04 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_16
+----------------
+
+This patch is all bug fixes, library updates, and documentation
+updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix closures that are not in subroutines"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "_13: patches for unicos/unicosmk"
+ From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612202038.OAA22805@poplar.cray.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:38:50 -0600
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/unicos.sh hints/unicosmk.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix 'foreach(@ARGV) { while (<>) { push @p,$_ } }'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h pp_hot.c scope.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warnings from C< undef $x; $x OP= "foo" >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Try again to improve method caching"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612240113.UAA09487@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:13:56 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Be more careful about 'o' magic memory management"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix bad pointer refs when localized object loses magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: scope.c
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.09"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Net::Ping to 2.02"
+ From: Russell Mosemann <mose@ccsn.edu>
+ Files: lib/Net/Ping.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh IO to 1.14"
+ From: Graham Barr
+ Files: MANIFEST ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/README ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_pipe.t
+ t/lib/io_sel.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_tell.t
+ t/lib/io_udp.t t/lib/io_xs.t
+
+ BUILD PROCESS AND UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Don't recurse into subdirs twice on 'make realclean'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Use root EXTERN.h when compiling x2p/malloc.c."
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Files: x2p/Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Fix compilation errors when malloc.c used for x2p"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Edit INSTALL to describe new binary compat setup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Update to perllocale.pod"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_15
+----------------
+
+As soon as I posted 5.003_14, I found a fatal error in it. :-(
+
+This release is strictly a bug fix -- it removes some function caching
+changes that were supposed to be improvements, but weren't.
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_14
+----------------
+
+We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Eliminate support for {if,unless,while,until} BLOCK BLOCK"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c
+
+ Title: "Taint $x after $x =~ s/pat/xyz/ if pat or xyz is tainted by locale"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h mg.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Complete support for modifying undefined array members in foreach"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "patch for regex bug: (x|x){n}"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612210259.VAA10170@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:59:22 -0500
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Bug in debugger with import manipulations"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612231037.FAA08617@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:37:48 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Import and dynamic methods"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612230645.BAA08378@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:45:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c hv.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "malloc.c patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612220748.CAA07164@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "sv_gets patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612220824.DAA07235@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:24:04 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "pos $str patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612220831.DAA07247@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:31:21 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: mg.c pp_hot.c t/op/pat.t
+
+ Title: "Prevent warnings when STDCHAR is unsigned"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perlio.c perlio.h
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs in bincompat3 usage"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.h perl_exp.SH
+
+ Title: "Support shared libperl on SunOS"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Configure on OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612202325.SAA05505@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:25:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Fixes for Interactive Unix"
+ From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vbeNO-00003WC@incom.rhein-main.de>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 96 05:14 EET
+ Files: hints/isc.sh op.c pp_sys.c universal.c
+
+ Title: "Use "proto" instead of "_" in sdbm.h"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_13"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IDBYYFYPIS002ASE@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:26:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: deb.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c lib/File/Copy.pm mg.c perl.c
+ perl.h proto.h sv.c t/lib/filecopy.t taint.c toke.c util.c
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/genopt.com
+ vms/perly_c.vms vms/perly_h.vms vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+ vms/vms_yfix.pl
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Remove libnet"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN module to 1.08"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.28"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+
+ Title: "Update IO->VERSION() to 1.1201 for CPAN's sake"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "Remodel File::Copy."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Title: "dumb bug in User::pwent.pm"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612201145.EAA27860@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:45:37 -0700
+ Files: lib/User/pwent.pm
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Better support for =for"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961220163747.298T-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:43:35 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "perllocale.pod -- second draft"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03007800aee1923e30a2@[194.51.248.68]>
+ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:00:50 +0100
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 26"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612201943.AA048111018@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:43:38 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Update pod/Makefile; s/perli18n/perllocale/"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/I18N/Collate.pm pod/Makefile
+ pod/perl.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "obstruct pod2man doc tweaks"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <3923.851106237@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:23:57 -0500
+ Files: lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_13
+----------------
+
+The watchword here is "synchronization." There were a couple of
+show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring
+everyone up to a common working base.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump bug with anoncode"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Add missing backslash in Configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP"
+ From: Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm
+ lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm
+ lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm
+ lib/Net/SNPP.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm lib/Net/Telnet.pm
+ lib/Net/Time.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Use binmode when doing binary FTP"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Files: lib/Net/FTP.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzloavmd9h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl
+ lib/open3.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/open2.t
+ t/lib/open3.t
+
+ Title: "Long-standing problem in Socket module"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500
+ Files: Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH
+ ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+
+ Title: "flock() constants"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzvi9yig3h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500
+ Files: lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "small doc tweaks for _12"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500
+ Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzwwueimak.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_12
+----------------
+
+This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially
+CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated
+docs... it's a long list. And speaking of lists, here's a list of
+the more significant changes in 5.003_12:
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
+ t/op/delete.t
+
+ Title: "Autovivify scalars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix nested closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c
+
+ Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Re: Bug in formline "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm
+ lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym
+ old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
+
+ Title: "Look for gettimeofday() in Configure"
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Msg-ID: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c
+
+ Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg
+ eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm
+ makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
+ pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL
+ utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c
+ x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
+
+ Title: "LynxOS support"
+ From: seibert@Lynx.COM (Greg Seibert)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>
+ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/linux.sh
+
+ Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.453720@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 18:34 GMT0
+ Files: hints/svr4.sh
+
+ Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
+ Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
+
+ Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*
+
+ TESTING
+
+ Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..."
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+ lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm
+ pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Please update Text::Wrap and Text::Tabs"
+ From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612180659.WAA24957@idiom.com>
+ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Title: "Add File::Compare"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>
+ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Add Tie::RefHash"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Put "splain" in utils."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL
+
+ Title: "Some h2ph fixes"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale"
+ From: Tom Christiansen and Dominic Dunlop
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod
+ pod/perlnews.pod
+
+ Title: "perltoot.pod"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 25"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pod/perlipc.pod patch"
+ From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199612090910.CAA20906@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 3:10:02 CST
+ Files: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Title: "pod patches for English errors"
+ From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
+ Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "Misc doc updates"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
+ Files: pod/*
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_11
+----------------
+
+This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of
+value.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ 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
+
+ Title: "Don't reset $. on open()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't let expression context force return context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doio.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ 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
+
+ Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c util.c
+
+ 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
+
+ Title: "Less malloc in magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+ PORTABILITY AND TESTING
+
+ Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+ Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ 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
+
+ Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+ 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
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_10
+----------------
+
+This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and
+valuable changes, but nothing dramatic.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions
+ From: John L. Allen <allen@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h
+
+ Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Better support for UVs"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Minor locale cleanups"
+ (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
+ 'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.)
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c
+
+ Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c
+
+ Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp_sys.c
+
+ 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
-NETaa13772: shmwrite core dumps consistently
-From: Gabe Schaffer
-Files patched: opcode.h opcode.pl
- The shmwrite operator is a list operator but neglected to push a stack
- mark beforehand, because an 'm' was missing from opcode.pl.
-
-NETaa13773: $. was misdocumented as read-only.
-From: Inaba Hiroto
-Files patched: pod/perlvar.pod
- <1.array-element-read-only>
- % perl -le '$,=", "; $#w=5; for (@w) { $_=1; } print @w'
- Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 1.
- % perl4 -le '$,=", "; $#w=5; for (@w) { $_=1; } print @w'
- 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
-
- This one may stay the way it is for performance reasons.
-
- <2.begin-local-RS>
- % cat abc
- a
- b
- c
- % perl -e 'BEGIN { local $/ = ""; } print "$.:$_" while <>;' abc
- 1:a
- b
- c
- % perl -e '{ local $/ = ""; } print "$.:$_" while <>;' abc
- 1:a
- 2:b
- 3:c
-
- $/ wasn't initialized early enough, so local set it back to permanently
- undefined on exit from the block.
-
- <3.grep-x0-bug>
- % perl -le 'print grep(/^-/ ? ($x=$_) x 0 : 1, "a", "-b", "c");'
- a
-
- % perl4 -le 'print grep(/^-/ ? ($x=$_) x 0 : 1, "a", "-b", "c");'
- ac
-
- An extra mark was left on the stack if (('x') x $repeat) was used in a scalar
- context.
-
- <4.input-lineno-assign>
- # perl -w does not complain about assignment to $. (Is this just a feature?)
- # perlvar.pod says "This variable should be considered read-only."
- % cat abc
- a
- b
- c
- % perl -wnle '$. = 10 if $. == 2; print "$.:$_"' abc
- 1:a
- 10:b
- 11:c
-
- Fixed doc.
-
- <5.local-soft-ref.bug>
- % perl -e 'local ${"a"}=1;'
- zsh: 529 segmentation fault perl -e 'local ${"a"}=1;'
-
- Now says
- Can't localize a reference at -e line 1.
-
- <6.package-readline>
- % perl -e 'package foo; sub foo { 1; } package main; $_ = foo::foo(); print'
- 1
- % perl -e '
- package readline; sub foo { 1; } package main; $_ = readline::foo(); print'
- Undefined subroutine &main::foo called at -e line 1.
- % perl -e '
- package readline; sub foo { 1; } package main; $_ = &readline::foo(); print'
- 1
-
- Now treats foo::bar correctly even if foo is a keyword.
-
- <7.page-head-set-to-null-string>
- % cat page-head
- #From: russell@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz (Russell Fulton)
- #Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- #Subject: This script causes Perl 5.00 to sementation fault
- #Date: 15 Nov 1994 00:11:37 GMT
- #Message-ID: <3a8ubp$jrj@net.auckland.ac.nz>
-
- select((select(STDOUT), $^='')[0]); #this is the critical line
- $a = 'a';
- write ;
- exit;
-
- format STDOUT =
- @<<<<<<
- $a
- .
-
- % perl page-head
- zsh: 1799 segmentation fault perl /tmp/page-head
-
- Now says
- Undefined top format "main::" called at ./try line 11.
-
- <8.sub-as-index>
- # parser bug?
- % perl -le 'sub foo {0}; $x[0]=0;$x[foo]<=0'
- Unterminated <> operator at -e line 1.
- % perl -le 'sub foo {0}; $x[0]=0;$x[foo()]<=0'
-
- A right square bracket now forces expectation of an operator.
-
- <9.unary-minus-to-regexp-var>
- % cat minus-reg
- #From: Michael Cook <mcook@cognex.com>
- #Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- #Subject: bug: print -$1
- #Date: 01 Feb 1995 15:31:25 GMT
- #Message-ID: <MCOOK.95Feb1103125@erawan.cognex.com>
-
- $_ = "123";
- /\d+/;
- print $&, "\n";
- print -$&, "\n";
- print 0-$&, "\n";
-
- % perl minus-reg
- 123
- 123
- -123
-
- Apparently already fixed in my copy.
-
- <10.vec-segv>
- % cat vec-bug
- ## Offset values are changed for my machine.
-
- #From: augustin@gdstech.grumman.com (Conrad Augustin)
- #Subject: perl5 vec() bug?
- #Message-ID: <1994Nov22.193728.25762@gdstech.grumman.com>
- #Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 19:37:28 GMT
-
- #The following two statements each produce a segmentation fault in perl5:
-
- #vec($a, 21406, 32) = 1; # seg fault
- vec($a, 42813, 16) = 1; # seg fault
-
- #When the offset values are one less, all's well:
- #vec($a, 21405, 32) = 1; # ok
- #vec($a, 42812, 16) = 1; # ok
-
- #Interestingly, this is ok for all high values of N:
- #$N=1000000; vec($a, $N, 8) = 1;
-
- % perl vec-bug
- zsh: 1806 segmentation fault perl vec-bug
-
- Can't reproduce this one.
-
+ Replace old README.os2 with more up-to-date os2/README.
-NETaa13773: $/ not correctly localized in BEGIN
-Files patched: perl.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13773: foo::bar was misparsed if foo was a reserved word
-Files patched: toke.c toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13773: right square bracket didn't force expectation of operator
-Files patched: toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13773: scalar ((x) x $repeat) left stack mark
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13778: -w coredumps on <$>
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: pp_hot.c toke.c
- Now produces suggested error message. Also installed guard in warning code
- that coredumped.
-
-NETaa13779: foreach didn't use savestack mechanism
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: cop.h pp_ctl.c
- The foreach mechanism saved the old scalar value on the context stack
- rather than the savestack. It could consequently get out of sync if
- unexpectedly unwound.
-
-NETaa13785: GIMME sometimes used wrong context frame
-From: Greg Earle
-Files patched: embed.h global.sym op.h pp_ctl.c proto.h
- The expression inside the return was taking its context from the immediately
- surrounding block rather than the innermost surrounding subroutine call.
-
-NETaa13797: could modify sv_undef through auto-vivification
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: pp.c
- Inserted the missing check for readonly values on auto-vivification.
-
-NETaa13798: if (...) {print} treats print as quoted
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- The trailing paren of the condition was setting expectations to XOPERATOR
- rather than XBLOCK, so it was being treated like ${print}.
-
-NETaa13926: commonality was not detected in assignments using COND_EXPR
-From: Mark Hanson
-Files patched: opcode.h opcode.pl
- The assignment compiler didn't check the 2nd and 3rd args of a ?:
- for commonality. It still doesn't, but I made ?: into a "dangerous"
- operator so it is forced to treat it as common.
-
-NETaa13957: was marking the PUSHMARK as modifiable rather than the arg
-From: David Couture
-Files patched: op.c sv.c
- It was marking the PUSHMARK as modifiable rather than the arg.
-
-NETaa13962: documentation of behavior of scalar <*> was unclear
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: pod/perlop.pod
- Added the following to perlop:
-
- A glob only evaluates its (embedded) argument when it is starting a new
- list. All values must be read before it will start over. In a list
- context this isn't important, because you automatically get them all
- anyway. In a scalar context, however, the operator returns the next value
- each time it is called, or a FALSE value if you've just run out. Again,
- FALSE is returned only once. So if you're expecting a single value from
- a glob, it is much better to say
-
- ($file) = <blurch*>;
-
- than
-
- $file = <blurch*>;
-
- because the latter will alternate between returning a filename and
- returning FALSE.
-
+Index: config_H
-NETaa13986: split ignored /m pattern modifier
-From: Winfried Koenig
-Files patched: pp.c
- Fixed to work like m// and s///.
-
-NETaa13992: regexp comments not seen after + in non-extended regexp
-From: Mark Knutsen
-Files patched: regcomp.c
- The code to skip regexp comments was guarded by a conditional that only
- let it work when /x was in effect.
-
-NETaa14014: use subs should not count as definition, only as declaration
-From: Keith Thompson
-Files patched: sv.c
- On *foo = \&bar, doesn't set GVf_IMPORTED if foo and bar are in same package.
-
-NETaa14021: sv_inc and sv_dec "upgraded" magical SV to non-magical
-From: Paul A Sand
-Also: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: sv.c
- The sv_inc() and sv_dec() routines "upgraded" null magical SVs to non-magical.
-
-NETaa14086: require should check tainting
-From: Karl Simon Berg
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Since we shouldn't allow tainted requires anyway, it now says:
-
- Insecure dependency in require while running with -T switch at tst.pl line 1.
-
-NETaa14104: negation fails on magical variables like $1
-From: tim
-Files patched: pp.c
- Negation was failing on magical values like $1. It was testing the wrong
- bits and also failed to provide a final "else" if none of the bits matched.
-
-NETaa14107: deep sort return leaked contexts
-From: Quentin Fennessy
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Needed to call dounwind() appropriately.
-
-NETaa14129: attempt to localize via a reference core dumps
-From: Michele Sardo
-Files patched: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
- Now produces an error "Can't localize a reference", with explanation in
- perldiag.
-
-NETaa14138: substr() and s/// can cause core dump
-From: Andrew Vignaux
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- Forgot to call SvOOK_off() on the SV before freeing its string.
-
-NETaa14145: ${@INC}[0] dumped core in debugger
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: sv.c
- Now croaks "Bizarre copy of ARRAY in block exit", which is better than
- a core dump. The fact that ${@INC}[0] means $INC[0] outside the debugger
- is a different bug.
-
-NETaa14147: bitwise assignment ops wipe out byte of target string
-From: Jim Richardson
-Files patched: doop.c
- The code was assuming that the target was not either of the two operands,
- which is false for an assignment operator.
-
-NETaa14153: lexing of lexicals in patterns fooled by character class
-From: Dave Bianchi
-Files patched: toke.c
- It never called the dwimmer, which is how it fooled it.
-
-NETaa14154: allowed autoloaded methods by recognizing sub method; declaration
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: gv.c
- Made sub method declaration sufficient for autoloader to stop searching on.
-
-NETaa14156: shouldn't optimize block scope on tainting
-From: Pete Peterson
-Files patched: op.c toke.c
- I totally disabled the block scope optimization when running tainted.
-
-NETaa14157: -T and -B only allowed 1/30 "odd" characters--changed to 1/3
-From: Tor Lillqvist
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14160: deref of null symbol should produce null list
-From: Jared Rhine
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- It didn't check for list context before returning undef.
-
-NETaa14162: POSIX::gensym now returns a symbol reference
-From: Josh N. Pritikin
-Also: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14164: POSIX autoloader now distinguishes non-constant "constants"
-From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- The .xs file now distinguishes non-constant "constants" by setting EAGAIN.
- This will also let us use #ifdef within the .xs file to de-constantify
- any other macros that happen not to be constants even if they don't use
- an argument.
-
-NETaa14166: missing semicolon after "my" induces core dump
-From: Thomas Kofler
-Files patched: toke.c
- The parser was left thinking it was still processing a "my", and flubbed.
- I made it wipe out the "in_my" variable on a syntax error.
-
-NETaa14166: missing semicolon after "my" induces core dump"
-Files patched: toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa14206: can now use English and strict at the same time
-From: Andrew Wilcox
-Files patched: sv.c
- It now counts imported symbols as okay under "use strict".
-
-NETaa14206: can now use English and strict at the same time
-Files patched: gv.c pod/perldiag.pod
- (same)
-
-NETaa14265: elseif now produces severe warning
-From: Yutao Feng
-Files patched: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
- Now complains explicitly about "elseif".
-
-NETaa14279: list assignment propagated taintedness to independent scalars
-From: Tim Freeman
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- List assignment needed to be modified so that tainting didn't propagate
- between independent scalar values.
-
-NETaa14312: undef in @EXPORTS core dumps
-From: William Setzer
-Files patched: lib/Exporter.pm
- Now says:
-
- Unable to create sub named "t::" at lib/Exporter.pm line 159.
- Illegal null symbol in @t::EXPORT at -e line 1
- BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
-
+ Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
+ Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
+ dependencies in the metaconfig units.
-NETaa14312: undef in @EXPORTS core dumps
-Files patched: pod/perldiag.pod sv.c
- (same)
+Index: config_h.SH
-NETaa14321: literal @array check shouldn't happen inside embedded expressions
-From: Mark H. Nodine
-Files patched: toke.c
- The general solution to this is to disable the literal @array check within
- any embedded expression. For instance, this also failed bogusly:
-
- print "$foo{@foo}";
-
- The reason fixing this also fixes the s///e problem is that the lexer
- effectively puts the RHS into a do {} block, making the expression
- embedded within curlies, as far as the error message is concerned.
-
-NETaa14322: now localizes $! during POSIX::AUTOLOAD
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
- Added local $! = 0.
-
-NETaa14324: defined() causes spurious sub existence
-From: "Andreas Koenig"
-Files patched: op.c pp.c
- It called pp_rv2cv which wrongly assumed it could add any sub it referenced.
-
-NETaa14336: use Module () forces import of nothing
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: op.c
- use Module () now refrains from calling import at all.
-
-NETaa14353: added special HE allocator
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: global.sym
-
-NETaa14353: added special HE allocator
-Files patched: hv.c perl.h
-
-NETaa14353: array extension now converts old memory to SV storage.
-Files patched: av.c av.h sv.c
-
-NETaa14353: hashes now convert old storage into SV arenas.
-Files patched: global.sym
-
-NETaa14353: hashes now convert old storage into SV arenas.
-Files patched: hv.c perl.h
-
-NETaa14353: upgraded SV arena allocation
-Files patched: proto.h
-
-NETaa14353: upgraded SV arena allocation
-Files patched: perl.c sv.c
-
-NETaa14422: added rudimentary prototypes
-From: Gisle Aas
-Files patched: Makefile.SH op.c op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
- Message-Id: <9509290018.AA21548@scalpel.netlabs.com>
- To: doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Andy Dougherty)
- Cc: perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com
- Subject: Re: Jumbo Configure patch vs. 1m.
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 17:18:54 -0700
- From: lwall@scalpel.netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
-
- : No. Larry's currently got the patch pumpkin for all such core perl topics.
-
- I dunno whether you should let me have the patch pumpkin or not. To fix
- a Sev 2 I just hacked in rudimentary prototypes. :-)
-
- We can now define true unary subroutines, as well as argumentless
- subroutines:
-
- sub baz () { 12; } # Must not have argument
- sub bar ($) { $_[0] * 7 } # Must have exactly one argument
- sub foo ($@) { print "@_\n" } # Must have at least one argument
- foo bar baz / 2 || "oops", "is the answer";
-
- This prints "42 is the answer" on my machine. That is, it's the same as
-
- foo( bar( baz() / 2) || "oops", "is the answer");
-
- Attempting to compile
-
- foo;
-
- results in
-
- Too few arguments for main::foo at ./try line 8, near "foo;"
-
- Compiling
-
- bar 1,2,3;
-
- results in
-
- Too many arguments for main::bar at ./try line 8, near "foo;"
-
- But
-
- @array = ('a','b','c');
- foo @array, @array;
-
- prints "3 a b c" because the $ puts the first arg of foo into scalar context.
-
- The main win at this point is that we can say
-
- sub AAA () { 1; }
- sub BBB () { 2; }
-
- and the user can say AAA + BBB and get 3.
-
- I'm not quite sure how this interacts with autoloading though. I fear
- POSIX.pm will need to say
-
- sub E2BIG ();
- sub EACCES ();
- sub EAGAIN ();
- sub EBADF ();
- sub EBUSY ();
- ...
- sub _SC_STREAM_MAX ();
- sub _SC_TZNAME_MAX ();
- sub _SC_VERSION ();
-
- unless we can figure out how to efficiently declare a default prototype
- at import time. Meaning, not using eval. Currently
-
- *foo = \&bar;
-
- (the ordinary import mechanism) implicitly stubs &bar with no prototype if
- &bar is not yet declared. It's almost like you want an AUTOPROTO to
- go with your AUTOLOAD.
-
- Another thing to rub one's 5 o'clock shadow over is that there's no way
- to apply a prototype to a method call at compile time.
-
- And no, I don't want to have the
-
- sub howabout ($formal, @arguments) { ... }
-
- argument right now.
-
- Larry
-
-NETaa14422: couldn't take reference of a prototyped function
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa14423: use didn't allow expressions involving the scratch pad
-From: Graham Barr
-Files patched: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h vms/perly_c.vms
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14444: lexical scalar didn't autovivify
-From: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: op.c pp_hot.c
- It didn't have code in pp_padsv to do the right thing.
-
-NETaa14448: caller could dump core when used within an eval or require
-From: Danny R. Faught
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- caller() was incorrectly assuming the context stack contained a subroutine
- context when it in fact contained an eval context.
-
-NETaa14451: improved error message on bad pipe filehandle
-From: Danny R. Faught
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Now says the slightly more informative
-
- Can't use an undefined value as filehandle reference at ./try line 3.
-
-NETaa14462: pp_dbstate had a scope leakage on recursion suppression
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Swapped the code in question around.
-
-NETaa14482: sv_unref freed ref prematurely at times
-From: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: sv.c
- Made sv_unref() mortalize rather than free the old reference.
-
-NETaa14484: appending string to array produced bizarre results
-From: Greg Ward
-Also: Malcolm Beattie
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- Will now say, "Can't coerce ARRAY to string".
-
-NETaa14525: assignment to globs didn't reset them correctly
-From: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: sv.c
- Applied parts of patch not overridden by subsequent patch.
-
-NETaa14529: a partially matching subpattern could spoof infinity detector
-From: Wayne Berke
-Files patched: regexec.c
- A partial match on a subpattern could fool the infinite regress detector
- into thinking progress had been made.
- The previous workaround prevented another bug (NETaa14529) from being fixed,
- so I've backed it out. I'll need to think more about how to detect failure
- to progress. I'm still hopeful it's not equivalent to the halting problem.
-
-NETaa14535: patches from Gurusamy Sarathy
-From: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: op.c pp.c pp_hot.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c
- Applied most recent suggested patches.
-
-NETaa14537: select() can return too soon
-From: Matt Kimball
-Also: Andreas Gustafsson
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
-
-NETaa14538: method calls were treated like do {} under loop modifiers
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: perly.c perly.y
- Needed to take the OPf_SPECIAL flag off of entersubs from method reductions.
- (It was probably a cut-and-paste error from long ago.)
-
-NETaa14540: foreach (@array) no longer does extra stack copy
-From: darrinm@lmc.com
-Files patched: Todo op.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
- Fixed by doing the foreach(@array) optimization, so it iterates
- directly through the array, and can detect the implicit shift from
- referencing <>.
-
-NETaa14541: new version of perlbug
-From: Kenneth Albanowski
-Files patched: README pod/perl.pod utils/perlbug.PL
- Brought it up to version 1.09.
-
-NETaa14541: perlbug 1.11
-Files patched: utils/perlbug.PL
- (same)
-
-NETaa14548: magic sets didn't check private OK bits
-From: W. Bradley Rubenstein
-Files patched: mg.c
- The magic code was getting mixed up between private and public POK bits.
-
-NETaa14550: made ~ magic magical
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14551: humongous header causes infinite loop in format
-From: Grace Lee
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Needed to check for page exhaustion after doing top-of-form.
-
-NETaa14558: attempt to call undefined top format core dumped
-From: Hallvard B Furuseth
-Files patched: pod/perldiag.pod pp_sys.c
- Now issues an error on attempts to call a non-existent top format.
-
-NETaa14561: Gurusamy Sarathy's G_KEEPERR patch
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Also: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Also: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: cop.h interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c
- Applied latest patch.
-
-NETaa14581: shouldn't execute BEGIN when there are compilation errors
-From: Rickard Westman
-Files patched: op.c
- Perl should not try to execute BEGIN and END blocks if there's been a
- compilation error.
-
-NETaa14582: got SEGV sorting sparse array
-From: Rick Pluta
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Now weeds out undefined values much like Perl 4 did.
- Now sorts undefined values to the front.
-
-NETaa14582: sort was letting unsortable values through to comparison routine
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa14585: globs in pad space weren't properly cleaned up
-From: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: op.c pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14614: now does dbmopen with perl_eval_sv()
-From: The Man
-Files patched: perl.c pp_sys.c proto.h
- dbmopen now invokes perl_eval_sv(), which should handle error conditions
- better.
-
-NETaa14618: exists doesn't work in GDBM_File
-From: Andrew Wilcox
-Files patched: ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.xs
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14619: tied()
-From: Larry Wall
-Also: Paul Marquess
-Files patched: embed.h global.sym keywords.h keywords.pl opcode.h opcode.pl pp_sys.c toke.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14636: Jumbo Dynaloader patch
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_dld.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
- Applied suggested patches.
-
-NETaa14637: checkcomma routine was stupid about bareword sub calls
-From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
-Files patched: toke.c
- The checkcomma routine was stupid about bareword sub calls.
-
-NETaa14639: (?i) didn't reset on runtime patterns
-From: Mark A. Scheel
-Files patched: op.h pp_ctl.c toke.c
- It didn't distinguish between permanent flags outside the pattern and
- temporary flags within the pattern.
-
-NETaa14649: selecting anonymous globs dumps core
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: cop.h doio.c embed.h global.sym perl.c pp_sys.c proto.h
- Applied suggested patch, but reversed the increment and decrement to avoid
- decrementing and freeing what we're going to increment.
-
-NETaa14655: $? returned negative value on AIX
-From: Kim Frutiger
-Also: Stephen D. Lee
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14668: {2,} could match once
-From: Hugo van der Sanden
-Files patched: regexec.c
- When an internal pattern failed a conjecture, it didn't back off on the
- number of times it thought it had matched.
-
-NETaa14673: open $undefined dumped core
-From: Samuli K{rkk{inen
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- pp_open() didn't check its argument for globness.
-
-NETaa14683: stringifies were running pad out of space
-From: Robin Barker
-Files patched: op.h toke.c
- Increased PADOFFSET to a U32, and made lexer not put double-quoted strings
- inside OP_STRINGIFY unless they really needed it.
-
-NETaa14689: shouldn't have . in @INC when tainting
-From: William R. Somsky
-Files patched: perl.c
- Now does not put . into @INC when tainting. It may still be added with a
-
- use lib ".";
-
- or, to put it at the end,
-
- BEGIN { push(@INC, ".") }
-
- but this is not recommended unless a chdir to a known location has been done
- first.
-
-NETaa14690: values inside tainted SVs were ignored
-From: "James M. Stern"
-Files patched: pp.c pp_ctl.c
- It was assuming that a tainted value was a string.
-
-NETaa14692: format name required qualification under use strict
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: gv.c
- Now treats format names the same as subroutine names.
-
-NETaa14695: added simple regexp caching
-From: John Rowe
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14697: regexp comments were sometimes wrongly treated as literal text
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: regcomp.c
- The literal-character grabber didn't know about extended comments.
-
- (By the way, Tom, the boxed form of quoting in the previous enclosure is
- exceeding antisocial when you want to extract the code from it.)
-
-NETaa14704: closure got wrong outer scope if outer sub was predeclared
-From: Marc Paquette
-Files patched: op.c
- The outer scope of the anonymous sub was set to the stub rather than to
- the actual subroutine. I kludged it by making the outer scope of the
- stub be the actual subroutine, if anything is depending on the stub.
-
-NETaa14705: $foo .= $foo did free memory read
-From: Gerd Knops
-Files patched: sv.c
- Now modifies address to copy if it was reallocated.
-
-NETaa14709: Chip's FileHandle stuff
-From: Larry Wall
-Also: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: MANIFEST ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.xs ext/FileHandle/Makefile.PL ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/FileCache.pm lib/Symbol.pm t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/posix.t
- Applied suggested patches.
-
-NETaa14711: added (&) and (*) prototypes for blocks and symbols
-From: Kenneth Albanowski
-Files patched: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.h perly.y toke.c
- & now means that it must have an anonymous sub as that argument. If
- it's the first argument, the sub may be specified as a block in the
- indirect object slot, much like grep or sort, which have prototypes of (&@).
-
- Also added * so you can do things like
-
- sub myopen (*;$);
-
- myopen(FOO, $filename);
-
-NETaa14713: setuid FROM root now defaults to not do tainting
-From: Tony Camas
-Files patched: mg.c perl.c pp_hot.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14714: duplicate magics could be added to an SV
-From: Yary Hluchan
-Files patched: sv.c sv.c
- The sv_magic() routine didn't properly check to see if it already had a
- magic of that type. Ordinarily it would have, but it was called during
- mg_get(), which forces the magic flags off temporarily.
-
-NETaa14721: sub defined during erroneous do-FILE caused core dump
-From: David Campbell
-Files patched: op.c
- Fixed the seg fault. I couldn't reproduce the return problem.
-
-NETaa14734: ref should never return undef
-From: Dale Amon
-Files patched: pp.c t/op/overload.t
- Now returns null string.
-
-NETaa14751: slice of undefs now returns null list
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: pp.c pp_hot.c
- Null list clobberation is now done in lslice, not aassign.
-
-NETaa14789: select coredumped on Linux
-From: Ulrich Kunitz
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Applied suggested patches, more or less.
-
-NETaa14789: straightened out ins and out of duping
-Files patched: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
- (same)
-
-NETaa14791: implemented internal SUPER class
-From: Nick Ing-Simmons
-Also: Dean Roehrich
-Files patched: gv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14845: s/// didn't handle offset strings
-From: Ken MacLeod
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Needed a call to SvOOK_off(targ) in pp_substcont().
-
-NETaa14851: Use of << to mean <<"" is deprecated
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
-
-NETaa14865: added HINT_BLOCK_SCOPE to "elsif"
-From: Jim Avera
-Files patched: perly.y
- Needed to set HINT_BLOCK_SCOPE on "elsif" to prevent the do block from
- being optimized away, which caused the statement transition in elsif
- to reset the stack too far back.
-
-NETaa14876: couldn't delete localized GV safely
-From: John Hughes
-Files patched: pp.c scope.c
- The reference count of the "borrowed" GV needed to be incremented while
- there was a reference to it in the savestack.
-
-NETaa14887: couldn't negate magical scalars
-From: ian
-Also: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: pp.c
- Applied suggested patch, more or less. (It's not necessary to test both
- SvNIOK and SvNIOKp, since the private bits are always set if the public
- bits are set.)
-
-NETaa14893: /m modifier was sticky
-From: Jim Avera
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- pp_match() and pp_subst() were using an improperly scoped SAVEINT to restore
- the value of the internal variable multiline.
-
-NETaa14893: /m modifier was sticky
-Files patched: cop.h pp_hot.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa14916: complete.pl retained old return value
-From: Martyn Pearce
-Files patched: lib/complete.pl
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14928: non-const 3rd arg to split assigned to list could coredump
-From: Hans de Graaff
-Files patched: op.c
- The optimizer was assuming the OP was an OP_CONST.
-
-NETaa14942: substr as lvalue could disable magic
-From: Darrell Kindred <dkindred+@cmu.edu>
-Files patched: pp.c
- The substr was disabling the magic of $1.
-
-NETaa14990: "not" not parseable when expecting term
-From: "Randal L. Schwartz"
-Files patched: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y vms/perly_c.vms
- The NOTOP production needed to be moved down into the terms.
-
-NETaa14993: Bizarre copy of formline
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Also: Charles Bailey
-Files patched: sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa14998: sv_add_arena() no longer leaks memory
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: av.c hv.c perl.h sv.c
- Now keeps one potential arena "on tap", but doesn't use it unless there's
- demand for SV headers. When an AV or HV is extended, its old memory
- becomes the next potential arena unless there already is one, in which
- case it is simply freed. This will have the desired property of not
- stranding medium-sized chunks of memory when extending a single array
- repeatedly, but will not degrade when there's no SV demand beyond keeping
- one chunk of memory on tap, which generally will be about 250 bytes big,
- since it prefers the earlier freed chunk over the later. See the nice_chunk
- variable.
-
-NETaa14999: $a and $b now protected from use strict and lexical declaration
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: gv.c pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
- Bare $a and $b are now allowed during "use strict". In addition,
- the following diag was added:
-
- =item Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison
-
- (F) The global variables $a and $b are reserved for sort comparisons.
- You mentioned $a or $b in the same line as the <=> or cmp operator,
- and the variable had earlier been declared as a lexical variable.
- Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename the
- lexical variable.
-
+ Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
+ Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
+ dependencies in the metaconfig units.
-NETaa15034: use strict refs should allow calls to prototyped functions
-From: Roderick Schertler
-Files patched: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c vms/perly_c.vms
- Applied patch suggested by Chip.
-
-NETaa15083: forced $AUTOLOAD to be untainted
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: gv.c pp_hot.c
- Stripped any taintmagic from $AUTOLOAD after setting it.
-
-NETaa15084: patch for Term::Cap
-From: Mark Kaehny
-Also: Hugo van der Sanden
-Files patched: lib/Term/Cap.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15086: null pattern could cause coredump in s//_$1_/
-From: "Paul E. Maisano"
-Files patched: cop.h pp_ctl.c
- If the replacement pattern was complicated enough to cause pp_substcont
- to be called, then it lost track of which REGEXP* it was supposed to
- be using.
-
-NETaa15087: t/io/pipe.t didn't work on AIX
-From: Andy Dougherty
-Files patched: t/io/pipe.t
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15088: study was busted
-From: Hugo van der Sanden
-Files patched: opcode.h opcode.pl pp.c
- It was studying its scratch pad target rather than the argument supplied.
-
-NETaa15090: MSTATS patch
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: global.sym malloc.c perl.c perl.h proto.h
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15098: longjmp out of magic leaks memory
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: mg.c sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15102: getpgrp() is broken if getpgrp2() is available
-From: Roderick Schertler
-Files patched: perl.h pp_sys.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15103: prototypes leaked opcodes
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: op.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15107: quotameta memory bug on all metacharacters
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: pp.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15108: Fix for incomplete string leak
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: toke.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15110: couldn't use $/ with 8th bit set on some architectures
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: doop.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c util.c
- Applied suggested patches.
-
-NETaa15112: { a_1 => 2 } didn't parse as expected
-From: Stuart M. Weinstein
-Files patched: toke.c
- The little dwimmer was only skipping ALPHA rather than ALNUM chars.
-
-NETaa15123: bitwise ops produce spurious warnings
-From: Hugo van der Sanden
-Also: Chip Salzenberg
-Also: Andreas Gustafsson
-Files patched: sv.c
- Decided to suppress the warning in the conversion routines if merely converting
- a temporary, which can never be a user-supplied value anyway.
-
-NETaa15129: #if defined (foo) misparsed in h2ph
-From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
-Files patched: utils/h2ph.PL
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15131: some POSIX functions assumed valid filehandles
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15151: don't optimize split on OPpASSIGN_COMMON
-From: Huw Rogers
-Files patched: op.c
- Had to swap the optimization down to after the assignment op is generated
- and COMMON is calculated, and then clean up the resultant tree differently.
-
-NETaa15154: MakeMaker-5.18
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
- Brought it up to 5.18.
-
-NETaa15156: some Exporter tweaks
-From: Roderick Schertler
-Also: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: lib/Exporter.pm
- Also did Tim's Tiny Trivial patch.
-
-NETaa15157: new version of Test::Harness
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: lib/Test/Harness.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15175: overloaded nomethod has garbage 4th op
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: gv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15179: SvPOK_only shouldn't back off on offset pointer
-From: Gutorm.Hogasen@oslo.teamco.telenor.no
-Files patched: sv.h
- SvPOK_only() was calling SvOOK_off(), which adjusted the string pointer
- after tr/// has already acquired it. It shouldn't really be necessary
- for SvPOK_only() to undo an offset string pointer, since there's no
- conflict with a possible integer value where the offset is stored.
-
-NETaa15193: & now always bypasses prototype checking
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: dump.c op.c op.h perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perlsub.pod pp_hot.c proto.h toke.c vms/perly_c.vms vms/perly_h.vms
- Turned out to be a big hairy deal because the lexer turns foo() into &foo().
- But it works consistently now. Also fixed pod.
-
-NETaa15197: 5.002b2 is 'appending' to $@
-From: Gurusamy Sarathy
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15201: working around Linux DBL_DIG problems
-From: Kenneth Albanowski
-Files patched: hints/linux.sh sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15208: SelectSaver
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: MANIFEST lib/SelectSaver.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15209: DirHandle
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: MANIFEST lib/DirHandle.pm t/lib/dirhand.t
-
-NETaa15210: sysopen()
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: doio.c keywords.pl lib/ExtUtils/typemap opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h toke.c
- Applied suggested patch. Hope it works...
-
-NETaa15211: use mnemonic names in Safe setup
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: ext/Safe/Safe.pm
- Applied suggested patch, more or less.
-
-NETaa15214: prototype()
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: ext/Safe/Safe.pm global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl pp.c toke.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15217: -w problem with -d:foo
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: perl.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15218: *GLOB{ELEMENT}
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: Makefile.SH embed.h ext/Safe/Safe.pm keywords.h opcode.h opcode.h opcode.pl perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c t/lib/safe.t vms/perly_c.vms
-
-NETaa15219: Make *x=\*y do like *x=*y
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15221: Indigestion with Carp::longmess and big eval '...'s
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: lib/Carp.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15222: VERSION patch for standard extensions
-From: Paul Marquess
-Files patched: ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Makefile.PL ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm ext/GDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.pm ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.pm ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.pm ext/Safe/Makefile.PL ext/Safe/Safe.pm ext/Socket/Makefile.PL
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15222: VERSION patch for standard extensions (reprise)
-Files patched: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.pm ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.pm ext/Safe/Safe.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
- (same)
-
-NETaa15227: $i < 10000 should optimize to integer op
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: op.c op.c
- The program
-
- for ($i = 0; $i < 100000; $i++) {
- push @foo, $i;
- }
-
- takes about one quarter the memory if the optimizer decides that it can
- use an integer < comparison rather than floating point. It now does so
- if one side is an integer constant and the other side a simple variable.
- This should really help some of our benchmarks. You can still force a
- floating point comparison by using 100000.0 instead.
-
-NETaa15228: CPerl-mode patch
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: emacs/cperl-mode.el
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15231: Symbol::qualify()
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm gv.c lib/SelectSaver.pm lib/Symbol.pm pp_hot.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15236: select select broke under use strict
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: op.c
- Instead of inventing a new bit, I just turned off the HINT_STRICT_REFS bit.
- I don't think it's worthwhile distinguishing between qualified or unqualified
- names to select.
-
-NETaa15237: use vars
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: MANIFEST gv.c lib/subs.pm lib/vars.pm sv.c
-
-NETaa15240: keep op names _and_ descriptions
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: doio.c embed.h ext/Safe/Safe.pm ext/Safe/Safe.xs global.sym op.c opcode.h opcode.pl scope.c sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15259: study doesn't unset on string modification
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: mg.c pp.c
- Piggybacked on m//g unset magic to unset the study too.
-
-NETaa15276: pick a better initial cxstack_max
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: perl.c
- Added fudge in, and made it calculate how many it could fit into (most of) 8K,
- to avoid getting 16K of Kingsley malloc.
-
-NETaa15287: numeric comparison optimization adjustments
-From: Clark Cooper
-Files patched: op.c
- Applied patch suggested by Chip, with liberalization to >= and <=.
-
-NETaa15299: couldn't eval string containing pod or __DATA__
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Also: Gisle Aas
-Files patched: toke.c
- Basically, eval didn't know how to bypass pods correctly.
-
-NETaa15300: sv_backoff problems
-From: Paul Marquess
-Also: mtr
-Also: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: op.c sv.c sv.h
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15312: Avoid fclose(NULL)
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: toke.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15318: didn't set up perl_init_i18nl14n for export
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: perl_exp.SH
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15331: File::Path::rmtree followed symlinks
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: lib/File/Path.pm
- Added suggested patch, except I did
-
- if (not -l $root and -d _) {
-
- for efficiency, since if -d is true, the -l already called lstat on it.
-
-NETaa15339: sv_gets() didn't reset count
-From: alanburlison@unn.unisys.com
-Files patched: sv.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15341: differentiated importation of different types
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: gv.c gv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c sv.h toke.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15342: Consistent handling of e_{fp,tmpname}
-From: Chip Salzenberg
-Files patched: perl.c pp_ctl.c util.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15344: Safe gets confused about malloc on AIX
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: ext/Safe/Safe.xs
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15348: -M upgrade
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: perl.c pod/perlrun.pod
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa15369: change in split optimization broke scalar context
-From: Ulrich Pfeifer
-Files patched: op.c
- The earlier patch to make the split optimization pay attention to
- OPpASSIGN_COMMON rearranged how the syntax tree is constructed, but kept
- the wrong context flags. This causes pp_split() do do the wrong thing.
-
-NETaa15423: can't do subversion numbering because of %5.3f assumptions
-From: Andy Dougherty
-Files patched: configpm patchlevel.h perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c
- Removed the %5.3f assumptions where appropriate. patchlevel.h now
- defines SUBVERSION, which if greater than 0 indicates a development version.
-
-NETaa15424: Sigsetjmp patch
-From: Kenneth Albanowski
-Files patched: Configure config_h.SH op.c perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c util.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-Needed to make install paths absolute.
-Files patched: installperl
-
-h2xs 1.14
-Files patched: utils/h2xs.PL
-
-makedir() looped on a symlink to a directory.
-Files patched: installperl
-
-xsubpp 1.932
-Files patched: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
-
--------------
-Version 5.001
--------------
-
-Nearly all the changes for 5.001 were bug fixes of one variety or another,
-so here's the bug list, along with the "resolution" for each of them. If
-you wish to correspond about any of them, please include the bug number.
-
-There were a few that can be construed as enhancements:
- NETaa13059: now warns of use of \1 where $1 is necessary.
- NETaa13512: added $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} hooks
- NETaa13520: added closures
- NETaa13530: scalar keys now resets hash iterator
- NETaa13641: added Tim's fancy new import whizbangers
- NETaa13710: cryptswitch needed to be more "useable"
- NETaa13716: Carp now allows multiple packages to be skipped out of
- NETaa13716: now counts imported routines as "defined" for redef warnings
- (and, of course, much of the stuff from the perl5-porters)
-
-NETaa12974: README incorrectly said it was a pre-release.
-Files patched: README
-
-NETaa13033: goto pushed a bogus scope on the context stack.
-From: Steve Vinoski
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- The goto operator pushed an extra bogus scope onto the context stack. (This
- often didn't matter, since many things pop extra unrecognized scopes off.)
-
-NETaa13034: tried to get valid pointer from undef.
-From: Castor Fu
-Also: Achille Hui, the Day Dreamer
-Also: Eric Arnold
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Now treats undef specially, and calls SvPV_force on any non-numeric scalar
- value to get a real pointer to somewhere.
-
-NETaa13035: included package info with filehandles.
-From: Jack Shirazi - BIU
-Files patched: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
- Now passes a glob to filehandle methods to keep the package info intact.
-
-NETaa13048: didn't give strict vars message on every occurrence.
-From: Doug Campbell
-Files patched: gv.c
- It now complains about every occurrence. (The bug resulted from an
- ill-conceived attempt to suppress a duplicate error message in a
- suboptimal fashion.)
-
-NETaa13052: test for numeric sort sub return value fooled by taint magic.
-From: Peter Jaspers-Fayer
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c sv.h
- The test to see if the sort sub return value was numeric looked at the
- public flags rather than the private flags of the SV, so taint magic
- hid that info from the sort.
-
-NETaa13053: forced a2p to use byacc
-From: Andy Dougherty
-Files patched: MANIFEST x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.c
- a2p.c is now pre-byacced and shipped with the kit.
-
-NETaa13055: misnamed constant in previous patch.
-From: Conrad Augustin
-Files patched: op.c op.h toke.c
- The tokener translates $[ to a constant, but with a special marking in case
- the constant gets assigned to or localized. Unfortunately, the marking
- was done with a combination of OPf_SPECIAL and OPf_MOD that was easily
- spoofed. There is now a private OPpCONST_ARYLEN flag for this purpose.
-
-NETaa13055: use of OPf_SPECIAL for $[ lvaluehood was too fragile.
-Files patched: op.c op.h toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13056: convert needs to throw away any number info on its list.
-From: Jack Shirazi - BIU
-Files patched: op.c
- The listiness of the argument list leaked out to the subroutine call because
- of how prepend_elem and append_elem reuse an existing list. The convert()
- routine just needs to discard any listiness it finds on its argument.
-
-NETaa13058: AUTOLOAD shouldn't assume size of @_ is meaningful.
-From: Florent Guillaume
-Files patched: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm h2xs.SH
- I just deleted the optimization, which is silly anyway since the eventual
- subroutine definition is cached.
-
-NETaa13059: now warns of use of \1 where $1 is necessary.
-From: Gustaf Neumann
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now says
-
- Can't use \1 to mean $1 in expression at foo line 2
-
- along with an explanation in perldiag.
+ 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.
-NETaa13060: no longer warns on attempt to read <> operator's transition state.
-From: Chaim Frenkel
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- No longer warns on <> operator's transitional state.
+Index: doio.c
-NETaa13140: warning said $ when @ would be more appropriate.
-From: David J. MacKenzie
-Files patched: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
- Now says
-
- (Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?)
-
- and added more explanation to perldiag.
-
-NETaa13149: was reading freed memory to make incorrect error message.
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- It was reading freed memory to make an error message that would be
- incorrect in any event because it had the inner filename rather than
- the outer.
-
-NETaa13149: confess was sometimes less informative than croak
-From: Jack Shirazi
-Files patched: lib/Carp.pm
- (same)
-
-NETaa13150: stderr needs to be STDERR in package
-From: Jack Shirazi
-Files patched: lib/File/CheckTree.pm
- Also fixed pl2pm to translate the filehandles to uppercase.
-
-NETaa13150: uppercases stdin, stdout and stderr
-Files patched: pl2pm
- (same)
-
-NETaa13154: array assignment didn't notice package magic.
-From: Brian Reichert
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- The list assignment operator looked for only set magic, but set magic is
- only on the elements of a magical hash, not on the hash as a whole. I made
- the operator look for any magic at all on the target array or hash.
-
-NETaa13155: &DB::DB left trash on the stack.
-From: Thomas Koenig
-Files patched: lib/perl5db.pl pp_ctl.c
- The call by pp_dbstate() to &DB::DB left trash on the stack. It now
- calls DB in list context, and DB returns ().
-
-NETaa13156: lexical variables didn't show up in debugger evals.
-From: Joergen Haegg
-Files patched: op.c
- The code that searched back up the context stack for the lexical scope
- outside the eval only partially took into consideration that there
- might be extra debugger subroutine frames that shouldn't be used, and
- ended up comparing the wrong statement sequence number to the range of
- valid sequence numbers for the scope of the lexical variable. (There
- was also a bug fixed in passing that caused the scope of lexical to go
- clear to the end of the subroutine even if it was within an inner block.)
-
-NETaa13157: any request for autoloaded DESTROY should create a null one.
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: lib/AutoLoader.pm
- If DESTROY.al is not located, it now creates sub DESTROY {} automatically.
-
-NETaa13158: now preserves $@ around destructors while leaving eval.
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Applied supplied patch, except the whole second hunk can be replaced with
-
- sv_insert(errsv, 0, 0, message, strlen(message));
-
-NETaa13160: clarified behavior of split without arguments
-From: Harry Edmon
-Files patched: pod/perlfunc.pod
- Clarified the behavior of split without arguments.
-
-NETaa13162: eval {} lost list/scalar context
-From: Dov Grobgeld
-Files patched: op.c
- LEAVETRY didn't propagate number to ENTERTRY.
-
-NETaa13163: clarified documentation of foreach using my variable
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: pod/perlsyn.pod
- Explained that foreach using a lexical is still localized.
-
-NETaa13164: the dot detector for the end of formats was over-rambunctious.
-From: John Stoffel
-Files patched: toke.c
- The dot detector for the end of formats was over-rambunctious. It would
- pick up any dot that didn't have a space in front of it.
-
-NETaa13165: do {} while 1 never linked outer block into next chain.
-From: Gisle Aas
-Files patched: op.c
- When the conditional of do {} while 1; was optimized away, it confused the
- postfix order construction so that the block that ordinarily sits around the
- whole loop was never executed. So when the loop tried to unstack between
- iterations, it got the wrong context, and blew away the lexical variables
- of the outer scope. Fixed it by introducing a NULL opcode that will be
- optimized away later.
-
-NETaa13167: coercion was looking at public bits rather than private bits.
-From: Randal L. Schwartz
-Also: Thomas Riechmann
-Also: Shane Castle
-Files patched: sv.c
- There were some bad ifdefs around the various varieties of set*id(). In
- addition, tainting was interacting badly with assignment to $> because
- sv_2iv() was examining SvPOK rather than SvPOKp, and so couldn't coerce
- a string uid to an integer one.
-
-NETaa13167: had some ifdefs wrong on set*id.
-Files patched: mg.c pp_hot.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13168: relaxed test for comparison of new and old fds
-From: Casper H.S. Dik
-Files patched: t/lib/posix.t
- I relaxed the comparison to just check that the new fd is greater.
-
-NETaa13169: autoincrement can corrupt scalar value state.
-From: Gisle Aas
-Also: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: sv.c
- It assumed a PV didn't need to be upgraded to become an NV.
-
-NETaa13169: previous patch could leak a string pointer.
-Files patched: sv.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13170: symbols missing from global.sym
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: global.sym
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13171: \\ in <<'END' shouldn't reduce to \.
-From: Randal L. Schwartz
-Files patched: toke.c
- <<'END' needed to bypass ordinary single-quote processing.
-
-NETaa13172: 'use integer' turned off magical autoincrement.
-From: Erich Rickheit KSC
-Files patched: pp.c pp_hot.c
- The integer versions of the increment and decrement operators were trying too
- hard to be efficient.
-
-NETaa13172: deleted duplicate increment and decrement code
-Files patched: opcode.h opcode.pl pp.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13173: install should make shared libraries executable.
-From: Brian Grossman
-Also: Dave Nadler
-Also: Eero Pajarre
-Files patched: installperl
- Now gives permission 555 to any file ending with extension specified by $dlext.
-
-NETaa13176: ck_rvconst didn't free the const it used up.
-From: Nick Duffek
-Files patched: op.c
- I checked in many random memory leaks under this bug number, since it
- was an eval that brought many of them out.
-
-NETaa13176: didn't delete XRV for temp ref of destructor.
-Files patched: sv.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: didn't delete op_pmshort in matching operators.
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: eval leaked the name of the eval.
-Files patched: scope.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: gp_free didn't free the format.
-Files patched: gv.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: minor leaks in loop exits and constant subscript optimization.
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: plugged some duplicate struct allocation memory leaks.
-Files patched: perl.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: sv_clear of an FM didn't clear anything.
-Files patched: sv.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13176: tr/// didn't mortalize its return value.
-Files patched: pp.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13177: SCOPE optimization hid line number info
-From: David J. MacKenzie
-Also: Hallvard B Furuseth
-Files patched: op.c
- Every pass on the syntax tree has to keep track of the current statement.
- Unfortunately, the single-statement block was optimized into a single
- statement between the time the variable was parsed and the time the
- void code scan was done, so that pass didn't see the OP_NEXTSTATE
- operator, because it has been optimized to an OP_NULL.
-
- Fortunately, null operands remember what they were, so it was pretty easy
- to make it set the correct line number anyway.
-
-NETaa13178: some linux doesn't handle nm well
-From: Alan Modra
-Files patched: hints/linux.sh
- Applied supplied patch.
-
-NETaa13180: localized slice now pre-extends array
-From: Larry Schuler
-Files patched: pp.c
- A localized slice now pre-extends its array to avoid reallocation during
- the scope of the local.
-
-NETaa13181: m//g didn't keep track of whether previous match matched null.
-From: "philippe.verdret"
-Files patched: mg.h pp_hot.c
- A pattern isn't allowed to match a null string in the same place twice in
- a row. m//g wasn't keeping track of whether the previous match matched
- the null string.
-
-NETaa13182: now includes whitespace as a regexp metacharacter.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- scan_const() now counts " \t\n\r\f\v" as metacharacters when scanning a pattern.
-
-NETaa13183: sv_setsv shouldn't try to clone an object.
-From: Peter Gordon
-Files patched: sv.c
- The sv_mortalcopy() done by the return in STORE called sv_setsv(),
- which cloned the object. sv_setsv() shouldn't be in the business of
- cloning objects.
-
-NETaa13184: bogus warning on quoted signal handler name removed.
-From: Dan Carson
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now doesn't complain unless the first non-whitespace character after the =
- is an alphabetic character.
-
-NETaa13186: now croaks on chop($')
-From: Casper H.S. Dik
-Files patched: doop.c
- Now croaks on chop($') and such.
-
-NETaa13187: "${foo::bar}" now counts as mere delimitation, not as a bareword.
-From: Jay Rogers
-Files patched: toke.c
- "${foo::bar}" now counts as mere delimitation, not as a bareword inside a
- reference block.
-
-NETaa13188: for backward compatibility, looks for "perl -" before "perl".
-From: Russell Mosemann
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now allows non-whitespace characters on the #! line between the "perl"
- and the "-".
-
-NETaa13188: now allows non-whitespace after #!...perl before switches.
-Files patched: toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13189: derivative files need to be removed before recreation
-From: Simon Leinen
-Also: Dick Middleton
-Also: David J. MacKenzie
-Files patched: embed_h.sh x2p/Makefile.SH
- Fixed various little nits as suggested in several messages.
-
-NETaa13190: certain assignments can spoof pod directive recognizer
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: toke.c
- The lexer now only recognizes pod directives where a statement is expected.
-
-NETaa13194: now returns undef when there is no curpm.
-From: lusol@Dillon.CC.Lehigh.EDU
-Files patched: mg.c
- Since there was no regexp prior to the "use", it was returning whatever the
- last successful match was within the "use", because there was no current
- regexp, so it treated it as a normal variable. It now returns undef.
-
-NETaa13195: semop had one S too many.
-From: Joachim Huober
-Files patched: opcode.pl
- The entry in opcode.pl had one too many S's.
-
-NETaa13196: always assumes it's a Perl script if -c is used.
-From: Dan Carson
-Files patched: toke.c
- It now will assume it's a Perl script if the -c switch is used.
-
-NETaa13197: changed implicit -> message to be more understandable.
-From: Bruce Barnett
-Files patched: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
- I changed the error message to be more understandable. It now says
-
- Can't use subscript on sort...
-
+ Possibly Include <signal.h> and <unistd.h>
-NETaa13201: added OPpCONST_ENTERED flag to properly enter filehandle symbols.
-From: E. Jay Berkenbilt
-Also: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: op.c op.h toke.c
- The grammatical reduction of a print statement didn't properly count
- the filehandle as a symbol reference because it couldn't distinguish
- between a symbol entered earlier in the program and a symbol entered
- for the first time down in the lexer.
-
-NETaa13203: README shouldn't mention uperl.o any more.
-From: Anno Siegel
-Files patched: README
-
-NETaa13204: .= shouldn't warn on uninitialized target.
-From: Pete Peterson
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- No longer warns on uninitialized target of .= operator.
-
-NETaa13206: handy macros in XSUB.h
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: XSUB.h
- Added suggested macros.
-
-NETaa13228: commonality checker didn't treat lexicals as variables.
-From: mcook@cognex.com
-Files patched: op.c opcode.pl
- The list assignment operator tries to avoid unnecessary copies by doing the
- assignment directly if there are no common variables on either side of the
- equals. Unfortunately, the code that decided that only recognized references
- to dynamic variables, not lexical variables.
-
-NETaa13229: fixed sign stuff for complement, integer coercion.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: perl.h pp.c sv.c
- Fixed ~0 and integer coercions.
-
-NETaa13230: no longer tries to reuse scratchpad temps if tainting in effect.
-From: Luca Fini
-Files patched: op.c
- I haven't reproduced it, but I believe the problem is the reuse of scratchpad
- temporaries between statements. I've made it not try to reuse them if
- tainting is in effect.
-
-NETaa13231: *foo = *bar now prevents typo warnings on "foo"
-From: Robin Barker
-Files patched: sv.c
- Aliasing of the form *foo = *bar is now protected from the typo warnings.
- Previously only the *foo = \$bar form was.
-
-NETaa13235: require BAREWORD now introduces package name immediately.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- require BAREWORD now introduces package name immediately. This lets the
- method intuit code work right even though the require hasn't actually run
- yet.
-
-NETaa13289: didn't calculate correctly using arybase.
-From: Jared Rhine
-Files patched: pp.c pp_hot.c
- The runtime code didn't use curcop->cop_arybase correctly.
-
-NETaa13301: store now throws exception on error
-From: Barry Friedman
-Files patched: ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.xs ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.xs ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.xs
- Changed warn to croak in ext/*DBM_File/*.xs.
-
-NETaa13302: ctime now takes Time_t rather than Time_t*.
-From: Rodger Anderson
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- Now declares a Time_t and takes the address of that in CODE.
-
-NETaa13302: shorter way to do this patch
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- (same)
-
-NETaa13304: could feed too large $@ back into croak, whereupon it croaked.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: perl.c
- callist() could feed $@ back into croak with more than a bare %s. (croak()
- handles long strings with a bare %s okay.)
-
-NETaa13305: compiler misoptimized RHS to outside of s/a/print/e
-From: Brian S. Cashman <bsc@umich.edu>
-Files patched: op.c
- The syntax tree was being misconstructed because the compiler felt that
- the RHS was invariant, so it did it outside the s///.
-
-NETaa13314: assigning mortal to lexical leaks
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: sv.c
- In stealing strings, sv_setsv was checking SvPOK to see if it should free
- the destination string. It should have been checking SvPVX.
-
-NETaa13316: wait4pid now recalled when errno == EINTR
-From: Robert J. Pankratz
-Files patched: pp_sys.c util.c
- system() and the close() of a piped open now recall wait4pid if it returned
- prematurely with errno == EINTR.
-
-NETaa13329: needed to localize taint magic
-From: Brian Katzung
-Files patched: sv.c doio.c mg.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c scope.c taint.c
- Taint magic is now localized better, though I had to resort to a kludge
- to allow a value to be both tainted and untainted simultaneously during
- the assignment of
-
- local $foo = $_[0];
-
- when $_[0] is a reference to the variable $foo already.
-
-NETaa13341: clarified interaction of AnyDBM_File::ISA and "use"
-From: Ian Phillipps
-Files patched: pod/modpods/AnyDBMFile.pod
- The doc was misleading.
-
-NETaa13342: grep and map with block would enter block but never leave it.
-From: Ian Phillipps
-Files patched: op.c
- The compiler use some sort-checking code to handle the arguments of
- grep and map. Unfortunately, this wiped out the block exit opcode while
- leaving the block entry opcode. This doesn't matter to sort, but did
- matter to grep and map. It now leave the block entry intact.
-
- The reason it worked without the my is because the block entry and exit
- were optimized away to an OP_SCOPE, which it doesn't matter if it's there
- or not.
-
-NETaa13343: goto needed to longjmp when in a signal handler.
-From: Robert Partington
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- goto needed to longjmp() when in a signal handler to get back into the
- right run() context.
-
+Index: doop.c
-NETaa13344: strict vars shouldn't apply to globs or filehandles.
-From: Andrew Wilcox
-Files patched: gv.c
- Filehandles and globs will be excepted from "strict vars", so that you can
- do the standard Perl 4 trick of
-
- use strict;
- sub foo {
- local(*IN);
- open(IN,"file");
- }
-
+ No longer prefer bcmp over memcmp when order doesn't matter.
-NETaa13345: assert.pl didn't use package DB
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: lib/assert.pl
- Now it does.
-
-NETaa13348: av_undef didn't free scalar representing $#foo.
-From: David Filo
-Files patched: av.c
- av_undef didn't free scalar representing $#foo.
-
-NETaa13349: sort sub accumulated save stack entries
-From: David Filo
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- COMMON only gets set if assigning to @_, which is reasonable. Most of the
- problem was a memory leak.
-
-NETaa13351: didn't treat indirect filehandles as references.
-From: Andy Dougherty
-Files patched: op.c
- Now produces
-
- Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at ./foo line 3.
-
+ Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
-NETaa13352: OP_SCOPE allocated as UNOP rather than LISTOP.
-From: Andy Dougherty
-Files patched: op.c
+Index: embed.h
-NETaa13353: scope() didn't release filegv on OP_SCOPE optimization.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: op.c
- When scope() nulled out a NEXTSTATE, it didn't release its filegv reference.
+ Auto-generated.
-NETaa13355: hv_delete now avoids useless mortalcopy
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: hv.c op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c util.c
- hv_delete now avoids useless mortalcopy.
-
+Index: embed.pl
-NETaa13359: comma operator section missing its heading
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pod/perlop.pod
-
-NETaa13359: random typo
-Files patched: pod/perldiag.pod
-
-NETaa13360: code to handle partial vec values was bogus.
-From: Conrad Augustin
-Files patched: pp.c
- The code that Mark J. added a long time ago to handle values that were partially
- off the end of the string was incorrect.
-
-NETaa13361: made it not interpolate inside regexp comments
-From: Martin Jost
-Files patched: toke.c
- To avoid surprising people, it no longer interpolates inside regexp
- comments.
-
-NETaa13362: ${q[1]} should be interpreted like it used to
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now resolves ${keyword[1]} to $keyword[1] and warns if -w. Likewise for {}.
-
-NETaa13363: meaning of repeated search chars undocumented in tr///
-From: Stephen P. Potter
-Files patched: pod/perlop.pod
- Documented that repeated characters use the first translation given.
-
-NETaa13365: if closedir fails, don't try it again.
-From: Frank Crawford
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Now does not attempt to closedir a second time.
-
-NETaa13366: can't do block scope optimization on $1 et al when tainting.
-From: Andrew Vignaux
-Files patched: toke.c
- The tainting mechanism assumes that every statement starts out
- untainted. Unfortunately, the scope removal optimization for very
- short blocks removed the statementhood of statements that were
- attempting to read $1 as an untainted value, with the effect that $1
- appeared to be tainted anyway. The optimization is now disabled when
- tainting and the block contains $1 (or equivalent).
-
-NETaa13366: fixed this a better way in toke.c.
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13366: need to disable scope optimization when tainting.
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13367: Did a SvCUR_set without nulling out final char.
-From: "Rob Henderson" <robh@cs.indiana.edu>
-Files patched: doop.c pp.c pp_sys.c
- When do_vop set the length on its result string it neglected to null-terminate
- it.
-
-NETaa13368: bigrat::norm sometimes chucked sign
-From: Greg Kuperberg
-Files patched: lib/bigrat.pl
- The normalization routine was assuming that the gcd of two numbers was
- never negative, and based on that assumption managed to move the sign
- to the denominator, where it was deleted on the assumption that the
- denominator is always positive.
-
-NETaa13368: botched previous patch
-Files patched: lib/bigrat.pl
- (same)
-
-NETaa13369: # is now a comment character, and \# should be left for regcomp.
-From: Simon Parsons
-Files patched: toke.c
- It was not skipping the comment when it skipped the white space, and constructed
- an opcode that tried to match a null string. Unfortunately, the previous
- star tried to use the first character of the null string to optimize where
- to recurse, so it never matched.
-
-NETaa13369: comment after regexp quantifier induced non-match.
-Files patched: regcomp.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13370: some code assumed SvCUR was of type int.
-From: Spider Boardman
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Did something similar to the proposed patch. I also fixed the problem that
- it assumed the type of SvCUR was int. And fixed get{peer,sock}name the
- same way.
-
-NETaa13375: sometimes dontbother wasn't added back into strend.
-From: Jamshid Afshar
-Files patched: regexec.c
- When the /g modifier was used, the regular expression code would calculate
- the end of $' too short by the minimum number of characters the pattern could
- match.
-
-NETaa13375: sv_setpvn now disallows negative length.
-Files patched: sv.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13376: suspected indirect objecthood prevented recognition of lexical.
-From: Gisle.Aas@nr.no
-Files patched: toke.c
- When $data[0] is used in a spot that might be an indirect object, the lexer
- was getting confused over the rule that says the $data in $$data[0] isn't
- an array element. (The lexer uses XREF state for both indirect objects
- and for variables used as names.)
-
-NETaa13377: -I processesing ate remainder of #! line.
-From: Darrell Schiebel
-Files patched: perl.c
- I made the -I processing in moreswitches look for the end of the string,
- delimited by whitespace.
-
-NETaa13379: ${foo} now treated the same outside quotes as inside
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: toke.c
- ${bareword} is now treated the same outside quotes as inside.
-
-NETaa13379: previous fix for this bug was botched
-Files patched: toke.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13381: TEST should check for perl link
-From: Andy Dougherty
-Files patched: t/TEST
- die "You need to run \"make test\" first to set things up.\n" unless -e 'perl';
-
+ Expand warning at the top.
-NETaa13384: fixed version 0.000 botch.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: installperl
-
-NETaa13385: return 0 from required file loses message
-From: Malcolm Beattie
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
- Works right now.
-
-NETaa13387: added pod2latex
-From: Taro KAWAGISHI
-Files patched: MANIFEST pod/pod2latex
- Added most recent copy to pod directory.
-
-NETaa13388: constant folding now prefers integer results over double
-From: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: op.c
- Constant folding now prefers integer results over double.
-
-NETaa13389: now treats . and exec as shell metathingies
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: doio.c
- Now treats . and exec as shell metathingies.
-
-NETaa13395: eval didn't check taintedness.
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c
-
-NETaa13396: $^ coredumps at end of string
-From: Paul Rogers
-Files patched: toke.c
- The scan_ident() didn't check for a null following $^.
-
-NETaa13397: improved error messages when operator expected
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- Added message (Do you need to predeclare BAR?). Also fixed the missing
- semicolon message.
-
-NETaa13399: cleanup by Andy
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: Changes Configure Makefile.SH README cflags.SH config.H config_h.SH deb.c doop.c dump.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/util/make_ext h2xs.SH hints/aix.sh hints/bsd386.sh hints/dec_osf.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/irix_5.sh hints/next_3_2.sh hints/sunos_4_1.sh hints/svr4.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh installperl lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/Term/Cap.pm mg.c miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH pod/Makefile pod/perldiag.pod pod/pod2html pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h sv.h t/re_tests util.c x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2py.c x2p/handy.h x2p/hash.c x2p/hash.h x2p/str.c x2p/str.h x2p/util.c x2p/util.h x2p/walk.c
-
-NETaa13399: cleanup from Andy
-Files patched: MANIFEST
-
-NETaa13399: configuration cleanup
-Files patched: Configure Configure MANIFEST MANIFEST Makefile.SH Makefile.SH README config.H config.H config_h.SH config_h.SH configpm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/util/make_ext handy.h hints/aix.sh hints/hpux_9.sh hints/hpux_9.sh hints/irix_4.sh hints/linux.sh hints/mpeix.sh hints/next_3_2.sh hints/solaris_2.sh hints/svr4.sh installperl installperl lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Text/Tabs.pm makedepend.SH makedepend.SH mg.c op.c perl.h perl_exp.SH pod/perl.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/pod2man pp_sys.c proto.h proto.h unixish.h util.c util.c vms/config.vms writemain.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2py.c x2p/a2py.c x2p/handy.h x2p/util.c x2p/walk.c x2p/walk.c
-
-NETaa13399: new files from Andy
-Files patched: ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL ext/Fcntl/Makefile.PL ext/GDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/Socket/Makefile.PL globals.c hints/convexos.sh hints/irix_6.sh
-
-NETaa13399: patch0l from Andy
-Files patched: Configure MANIFEST Makefile.SH config.H config_h.SH ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL ext/GDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/util/make_ext h2xs.SH hints/next_3_2.sh hints/solaris_2.sh hints/unicos.sh installperl lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm makeaperl.SH vms/config.vms x2p/util.c x2p/util.h
-
-NETaa13399: stuff from Andy
-Files patched: Configure MANIFEST Makefile.SH configpm hints/dec_osf.sh hints/linux.sh hints/machten.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm util.c
-
-NETaa13399: Patch 0k from Andy
-Files patched: Configure MANIFEST Makefile.SH config.H config_h.SH hints/dec_osf.sh hints/mpeix.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh installperl lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Path.pm makeaperl.SH minimod.PL perl.c proto.h vms/config.vms vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm x2p/a2p.h
-
-NETaa13399: Patch 0m from Andy
-Files patched: Configure MANIFEST Makefile.SH README config.H config_h.SH ext/DynaLoader/README ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h ext/util/extliblist hints/cxux.sh hints/linux.sh hints/powerunix.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm malloc.c perl.h pp_sys.c util.c
-
-NETaa13400: pod2html update from Bill Middleton
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pod/pod2html
-
-NETaa13401: Boyer-Moore code attempts to compile string longer than 255.
-From: Kyriakos Georgiou
-Files patched: util.c
- The Boyer-Moore table uses unsigned char offsets, but the BM compiler wasn't
- rejecting strings longer than 255 chars, and was miscompiling them.
-
-NETaa13403: missing a $ on variable name
-From: Wayne Scott
-Files patched: installperl
- Yup, it was missing.
-
-NETaa13406: didn't wipe out dead match when proceeding to next BRANCH
-From: Michael P. Clemens
-Files patched: regexec.c
- The code to check alternatives didn't invalidate backreferences matched by the
- failed branch.
-
-NETaa13407: overload upgrade
-From: owner-perl5-porters@nicoh.com
-Also: Ilya Zakharevich
-Files patched: MANIFEST gv.c lib/Math/BigInt.pm perl.h pod/perlovl.pod pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c sv.c t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/overload.t
- Applied supplied patch, and fixed bug induced by use of sv_setsv to do
- a deep copy, since sv_setsv no longer copies objecthood.
-
-NETaa13409: sv_gets tries to grow string at EOF
-From: Harold O Morris
-Files patched: sv.c
- Applied suggested patch, only two statements earlier, since the end code
- also does SvCUR_set.
-
-NETaa13410: delaymagic did =~ instead of &= ~
-From: Andreas Schwab
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- Applied supplied patch.
-
-NETaa13411: POSIX didn't compile under -DLEAKTEST
-From: Frederic Chauveau
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- Used NEWSV instead of newSV.
-
-NETaa13412: new version from Tony Sanders
-From: Tony Sanders
-Files patched: lib/Term/Cap.pm
- Installed as Term::Cap.pm
-
-NETaa13413: regmust extractor needed to restart loop on BRANCH for (?:) to work
-From: DESARMENIEN
-Files patched: regcomp.c
- The BRANCH skipper should have restarted the loop from the top.
-
-NETaa13414: the check for accidental list context was done after pm_short check
-From: Michael H. Coen
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- Moved check for accidental list context to before the pm_short optimization.
-
-NETaa13418: perlre.pod babbled nonsense about | in character classes
-From: Philip Hazel
-Files patched: pod/perlre.pod
- Removed bogus brackets. Now reads:
- Note however that "|" is interpreted as a literal with square brackets,
- so if you write C<[fee|fie|foe]> you're really only matching C<[feio|]>.
-
-NETaa13419: need to document introduction of lexical variables
-From: "Heading, Anthony"
-Files patched: pod/perlfunc.pod
- Now mentions that lexicals aren't introduced till after the current statement.
-
-NETaa13420: formats that overflowed a page caused endless top of forms
-From: Hildo@CONSUL.NL
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- If a record is too large to fit on a page, it now prints whatever will
- fit and then calls top of form again on the remainder.
-
-NETaa13423: the code to do negative list subscript in scalar context was missing
-From: Steve McDougall
-Files patched: pp.c
- The negative subscript code worked right in list context but not in scalar
- context. In fact, there wasn't code to do it in the scalar context.
-
-NETaa13424: existing but undefined CV blocked inheritance
-From: Spider Boardman
-Files patched: gv.c
- Applied supplied patch.
-
-NETaa13425: removed extra argument to croak
-From: "R. Bernstein"
-Files patched: regcomp.c
- Removed extra argument.
-
-NETaa13427: added return types
-From: "R. Bernstein"
-Files patched: x2p/a2py.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13427: added static declarations
-Files patched: x2p/walk.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13428: split was assuming that all backreferences were defined
-From: Dave Schweisguth
-Files patched: pp.c
- split was assuming that all backreferences were defined.
-
-NETaa13430: hoistmust wasn't hoisting anchored shortcircuit's length
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Also: Rob Hooft
-Files patched: toke.c
-
-NETaa13432: couldn't call code ref under debugger
-From: Mike Fletcher
-Files patched: op.c pp_hot.c sv.h
- The debugging code assumed it could remember a name to represent a subroutine,
- but anonymous subroutines don't have a name. It now remembers a CV reference
- in that case.
-
-NETaa13435: 1' dumped core
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- Didn't check a pointer for nullness.
-
-NETaa13436: print foo(123) didn't treat foo as subroutine
-From: mcook@cognex.com
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now treats it as a subroutine rather than a filehandle.
-
-NETaa13437: &$::foo didn't think $::foo was a variable name
-From: mcook@cognex.com
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now treats $::foo as a global variable.
-
-NETaa13439: referred to old package name
-From: Tom Christiansen
-Files patched: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
- Wasn't a strict refs problem after all. It was simply referring to package
- syslog, which had been renamed to Sys::Syslog.
-
-NETaa13440: stat operations didn't know what to do with glob or ref to glob
-From: mcook@cognex.com
-Files patched: doio.c pp_sys.c
- Now knows about the kinds of filehandles returned by FileHandle constructors
- and such.
-
-NETaa13442: couldn't find name of copy of deleted symbol table entry
-From: Spider Boardman
-Files patched: gv.c gv.h
- I did a much simpler fix. When gp_free notices that it's freeing the
- master GV, it nulls out gp_egv. The GvENAME and GvESTASH macros know
- to revert to gv if egv is null.
-
- This has the advantage of not creating a reference loop.
-
-NETaa13443: couldn't override an XSUB
-From: William Setzer
-Files patched: op.c
- When the newSUB and newXS routines checked for whether the old sub was
- defined, they only looked at CvROOT(cv), not CvXSUB(cv).
-
-NETaa13443: needed to do same thing in newXS
-Files patched: op.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13444: -foo now doesn't warn unless sub foo is defined
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- Made it not warn on -foo, unless there is a sub foo defined.
-
-NETaa13451: in scalar context, pp_entersub now guarantees one item from XSUB
-From: Nick Gianniotis
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- The pp_entersub routine now guarantees that an XSUB in scalar context
- returns one and only one value. If there are fewer, it pushes undef,
- and if there are more, it returns the last one.
-
-NETaa13457: now explicitly disallows printf format with 'n' or '*'.
-From: lees@cps.msu.edu
-Files patched: doop.c
- Now says
-
- Use of n in printf format not supported at ./foo line 3.
-
+Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
-NETaa13458: needed to call SvPOK_only() in pp_substr
-From: Wayne Scott
-Files patched: pp.c
- Needed to call SvPOK_only() in pp_substr.
-
-NETaa13459: umask and chmod now warn about missing initial 0 even with paren
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: toke.c
- Now skips parens as well as whitespace looking for argument.
-
-NETaa13460: backtracking didn't work on .*? because reginput got clobbered
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: regexec.c
- When .*? did a probe of the rest of the string, it clobbered reginput,
- so the next call to match a . tried to match the newline and failed.
-
-NETaa13475: \(@ary) now treats array as list of scalars
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: op.c
- The mod() routine now refrains from marking @ary as an lvalue if it's in parens
- and is the subject of an OP_REFGEN.
-
-NETaa13481: accept buffer wasn't aligned good enough
-From: Holger Bechtold
-Also: Christian Murphy
-Files patched: pp_sys.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13486: while (<>) now means while (defined($_ = <>))
-From: Jim Balter
-Files patched: op.c pod/perlop.pod
- while (<HANDLE>) now means while (defined($_ = <HANDLE>)).
-
-NETaa13500: needed DESTROY in FileHandle
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
- Added DESTROY method. Also fixed ungensym to use POSIX:: instead of _POSIX.
- Removed ungensym from close method, since DESTROY should do that now.
-
-NETaa13502: now complains if you use local on a lexical variable
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: op.c
- Now says something like
-
- Can't localize lexical variable $var at ./try line 6.
-
-NETaa13512: added $SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} hooks
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: embed.h gv.c interp.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c util.c Todo pod/perldiag.pod
-
-NETaa13514: statements before intro of lex var could see lex var
-From: William Setzer
-Files patched: op.c
- When a lexical variable is declared, introduction is delayed until
- the start of the next statement, so that any initialization code runs
- outside the scope of the new variable. Thus,
-
- my $y = 3;
- my $y = $y;
- print $y;
-
- should print 3. Unfortunately, the declaration was marked with the
- beginning location at the time that "my $y" was processed instead of
- when the variable was introduced, so any embedded statements within
- an anonymous subroutine picked up the wrong "my". The declaration
- is now labelled correctly when the variable is actually introduced.
-
-NETaa13520: added closures
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: Todo cv.h embed.h global.sym gv.c interp.sym op.c perl.c perl.h pod/perlform.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c sv.c sv.h toke.c
-
-NETaa13520: test to see if lexical works in a format now
-Files patched: t/op/write.t
-
-NETaa13522: substitution couldn't be used on a substr()
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
- Changed pp_subst not to use sv_replace() anymore, which didn't handle lvalues
- and was overkill anyway. Should be slightly faster this way too.
-
-NETaa13525: G_EVAL mode in perl_call_sv didn't return values right.
-Files patched: perl.c
-
-NETaa13525: consolidated error message
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: perl.h toke.c
-
-NETaa13525: derived it
-Files patched: perly.h
-
-NETaa13525: missing some values from embed.h
-Files patched: embed.h
-
-NETaa13525: random cleanup
-Files patched: MANIFEST Todo cop.h lib/TieHash.pm lib/perl5db.pl opcode.h patchlevel.h pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod t/op/ref.t toke.c
-
-NETaa13525: random cleanup
-Files patched: pp_ctl.c util.c
-
-NETaa13527: File::Find needed to export $name and $dir
-From: Chaim Frenkel
-Files patched: lib/File/Find.pm
- They are now exported.
-
-NETaa13528: cv_undef left unaccounted-for GV pointer in CV
-From: Tye McQueen
-Also: Spider Boardman
-Files patched: op.c
-
-NETaa13530: scalar keys now resets hash iterator
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: doop.c
- scalar keys() now resets the hash iterator.
-
-NETaa13531: h2ph doesn't check defined right
-From: Casper H.S. Dik
-Files patched: h2ph.SH
-
-NETaa13540: VMS update
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: MANIFEST README.vms doio.c embed.h ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs interp.sym lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Find.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h perly.c perly.c.diff pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/Filespec.pm vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm vms/ext/VMS/stdio/Makefile.PL vms/ext/VMS/stdio/stdio.pm vms/ext/VMS/stdio/stdio.xs vms/genconfig.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h vms/writemain.pl
-
-NETaa13540: got some duplicate code
-Files patched: lib/File/Path.pm
-
-NETaa13540: stuff from Charles
-Files patched: MANIFEST README.vms lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Path.pm perl.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldiag.pod vms/Makefile vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/Filespec.pm vms/ext/Filespec.pm vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm vms/ext/VMS/stdio/stdio.pm vms/ext/VMS/stdio/stdio.xs vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/mms2make.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/sockadapt.h vms/test.com vms/vms.c vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h vms/vmsish.h vms/writemain.pl
-
-NETaa13540: tweak from Charles
-Files patched: lib/File/Path.pm
-
-NETaa13552: scalar unpack("P4",...) ignored the 4
-From: Eric Arnold
-Files patched: pp.c
- The optimization that tried to do only one item in a scalar context didn't
- realize that the argument to P was not a repeat count.
-
-NETaa13553: now warns about 8 or 9 in octal escapes
-From: Mike Rogers
-Files patched: util.c
- Now warns if it finds 8 or 9 before the end of the octal escape sequence.
- So \039 produces a warning, but \0339 does not.
-
-NETaa13554: now allows foreach ${"name"}
-From: Johan Holtman
-Files patched: op.c
- Instead of trying to remove OP_RV2SV, the compiler now just transmutes it into an
- OP_RV2GV, which is a no-op for ordinary variables and does the right
- thing for ${"name"}.
-
-NETaa13559: substitution now always checks for readonly
-From: Rodger Anderson
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- Substitution now always checks for readonly.
-
-NETaa13561: added explanations of closures and curly-quotes
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pod/perlref.pod
-
-NETaa13562: null components in path cause indigestion
-From: Ambrose Kofi Laing
-Files patched: lib/Cwd.pm lib/pwd.pl
-
-NETaa13575: documented semantics of negative substr length
-From: Jeff Bouis
-Files patched: pod/perlfunc.pod
- Documented the fact that negative length now leaves characters off the end,
- and while I was at it, made it work right even if offset wasn't 0.
-
-NETaa13575: negative length to substr didn't work when offset non-zero
-Files patched: pp.c
- (same)
-
-NETaa13575: random cleanup
-Files patched: pod/perlfunc.pod
- (same)
-
-NETaa13580: couldn't localize $ACCUMULATOR
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: gv.c lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c sv.c
- Needed to make $^A a real magical variable. Also lib/English.pm wasn't
- exporting good.
-
-NETaa13583: doc mods from Tom
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pod/modpods/AnyDBMFile.pod pod/modpods/Basename.pod pod/modpods/Benchmark.pod pod/modpods/Cwd.pod pod/modpods/Dynaloader.pod pod/modpods/Exporter.pod pod/modpods/Find.pod pod/modpods/Finddepth.pod pod/modpods/Getopt.pod pod/modpods/MakeMaker.pod pod/modpods/Open2.pod pod/modpods/POSIX.pod pod/modpods/Ping.pod pod/modpods/less.pod pod/modpods/strict.pod pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlbook.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlobj.pod pod/perlref.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod pod/perlvar.pod
-
-NETaa13589: return was enforcing list context on its arguments
-From: Tim Freeman
-Files patched: opcode.pl
- A return was being treated like a normal list operator, in that it was
- setting list context on its arguments. This was bogus.
-
-NETaa13591: POSIX::creat used wrong argument
-From: Paul Marquess
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13605: use strict refs error message now displays bad ref
-From: Peter Gordon
-Files patched: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp.c pp_hot.c
- Now says
-
- Can't use string ("2") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at ./foo line 12.
-
-NETaa13630: eof docs were unclear
-From: Hallvard B Furuseth
-Files patched: pod/perlfunc.pod
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13636: $< and $> weren't refetched on undump restart
-From: Steve Pearlmutter
-Files patched: perl.c
- The code in main() bypassed perl_construct on an undump restart, which bypassed
- the code that set $< and $>.
-
-NETaa13641: added Tim's fancy new import whizbangers
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: lib/Exporter.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13649: couldn't AUTOLOAD a symbol reference
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: pp_hot.c
- pp_entersub needed to guarantee a CV so it would get to the AUTOLOAD code.
-
-NETaa13651: renamed file had wrong package name
-From: Andreas Koenig
-Files patched: lib/File/Path.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13660: now that we're testing distribution we can diagnose RANDBITS errors
-From: Karl Glazebrook
-Files patched: t/op/rand.t
- Changed to suggested algorithm. Also duplicated it to test rand(100) too.
-
-NETaa13660: rand.t didn't test for proper distribution within range
-Files patched: t/op/rand.t
- (same)
-
-NETaa13671: array slice misbehaved in a scalar context
-From: Tye McQueen
-Files patched: pp.c
- A spurious else prevented the scalar-context-handling code from running.
-
-NETaa13672: filehandle constructors in POSIX don't return failure successfully
-From: Ian Phillipps
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
+ 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
-NETaa13678: forced $1 to always be untainted
-From: Ka-Ping Yee
-Files patched: mg.c
- I believe the bug that triggered this was fixed elsewhere, but just in case,
- I put in explicit code to force $1 et al not to be tainted regardless.
-
-NETaa13682: formline doc need to discuss ~ and ~~ policy
-From: Peter Gordon
-Files patched: pod/perlfunc.pod
-
-NETaa13686: POSIX::open and POSIX::mkfifo didn't check tainting
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- open() and mkfifo() now check tainting.
-
-NETaa13687: new Exporter.pm
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: lib/Exporter.pm
- Added suggested changes, except for @EXPORTABLE, because it looks too much
- like @EXPORTTABLE. Decided to stick with @EXPORT_OK because it looks more
- like an adjunct. Also added an export_tags routine. The keys in the
- %EXPORT_TAGS hash no longer use colons, to make the initializers prettier.
-
-NETaa13687: new Exporter.pm
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
- (same)
-
-NETaa13694: add sockaddr_in to Socket.pm
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13695: library routines should use qw() as good example
-From: Dean Roehrich
-Files patched: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13696: myconfig should be a routine in Config.pm
-From: Kenneth Albanowski
-Files patched: configpm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13704: fdopen closed fd on failure
-From: Hallvard B Furuseth
-Files patched: doio.c
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13706: Term::Cap doesn't work
-From: Dean Roehrich
-Files patched: lib/Term/Cap.pm
- Applied suggested patch.
-
-NETaa13710: cryptswitch needed to be more "useable"
-From: Tim Bunce
-Files patched: embed.h global.sym perl.h toke.c
- The cryptswitch_fp function now can operate in two modes. It can
- modify the global rsfp to redirect input as before, or it can modify
- linestr and return true, indicating that it is not necessary for yylex
- to read another line since cryptswitch_fp has just done it.
+ Fix safe*alloc and safefree prototypes.
-NETaa13712: new_tmpfile() can't be called as constructor
-From: Hans Mulder
-Files patched: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
- Now allows new_tmpfile() to be called as a constructor.
+Index: regexec.c
-NETaa13714: variable method call not documented
-From: "Randal L. Schwartz"
-Files patched: pod/perlobj.pod
- Now indicates that OBJECT->$method() works.
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
-NETaa13715: PACK->$method produces spurious warning
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: toke.c
- The -> operator was telling the lexer to expect an operator when the
- next thing was a variable.
+Index: sv.c
-NETaa13716: Carp now allows multiple packages to be skipped out of
-From: Larry Wall
-Files patched: lib/Carp.pm
- The subroutine redefinition warnings now warn on import collisions.
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
-NETaa13716: Exporter catches warnings and gives a better line number
-Files patched: lib/Exporter.pm
- (same)
+Index: t/lib/opcode.t
-NETaa13716: now counts imported routines as "defined" for redef warnings
-Files patched: op.c sv.c
- (same)
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
--------------
-Version 5.000
--------------
+Index: t/op/bop.t
-New things
-----------
- The -w switch is much more informative.
+ Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
- 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.
+Index: t/op/misc.t
- Objects. See t/op/ref.t for examples.
+ Add support for tied filehandles.
- => 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.
+Index: t/op/split.t
- 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.
-
- More embeddible. See main.c and embed_h.sh. Multiple interpreters
- in the same process are supported (though not with interleaved
- execution yet).
-
- 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.
-
- eval is now treated more like a subroutine call. Among other things,
- this means you can return from it.
+ If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
+ that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
- Format value lists may be spread over multiple lines by enclosing in
- a do {} block.
+Index: toke.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.
+ Include <unistd.h>.
- Flags on the #! line are interpreted even if the script wasn't
- executed directly. (And even if the script was located by "perl -x"!)
+ Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
- The ?: operator is now legal as an lvalue.
+Index: util.c
- List context now propagates to the right side of && and ||, as well
- as the 2nd and 3rd arguments to ?:.
+ Include <unistd.h>.
- The "defined" function can now take a general expression.
+ Use correct types for safe*alloc and safefree functions.
- Lexical scoping available via "my". eval can see the current lexical
- variables.
+Index: utils/h2ph.PL
- The preferred package delimiter is now :: rather than '.
+ Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
+ rather than extraction time.
- 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.
+Index: writemain.SH
- New "and" and "or" operators work just like && and || but with
- a precedence lower than comma, so they work better with list operators.
+ Remove unnecessary curlies. (They are a leftover from
+ an older auto_init mechanism.)
- New functions include: abs(), chr(), uc(), ucfirst(), lc(), lcfirst(),
- chomp(), glob()
+Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
- require with a number checks to see that the version of Perl that is
- currently running is at least that number.
+ Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make.
- Dynamic loading of external modules is now supported.
+ Remove MAB stuff, since it's now in ccflags.
- There is a new quote form qw//, which is equivalent to split(' ', q//).
+ Keep 5.003's RCS info.
- 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;
+Index: x2p/a2p.h
- Filehandle methods are now supported:
- output_autoflush STDOUT 1;
+ Keep 5.003's RCS info.
- There is now an "English" module that provides human readable translations
- for cryptic variable names.
+Index: x2p/str.c
- Autoload stubs can now call the replacement subroutine with goto &realsub.
+ Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.
- 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.
+----------------
+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.
- 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".
+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.
- 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.
+ - 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).
- 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.
+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
- 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.
+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.
- 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.
+----------------
+Version 5.003_01
+----------------
- 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".
+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:
- 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.
+o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-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.
+ - 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.
- Ordinary variables starting with underscore are no longer forced into
- package main.
+ - 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.
- s'$lhs'$rhs' now does no interpolation on either side. It used to
- interplolate $lhs but not $rhs.
+ - 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 second and third arguments of splice are now evaluated in scalar
- context (like the book says) rather than list context.
+ - 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.
- Saying "shift @foo + 20" is now a semantic error because of precedence.
+o Changes in Core Internals
- "open FOO || die" is now incorrect. You need parens around the filehandle.
+ - 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 elements of argument lists for formats are now evaluated in list
- context. This means you can interpolate list values now.
+ - 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.
- You can't do a goto into a block that is optimized away. Darn.
+ - 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.
- 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.
+ - The FindBin library module, which determines the full path
+ to the currently executing program, has been added to the
+ standard distribution.
- Some error messages will be different.
+ - 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 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.
+ - The Carp library module now considers the @ISA chain when
+ determining the caller's package for inclusion in error messages.
- m//g now attaches its state to the searched string rather than the
- regular expression.
+ - The h2xs, perlbug, and xsubpp utilities have been updated.
- "reverse" is no longer allowed as the name of a sort subroutine.
+ - 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.
- taintperl is no longer a separate executable. There is now a -T
- switch to turn on tainting when it isn't turned on automatically.
+ - The pod documentation formatting tools in the standard distribution
+ can now handle characters in the input stream whose high bit is set.
- Symbols starting with _ are no longer forced into package main, except
- for $_ itself (and @_, etc.).
+ - The cperl-mode EMACS editing mode has been updated.
- Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $ or @.
+o Changes in Documentation
- Negative array subscripts now count from the end of the array.
+ - Typographic and formatting errors have been corrected in the pod
+ documentation for the core and standard library files
- The comma operator in a scalar context is now guaranteed to give a
- scalar context to its arguments.
+ - Explanations of several core operators have been improved
- The ** operator now binds more tightly than unary minus.
+ - The perldebug, perlembed, perlipc, perlsec, and perltrap documents
+ extensively revised.
- Setting $#array lower now discards array elements so that destructors
- work reasonably.
+o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
- delete is not guaranteed to return the old value for tied arrays,
- since this capability may be onerous for some modules to implement.
+ - 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.
- Attempts to set $1 through $9 now result in a run-time error.
+ - 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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