default mkdir() mode argument to 0777
[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Changes
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 496de51..952f772 100644 (file)
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
 current addresses (as of July 1998):
 
     Gisle Aas           <gisle@aas.no>
-    Abigail             <abigail@fnx.com>
+    Abigail             <abigail@delanet.com>
     Kenneth Albanowski  <kjahds@kjahds.com>
     Russ Allbery        <rra@stanford.edu>
     Spider Boardman     <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
@@ -75,10 +75,1204 @@ indicator:
 
 
 ----------------
-Version v5.5.640        Development release working toward 5.6
+Version v5.5.660        Development release working toward v5.6
 ----------------
 
 ____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5112] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  20:57:12
+        Log: fix change#5104 under useithreads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5111] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  20:45:10
+        Log: export list tweak needed by change#5103
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5110] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  19:32:56
+        Log: add XS version of Sys::Hostname (from Greg Bacon
+             <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          + ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.pm ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs
+          + ext/Sys/Hostname/Makefile.PL
+          - lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+          ! MANIFEST ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/hostname.t win32/Makefile
+          ! win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5109] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  18:35:28
+        Log: UNIVERSAL::can and UNIVERSAL::isa should return undef when
+             given undefined values (from Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5108] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  18:25:05
+        Log: avoid accidental #line directives (from Rick Delaney
+             <rick@consumercontact.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlsyn.pod toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5107] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  18:04:31
+        Log: locale guards needed (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5106] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  18:02:17
+        Log: incorrect docs about delete() (spotted by Martyn Pearce
+             <martyn@inpharmatica.co.uk>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5105] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  17:43:27
+        Log: s/use vars/our/ (from Gisle Aas)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! bytecode.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5104] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  17:42:06
+        Log: optimize pseudohash slice in array slice at compile time (from
+             John Tobey <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c t/lib/fields.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5103] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  17:18:12
+        Log: provide malloc stats via get_mstats() (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl global.sym makedef.pl malloc.c objXSUB.h
+          ! perl.h perlapi.c proto.h vos/vos_dummies.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5102] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  17:05:12
+        Log: doc patches from Rick Delaney and Chris Nandor; update Todo-5.6
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Todo-5.6 pod/perldata.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5101] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  17:02:51
+        Log: fix regen_headers target to make all the autogenerated files
+             writable first
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5100] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  16:41:53
+        Log: fix misoptimization of C<my($x,$y); $x = $y = 1 + $z;> (from
+             Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c t/op/lex_assign.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5099] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  16:17:36
+        Log: more complete File::Spec support for Mac and VMS, tests (from
+             Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm t/lib/filespec.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5098] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  16:10:46
+        Log: fix incompatibility with bison generated parser (from
+             Ignasi Roca <ignasi.roca@fujitsu.siemens.es>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5097] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  16:07:17
+        Log: propagate st_mode bits to group/other for Borland build
+             (from Vadim Konovalov <vkonovalov@lucent.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5096] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/15  14:22:23
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> win32/Makefile win32/bin/exetype.pl win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5095] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/15  14:19:22
+        Log: cc_r can be in different places (/usr/ibmcxx/bin or /usr/bin),
+             easier just to drop the paranoid test.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/aix.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5094] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  05:42:17
+        Log: update exetype.pl tool
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/bin/exetype.pl win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5093] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/15  05:24:02
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Porting/pumpkin.pod embed.h embed.pl ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+         !> ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.xs ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.xs
+         !> ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.xs hv.c
+         !> perl.c proto.h sv.c t/op/ord.t t/pragma/warnings.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5092] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/15  05:22:09
+        Log: Unroll the libs scan thanks to HP-UX.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/libpth.U U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! Extensions.U dlsrc.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5091] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  05:17:56
+        Log: fix leaks in *DBM_File; safemalloc()ed things need to be freed with
+             safefree() rather than Safefree()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.xs
+          ! ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.xs ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
+          ! ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5090] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/15  04:54:17
+        Log: fix memory leak in C<$x = *Y> provoked by change#4198, which
+             introduced XPVMG storage in arenas
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5089] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/15  00:41:36
+        Log: AIX perl linkage tweakage.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5088] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/15  00:07:06
+        Log: abort instead of just promising.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/aix.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5087] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  23:51:05
+        Log: silly compilers don't know that croak() exits
+             and complain about unitialized RETVALs
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5086] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  21:13:24
+        Log: Add lseektype and lseeksize to myconfig.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! myconfig.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5085] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/14  18:51:11
+        Log: avoid warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5084] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/14  18:26:08
+        Log: fix small interpreter leaks identified by Purify
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Porting/pumpkin.pod embed.h embed.pl hv.c perl.c proto.h sv.c
+          ! t/op/ord.t t/pragma/warnings.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5083] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  17:50:52
+        Log: Remove tagged core files.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5082] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  17:41:07
+        Log: Prefer full_ar.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5081] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  17:20:32
+        Log: Add ivtype, ivsize, nvtype, nvsize to myconfig.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! myconfig.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5080] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  15:33:03
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Porting/pumpkin.pod av.c malloc.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5079] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/14  08:50:06
+        Log: notes about running Purify
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Porting/pumpkin.pod av.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5078] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/14  07:27:21
+        Log: use system malloc() instead of sbrk() in Perl_malloc() under -DPURIFY
+     Branch: perl
+          ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5077] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/14  07:25:44
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH epoc/config.sh hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh
+         !> hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh perl.h pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def vos/config.h
+         !> vos/config_h.SH_orig win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+         !> win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+         !> win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5076] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  05:01:56
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.h embed.pl objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.c proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5075] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/14  04:56:52
+        Log: Configure -A stopped processing of any further options.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Options.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5074] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/14  04:45:01
+        Log: remove outdated -DPURIFY code--it reports bogus errors during global
+             destruction since we actually depend on SVs being in arenas there
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.c proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5073] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/13  19:28:17
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          - Todo-5.005
+         !> cop.h op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c
+         !> util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5072] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/13  19:02:07
+        Log: more purification (pp_require() could access free memory; vdie()
+             could think message was random length when passed a null argument;
+             utilize() didn't set up the hash for the method name leading to
+             pp_method_named() accessing random state; PL_curpm wasn't zeroed
+             properly)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5071] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/12  19:59:35
+        Log: uselonglong sits deep.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/solaris_2.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5070] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/12  01:25:41
+        Log: megalomaniac 64-bit update: most importantly,
+             uselonglong is eradicated, only backward
+             compatibility hooks in use64bits remain.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh perl.h vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/a_dvisory/quadtype.U U/modified/libpth.U U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5069] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  21:13:41
+        Log: undo #5064 for now; there seems to be no good selection
+             of flags to add the new option.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5068] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  21:01:21
+        Log: Guard against accidental long long use.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5067] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  19:50:32
+        Log: logic fixes
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! uselonglong.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5066] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  19:32:30
+        Log: Clarify 64-bit issues.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5065] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  18:13:29
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.xs regcomp.c t/comp/require.t t/comp/use.t
+         !> toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5064] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  18:11:47
+        Log: Silence linker warnings about binary backward incompatibilities.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5063] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/11  16:36:14
+        Log: fix uninitialized memory reads found by purify
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.xs regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5062] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/11  00:11:39
+        Log: de-fancify the largefiles hints
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5061] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/10  19:17:09
+        Log: longstanding bug in parsing "require VERSION", could reallocate
+             current line and not know it; exposed by change#5004; manifested
+             as parse failure of C<{require 5.003}>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/comp/require.t t/comp/use.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5060] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/10  13:29:25
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> makedef.pl pp_ctl.c t/op/write.t win32/vdir.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5059] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/10  06:21:21
+        Log: make global symbol exports AIX-specific
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5058] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/10  06:16:57
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Makefile.SH Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh
+         !> Porting/config_H config_h.SH makedef.pl perl.h
+         !> vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def win32/config.bc
+         !> win32/config.gc win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc
+         !> win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL
+         !> win32/config_sh.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5057] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/10  01:08:01
+        Log: windows bugfixes for virtual directories under USE_ITHREADS:
+             allows path mapping to unknown devices to work properly;
+             special file names like CONOUT$ can be opened with sysopen()
+             again
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/vdir.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5056] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/10  00:56:27
+        Log: formline() could wipe out readonly-ness, freeing constants
+             prematurely, or affect cloning of pad constants
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c t/op/write.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5055] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  19:48:58
+        Log: Regenerate Configure for I_SYSLOG.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5054] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  19:38:04
+        Log: fix AIX and multiplicity problems
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Makefile.SH makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5053] By: bailey                                on 2000/02/09  10:58:11
+        Log: remove redundant archcore directory prefix in installperl
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! installperl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5052] By: bailey                                on 2000/02/09  10:44:22
+        Log: Work around prefixing bug in older DECC preprocessors
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5051] By: bailey                                on 2000/02/09  09:52:06
+        Log: Eliminate unnecessary (and sometimes confounding) test for
+             word boundary
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5050] By: bailey                                on 2000/02/09  09:29:06
+        Log: Minor fixes to assuage picky compilers (unsigned comparisons and
+             alias rules lead to compilation warnings)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! av.c mg.h pp_sys.c scope.c sv.c vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5049] By: bailey                                on 2000/02/09  09:09:45
+        Log: Resync with mainline
+     Branch: vmsperl
+         +> Todo-5.6 ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+         +> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
+         +> pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlunicode.pod
+         +> t/op/exists_sub.t t/op/ver.t t/pragma/diagnostics.t
+         +> vos/config.def vos/config.pl win32/bin/exetype.pl
+          - Todo-5.005 lib/Sys/Syslog.pm lib/caller.pm
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> (integrate 358 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5048] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  03:54:05
+        Log: OS/2 gcc doesn't like -o foo.exe and -Zexe simultaneously
+             (reported by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes in p5p)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5047] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  02:56:43
+        Log: (fake) use of getcwd.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5046] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  02:22:50
+        Log: lib scan fix
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/libs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5045] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  02:17:34
+        Log: Reintroduce #5019 via metaconfig.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/installdirs/inc_version_list.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5044] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/09  02:07:08
+        Log: Add/restore probes for getcwd/mk*temp*/mmap.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH perl.h vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+          ! win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/d_mkstemp.U U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          + d_mkdtemp.U d_mkstemps.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5043] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/08  20:58:02
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> Todo-5.6 t/op/ver.t win32/bin/exetype.pl
+         !> (integrate 110 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5042] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  20:32:12
+        Log: avoid exiting just because we didn't scan for libm ('libs' may still
+             have it, but we avoided scan for things in 'libs')
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+
+----------------
+Version v5.5.650
+----------------
+
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5041] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  07:57:11
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5040] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  07:51:20
+        Log: documentation patches (from Michael Schwern and Yitzchak
+             Scott-Thoennes)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c hv.c lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perlapi.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5039] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  07:22:46
+        Log: alias to $^V to $PERL_VERSION_TUPLE
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/English.pm pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5038] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  07:03:34
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5037] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  06:59:55
+        Log: Windows has a somewhat different sitelib layout, and needs
+             $sitelib/archname added as well
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5036] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/08  06:59:03
+        Log: change#4987 appears to have broken libs scan for platforms that
+             don't set ignore_versioned_solibs (Solaris is one of them); add
+             derivative fix from the older logic for skipping versioned .so
+             libs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5035] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  21:21:44
+        Log: sprintf("%v"...) buffer resizing busted
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5034] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  19:16:21
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5033] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  19:01:08
+        Log: stringify "\x{FFF}" to utf8 correctly; set SvUTF8 on "\x{XX}"
+             only when XX > 127
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5032] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  18:25:31
+        Log: add note about printf("%v",...)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5031] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  18:18:43
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5030] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  18:17:49
+        Log: thinko in change#5029
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5029] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  17:49:58
+        Log: change $^U to $^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS; s/PL_bigchar/PL_widesyscalls/;
+             introduce -C switch (sets $^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embedvar.h gv.c intrpvar.h mg.c perl.c perlapi.h
+          ! pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5028] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  17:10:03
+        Log: perlport updates (from Peter Prymmer)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5027] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  16:53:47
+        Log: fix up Todo-5.6
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5026] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  16:32:31
+        Log: rename Todo-5.005 to Todo-5.6
+     Branch: perl
+         +> Todo-5.6
+          - Todo-5.005
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5025] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  16:09:54
+        Log: ${^Warnings} renamed to ${^WARNING_BITS}
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c lib/warnings.pm mg.c pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+          ! toke.c warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5024] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  11:47:06
+        Log: various Windows tweaks: make $^E a little less buggy by saving
+             and restoring system error across TLS fetch; avoid needless
+             copying of buffers
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5023] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  11:44:19
+        Log: avoid MakeMaker setting $^W=1
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5022] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  10:38:56
+        Log: up to v5.5.650
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc
+          ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5021] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  10:10:31
+        Log: mention threads status in pod
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5020] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  09:57:46
+        Log: tolerate NULL SITELIB_EXP
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5019] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  09:46:11
+        Log: NULL-terminate PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+          ! win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5018] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  09:13:10
+        Log: add compatible versions from $Config{inc_ver_list} to search
+             paths automatically (from Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/lib.pm perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5017] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  08:58:56
+        Log: makefiles now use exetype.pl to make wperl.exe
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5016] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  08:38:25
+        Log: add exetype.pl (from Jan Dubois)
+     Branch: perl
+          + win32/bin/exetype.pl
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5015] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  08:29:28
+        Log: pod fixes (from Abigail and M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes README.os2 gv.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlopentut.pod
+          ! pod/perlport.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5014] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  07:09:08
+        Log: clarify behavior of vec() when arguments are off the end of the
+             string (from M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5013] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  07:08:15
+        Log: remove $^U dependent behaviors in runtime; chr() and sprintf('%c',...)
+             now return bytes all the way to 255, they will be transparently
+             coerced (in future) to UTF-8 when they are used in operations
+             involving other UTF-8 strings; C<use utf8> doesn't set $^U anymore
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/byte.pm lib/utf8.pm pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+          ! pp.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5012] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  06:36:33
+        Log: partly revert change#4851, apparently POSIX::uname() may not be correct
+             per strict reading of standard (says Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5011] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/07  06:26:30
+        Log: allow 64-bit utf8-encoded integers (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utf8.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5010] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  21:27:03
+        Log: fix debug code in Perl_malloc() (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5009] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  20:45:30
+        Log: set SvUTF8 on vectors only if there are chars > 127; update copyright
+             years (from Gisle Aas)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! EXTERN.h INTERN.h README av.c av.h cop.h cv.h deb.c doio.c
+          ! doop.c dump.c form.h gv.c gv.h handy.h hv.c hv.h mg.c mg.h
+          ! op.c op.h perl.c perl.h perlio.c perly.y pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c
+          ! pp_hot.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c regexec.c run.c scope.c sv.c sv.h
+          ! toke.c utf8.c utf8.h util.c util.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5008] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  19:28:31
+        Log: use builtin __CYGWIN__ rather than -DCYGWIN (from Eric Fifer
+             <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! EXTERN.h XSUB.h doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+          ! ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
+          ! hints/cygwin.sh lib/ExtUtils/MM_Cygwin.pm mg.c perl.h
+          ! unixish.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5007] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  17:47:01
+        Log: reduce memory consumption of POSIX.pm (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5006] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  17:28:35
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs hints/hpux.sh
+         !> perl.h pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5005] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  17:18:39
+        Log: VOS port updates (from Paul Green <Paul_Green@stratus.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.vos pod/perlport.pod vos/Changes vos/build.cm
+          ! vos/compile_perl.cm vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config.pl
+          ! vos/config_h.SH_orig vos/perl.bind vos/test_vos_dummies.c
+          ! vos/vos_dummies.c vos/vosish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5004] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  17:00:49
+        Log: fix parse error on C<{ use strict }> and other constructs that
+             make the parser reenter while LEX_KNOWNEXT is active
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/comp/use.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5003] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  14:57:30
+        Log: avoid -Bforcearchive on netbsd too
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes hints/netbsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5002] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  14:45:17
+        Log: revised notes about Pod::Parser & Co.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Usage.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5001] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  14:02:43
+        Log: fix description of obsolete diagnostic
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5000] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  13:59:58
+        Log: allow "\x{12ab}" even without C<use utf8>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/toke toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4999] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  13:58:31
+        Log: make perlbug use new-style version numbers; improve compatibility
+             (runs with perl 5.005); fix swapped old vs new version reporting
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4998] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/06  13:56:45
+        Log: support sprintf("v%v", v1.2.3) (works on any string argument, in
+             fact); add tests for version tuples
+     Branch: perl
+          + t/op/ver.t
+          ! MANIFEST perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+          ! pod/perlop.pod sv.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4997] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  21:40:08
+        Log: change#4970 fallout for useithreads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4996] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  20:09:00
+        Log: Largefilify offsets of tied handles.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4995] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  19:54:25
+        Log: Sanity check for libraries scan.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/libs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4994] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  19:48:42
+        Log: HP-UX largefileness doesn't like lseek being redeclared;
+             no more USE_LONG_LONG.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4993] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  19:18:59
+        Log: fix the description as much as possible; the whole
+             separation into three different symbols lists is
+             pretty broken now.
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4992] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  19:13:10
+        Log: Use <syslog.h>, not <sys/syslog.h>.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4991] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  19:11:07
+        Log: dmake is on CPAN now
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4990] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  19:04:01
+        Log: Re-introduce #4817 and #4964 wiped out by #4987.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/threads/usethreads.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! patchlevel.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4989] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  18:54:00
+        Log: typo fix
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/libs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4988] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  18:34:06
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+         +> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+          - lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+         !> (integrate 37 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4987] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/04  18:31:05
+        Log: Configure megamaintenance.  Cppsym (hopefully) final spasms;
+             default is to use long long if available; various nits
+             here and there; fixed to hpux 64-bitnes and largefileness.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh perl.h
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/a_dvisory/quadtype.U U/modified/Cppsym.U
+          ! U/modified/d_gethname.U U/modified/libpth.U U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! d_fseeko.U d_ftello.U dlsrc.U uselongdbl.U uselonglong.U
+          ! usemultiplicity.U xs_apiversion.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4986] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  17:26:37
+        Log: avoid bad cast warnings (from Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4985] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  16:43:49
+        Log: avoid 'na' (spotted by Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4984] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  08:20:05
+        Log: CPAN.pm updated to v1.52 (from Andreas Koenig)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4983] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  08:00:38
+        Log: updated OpenBSD hints (From Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/openbsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4982] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  07:54:04
+        Log: pod typos (from Gregor N. Purdy <gregor@focusresearch.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Parser.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4981] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  07:34:38
+        Log: avoid assuming cc accepts -o switch (from Tom Hughes)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4980] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  07:29:59
+        Log: Sys::Syslog goes the XS way (from Tom Hughes <tom@compton.nu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          + ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+          + ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+          - lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+          ! MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4979] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  07:13:19
+        Log: pod updates (from David Adler, M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4978] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  07:08:14
+        Log: typos in config_h.SH (from Paul_Green@vos.stratus.com)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4977] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  07:06:10
+        Log: avoid adding null components to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, OpenBSD has trouble
+             with them (from Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4976] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  06:33:43
+        Log: VMS update (from Dan Sugalski and Peter Prymmer)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configure.com vms/descrip_mms.template vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4975] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  05:51:14
+        Log: patch to provide more informative names for evals and anonymous
+             subroutines (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.xs lib/Dumpvalue.pm
+          ! lib/dumpvar.pl lib/perl5db.pl op.c perl.h pod/perldebug.pod
+          ! pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4974] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  05:05:57
+        Log: off-by-one in malloc.c (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4973] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  05:03:00
+        Log: OS/2 build fixups from Ilya Zakharevich
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.xs os2/Makefile.SHs t/op/fork.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4972] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  04:58:57
+        Log: avoid /* within comment
+     Branch: perl
+          ! xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4971] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  04:56:09
+        Log: another HINT_BYTE victim
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/charnames.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4970] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  04:45:13
+        Log: fix pad_alloc panic from C<my $w; sub { my($i) = @_; sub { $w } }>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c scope.c scope.h t/op/closure.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4969] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/04  01:09:37
+        Log: byte.pm and HINT_BYTE don't match (0x8, not 0x10!)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/byte.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4968] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/02  13:17:25
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
+          ! Configure
+         !> (integrate 29 files)
+
+----------------
+Version v5.5.640
+----------------
+
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4967] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  12:22:29
+        Log: update makerel for new version format
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes Porting/makerel
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4966] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  11:42:03
+        Log: workaround for undefined symbol
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4965] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  11:19:19
+        Log: on cygwin, h_errno is now "__declspec(dllimport) int h_errno"
+             (from Eric Fifer <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4964] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  11:11:15
+        Log: adjust notes on use5005threads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure INSTALL README.threads
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4963] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  10:14:30
+        Log: fix typo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4962] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  10:13:10
+        Log: integrate selected changes from cfgperl (#4899,4900,4904,4918)
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH ext/IO/IO.xs lib/Benchmark.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4961] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  09:55:45
+        Log: PodParser-1.092 update via CPAN (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
+          ! MANIFEST lib/Pod/Checker.pm t/pod/poderrs.t t/pod/poderrs.xr
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4960] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:22:31
+        Log: replace misleading docs with a BUGS section
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/English.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4959] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:16:17
+        Log: remove FUD from perlfunc/use (from M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4958] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:13:04
+        Log: Benchmark displays bogus CPU stats (suggested by Cedric Auzanne
+             <cedric.auzanne@nist.gov>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes lib/Benchmark.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4957] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:04:52
+        Log: fix coredump on C<"x" =~ /x/; print @-> (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4956] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:02:57
+        Log: flock() pod talks about "adding" in the sense of "or-ing"
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4955] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:58:35
+        Log: fixes for switching files in the debugger (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4954] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:53:51
+        Log: use warnings rather than fiddling with $^W (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Cwd.pm lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm lib/Fatal.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm lib/Math/BigFloat.pm
+          ! lib/Text/ParseWords.pm lib/utf8_heavy.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4953] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:40:33
+        Log: dynixptx hints tweak (from Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@sequent.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/dynixptx.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4952] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:36:39
+        Log: deltanotes on weakrefs and Pod::Parser (from Tuomas Lukka and
+             Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4951] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:54:22
+        Log: avoid mismatched type warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl perlapi.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4950] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/02  06:49:10
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> pod/perlunicode.pod
+         !> MANIFEST Makefile.SH lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm lib/Text/Tabs.pm
+         !> lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl lib/utf8.pm lib/warnings.pm
+         !> makedef.pl op.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pp_ctl.c regcomp.c
+         !> regexec.c t/pragma/warn/2use utf8.h utils/perldoc.PL
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4949] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:41:17
+        Log: fix broken abs2rel() (from François Allard <franka@host.ott.igs.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4948] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:30:41
+        Log: makefile tweak
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4947] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:27:43
+        Log: future-proof unknown warning categories (from Greg Bacon
+             <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/warnings.pm t/pragma/warn/2use warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4946] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:21:34
+        Log: doc tweak (from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Text/Tabs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4945] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:03:04
+        Log: more meaningful message on invalid pattern argument (from
+             Kevin Meltzer <KMeltzer@USCO.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4944] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  05:43:49
+        Log: XSLoader build patch for VMS (from Craig A. Berry
+             <craig.berry@metamorgs.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! vms/descrip_mms.template
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4943] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  03:40:49
+        Log: reword some sections of perlunicode.pod
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlunicode.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4942] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  21:02:01
+        Log: AIX warning on undefined symbol
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4941] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  20:29:30
+        Log: HINT_UTF8 is not propagated to the op tree anymore; add a
+             perlunicode.pod that reflects changes to unicode support so far
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perlunicode.pod
+          ! MANIFEST lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl lib/utf8.pm op.c perl.h
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pp_ctl.c regcomp.c regexec.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4940] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/01  12:22:30
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.pl embedvar.h global.sym gv.c intrpvar.h
+         !> lib/charnames.pm lib/utf8.pm mg.c objXSUB.h op.c op.h
+         !> perlapi.c perlapi.h pod/perlvar.pod pp.c sv.c sv.h
+         !> t/lib/charnames.t toke.c win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4939] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  08:52:16
+        Log: export pregexec(), Tk uses it
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4938] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  04:00:09
+        Log: mark literal utf8 in string literals properly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4937] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  20:19:34
+        Log: introduce $^U, a global bit to indicate whether system
+             calls should using widechar APIs; chr and sprintf "%c" also
+             follow this flag in the absense of "use byte"; "use utf8"
+             sets $^U=1 (this appears kludgey)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embedvar.h gv.c intrpvar.h lib/charnames.pm lib/utf8.pm mg.c
+          ! op.c op.h perlapi.h pod/perlvar.pod pp.c sv.c sv.h
+          ! t/lib/charnames.t win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4936] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  20:17:44
+        Log: HP-UX (induced) fixes.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Oldconfig.U U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! quadfio.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4935] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  19:15:43
+        Log: Cosmetics.
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4934] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  19:15:22
+        Log: Cppsym saga continues.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4933] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  18:45:07
+        Log: !USING_WIDE() branch is busted in win32_stat()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4932] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  06:41:47
+        Log: Reveal even more symbols.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4931] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  06:21:41
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          - lib/caller.pm
+         !> (integrate 29 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4930] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  04:57:42
+        Log: runtime now looks at the SVf_UTF8 bit on the SV to decide
+             whether to use widechar semantics; lexer and RE engine continue
+             to need "use utf8" to enable unicode awareness in literals
+             and patterns (TODO: this needs to be fixed); $1 et al are marked
+             SvUTF8 if the pattern was compiled for utf8 (TODO: propagating
+             it from the data is probably better)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doop.c gv.c mg.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c
+          ! sv.c t/pragma/warn/doop t/pragma/warn/pp t/pragma/warn/sv
+          ! t/pragma/warn/toke t/pragma/warn/utf8 toke.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4929] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  04:17:09
+        Log: remove caller.pm from change#3534 (flawed idea)
+     Branch: perl
+          - lib/caller.pm
+          ! MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4928] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  04:16:01
+        Log: fix factual regression (-e doesn't create temporary files anymore)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfilter.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4927] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/30  21:27:12
+        Log: introduce $^V (eq chr($revision) . chr($version) . chr($subversion));
+             document version tuples
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+          ! pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4926] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  18:10:12
+        Log: implement -follow option in find2perl (from Helmut Jarausch
+             <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm x2p/find2perl.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4925] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  18:03:28
+        Log: document what chdir() without an argument does (from Mark-Jason
+             Dominus <mjd@plover.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4924] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  17:49:34
+        Log: README.cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.cygwin
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4923] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  17:10:08
+        Log: avoid leaking lexicals into program being debugged (from Ilya
+             Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4922] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  16:36:13
+        Log: perldelta note about export list changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [  4921] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  15:49:04
         Log: alias realpath() to abs_path() (from Tom Christiansen)
      Branch: perl