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@@ -75,10 +75,478 @@ indicator:
 
 
 ----------------
-Version v5.5.650        Development release working toward v5.6
+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)