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+Version 5.003_97i
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+
+This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the
+crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: proto.h
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes"
+ From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip
+ Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: util.c
+
+ Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: win32/win32sck.c
+
+ Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Files: perl.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Undo private patch"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c
+ win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Cope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
+
+ Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+
+ Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall
+ t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: x2p/a2py.c
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT)
+ Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
+
+ Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+
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