or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
releases.)
-----------------
-Version 5.003_06
-----------------
-This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
-and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003.
-The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
-
-o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-
- -Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for
- locales, including LC_COLLATE. See the new pod/perli18n.pod.
- Thanks to Jarkkko Hietaniemi.
-
- -new version of Math::Complex, with test suite. Ought to be
- backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex.
-
- -Pre-extending hashes now works. keys %hash = 5000 will pre-size
- %hash.
-
- -__DATA__ filehandle is untainted.
-
-o Changes in Core Internals
-
- -gv_fullname and gv_efullname have reverted to their pre-5.003_03
- versions for binary compatibility. Actually, they are implemented
- as stubs pointing to the new 3-argument forms gv_fullname3 and
- gv_efullname3.
-
- -Perl's malloc is once again called 'Mymalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
- as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
- with 5.003.
-
-o Configure and build enhancements
-
- -many new tests for the standard library.
-
- -test suite now locale-friendly.
-
- -a2p.man and s2p.man now made into pods.
-
-o Bug fixes
-
- -whitespace lexer errors fixed.
-
- -many, many other things. See details below.
-
-o Specific Changes
-
-Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
-
-# This is my patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl5.003_05
-# The full description is below.
-# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
-# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
-
-# We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them
-# executable.
-for t in abbrev.t autoloader.t basename.t checktree.t complex.t \
- env.t fatal.t filecache.t filecopy.t filefind.t filepath.t \
- findbin.t getopt.t hostname.t parsewords.t searchdict.t \
- selectsaver.t symbol.t texttabs.t textwrap.t timelocal.t
-do
- touch t/lib/$t
- chmod +x t/lib/$t
-done
-
-# The a2p.man and s2p.man pages have been changed into pods.
-rm -f x2p/a2p.man x2p/s2p.man
-
-exit 0
-
-
-This is patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl version 5.003_05.
-This takes you from 5.003_05 to 5.003_06.
-
-To apply this patch, run the above commands,
-cd to your perl source directory and then type
-
- patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_06.pat
-
-The changes are described after each /^Index:/ line below. This is
-designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
-
- csplit -k perl5.003_06.pat '/^Index:/' '{999}'
-
-(Of course, since there are more than 100 Index entries, your
-csplit may complain, since many csplit's have an arbitrary limit of 100
-files. Still, you can manually split the file or roll your own.)
-
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
-Index: Changes
-
- Updated for 5.003_06.
-
-Index: Configure
-
- Add -Wl,rpath option for irix* to find the installed shared
- libperl.so
-
- Add /shlib to libpth. It is used by Digital Unix 4.0.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
- From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
-
- Detect Cygnus Win32, or at least don't let Configure get fooled
- into thinking it's OS/2.
-
-Index: INSTALL
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- added LC_COLLATE doc.
-
-Index: MANIFEST
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
- Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
-
- Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- added perli18n.pod.
-
-Index: README
-
- Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
-
-Index: configpm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: configure
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
- From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
-
- Warn the user of case-insensitive file systems that they may have
- accidentally gotten 'configure' instead of 'Configure'.
-
-Index: doio.c
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: doop.c
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
-Index: dump.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
-Index: embed.h
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
-Index: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Updated to IO-1.12.
-
-Index: ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl
-
- Perl 5.003_05 compiles on DYNIX/ptx 4.0 (v4.1.3), and passes all tests.
- The only change needed is in "ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL" - on this system,
- ndbm is actually contained in the libc library, and must be linked against
- -lc when compiling. (this is for dynamic ELF executables, I didn't compile
- statically)
-
-Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
- Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
-
- The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm:
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- enhanced setlocale() docs and introduced the one-argument variant doc.
-
-Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- setlocale() allowed one argument only,
- call to perl_init_fold() (in util.c) if setlocale() succeeded.
-
-Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl
-
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
- Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
-
- Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
-
-Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
-
- Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
- 5.003.
-
-Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: global.sym
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- added var lc_collate_active and func mem_collxfrm.
-
-Index: gv.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
-Index: handy.h
-
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
-
- This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
- since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
- applied, use this one instead.
-
- The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
- ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
-
-Index: hints/machten.sh
-
- Add notes about MachTen 4.0.3 SYSV IPC.
-
-Index: hints/next_3.sh
-
- Replace optimize="-g" by optimize="" since we're just trying to turn off
- the optimizier.
-
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
- Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
-
- Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
-
-Index: hv.c
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
-
- I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
- to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
- I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
- needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
- hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
-
- Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
- The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
- flag.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
-Index: hv.h
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
-
- I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
- to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
- I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
- needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
- hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
-
- Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
- The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
- flag.
-
-Index: installman
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: installperl
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm
-
- Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
- Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent
-
- > This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
- This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
-
- The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
- since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
- filename manipulations:
-
- Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
- Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix
-
- It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
- function. With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit
- from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems.
-
- This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by
- updating its documentation.
-
-Index: lib/Benchmark.pm
-
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST)
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
- Subject: a really really tiny typo
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Cwd.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Env.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Exporter.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
-
- Remove unwantd space after the I in -I$Config[archlib}
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
-
- Change a reference from perlapi(1) to perlxs(1).
-
-Index: lib/File/Basename.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
- Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS
-
- The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when
- fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect:
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
- Subject: File::Basename documentation patch
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
-
- For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for
- File::Basename was also wrong:
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/File/Find.pm
-
- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:37:44 +0200
- From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@it.com.pl>
- Subject: File::Find assumes $_ remains unchanged; bug
-
- The File::Find perl module assumes that the $_ variable remains unchanged
- through the user defined function which is callbacked from find. It carries
- out a stat operation
-
- Simplest fix is merely to document this
-
-Index: lib/File/Path.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/FindBin.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- deprecated and trapped (will whine if called and tell to migrate away)
-
-Index: lib/IPC/Open2.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- ord() is a dangerous thing.
-
-Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
- From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
- # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
- # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
- # New version. Should be backwards compatible, but please
- # check it out if you use it.
-
-Index: lib/Pod/Text.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm
-
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/
-
- The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead
- of tr/A-Z/a-z/. This will make folding of non-english letters work if
- the locale is set up correctly.
-
-Index: lib/SelfLoader.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Symbol.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
- Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
-
- perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)'
-
- I don't understand why the module want to initialize %global from
- <DATA> in the first place. Perhaps we want to apply this patch
- instead.
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm
-
- Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Subject: Patch for Term::Cap
-
- 'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The
- patch below avoids the warning.
-
- [The $entry .= $_ usage is idiomatic enough that it ought to be
- ok, I would think, but the patch certainly is ok too.]
-
-Index: lib/Term/Complete.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
-
- Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
-
- This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
- and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
-
-Index: lib/Text/Tabs.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/Time/Local.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
-
- Add in stub file.
-
-Index: lib/bigint.pl
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- ord() is a dangerous thing.
-
-Index: lib/diagnostics.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/overload.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/perl5db.pl
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work
-
-Index: lib/splain
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: lib/strict.pm
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: makedepend.SH
-
- Add explicit $touch $firstmakefile for QNX which apparently
- preserves modification times for a 'cp' command.
- I worry, though, that touch might not be portable to OS/2.
- If it is, then I'll remove the fancy case statement.
-
-Index: malloc.c
-
- Not all sbrks return zeroed memory.
-
-Index: mg.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $!
-
- This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related
- to the numeric value of $!.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E
-
- This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c,
- related to the numeric values of $! and $^E. This patch *REPLACES*
- the one I posted earlier, which was only effective for $!.
-
- [Some of this is superceded by similar stuff in the VMS patches.]
-
-Index: op.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
-Index: opcode.h
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
- From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
- Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
-
- The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
- into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
- C++ compiler.
-
-Index: opcode.pl
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
- From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
- Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
-
- The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
- into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
- C++ compiler.
-
-Index: patchlevel.h
-
- Change to subversion 6.
-
-Index: perl.c
-
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
- Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC
-
- support C<perl -e'attached code'>
-
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch)
- Message-Id: <199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
-
- The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv. Here's a patch.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: perl.h
-
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
-
- This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
- since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
- applied, use this one instead.
-
- The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
- ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
- Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
- 5.003.
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
-Index: perl_exp.SH
-
- Add new function perl_init_fold. (I'm not sure it goes here.)
-
-Index: perlio.c
-
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58 PDT
- From: Hunter Kelly <retnuh@zule.pixar.com>
- Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
-
- Fix PerlIO_reopen parameters.
-
-Index: perlsdio.h
-
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:24:01 -0400
- From: John Stoffel <jfs@jfs.fluent.com>
- Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
-
- Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: pod/Makefile
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- perli18n.pod (and perlapio.pod, btw) added.
-
-Index: pod/buildtoc
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perl.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- perli18n advertised.
-
-Index: pod/perlapio.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
-Index: pod/perlbook.pod
-
- Updated for Second Edition.
-
-Index: pod/perlcall.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perldata.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perldebug.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perldiag.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: pod/perldsc.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlembed.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlform.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlguts.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
- Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch
-
- Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This
- incorporates and supersedes Dean's patch.
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perli18n.pod
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- written.
-
-Index: pod/perlipc.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perllol.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlmod.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
- Subject: documentation for $? in END
-
- Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
-
-Index: pod/perlobj.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlop.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
-
- Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
-
-Index: pod/perlpod.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlre.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
-
- Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
-
-Index: pod/perlref.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlrun.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlsec.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlstyle.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlsub.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlsyn.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perltie.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perltoc.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
-
-Index: pod/perltrap.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: a perl425 trap
-
- Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory.
- [interpolation issues]
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/perlvar.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
- Subject: documentation for $? in END
-
- Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
-
-Index: pod/perlxstut.pod
-
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
- From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: POD spelling patches
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: pod/pod2man.PL
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
- Bugs found in pod2man
-
- The following bugs were noticed, and some fixed:
-
- 1. Where a L<> link extends over more than one line, pod2man does not
- treat it as a link but displays it literally, and so these have been
- rearranged to place the link on one line. This is the only bug worked
- around. [Fixed; the rearrangements, which were done beforehand,
- remain in some cases, but are no longer necessary, and pod paragraphs
- can now be safely reformatted to whatever width is desired in the pod,
- without breaking links.]
-
- 2. It seems to swallow spaces after certain links: for example, part
- of the "open" entry in the perlfunc manpage comes out as "the
- \f(CWbinmode\fR entry elsewhere in this documentfor tips", the source
- having been "L</binmode> for tips". [Fixed.]
-
- 3. 'L</"Pass by Reference">', in perlsub.pod, comes out as '\fI/"Pass
- by Reference\fR', that is, with an initial '/"'.
-
- 4. If a pod line begins with ".", nothing is done to prevent [tng]roff
- from treating it as a [tng]roff instruction.
-
- 5. When the paragraph below =head1 NAME has more than one line, this
- confuses pod2man: so in the case of Term::Readline, the manpage begins
- with a stray line 'no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead
- of basic functions."'.
-
- Of course, it would be better to fix pod2man; I hope that the new Pod
- modules, when ready, will not have these defects.
-
-Index: pp_ctl.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- sortcmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
-
-Index: pp_hot.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
- From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
- Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
-
- This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
- on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
- file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
- There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
- before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
- reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
- on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
- pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
- this should not introduce any insecurity.
-
- This patch *does not*:
-
- * Add the "untaint" keyword.
-
-Index: pp_sys.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
- From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
- Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
-
- This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
- on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
- file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
- There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
- before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
- reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
- on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
- pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
- this should not introduce any insecurity.
-
- This patch *does not*:
-
- * Add the "untaint" keyword.
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:26:57 -0400
- From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
- Subject: Patch to patch for untainting
-
- The following patch ensures that a glob used as a filehandle that
- has had the UNTAINT flag set will not carry that flag over on a
- re-open. In a nutshell, a re-open of the DATA filehandle would be
- considered untainted, and an object of class IO::Handle (or one of
- its sub-classes) that is marked untainted with the untaint method,
- then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
-
- First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a
- miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the
- library and the creation of Makefiles for the extensions didn't
- work. Worse, it didn't just fail to open files, it dumped core.
-
-Index: proto.h
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- mem_collxfrm() and perl_init_fold() added.
-
-Index: run.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
-Index: sv.c
-
- Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
- Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
- I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the
- fast I/O fiddling with stdio in sv_gets(). These were useful
- to me in setting up the VMS fast I/O, and I left them in in
- case they're useful to someone in the future. However, if you
- think it overloads -DP too much, feel free to drop it. (-DP
- already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.)
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- sv_cmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
-
-Index: sv.h
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
- From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
- Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
-
- This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
- on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
- file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
- There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
- before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
- reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
- on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
- pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
- this should not introduce any insecurity.
-
- This patch *does not*:
-
- * Add the "untaint" keyword.
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
-
- I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
- to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
- I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
- needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
- hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
-
- Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
- The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
- flag.
-
-Index: t/base/term.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- \n not necessarily lt ' '.
-
-Index: t/comp/package.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- XYZ not necessarily gt xyz.
-
-Index: t/lib/abbrev.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
- Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
-
- This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
- and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
-
-Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/autoloader.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
-
- The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
- since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
- filename manipulations:
-
-Index: t/lib/basename.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
-
- Fix the number of tests.
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
- A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends.
-
-Index: t/lib/checktree.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/complex.t
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
- From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
- # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
- # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
-
- Tests for new version.
-
-Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/env.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/fatal.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/filecache.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/filecopy.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/filefind.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/filepath.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/findbin.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/getopt.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/hostname.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/odbm.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/parsewords.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/lib/searchdict.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/symbol.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
-
- The various new lib/*.t tests didn't all work. For some, it was
- only because the count of tests was wrong:
-
-Index: t/lib/texttabs.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/textwrap.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/lib/timelocal.t
-
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
- Subject: More standard library test scripts
-
- This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
- Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
- out are applied.
-
-Index: t/op/each.t
-
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
- Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
-
- The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
- "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
- pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
- when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
- improved.
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/op/glob.t
-
- Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: glob test 1 failing...bad test or bug
-
- Under AIX 4.1.4, with LOCALE set en_GB (British english) glob test one
- fails because <op/*> sorts op/re_* before op/rea*, while
- $otherway = `echo op/*` sorts op/re_* after op/re[a-z]*.t
-
- This version doesn't rely on the sorting order.
-
-Index: t/op/magic.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
-Index: t/op/readdir.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: t/op/sort.t
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- A not necessarily gt a.
-
-Index: toke.c
-
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch)
-
- I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately
- overwrite oldbufptr and oldoldbufptr (which are used in making
- expectation decisions in the lexer).
-
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: perl lexer won't accept C<my($a,$b);$a<=>$b;>
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
- From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
- Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
-
- This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
- on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
- file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
- There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
- before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
- reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
- on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
- pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
- this should not introduce any insecurity.
-
- This patch *does not*:
-
- * Add the "untaint" keyword.
-
-Index: util.c
-
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
- Subject: LC_COLLATE.
-
- Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
-
- rewrote perl_init_i18n() completely.
- - reworded to be much more friendly and clear.
- - perl_init_fold() split to its own function.
- wrote mem_collxfrm().
-
-Index: utils/c2ph.PL
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: utils/h2ph.PL
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: utils/h2xs.PL
-
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500
- From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
- Subject: h2xs bug fix
-
- The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from
- finding #define statements and filling the constant() function. This patch
- fixes that. The h2xs_test program found this--maybe people who are
- modifying h2xs should get a copy of the test program.
-
- This also adds a -d to enable debugging messages (there's just one for now).
- I've also placed some of the doc-related things in alphabetical order.
-
- h2xs_test can be found in my directory on CPAN. Those of you modifying
- xsubpp should know there's a test suite for that, too, called XSTEST which
- can also be found in my directory on CPAN.
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
- 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
-
-Index: utils/perldoc.PL
-
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: perldoc patch
-
- Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2.
-
-Index: vms/config.vms
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: vms/descrip.mms
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: vms/genconfig.pl
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: vms/perlvms.pod
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: vms/vms.c
-
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
- Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
-
-Index: x2p/a2p.pod
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- This patch just changed the old a2p.man page into a pod page.
-
-Index: x2p/s2p.PL
-
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
- Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
-
- This patch just changed the old s2p.man page into a pod page.
- I then embedded the pod into the s2p script.
-
-----------------
-Version 5.003_05
-----------------
-
-This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
-the remaining issues from in 5.003_04. The details are described below.
-A very brief summary is:
-
-o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-
- -Add support for a READLINE method to tied filehandles.
-
- -times function now uses CLK_TCK if HZ is not available, rather
- than just defaulting to 60. times output might change on some
- systems, but should be correct now.
-
- -AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
- Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select
- order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still
- the same.
-
-o Configure and build enhancements
-
- -Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
- BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
- [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
-
- -You can now build a shared libperl.so without running through
- the LD_RUN_PATH hoops, if your system supports appropriate
- ld command-line options. Solaris, NetBSD, and Linux are currently
- supported. Others are easy to add. (This makes like a lot easier
- for embedders.)
-
- -VMS updates.
-
- -Fix installperl and installman so that the -n option really only
- prints commands. (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
-
-o Bug fixes
-
- -debugger ought to work.
-
- -A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH is now quoted. This prevented
- 5.003_04 from working most places.
-
- -numerous smaller ones, detailed below.
-
-o Specific Changes
-
-Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
-
-# This is my patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl5.003_04
-# The full description is below.
-# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
-# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
-
-# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
-# executable.
-touch t/io/read.t
-chmod +x t/io/read.t
-
-exit 0
-
-
-This is patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl version 5.003_04.
-This takes you from 5.003_04 to 5.003_05.
-
-To apply this patch, run the above commands,
-cd to your perl source directory and then type
-
- patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_05.pat
-
-The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
-designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
-
- csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
-
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
-Index: Changes
-
- Updated for 5.003_05.
-
-Index: Configure
-
- Allow command line or hint-file overrides of $afs.
-
- Allow trailing spaces in nm output for HPUX10.
-
- Check for newer BIND 'search' directives in /etc/resolv.conf as well
- as older 'domain' directive.
-
- Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
- BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
- [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
-
- Include -s in the -h summary of available options.
-
- Allow command-line override of $afs.
-
- Handle trailing spaces in nm-output on HPUX10.
-
- Set shrpenv for handling LD_RUN_PATH, if needed. (This used to
- be in Makefile.SH. Now it's available for other modules too.)
-
- When using shared libperl, avoid LD_RUN_PATH if possible by adding
- correct ld flags. Currently, Solaris and NetBSD get the correct
- -R $archlibexp/CORE, and Linux gets its
- -Wl,-rpath,$archlibexp/CORE flag. Other contributions are
- welcome.
-
-Index: INSTALL
-
- Correct libperl5 -> libperl typo.
-
- Describe MakeMaker's Warning (will try anyway) messages.
-
- More info on where and how to send reports.
-
- Add info on non-Unix ports.
-
-
-Index: MANIFEST
-
- Add new test t/io/read.t.
-
- Add new hints files for ODBM_File for ultrix and hpux.
-
- Add new pod checker script.
-
-Index: Makefile.SH
-
- A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH needs to be quoted.
-
- shrpenv stuff moved to Configure.
-
-Index: Porting/Glossary
-
- Updated to match Configure.
-
-Index: README.vms
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: av.h
-
- Subject: turbidity in av.[ch]
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
-
- Some unclean code that I noticed today.
-
-Index: config_H
-
- Updated to match newest config_h.SH.
-
-Index: config_h.SH
-
- Updated to match Configure.
-
- Changed the DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE comment to
- /**/ to conform to metaconfig style.
-
-Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el
-
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: Newer CPerl-mode
-
-Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
-
- Update to DB_File 1.03.
-
-Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
-
- Update to DB_File 1.03.
-
-Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl
-
- Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading.
-
-Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
-
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
- Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0
-
- This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin.
-
-Index: ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
-
- Attempt to correct for "Bad free" in Ultrix and HPUX versions of
- odbm.
-
-Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/hpux.pl
-
- Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().
-
-Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/ultrix.pl
-
- Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().
-
-Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
-
- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
- Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm
-
- This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless
- auto/Socket/autosplit.ix.
-
-Index: handy.h
-
- Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
-
-Index: hints/convexos.sh
-
- Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle
- this now.
-
-Index: hints/hpux.sh
-
- Add note about possible gcc GR3 warning message.
-
- Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle
- this now.
-
-Index: hints/sco.sh
-
- Turn off optimization for stock cc. This appears to
- prevent miniperl core dumps.
-
-Index: hints/solaris_2.sh
-
- Catch GNU ld even though it doesn't identify itself as a GNU tool.
- Thanks to Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>.
-
-Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
-
- Describe solution for the __lib_version problem with acc on
- SunOS.
-
-Index: hv.c
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: minor misc. cleanup
-
- This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
- in functionality whatsoever.
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:52:21 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
-
- Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04)
-
- I have tried to avoid copying of hash keys that are passed to
- magical hashes, but it seems that copying may be unavoidable
- since the hv_*_ent() functions could be PADTMPs (and other
- SVs that may get reused) as keys.
-
- VMS dynamic %ENV fix
-
-Index: installman
-
- From: scotth@sgi.com
- Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)
-
- Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
- (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
-
- an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
- to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
- *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)
-
-Index: installperl
-
- From: scotth@sgi.com
- Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)
-
- Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
- (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
-
- an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
- to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
- *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)
-
-Index: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
-
- AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
- Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select
- order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still
- the same.
-
-
- Add helpful "die" message to end of AnyDBM_File. Previously
- it would return a 0, and the failure would eventually show up
- somewhere else in the script and be hard to track down. It is
- a failure if perl can't open AnyDBM_File. The test regression
- suite is supposed to indicate this as a failure too.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
- Fix for VMS utime.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.39 to allow CFLAGS in hint files.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
-
- Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
-
-Index: lib/File/Find.pm
-
- From: Michael Mahan <mahanm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu>
- Subject: Cwd::fastcwd in File::Find
-
- Is there a good reason why File::Find uses Cwd::fastcwd instead of
- Cwd:cwd when fastcwd isn't as portable?
- [In particular, fastcwd() doesn't work on AFS.]
-
-Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm
-
- There was a mistake in the sqrt routine in lib/Math/Complex.pm that
- gave wrong answers when the magnitude of the imaginary part of the
- argument exceeded the magnitude of the real part. Line 69 had too
- many sqrt($y)'s. Further, expressions were re-arranged so that
- calls to the expensive real sqrt() routine were reduced from 4 to 2
- in this case.
-
-Index: lib/open3.pl
-
- The I/O directions on the dad_wtr and kid_rdr were backwards.
- IO/Open3.pm didn't have this error.
-
-Index: lib/syslog.pl
-
- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
- Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage
-
- syslog.pl tries but fails to use
- Socket.pm, the problem is that use doesn't return a true value. This
- module should be recast in terms of Sys::Syslog, of course.
-
-Index: makedepend.SH
-
- This patch eliminates "\|" in sed patterns in makedepend.SH, since
- they're not really needed anyway in this one case.
-
-Index: mg.c
-
- Ok, here's a tested patch for the debugger problem.
- I was missing the fact that DB::dbline magic is actually
- uppercase (which means hv_store_ent() etc., will pass SV keys
- to the vtbl_dbline handlers).
-
- Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
- the simple MgPVKEY macro.
-
- Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add
- additional parens around the "mg".
-
- (lines near 584) Part of VMS changes. I don't know what this did.
-
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) >
-
- This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers
- (C<sv_setiv>) instead of floats. It also eliminates a warning from
- C< local($)) >, via a hack similar to $!.
-
-Index: mg.h
-
- Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
- the simple MgPVKEY macro.
-
- Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add
- additional parens around the "mg".
-
-Index: nostdio.h
-
- Add _STDIO_LOADED (VMS) to list of guard symbols.
-
-Index: op.c
-
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
-
-Index: patchlevel.h
-
- Change to subversion 5.
-
-Index: perl.c
-
- Make floating point constants Locale-friendly.
-
-Index: perl.h
-
- One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
- minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
-
- Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
-
- Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
- BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
- [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
-
-Index: perlio.c
-
- Eliminate potential "signed vs. unsigned" warning
-
- Add PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_cgetname functions.
-
-Index: perlsdio.h
-
- Don't supply redundant parameters for PerlIO_open and PerlIO_fdopen.
-
- Include PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_getname.
-
- s/FILE_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE/STDIO_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE to fix a typo.
- This had prevented SV_FAST_FGETS from working anywhere.
-
- Include PerlIO_canset_cnt. I'm not sure how this is supposed to
- differ from STDIO_CNT_LVALUE.
-
-Index: pod/Makefile
-
- Remove trailing spaces in pods.
- Include a call to the checkpods script in the Makefile (though it's
- not ordinarily used by users).
-
-Index: pod/checkpods.PL
-
- New script to check for common errors in pods. This is not
- normally called during the perl build process, but you can
- use it with B<make check>.
-
-Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
-
- Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
-
- Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp.
-
-Index: pod/perlipc.pod
-
- Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
-
-Index: pod/perlref.pod
-
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
-
-Index: pod/perltie.pod
-
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
- From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
- Subject: more TIEHANDLE
-
- This adds support for a READLINE method.
-
-Index: pod/perltrap.pod
-
- Here's documentation on the change in split's behavior between Perl 4
- and Perl 5.
-
- Subject: More (and less!) 425traps
-
- Large integer traps
-
- Precedence
-
- warn STDERR
-
- Change blank lines to empty lines.
-
-Index: pod/perlvar.pod
-
- Be explicit about $/="" matching empty lines, that is, lines
- with no spaces or tabs.
-
- Change blank lines to empty lines.
-
-Index: pp.c
-
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics
-
- This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV
- values when performing bitwise operations and modulus.
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
-
- (double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv().
-
-Index: pp_hot.c
-
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: minor misc. cleanup
-
- This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
- in functionality whatsoever.
-
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
- From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
- Subject: more TIEHANDLE
-
- This adds support for a READLINE method.
-
-Index: pp_sys.c
-
- Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
- This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
-
- Undef and then re-define my_chsize from Perl_my_chsize to
- just plain chsize if this system HAS_CHSIZE. This probably only
- applies to SCO. This shows the perils of having internal
- functions with the same name as external library functions :-).
-
- Use CLK_TCK if HZ is not available.
-
-Index: sv.c
-
- Fix more spots where we had PerlIO_stderr() and should have had
- Perl_debug_log instead.
-
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation
-
- I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it
- would improve the safety of AV creation.
-
- Remove potentially incorrect casts on PerlIO_set_ptrcnt.
- 'ptr' is already STDCHAR, which is supposed to be the type of
- char used in stdio.h, so we shouldn't have to cast it.
-
-Index: t/io/read.t
-
- Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
- This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
-
-Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
-
- Update to DB_File 1.03.
-
-Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
-
- Update to DB_File 1.03.
-
-Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
-
- Update to DB_File 1.03.
-
-Index: t/lib/io_sock.t
-
- From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.m.isar.de>
- Subject: Perl 5.003.03: race condition in t/lib/io_sock.t
-
- io_sock.t works by forking a subprocess it can communicate with.
- It has the subprocess wait for the main process by sleeping 10
- seconds or until an alarm arrives.
-
- With my setup, the alarm signal arrives *before* the child
- has a chance to ignore the alarm signal.
-
- I fixed this by moving the "$SIG{ALRM} = sub {};" up before the
- fork. It does not hurt to have the parent ignore alarms, too.
-
-Index: t/op/inc.t
-
- One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
- minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
-
-Index: t/op/misc.t
-
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
- From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
- Subject: more TIEHANDLE
-
- This adds support for a READLINE method.
-
-Index: t/op/pack.t
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
-
-Index: t/op/ref.t
-
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
- Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
-
-Index: universal.c
-
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST
- From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
- Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted
-
- yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference
- is an object, so the patch should be
-
-Index: unixish.h
-
- Change comment style so that IBM's picky xlc compiler doesn't
- think we've mistakenly tried to nest comments.
-
-Index: util.c
-
- One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
- minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
-
-Index: utils/h2xs.PL
-
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
- Subject: updated h2xs
-
- Changes:
- a) Docs and examples for -x updated;
- b) Path to xxxx.h would not be changed to /usr/include/xxxx.h
- unless this file exists (outside of VMS, I'm afraid to make an error
- there). - Useful with -x option, when the file may be eaten via -I
- inside -F.
- c) .h file would be scanned only if needed.
- d) typemap would be generated (with T_PTROBJ).
- e) Documentation (=list) for autogenerated guys would be
- included into POD.
- f) duplicated XSUBs would not be generated;
- g) arguments to XSUBs being arrays are recognized (note that
- xsubpp would probably choke on such guys).
-
- -x option requires C-Scan-0.3 (releases a couple of minutes ago to
- ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
- should propagate to CPAN soon).
-
-Index: utils/perlbug.PL
-
- Fix typo $Config{'has_sockets'} ought to be $Config{'d_socket'};
-
-Index: utils/perldoc.PL
-
- More choices in the pager war. Unfortunately, we can't rely on
- all users agreeing with the Sysadmin's choice, nor can we
- assign a default preference order, since opinions vary. If the
- user doesn't have $ENV{PAGER} set, we do want to pick up one that
- at least works, so we'll try whatever Configure found.
-
-Index: vms/Makefile
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/config.vms
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/descrip.mms
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/ext/filespec.t
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/gen_shrfls.pl
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/perlvms.pod
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/vms.c
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-Index: vms/vmsish.h
-
- VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-
-----------------
-Version 5.003_04
-----------------
-
-This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
-the changes made in 5.003_03. The details are described below.
-A very brief summary is:
-
-o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-
- -Allow and document permissions for FileHandle::new and
- IO::File::new.
- -glob in Safe compartment used to allow shell access; now
- it's in the same category as `` and system().
-
-o Configure and build enhancements
-
- -perl library name is again -lperl, not -lperl5 in some cases.
- -Several hint files no longer set -g -DDEBUGGING by default.
- Instead, they just turn off optimization, since that is
- probably what was intended.
- -Include OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
-
-o Bug fixes
-
- -SEGV with $_[0] and circular references fixed.
- -Ilya's debugger patch.
- -FAKE typeglobs fixed.
- -truncate with file name now works.
- -lval substr() no longer coredumps with refs
- -lval substr now clears lexicals in re-entered scopes.
- -core dump in caller() for signal handler for __DIE__.
-
-o Specific Changes
-
-Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
-
-# This is my patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl5.003_03
-# The full description is below.
-# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
-# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
-
-# Obsolete perl4 hint file.
-rm -f hints/dnix.sh
-# Obsolete
-rm -f os2/notes
-
-# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
-# executable.
-touch t/op/gv.t
-chmod +x t/op/gv.t
-
-exit 0
-
-
-This is patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl version 5.003_03.
-This takes you from 5.003_03 to 5.003_04.
-
-To apply this patch, run the above commands,
-cd to your perl source directory and then type
-
- patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_04.pat
-
-The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
-designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
-
- csplit -k perl5.003_04.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
-
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
-
-Index: Changes
-
- Updated for 5.003_04.
-
-Index: Configure
-
- Change name of shared libperl library back to libperl.so.xxx,
- so that a simple -lperl picks up either libperl.a or
- libperl.so.xxx.
-
- Check if $sh='' in case we've reloaded an old config.sh
-
-Index: INSTALL
-
- Change name of shared perl library to libperl, instead of
- libperl5.
-
- Add notes about fragility of shared libperl and the usefulness
- of archlib to separate different binaries.
-
-Index: MANIFEST
-
- os2/notes removed
-
- obsolete hints/dnix.sh removed.
-
- New typeglob test.
-
-Index: Makefile.SH
-
- For building shared libperl, relocate whole rule to
- inside the if test -f $osname/Makefile.SHs case.
-
-Index: Porting/Glossary
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: README.os2
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: av.c
-
- Subject: Re: SEGV with $_[0] and circular references
-
- Subject: random cleanup
-
- This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.
-
-Index: config_H
-
- Updated. Note new comments to make AIX happy.
-
-Index: config_h.SH
-
- Change /*#define../**/ into /*#define../ **/
- to make IBM's xlc compiler shut up about nested comments.
- The /*#define FOO /**/ is a perfectly legal un-nested comment, and
- I wish IBM would fix it's blasted compiler instead. In the meantime
- we'll take mercy on the poor AIX user and get rid of the screenfulls
- of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth
- <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for the fix.
-
-Index: dump.c
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
-
- This patch documents the behavior of FileHandle::{new,open} with
- regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
- constants.
-
- This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: FileHandle::new
- didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
-
- This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: IO::File::new
- didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch.
-
- This patch documents the behavior of IO::File::{new,open} with
- regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
- constants.
-
-Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
-
- Subject: Re: glob in Safe compartment allows shell access
-
- I've moved the glob op into the same opcode tag as backticks and system
- and added a comment.
-
-Index: gv.c
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: handy.h
-
- Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
-
- Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
- should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
- previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
- symbols the complete set of
- /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
- those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
- Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
- and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
- changed appropriately.
-
- The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
- limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
- works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.
-
- Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.
-
-Index: hints/hpux.sh
-
- Remove the d_bsdpgrp hint. The defaults should be ok.
-
-Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh
-
- Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
- unless that's what the user really wants.
-
-Index: hints/mpeix.sh
-
- Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
- unless that's what the user really wants.
-
-Index: hints/os2.sh
-
- Fixes for sh vs. bin_sh + cleanup.
-
-Index: hints/ultrix_4.sh
-
- Don't call optimize=-g, just call optimize=none. The -g
- pulls in -DDEBUGGING, which might not be wanted.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
-
- .C$(obj_ext) removed under OS/2 - conflicts with .c$(obj_ext).
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
-
- Fix SCOPE? (See pod/perlxs.pod).
- Up version number to 1.938.
-
-Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm
-
- Add a return value to runtests - non-zero if all tests ran ok,
- zero otherwise.
-
-Index: lib/perl5db.pl
-
- Ilya's debugger patch.
- Undefined subroutine &Carp::longmess called at
- /opt/perl5.003_03/lib/perl5db.pl line 1423.
-
-
- Make perl5db compatible with the recent 'strict refs' enforcement
- in %SIG.
-
-Index: malloc.c
-
- A patch to perl5.003_02/malloc to give a sensible error abort() message
- in ANSI C, and to give it to stderr instead of stdout.
-
- Use config_h's STRINGIFY macro instead of pre-ANSI "p".
-
-Index: mg.c
-
- Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
-
- Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
- in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
- so in 5.001n).
- The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
- which might coerce its first arg to a string.
-
- Sub-critical patch to conceivably fix some %SIG problems. (Shared hash key
- weren't being properly detected by some of the sig magic, but as shared
- hash keys wouldn't normally be used in %SIG it's unlikely this is a
- significant problem.)
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: myconfig
-
- Update perlio-related variables.
-
-Index: op.c
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: opcode.h
-
- Updated. See opcode.pl.
-
-Index: opcode.pl
-
- Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
-
- The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
- with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
- I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
-
- Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
- C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
-
-Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
-
- perllib vs. LIBPERL
-
-Index: os2/diff.configure
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: os2/os2.c
-
- SH_PATH_INI vs. BIN_SH
-
-Index: os2/os2ish.h
-
- SH_PATH_INI added (needed to redefine SH_PATH for binary
- distribution).
- SH_PATH is redefined.
-
-Index: patchlevel.h
-
- SUBVERSION 4.
-
-Index: perl.h
-
- Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
-
- Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
- should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
- previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
- symbols the complete set of
- /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
- those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
- Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
- and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
- changed appropriately.
-
- The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
- limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
- works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.
-
- Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.
-
-Index: perlio.c
-
- Removes an incorrect prototype for setlinebuf from
- perlio.c because it conflicts with the correct declaration in
- MachTen's stdio.h (and possibly other stdio's as well).
-
- Secondly, the code in perlio.c is not handling the (!PERLIO_IS_STDIO &
- HAS_F[GS]ETPOS) case. The patch fixes this omission (in a rather lumpen
- manner). I don't think this should affect platforms which try to hack a
- different path through the #ifdef forest, but this assertion would benefit
- from testing...
-
- Dominic Dunlop
-
-Index: plan9/config.plan9
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: plan9/fndvers
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: plan9/mkfile
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: plan9/setup.rc
-
- Updated.
-
-Index: pod/perldiag.pod
-
- Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
-
- substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
- an lvalue context.
- The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
- first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
-
-Index: pod/perlxs.pod
-
- document xsubpp SCOPE:
-
-Index: pp.c
-
- Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)
-
- substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
- are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
- 1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.
-
- Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
-
- substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
- an lvalue context.
- The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
- first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
-
- Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
-
-Index: pp_ctl.c
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: pp_hot.c
-
- Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: pp_sys.c
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: proto.h
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: run.c
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
-Index: sv.c
-
- Subject: random cleanup
-
- This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.
-
- Subject: sv_setsv patch
-
- This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
- reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
- code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
-
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
- Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY
-
- When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY".
- Although that flag improves the leak checking, it also breaks
- destruction of global objects, because SVs aren't kept in captive
- arenas any more.
-
- This patch rectifies the problem by providing an alternative
- method for keeping track of SVs when Perl is compiled for Purify.
- It has no effect on normal operation.
-
-
- Add comment about assert(len >=0) when len is unsigned anyway.
-
-Index: t/io/fs.t
-
- Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
-
- The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
- with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
- I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
-
- Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
- C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
-
- The "not implemented" branch is missing a "\n".
-
-Index: t/op/gv.t
-
- Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
-
- Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
- in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
- so in 5.001n).
-
- The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
- which might coerce its first arg to a string.
-
-Index: t/op/substr.t
-
-
- Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)
-
- substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
- are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
- 1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.
-
- Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
-
- substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
- an lvalue context.
- The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
- first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
-
-Index: toke.c
-
- Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
-
- The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
- with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
- I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
-
- Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
- C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
-
-Index: util.c
-
- Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 dumps core executing caller() in signal handler for
- __DIE__ (with patch)
-
- sv_2pv() might call croak() (which is not prepared to handle that
- when it calls sv_2pv(), itself). Likewise for warn() (but under
- slightly more esoteric circumstances--mg_get() in sv_2pv() might
- trigger a call to warn()).
-
-
- Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
-
- PERL_BADLANG is examined by default before issuing a warning during
- internationalization.
-
-Index: utils/h2xs.PL
-
- Make leading =head NAME item a paragraph so pod2man finds it.
-
-Index: utils/perldoc.PL
-
- Use col -x to filter out half-line feeds (ESC-9) from
- HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS
- doesn't support the -x option.)
-
-----------------
-Version 5.003_03
-----------------
-
-Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation
-process more robust. The details are described below. A very brief
-summary is:
-
-o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-
- -Support for tied filehandles.
-
-o Configure enhancements
-
- -How to build and install a shared libperl.so is now documented
- and supported, though it's not the default for most platforms.
-
-o Bug fixes
-
- -Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
-
- -If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
- that can result in null matches, perl no longer coredumps.
-
- -Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
-
- -Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
- rather than extraction time.
-
-o Specific Changes
-
-Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
-
-# This is my patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl5.003_02
-# The full description is below.
-# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
-# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
-
-# Absorbed into Changes5.002
-rm -f Changes.Conf
-
-# Not needed.
-rm -f ext/POSIX/mkposixman.pl
-
-# Moved to README.os2. I'm not sure why the README files are
-# here rather than in the appropriate subdirectories.
-rm -f os2/README
-
-# Not needed.
-rm -f pod/Makefile.PL
-
-# New test for bit ops.
-touch t/op/bob.t
-
-# Patches that create new tests don't always make them executable.
-chmod +x t/*/*.t
-
-# Create a new directory for Porting and Patching info.
-mkdir Porting
-
-exit 0
-
-This is patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl version 5.003_02.
-This takes you from 5.003_02 to 5.003_03.
-
-To apply this patch, run the above commands,
-cd to your perl source directory and then type
-
- patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_03.pat
-
-The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
-designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
-
- csplit -k perl5.003_03.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
-
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
-Index: Changes
-
- Include 5.003_03 change notes.
-
- Move older change notes to separate files.
-
-Index: Changes5.000
-
- New file. Changes from perl4.036 to 5.000.
-
-Index: Changes5.001
-
- New file. Changes from 5.000 to 5.001
-
-Index: Changes5.002
-
- New file. Changes from 5.001 to 5.002
-
-Index: Changes5.003
-
- New file. Changes from 5.002 to 5.003
-
-Index: Configure
-
- Relaxed warning about ksh on exotic machines.
-
- Changed usesafe to useopcode.
-
- Add search for gzip and zip.
-
- Look more carefully for $sh (the Bourne-ish shell).
- Use that info to set $startsh correctly.
-
- Change prompts for PerlIO interface. See INSTALL
- for how this is supposed to work. The default is
- still the same as in 5.003_02, namely don't use
- any fancy new PerlIO stuff.
-
- Don't look for sigvec() since we don't actually use it.
- (Plus, it used to print an alarming misleading message about
- race conditions.)
-
- Look for stdio's _filbuf under the possible names of
- _filbuf, __filbuf, and _fill.
-
- New $useshrplib variable to control whether we build a shared
- libperl.so. The name of the library is in $libperl.
- Always install it in $installarchlib/CORE/$libperl.
-
- Check for <sys/resource.h> and <sys/wait.h> for NetBSD.
-
- Replace old $altmake stuff with newer autoconf-ish
- $make_set_make, which checks if $make sets $(MAKE). Now you
- choose an alternate make with sh Configure -Dmake=gmake (or
- whatever).
-
- Remove 'ln' for the list of essential commands. Simulate
- it with 'cp' if necessary.
- Change `logname` prompts to handle extra gratuitous spaces in
- Ultrix output.
-
- Autodetect os2.
-
- Fix silly bug in checking for fully-qualified names in /etc/hosts.
-
- Generalize Gconvert tests. Give correct and more useful
- error messages.
-
- Use $obj_ext instead of literal '.o' in the dynaloader test.
-
- Include appropriate header files in bcopy() and memcpy()
- tests. Note whether memmove is available.
-
- Check whether struct sigaction works (needed for Solaris 2.5
- with -Xc).
-
- Include appropriate header files for randbits test.
-
-Index: INSTALL
-
- Add note about space requirements.
-
- Update to match Configure changes (Opcode vs. Safe,
- useperlio, useshrplib, etc.)
-
- Reorganize the structure of some of the hints.
-
- Miscellaneous clarifications.
-
-Index: MANIFEST
-
- Updated. 5.003_02 introduced some massive patches, mostly
- due to spacing changes. I didn't bother to sort them all out;
- I just started with 5.003's MANIEFST.
-
-Index: Makefile.SH
-
- Support the new simplified shared libperl mechanism.
-
- Use new $make_set_make directive.
-
- Remove redundant libperl Make variable.
-
- Remove unnecessary MAB variable.
-
- Remove dependency of minitest on lib/Config.pm, since it could
- well have been a failure of configpm that inspired testing
- miniperl in the first place!
-
-Index: Porting/Glossary
-
- New file describing all the config.sh variables.
- Eventually, I hope to fill this directory with other useful
- stuff.
-
-Index: README.os2
-
- Replace old README.os2 with more up-to-date os2/README.
-
-Index: config_H
-
- Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
- Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
- dependencies in the metaconfig units.
-
-Index: config_h.SH
-
- Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
- Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
- dependencies in the metaconfig units.
-
- Include full descriptions of ARCHLIB, OLDARCHLIB, PRIVLIB,
- SITEARCH, and SITELIB. Previous versions just included the
- ~-expanded names (with unhelpful descriptions). No functionality
- is changed, but maybe it's a little better documented now.
-
-Index: doio.c
-
- Possibly Include <signal.h> and <unistd.h>
-
-Index: doop.c
-
- No longer prefer bcmp over memcmp when order doesn't matter.
-
- Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
-
-Index: embed.h
-
- Auto-generated.
-
-Index: embed.pl
-
- Expand warning at the top.
-
-Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
-
- Add support for tied filehandles.
-
-Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
-
- Change the Mymalloc to match Perl_malloc in perl.h.
-
-Index: ext/util/make_ext
-
- Typo change.
- Get rid of unused altmake.
-
-Index: global.sym
-
- Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
-
-Index: handy.h
-
- Change safe*alloc functions to have prototypes that
- match the system's malloc and free types. That is, use
- Malloc_t instead of char *, and Free_t instead of void.
- This is necessary so . . .
-
- Safefree cast matches type of free() whether it's perl's
- malloc/free or the system's malloc/free.
-
-Index: hints/README.hints
-
- Remove out-of-date info.
-
- Document a bit about how hint files work.
-
-Index: hints/aix.sh
-
- qmaxmem hint doesn't apply to gcc.
-
-Index: hints/dgux.sh
-
- Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.
-
-Index: hints/dynixptx.sh
-
- Fix typo in comment.
-
- Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.
-
-Index: hints/epix.sh
-
- Use glibpth instead of libpth. This allows Configure to
- add local directories, such as /opt/local/lib, etc.
-
-Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh
-
- Include some info on cc -n32 compile.
-
-Index: hints/linux.sh
-
- Configure now tests gcvt() more thoroughly.
-
-Index: hints/machten_2.sh
-
- Update where to find dld.
-
-Index: hints/mips.sh
-
- Use glibpth instead of libpth.
-
-Index: hints/next_3.sh
-
- Build up $mab dynamically. Since $mab isn't used anywhere
- anymore, this is useless. However, $mab was never used for
- next_3.sh anyway, so there's been no change in functionality.
-
-Index: hints/next_4.sh
-
- Get rid of extraneous isnext_4 variable. Configure and
- Makefile.SH will use $osname and $osvers instead.
-
- Build up $mab dynamically based on available architectures.
-
- Absorb $mab into ccflags and ccdlflags. I hope that will
- cover everything. (Configure should automatically remove
- the -arch stuff from cppflags.)
-
- Configure now knows next4 needs to use a shared libperl.5.so.
-
- Allow users to use -Dprefix.
-
-Index: hints/os2.sh
-
- Try to update to reflect newer shared libperl stuff.
- I probably goofed :-).
-
-Index: hints/sco.sh
-
- Additional notes on using icc.
-
- Additional flags for dynamic loading.
-
-Index: hints/solaris_2.sh
-
- Perl.h no longer prefers bcmp, so it's again ok if Configure
- finds them, since perl will prefer the mem* versions anyway.
-
-Index: hints/sunos_4_0.sh
-
- Don't include <unistd.h>
-
-Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
-
- Add brief note about GNU as and ld.
-
- Don't include <unistd.h>
-
- Add notes about WHOA THERE messages.
-
-Index: hints/titanos.sh
-
- Include sfio in libswanted.
-
- Don't set libpth any more.
-
-Index: hints/umips.sh
-
- New hint file.
-
-Index: hv.c
-
- Use memcmp even in cases where ordering doesn't matter.
-
- Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
-
-Index: installperl
-
- Simplify installation of shared libperl.so.
-
- Avoid reaching Command Failed!!! with /usr/bin/perl.
-
-Index: lib/AutoSplit.pm
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
-
- Remove MAB references.
-
- Use 'useshrplib' instead of 'd_shrplib'
-
-Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
-
- Remove mab references.
-
-Index: lib/FindBin.pm
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: lib/Symbol.pm
-
- Put back in the BEGIN { require 5.002; }. The version in
- 5.003_02 wouldn't work in 5.002 anyway. Further, the whole
- point of the construct is to catch 5.001m, so we can't use
- syntax introduced after 5.001m to do that.
-
-Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
-
- Remove double 'use strict'.
-
-Index: lib/perl5db.pl
-
- Add explicit '&' to avoid warnings under strict refs.
-
-Index: lib/sigtrap.pm
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: makedepend.SH
-
- Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make variables.
-
-Index: mg.c
-
- Include <unistd.h>
-
- Use Safefree() macro instead of safefree() function with
- a (possibly) incorrect cast. The whole point of the
- Safefree() macro is that it does the correct cast for you.
-
-
-Index: patchlevel.h
-
- Change to SUBVERSION 3.
-
-Index: perl.c
-
- Include <unistd.h>
-
-Index: perl.h
-
- No longer prefer bcmp slightly for comparisons that don't care
- about ordering.
-
- Rely on Configure setting SH_PATH.
-
- Change the function name to Pause() instead of pause() to
- avoid potential prototype problems. (This naming convention
- is similar to the Fwrite and Fflush macros.)
-
- Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
-
- Work around crypt prototype problem on NeXT.
-
-Index: perlio.c
-
- Fixes to support non-std stdio.
-
-Index: perlio.h
-
- Try to document the various #defines a bit. This is far from
- finished.
-
- Remove a lot of trailing whitespace. (It's of no consequence, but
- but I'm not going to redo the patch just to put back in the trailing
- whitespace either.)
-
-Index: perlsdio.h
-
- Fixes to support non-std stdio.
-
-Index: perly.c
-
- Restore use of Safefree() macro.
-
-Index: perly.c.diff
-
- Restore use of Safefree() macro.
-
-Index: perly.h
-
- Delete duplicate line.
-
-Index: plan9/buildinfo
-
- Update.
-
-Index: pod/perlapio.pod
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: pod/perlipc.pod
-
- Fix typo.
-
- Untaint port number.
-
-Index: pod/perlmod.pod
-
- Fix a minor nit regarding Exporter.
-
-Index: pod/perlre.pod
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: pod/perltie.pod
-
- Add support for tied filehandles.
-
-Index: pod/perltrap.pod
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: pod/perlxstut.pod
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: pod/pod2man.PL
-
- Clean up docmentation installation errors.
-
-Index: pp.c
-
- Add support for tied filehandles.
-
- If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
- that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
-
-Index: pp_hot.c
-
- Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
-
- Add support for tied filehandles.
-
-Index: pp_sys.c
-
- Include <unistd.h>, <sys/wait.h>, and <sys/resource.h>.
- (The latter two are especially for NetBSD.)
-
- Don't assume sys/time.h and sys/select.h can't coexist.
-
- Use Pause macro.
-
-Index: proto.h
-
- Fix safe*alloc and safefree prototypes.
-
-Index: regexec.c
-
- Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
-
-Index: sv.c
-
- Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
-
-Index: t/lib/opcode.t
-
- Add support for tied filehandles.
-
-Index: t/op/bop.t
-
- Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
-
-Index: t/op/misc.t
-
- Add support for tied filehandles.
-
-Index: t/op/split.t
-
- If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
- that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
-
-Index: toke.c
-
- Include <unistd.h>.
-
- Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
-
-Index: util.c
-
- Include <unistd.h>.
-
- Use correct types for safe*alloc and safefree functions.
-
-Index: utils/h2ph.PL
-
- Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
- rather than extraction time.
-
-Index: writemain.SH
-
- Remove unnecessary curlies. (They are a leftover from
- an older auto_init mechanism.)
-
-Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
-
- Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make.
-
- Remove MAB stuff, since it's now in ccflags.
-
- Keep 5.003's RCS info.
-
-Index: x2p/a2p.h
-
- Keep 5.003's RCS info.
-
-Index: x2p/str.c
-
- Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.
+ ---------------
+ CAST AND CREW
+ ---------------
+
+To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today,
+here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
+current addresses (as of March 1997):
+
+ Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+ Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
+ Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
+ Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl>
+ Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org>
+ Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
+
+ Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+ Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
+ Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
+
+And, of course, the Author of Perl:
+
+ Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
----------------
-Version 5.003_02
+Version 5.004_64 Developer release working toward 5.005
----------------
-o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
- - Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
- - Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer
- - Warning for un-qualified bareword as handler in $SIG{}.
- - UNIVERSAL::isa can now be called as static method.
-
-o Changes in Core Internals
- - PerlIO abstraction added.
- Perl core and standard extensions no longer assume ANSI C's stdio is IO
- mechanism, Default Configure mode is still to use stdio via set of C macros.
- Alternate modes are to use stdio via one perlio.c module, or
- to use sfio if available.
-
- - Several bug fixs from perl5-porters
- - Make sources non-ANSI C correct again.
- - SUPER in gv.c
- - Last of shared-hash-key patches
- - eval '(0,1..3)'; # --> SegFault
- - coredumps after simple subsitutes.
- - Correction to UNIVERSAL::VERSION docs.
- - Fixed io_udp test.
- - Fixed another abuse of malloc'ed memory.
- - Enabled DEBUGING_MSTATS whenever perl's malloc() is used.
- - Reverted to default of not hiding perl's malloc (if used).
-o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
- - Fixed MakeMaker for static SDBM and builing in a link tree.
- - Upgraded to IO-1.09, and includes latest (still experimental) IO::Select.
- - Documentation/test tweak to DB_File
- - h2xs upgrade to allow use C::Scan module
-
-o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
- - Attempted to re-created 5.003_01's NeXT support with metaconfig units.
- - Updated MANIFEST
- - make minitest now depends on lib/Config.pm, as some of tests require it.
- - Included latest plan9 sub-directory
- - Applied OS/2 patches.
- - Typo patch for VMS.
+[Put changes here. Should we go back and put in changes for
+_51 onwards?]
----------------
-Version 5.003_01
+Version 5.004_50 First developer release towards 5.005
----------------
-Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since
-version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately
-kept simple. In addition to numerous small bugfixes in the core,
-library files, and documentation, this patch contains several
-significant revisions, summarized below:
-
-o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-
- - A port to Plan9 has been started, and changes are integrated into
- the standard distribution. As of this release, the Perl core
- and several common extensions are working.
-
- - A set of basic methods in the UNIVERSAL class have been added to
- the Perl core. Since UNIVERSAL is an implicit member of every
- class's @ISA, the methods can be called via any object.
-
- - A mandatory warning has been added for 'declarations' of lexical
- variables using the "my" operator which mask an existing lexical
- variable declared in the same scope, making the previous variable
- inaccessible by its name.
-
- - The "use" and "require" operators have been extended to allow
- checking of the required module's version. The "use" operator
- can now be used for an immediate version check of Perl itself.
-
- - A new "strict" pragma, "strict untie", has been added, which
- produces an error if a tied value is untied when other references
- exist to the internal object implementing the tie.
-
- - Barewords used as associative array keys (i.e. when specifying
- an associative array element like $foo{__BAR} or on the left
- side of the => operator) may now begin with an underscore as
- well as an alphabetic character.
-
- - Some of the configuration information previously produced by the
- -v switch has been moved to the -V switch, in order to keep -v
- output concise.
-
-o Changes in Core Internals
-
- - Symbol table and method lookups have been made faster.
-
- - Perl subroutines which just return a constant value are now
- optimized at compile time into inline constants.
-
- - Management of keys for associative arrays has been improved to
- conserve space when the same keys are reused frequently, and
- to pass true Perl values to tie functions, instead of stringified
- representations.
-
- - Messages normally output to stderr may be directed to another
- stream when Perl is built. This allows some platforms to
- present diagnostic output in a separate window from normal
- program results.
-
- - A bug which caused suiperl to fail silently, albeit securely,
- in version 5.003 on some systems has been fixed.
-
- - Management of Unix-style signal handlers via the %SIG associative
- array has been made safer.
-
- - Several global C symbols have been renamed to eliminate collisions
- with system C header files or libraries on some platforms.
- Unfortunately, this means that dynamic extensions compiled under
- previous versions of Perl will need to be rebuilt for Perl
- 5.003_01. We're in the process of cleaning up Perl's C
- namespace to make it easier to link Perl with other binaries,
- so this will probably happen again between now and version 5.004.
- After that, we'll do our best to maintain binary compatibility
- between versions.
-
- - An alternate allocation strategy has been added to Perl's
- optional private memory management routines. This strategy,
- which may be selected when Perl is built, is designed to
- conserve memory in programs which allocate many small
- chunks of memory with sizes near a power of 2, as is often
- the case in Perl programs.
-
- - Several memory leaks in the creation and destruction of
- multiple interpreters have been fixed.
-
-o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
-
- - The Opcode extension, which allows you to control a program's
- access to Perl operations, has been added to the standard
- distribution. This extends the work begun in the original
- Safe extension, and subsumes it. The Safe interface is still
- available.
-
- - The IO extension, which provides a set of classes for object-
- oriented handling of common I/O tasks, has been added to the
- standard distribution. The IO classes will form the basis
- for future development of Perl's I/O interface, and will
- subsume the FileHandle class in the near future. The default
- class to which all Perl I/O handles belong is now IO::Handle,
- rather than FileHandle.
-
- - The ExtUtils::Embed library module, which provides a set
- of utility function to help in embedding Perl in other
- applications, has been added to the standard distribution.
-
- - The Fatal library module, which provides a simple interface
- for creating "do-or-die" equivalents of existing functions,
- has been added to the standard distribution.
-
- - The FindBin library module, which determines the full path
- to the currently executing program, has been added to the
- standard distribution.
-
- - The DB_File extension, and the Getopt::Long, Test::Harness,
- Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Time::Local and sigtrap library modules
- have been updated to the authors' latest versions.
-
- - The Carp library module now considers the @ISA chain when
- determining the caller's package for inclusion in error messages.
-
- - The h2xs, perlbug, and xsubpp utilities have been updated.
-
- - The standard Perl debugger has been updated, and the information
- provided to the debugger when an XSUB is called has been improved,
- making it possible for alternate debuggers (such as Devel::DProf)
- to do a better job of tracking XSUB calls.
-
- - The pod documentation formatting tools in the standard distribution
- can now handle characters in the input stream whose high bit is set.
-
- - The cperl-mode EMACS editing mode has been updated.
-
-o Changes in Documentation
-
- - Typographic and formatting errors have been corrected in the pod
- documentation for the core and standard library files
-
- - Explanations of several core operators have been improved
-
- - The perldebug, perlembed, perlipc, perlsec, and perltrap documents
- extensively revised.
-
-o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
-
- - Support for the NeXT platform has been extended through
- NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP 4.0, and now includes the ability to create MABs.
-
- - Support for OS/2 has been extended as well, and now includes
- options for building a.out binaries.
-
- - Support for VMS has also been extended, incorporating improved
- processing of file specification strings, optional suppression of
- carriage control interpretation for record-structured files,
- improved support for the -S command line switch, a number of
- VMS-specific bugfixes, and significantly improved performance
- in line-oriented reading of files.
-
- - Several hints files have been added or updated: aux.sh (updated),
- convexos.sh (updated), irix_4.sh (updated), irix_5.sh (updated),
- irix_6_2.sh (updated), next_3.sh (updated), next_3_2.sh (new),
- next_3_3.sh (new), next_4.sh (new), os2/sh (updated),
- sco.sh (updated), and solaris_2.sh (updated).
+Maintenance of the 5.004 version of perl continues with the 5.004_xx
+series, where 'xx' is <= 49. Development of the next version, 5.005,
+starts with 5.004_50.
- - The test driver for the regression tests now reports when a set
- of tests have been skipped (presumable because the operation
- they're designed to test isn't supported on the current system).