=head1 NAME
-perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
+perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head2 AIX Dynaloading
-The AIX dynaloading now uses the native dlopen interface of AIX,
-(given the AIX is recent enough) instead of the old emulated interface.
-This will probably break backward compatibility with compiled modules.
+The AIX dynaloading now uses in AIX releases 4.3 and newer the native
+dlopen interface of AIX instead of the old emulated interface. This
+change will probably break backward compatibility with compiled
+modules. The change was made to make Perl more compliant with other
+applications like modperl which are using the AIX native interface.
=head2 Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
use quite noticeably. The C<fields> pragma interface will remain
available.
-The syntaxes C<@a->[...]> and C<@h->{...}> have now been deprecated.
+The syntaxes C<< @a->[...] >> and C<< @h->{...} >> have now been deprecated.
The suidperl is also considered to be too much a risk to continue
maintaining and the suidperl code is likely to be removed in a future
implementation even less so. If you have used that feature to
disallow all but fully qualified variables, C<use strict;> instead.
+The chdir(undef) and chdir('') behaviors to match chdir() has been
+deprecated. In future versions, chdir(undef) and chdir('') will
+simply fail.
+
=head1 Core Enhancements
In general a lot of fixing has happened in the area of Perl's
VMS now works under PerlIO.
+=item *
+
+END blocks are now run even if you exit/die in a BEGIN block.
+The execution of END blocks is now controlled by
+PL_exit_flags & PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END. This enables the new
+behaviour for perl embedders. This will default in 5.10. See
+L<perlembed>.
+
=back
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=item *
-L<Unicode::UCD> - Unicode Character Database
+L<UnicodeCD> - Unicode Character Database
=back
old code that used floating point numbers even for integer constants),
and slightly faster, you might want to consider regenerating your
extension code (the new scheme makes regenerating easy).
+L<h2xs> now also supports C trigraphs.
=item *
=item *
-AIX should now work better with gcc. Also longdouble support in AIX
-should be better now. See L<perlaix>.
+AIX should now work better with gcc, threads, and 64-bitness. Also the
+long doubles support in AIX should be better now. See L<perlaix>.
=item *
-AtheOS (http://www.atheos.cx/) is a new platform.
+AtheOS ( http://www.atheos.cx/ ) is a new platform.
=item *
=item *
-Several MacOS (Classic) portability patches have been applied. We
+DYNIX/ptx platform (a.k.a. dynixptx) is supported at or near osvers 4.5.2.
+
+=item *
+
+Several Mac OS (Classic) portability patches have been applied. We
hope to get a fully working port by 5.8.0. (The remaining problems
relate to the changed IO model of Perl.) See L<perlmacos>.
=item *
-MacOS X (or Darwin) should now be able to build Perl even on HFS+
+Mac OS X (or Darwin) should now be able to build Perl even on HFS+
filesystems. (The case-insensitivity confused the Perl build process.)
=item *
=item *
-Using arrays or hashes as references (e.g. C<%foo->{bar}> has been
+Using arrays or hashes as references (e.g. C<< %foo->{bar} >> has been
deprecated for a while. Now you will get an optional warning.
=back
The subtests 11 and 12 sometimes fail and sometimes work.
-=head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configur
+=head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
The lib/io_multihomed test may hang in HP-UX if Perl has been
configured to be 64-bit. Because other 64-bit platforms do not hang in
Examples include any platform using sfio, and Compaq/Tandem's NonStop-UX.
The failing platforms do not comply with the ANSI C Standard, line
19ff on page 134 of ANSI X3.159 1989 to be exact. (They produce
-something else than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using
+something other than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using
the printf format "%.0f", most often they produce "0" and "-0".)
=head2 Failure of Thread tests
=head2 UTS
-Many floating point inaccuracies:
-
- op/numconvert 511,657,658,659,665-667,831,991,1151
- op/pack 10,22,149,156
- op/sprintf 8,10,13,102-107,134-135,146-153,159-162
- lib/Math/BigInt/bigintpm 1145,1183
- lib/Math/Complex 250,257,514,521,722-724,
- 934,935,945,949,955,956,975,976
- ext/POSIX/POSIX 14
+There are a few known test failures, see L<perluts>.
=head2 VMS
Here are the known failures from some compiler/platform combinations.
DEC C V5.3-006 on OpenVMS VAX V6.2
-
+
[-.ext.list.util.t]tainted..............FAILED on test 3
[-.ext.posix]sigaction..................FAILED on test 7
[-.ext.time.hires]hires.................FAILED on test 14
[.op]sprintf............................FAILED on test 12
Failed 8/399 tests, 91.23% okay.
-DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1
+DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1 and
+Compaq C V6.2-008 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1
[-.ext.list.util.t]tainted..............FAILED on test 3
[-.lib.file.find]taint..................FAILED on test 17
[.lib]vmsish............................FAILED on test 13
Failed 4/399 tests, 92.48% okay.
-Compac C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2.1
+Compaq C V6.4-005 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2.1
[-.ext.b]showlex........................FAILED on test 1
[-.ext.list.util.t]tainted..............FAILED on test 3
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
-bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be
-information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl Home Page.
+bug database at http://bugs.perl.org/ There may also be
+information at http://www.perl.com/perl/ , the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down