X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=51d876da6934d0eb8345cff594f2debf8804973c;hb=055be0b80e0d5ab4109104cbf7a5f5379033e671;hp=466332e0fdca265bdcff6a33c7d8a4c4ea236bf6;hpb=3edbfbe5ecbb7e6fb99acc874379580a458f3cff;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 466332e..51d876d 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,181 +1,5634 @@ -New things ----------- - The -w switch is much more informative. +Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes +between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete +list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information, +please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant +release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN +site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases, +or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version +releases.) - References. See t/op/ref.t for examples. All entities in Perl 5 are - reference counted so that it knows when each item should be destroyed. +---------------- +Version 5.003_11 +---------------- - Objects. See t/op/ref.t for examples. +This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of +value. - => is now a synonym for comma. This is useful as documentation for - arguments that come in pairs, such as initializers for associative arrays, - or named arguments to a subroutine. + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - All functions have been turned into list operators or unary operators, - meaning the parens are optional. Even subroutines may be called as - list operators if they've already been declared. + Title: "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y - More embeddible. See main.c and embed_h.sh. Multiple interpreters - in the same process are supported (though not with interleaved - execution yet). + Title: "Don't reset $. on open()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c - The interpreter is now flattened out. Compare Perl 4's eval.c with - the perl 5's pp.c. Compare Perl 4's 900 line interpreter loop in cmd.c - with Perl 5's 1 line interpreter loop in run.c. Eventually we'll make - everything non-blocking so we can interface nicely with a scheduler. + Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c - eval is now treated more like a subroutine call. Among other things, - this means you can return from it. + Title: "Don't let expression context force return context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c - Format value lists may be spread over multiple lines by enclosing in - a do {} block. + Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c sv.c - You may now define BEGIN and END subroutines for each package. The BEGIN - subroutine executes the moment it's parsed. The END subroutine executes - just before exiting. + Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c - Flags on the #! line are interpreted even if the script wasn't - executed directly. (And even if the script was located by "perl -x"!) + Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c - The ?: operator is now legal as an lvalue. + Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c toke.c - List context now propagates to the right side of && and ||, as well - as the 2nd and 3rd arguments to ?:. + OTHER CORE CHANGES - The "defined" function can now take a general expression. + Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c sv.h - Lexical scoping available via "my". eval can see the current lexical - variables. + Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c - The preferred package delimiter is now :: rather than '. + Title: "Fix line numbers near control structures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h - tie/untie are now preferred to dbmopen/dbmclose. Multiple DBM - implementations are allowed in the same executable, so you can - write scripts to interchange data among different formats. + Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c - New "and" and "or" operators work just like && and || but with - a precedence lower than comma, so they work better with list operators. + Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c - New functions include: abs(), chr(), uc(), ucfirst(), lc(), lcfirst(), - chomp(), glob() + Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c util.c - require with a number checks to see that the version of Perl that is - currently running is at least that number. + Title: "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH doop.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h handy.h + hv.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c - Dynamic loading of external modules is now supported. + Title: "Less malloc in magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c - There is a new quote form qw//, which is equivalent to split(' ', q//). + Title: "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611281150.GAA06884@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:50:58 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlguts.pod - Assignment of a reference to a glob value now just replaces the - single element of the glob corresponding to the reference type: - *foo = \$bar, *foo = \&bletch; + Title: "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c - Filehandle methods are now supported: - output_autoflush STDOUT 1; + PORTABILITY AND TESTING - There is now an "English" module that provides human readable translations - for cryptic variable names. + Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c - Autoload stubs can now call the replacement subroutine with goto &realsub. + Title: "hints/dgux.sh update" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500 + Files: hints/dgux.sh - Subroutines can be defined lazily in any package by declaring an AUTOLOAD - routine, which will be called if a non-existent subroutine is called in - that package. + Title: "BUG in hints/hpux.sh" + From: Jeff McDougal + Msg-ID: <32A42C11.7FA2@cris.com> + Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 08:33:05 -0500 + Files: hints/hpux.sh - Several previously added features have been subsumed under the new - keywords "use" and "no". Saying "use Module LIST" is short for - BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; } - The "no" keyword is identical except that it calls "unimport" instead. - The earlier pragma mechanism now uses this mechanism, and two new - modules have been added to the library to implement "use integer" - and variations of "use strict vars, refs, subs". + Title: "VMS patches for 5.003_10" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ICMALO8NMS001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:40:12 -0500 (EST) + Files: EXTERN.h INTERN.h old_perl_exp.SH perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH + pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c toke.c util.c + utils/perldoc.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h - Variables may now be interpolated literally into a pattern by prefixing - them with \Q, which works just like \U, but backwhacks non-alphanumerics - instead. There is also a corresponding quotemeta function. + Title: "_10+ under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612011107.GAA10805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:07:19 -0500 (EST) + Files: malloc.c os2/diff.configure - Any quantifier in a regular expression may now be followed by a ? to - indicate that the pattern is supposed to match as little as possible. + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS - Pattern matches may now be followed by an m or s modifier to explicitly - request multiline or singleline semantics. An s modifier makes . match - newline. + Title: "{in,ob}structive pods" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199611301652.JAA24201@toy.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:52:57 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Template.pm lib/File/stat.pm + lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm lib/Net/protoent.pm + lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm + lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm - Patterns may now contain \A to match only at the beginning of the string, - and \Z to match only at the end. These differ from ^ and $ in that - they ignore multiline semantics. In addition, \G matches where the - last interation of m//g or s///g left off. + Title: "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto> + Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT + Files: MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm - Non-backreference-producing parens of various sorts may now be - indicated by placing a ? directly after the opening parenthesis, - followed by a character that indicates the purpose of the parens. - An :, for instance, indicates simple grouping. (?:a|b|c) will - match any of a, b or c without producing a backreference. It does - "eat" the input. There are also assertions which do not eat the - input but do lookahead for you. (?=stuff) indicates that the next - thing must be "stuff". (?!nonsense) indicates that the next thing - must not be "nonsense". + Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm - The negation operator now treats non-numeric strings specially. - A -"text" is turned into "-text", so that -bareword is the same - as "-bareword". If the string already begins with a + or -, it - is flipped to the other sign. + Title: "10+ debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612011137.GAA10864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:37:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldebug.pod -Incompatibilities ------------------ - @ now always interpolates an array in double-quotish strings. Some programs - may now need to use backslash to protect any @ that shouldn't interpolate. + Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm - Ordinary variables starting with underscore are no longer forced into - package main. + Title: "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199612031445.PAA19056@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:27 +0100 (MET) + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3 - s'$lhs'$rhs' now does no interpolation on either side. It used to - interplolate $lhs but not $rhs. + Title: "DB_File 1.07" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t + t/lib/db-recno.t - The second and third arguments of splice are now evaluated in scalar - context (like the book says) rather than list context. + Title: "DB_File 1.08" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs - Saying "shift @foo + 20" is now a semantic error because of precedence. - "open FOO || die" is now incorrect. You need parens around the filehandle. +---------------- +Version 5.003_10 +---------------- - The elements of argument lists for formats are now evaluated in list - context. This means you can interpolate list values now. +This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and +valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. - You can't do a goto into a block that is optimized away. Darn. + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES - It is no longer syntactically legal to use whitespace as the name - of a variable, or as a delimiter for any kind of quote construct. + Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c - Some error messages will be different. + Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions + From: John L. Allen + Files: toke.c - The caller function now returns a false value in a scalar context if there - is no caller. This lets library files determine if they're being required. + Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c - m//g now attaches its state to the searched string rather than the - regular expression. + OTHER CORE CHANGES - "reverse" is no longer allowed as the name of a sort subroutine. + Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regexec.c - taintperl is no longer a separate executable. There is now a -T - switch to turn on tainting when it isn't turned on automatically. + Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h - Symbols starting with _ are no longer forced into package main, except - for $_ itself (and @_, etc.). + Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c - Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $ or @. + Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c - Negative array subscripts now count from the end of the array. + Title: "Better support for UVs" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h - The comma operator in a scalar context is now guaranteed to give a - scalar context to its arguments. + Title: "Minor locale cleanups" + (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to + 'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c - The ** operator now binds more tightly than unary minus. + Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c - Setting $#array lower now discards array elements so that destructors - work reasonably. + Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c - delete is not guaranteed to return the old value for tied arrays, - since this capability may be onerous for some modules to implement. + Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pp_sys.c - Attempts to set $1 through $9 now result in a run-time error. + Title: "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Namespace cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h + + Title: "Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Reliable signal patch" + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST) + Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c + + Title: "Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "3_09: minor patches for OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST) + Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs + os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL + os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL + os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h + + Title: "Re: 5.003_09 and QNX" + From: nort@bottesini.harvard.edu (Norton Allen) + Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu> + Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est + Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp + t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h + + Title: "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ICB648K2XG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:28:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: t/op/sysio.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Minor patch to debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611290533.AAA08053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD optimization" + From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons) + Msg-ID: <199611231954.TAA09921@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:54:52 GMT + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Diagnostic cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_09 +---------------- + +This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from +many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable +scoping and locale handling. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Lexical locales" + (make effectiveness of locales depend on C) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: too many to list + + Title: "Lexical scoping cleanup" + (tighten scoping of lexical variables, somewhat on the + new constructs and somewhat on the old) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: many... but mostly perly.y and toke.c + + Title: "Re: memory corruption / security bug in sysread,syswrite + pa + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199611251946.VAA30459@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:31 +0200 (EET) + Files: MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + t/op/sysio.t + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h + + Title: "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1, + From: John Hughes + Msg-ID: <01BBD6EE.E915C860@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM> + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:27:06 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can" + From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto> + Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT + Files: universal.c + + Title: "die -> croak" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199611212111.QAA17070@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:11:21 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Patch for embed.pl when !EMBED && !MULTIPLICITY" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: embed.pl + + Title: "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym old_global.sym + + Title: "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Cleanups from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c malloc.c pod/perlguts.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix for unpack('w') on 64-bit systems." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611260308.WAA02677@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:08:27 -0500 (EST) + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Hash key sharing improvements from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hv.c hv.h proto.h + + Title: "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches post-5.003_08" + From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey) + Msg-ID: <1996Nov22.181631.1603238@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:16:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c pp_ctl.c + utils/h2xs.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c + vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611241147.GAA00490@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 06:47:25 -0500 (EST) + Files: README.os2 hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs + os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm os2/os2.c + + Title: "HP patches didn't make it into _08 (fwd)" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199611260215.AA100414526@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 18:15:26 PST + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Another HP "patch" that didn't make it (new hints file)" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/db-hash.t + + Title: "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Title: "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t + + Title: "minimal timelocal.pl for _09" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9611191854.AA19586@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:23 +0100 + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Socket test improvement from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/io_sock.t + + Title: "Re: blib" + From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons) + Msg-ID: <199611230917.JAA00471@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:17:40 GMT + Files: lib/blib.pm + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perldiag documentation patch." + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9611201607.AA12729@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 16:07:28 GMT + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "a missing perldiag entry" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199611212024.PAA15758@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:24:02 -0500 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc patch" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Patch for pod/perlpod.pod" + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perli18n.pod + + BUNDLED UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/util.c + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_08 +---------------- + +This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from +many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. + + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make C fail if C fails" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Bitwise op sign rationalization" + (Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C is in effect. Includes initial support for UVs.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlop.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp.h + pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c t/op/bop.t + + Title: "Defined scoping for C in control structures" + (Finally defines semantics of "my" in control expressions, + like the condition of "if" and "while". In all cases, scope + of a "my" var extends to the end of the entire control + structure. Also adds new construct "for my", which + automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits + its scope to the loop.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c + + Title: "Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')" + (This patch makes Perl correctly ignore SvIVX() if either + NOK or POK is true, since SvIVX() may be a truncated or + overflowed version of the real value.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c + + Title: "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.y + + Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fixes for pack('w')" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h + + Title: "Fix for formline()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c + t/op/write.t + + Title: "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym" + (New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by + avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST embed.pl ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h global.sym handy.h malloc.c + perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h regexec.c toke.c util.c + x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/handy.h x2p/util.h + + Title: "Support old embedding for people who want it" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym + + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes" + From: Charles Bailey + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/timelocal.pl + perl.h perl_exp.SH proto.h t/TEST t/io/read.t + t/lib/findbin.t t/lib/getopt.t util.c utils/h2xs.PL + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs + vms/perlvms.pod vms/test.com vms/vms.c + + Title: "DJGPP patches (MS-DOS)" + From: "Douglas E. Wegscheid" + Files: doio.c dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c handy.h + lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Find.pm malloc.c perl.c + perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c util.c + + Title: "Plan 9 update" + From: Luther Huffman + Files: plan9/buildinfo plan9/config.plan9 plan9/exclude + plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc + + Title: "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS" + From: "Norbert Pueschel" + Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "DB_File 1.05" + From: Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-hash.t + + Title: "Getopts::Std patch for hash support" + From: Stephen Zander + Files: lib/Getopt/Std.pm + + Title: "Kludge for bareword handles" + (Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module" + From: hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Hammen) + Files: Configure config_h.SH ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod + ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t + + BUNDLED UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_07 +---------------- + +This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed +in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious +testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004. + +If it doesn't work for you, try + + LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL + +for Bourne shell users, or + + setenv LC_ALL C + +for C-shell users. Some versions of IRIX are reported to have +problems with sort when the locale is other than C. This manifests +as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step. + +The details are described below. A very brief summary is: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + -Support for BER compressed integers. See perlfunc.pod for + documentation on the 'w' option. + + -untaint support added to IO extension. + +o Changes in Core Internals + + -Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC), + as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility + with 5.003. (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.) + + -Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4. + +o Configure and build enhancements + + -improved SCO hints. Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but + they may be right. + + -OS/2 and Plan9 updates. + +o Bug fixes + + -print sort (4,1,3,2); + + -group numbers are integers again. + + -other things. See the specific changes for details. + +o Specific Changes + +Here are the specific file-by-file changes. + +Index: Changes + + Updated for 5.003_07. + + Fixed a spelling error. + +Index: Configure + + Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc. + Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test + program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of + Configure have moved around unchanged. The patch is big but the + effect is little. + + Allow for both and in fd_set tests. + Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one + or the other in the hints file for now. + +Index: INSTALL + + Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values. + +Index: MANIFEST + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + os2/Changes added. + +Index: Makefile.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with + shared library target, which is delegated to + $osname/Makefile.SHs if found. + config.h should depend on config_h.SH. + + Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly + sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked). + +Index: README.os2 + + New version. + +Index: config_H + + Update SH_PATH comment. + +Index: config_h.SH + + Update SH_PATH comment. + +Index: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad + things it can do. + +Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h + + Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version. + I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc, + and we might need to hide it. + +Index: gv.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Better error message for overload. + +Index: hints/os2.sh + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some + memory present - 32M should be quite enough). + Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately. + libc was in .../st/... instead of mt. + README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod. + +Index: hints/sco.sh + + Don't include along with . + +Index: installperl + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install). + +Index: lib/Cwd.pm + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be + done outside of OS/2 too?). + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + `bool' entry added. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!). + +Index: lib/File/Copy.pm + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Subject: Cleanup after new test + + Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just + plain broken under OS/2 and VMS) + +Index: lib/FindBin.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module + +Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Update to version 2.4. + +Index: lib/lib.pm + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400 + From: "Brent B. Powers" + Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm + + Ignore undefined entries. + +Index: lib/newgetopt.pl + + Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long. + +Index: makedepend.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH + (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH + with more than two '.' Such names are illegal on some systems.) + +Index: mg.c + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 () + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06 + + The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error + introduced in 5.003_06. This patch is required to fix the bug: + +Index: os2/Changes + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit. + updates for fork()ing. + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + added. + +Index: os2/Makefile.SHs + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Convoluted process to create chimera executables added. + aout_clean is done automatically on clean. + +Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Use `unlink' where appropriate. + +Index: os2/diff.configure + + Updated. + +Index: os2/os2.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + /bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe. + popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now). + builtins added for the sake of path manipulation. + +Index: os2/os2ish.h + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit. + updates for fork()ing. + +Index: patchlevel.h + + Change to subversion 7. + +Index: perl.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000 + From: Tim Bunce + Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} + + I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in + (the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries + is frightning!). + + If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range + of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump: + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n. + Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted. + +Index: perl.h + + Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version. + I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc, + and we might need to hide it. + +Index: plan9/aperl + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/buildinfo + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/config.plan9 + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/exclude + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/fndvers + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/genconfig.pl + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/mkfile + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9 + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/plan9.c + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/plan9ish.h + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/setup.rc + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/versnum + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: pod/perldiag.pod + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE. + OS/2-specific messages added. + +Index: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack + +Index: pod/perli18n.pod + + Updated version with high bits intact. + +Index: pod/perlop.pod + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Crossrefs corrected. + +Index: pod/perltrap.pod + + Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4 + and perl5. + +Index: pod/perlvar.pod + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + $^E under OS/2. + +Index: pp.c + + Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack + +Index: pp_sys.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT + From: Chris Faylor + + The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened + with write privileges for chsize to work correctly. + +Index: sv.c + + Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work + + >> > print sort (4,1,2,3); + >> > + >> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort. Bug? Feature? + + This broke between 5.001n and 5.002. There was a long winded thread + about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around + the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on + p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that + the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called: + + Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above + code breaks! Here's a patch against 5.00306. + +Index: t/lib/anydbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/db-btree.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/db-hash.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/db-recno.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/gdbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Better error message on dying. + +Index: t/lib/io_taint.t + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle. + +Index: t/lib/ndbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/odbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/sdbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/socket.t + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX) + + fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is + rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases. + +Index: t/op/pack.t + + Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack + +Index: t/op/sort.t + + Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests + +Index: util.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined + as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does). + +Index: x2p/Makefile.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt + From: Norton Allen + Subject: Re: sh Configure? + + Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down + in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full + pathname of the file being extracted. + +Index: x2p/cflags.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt + From: Norton Allen + Subject: Re: sh Configure? + + Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down + in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full + pathname of the file being extracted. + + +---------------- +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 Jarkko 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 + +# 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 + + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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" + 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 + + 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 + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: doop.c + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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" + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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 + + 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 + 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 + Subject: a really really tiny typo + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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 + 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 + Subject: File::Basename documentation patch + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + 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 + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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 + # 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" + 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 + 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" + 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 + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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 + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm + + Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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 + 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 + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + + Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC + + support C + + Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: perl.h + + Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: pod/Makefile + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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 + 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" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT + From: Jeff Okamoto + 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" + 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 + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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 + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" + 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" + 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 for tips". [Fixed.] + + 3. 'L', 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 + 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" + 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" + 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" + 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 + + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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" + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + + 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 + 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 + + Fix the number of tests. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + 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 + 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 + # 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 sorts op/re_* before op/rea*, while + $otherway = `echo op/*` sorts op/re_* after op/re[a-z]*.t + + This version doesn't rely on the sorting order. + +Index: t/op/magic.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + +Index: t/op/readdir.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/op/sort.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: toke.c + + Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch) + + I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately + overwrite oldbufptr and oldoldbufptr (which are used in making + expectation decisions in the lexer). + + Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: perl lexer won't accept C$b;> + + Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" + 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 + 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" + 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" + 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 + 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" + 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 + 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 + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/descrip.mms + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/genconfig.pl + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/perlvms.pod + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/vms.c + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + 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" + 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" + 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 + +# 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 + + 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 + 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 + Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl + + Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading. + +Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm + + From: Roderick Schertler + 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 + 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 . + +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 + 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 + + 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 + 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($y)'s. Further, expressions were re-arranged so that + calls to the expensive real sqrt() routine were reduced from 4 to 2 + in this case. + +Index: lib/open3.pl + + The I/O directions on the dad_wtr and kid_rdr were backwards. + IO/Open3.pm didn't have this error. + +Index: lib/syslog.pl + + Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400 + From: Roderick Schertler + Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage + + syslog.pl tries but fails to use + Socket.pm, the problem is that use doesn't return a true value. This + module should be recast in terms of Sys::Syslog, of course. + +Index: makedepend.SH + + This patch eliminates "\|" in sed patterns in makedepend.SH, since + they're not really needed anyway in this one case. + +Index: mg.c + + Ok, here's a tested patch for the debugger problem. + I was missing the fact that DB::dbline magic is actually + uppercase (which means hv_store_ent() etc., will pass SV keys + to the vtbl_dbline handlers). + + Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with + the simple MgPVKEY macro. + + Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add + additional parens around the "mg". + + (lines near 584) Part of VMS changes. I don't know what this did. + + Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) > + + This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers + (C) instead of floats. It also eliminates a warning from + C< local($)) >, 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 + 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. + +Index: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Document correct C usage. + + Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp. + +Index: pod/perlipc.pod + + Document correct C usage. + +Index: pod/perlref.pod + + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right) + +Index: t/op/ref.t + + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more) + +Index: universal.c + + Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST + From: Graham Barr + 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 + 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 + +# 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 + 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 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, 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 + 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 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, 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 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, 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 + +# 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 and 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 and + +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 + +Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Add brief note about GNU as and ld. + + Don't include + + 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 + + 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 + +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 , , and . + (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 . + + Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order. + +Index: util.c + + Include . + + 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. + +---------------- +Version 5.003_02 +---------------- +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. + +---------------- +Version 5.003_01 +---------------- + +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). + + - 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).