X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=74755010ca34672e98f88ba6e034ae10b4edc535;hb=f6d98b14fd224d7fe398ef16332eaa45bf13b92f;hp=8c4aedf55df2f74b342cd4e923979190fec34b33;hpb=3cf761f323c7d78acf211780febc9c6611f6d612;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 8c4aedf..7475501 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -8,6 +8,5488 @@ or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version releases.) + --------------- + CAST AND CREW + --------------- + +To give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 what is is today, +here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their +current addresses (as of March 1997): + + Gisle Aas + Kenneth Albanowski + Graham Barr + Spider Boardman + Tom Christiansen + Hallvard B Furuseth + M. J. T. Guy + Gurusamy Sarathy + Jarkko Hietaniemi + Nick Ing-Simmons + Andreas Koenig + Doug MacEachern + Paul Marquess + Hans Mulder + Jeff Okamoto + Ulrich Pfeifer + Tom Phoenix + Norbert Pueschel + Dean Roehrich + Roderick Schertler + Larry W. Virden + Ilya Zakharevich + +And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: + + Charles Bailey + Tim Bunce + Andy Dougherty + Chip Salzenberg + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_04 Maintenance release 4 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. + 2. From discord, find harmony. + 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." + -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Fixed gaps in tainting (readdir, readlink, gecos, bit vector ops). + Fixed memory leak in splice(@_). + Fixed debugger core dumps. + IO::Socket now sets autoflush by default. + Several perldoc bugs fixed, now faster and more helpful. + Fixed Win32 handle leak. + Many other improvements to Win32 support. + Many many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "ExtUtils::Liblist prints diagnostics to STDOUT (vs. STDERR)" + From: Andy Dougherty , jesse@ginger + (Jesse Glick) + Msg-ID: <199708290032.UAA15663@ginger>, + + Files: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Set LD_RUN_PATH when building suidperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Tony Sanders + + Msg-ID: <199708272226.QAA10206@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "INSTALL version 1.26" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Propagate MAKE=$(MAKE) through perl build" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Makefile.SH makedepend.SH x2p/Makefile.SH ext/util/make_ext + + Title: "update to installperl for perl5.004_02 to skip CVS dir" + From: Tony Sanders + Msg-ID: <199708272307.RAA13451@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: installperl + + Title: "makedepend loop on HP-UX 10.20" + Msg-ID: <1997Sep20.183731.2297443@cor.newman> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Tiny Grammaro in INSTALL" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Fix Configured osvers under Linux 1" + From: Andy Dougherty , Hugo van der + Sanden + Msg-ID: <199709241439.PAA17114@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL-1.28" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "makedepend.SH fix for UNICOS" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710132039.XAA21459@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: makedepend.SH + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph" + From: Jochen Wiedmann , Stephen McCamant + , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu>, + <3407639E.FEBF20BA@neckar-alb.de>, + + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Allow $obj->$coderef()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199708291649.MAA23276@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and + perl5" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen McCamant + + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "Avoid assumption that STRLEN == I32" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hallvard B Furuseth + + Msg-ID: <199708242310.BAA05497@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: hv.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak in splice(@_)" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: + Files: proto.h av.c global.sym pp.c + + Title: "Fix line number of warnings in while() conditional", "misleading + uninit value warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Greg Bacon + + Msg-ID: <199708271607.LAA01403@crp-201.adtran.com> + Files: proto.h op.c perly.c perly.y + + Title: "-t and POSIX::isatty on IO::Handle objects", "Fix C<-t $handle>" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Greg Ward + + Msg-ID: <199708261754.NAA24826@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix output of invalid printf formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199708241529.QAA02457@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: sv.c t/op/sprintf.t + + Title: "regexec.c regcppartblow declaration missing an arg" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199708290059.BAA05808@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "taint readlink, readdir, gecos" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709131651.TAA13471@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "clean up old style package' usage in op.c" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199709151813.NAA14433@psisa.psa.pencom.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "beautifying usage() code in perl.c" + From: "John L. Allen" <"John L. Allen"> + Msg-ID: + Files: perl.c + + Title: "debugger to fix core dumps, adds $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709170823.EAA21359@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c lib/perl5db.pl mg.c perl.c toke.c + + Title: "downgrade "my $foo masks earlier" from mandatory to "-w"" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen Potter + + Msg-ID: <199709091832.NAA14763@psisa.psa.pencom.com>, + <199709102019.QAA09591@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod op.c + + Title: "fix overridden glob() problems" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199709171645.MAA13988@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlsub.pod lib/File/DosGlob.pm op.c t/lib/dosglob.t + toke.c + + Title: "Reverse previous "Fix C" patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Kenneth Albanowski + , Tom Christiansen + + Msg-ID: <199707050155.VAA27394@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199708172326.RAA19344@jhereg.perl.com>, + + Files: toke.c + + Title: "printf type warning buglets in m3t2" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199708141017.MAA10225@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c util.c x2p/util.c + + Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and + perl5" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen McCamant + + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "unpack now allows commas but -w warns", "unpack() difference + 5.003->5.004" + From: "John L. Allen" , Chip Salzenberg + , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + Jim Esten , Jim Esten + , timbo (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199709031632.LAA29584@wepco.com>, + <199709090257.WAA32670@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199709090917.MAA05602@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199709091000.LAA24094@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <341077FE.132F@wdynamic.com>, + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + Title: "5.004_04 trial 1 assorted minor details" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod hv.c op.c sv.c x2p/util.c + + Title: "A couple of 4_04t1 problems" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9709210959.AA28772@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: lib/Cwd.pm perl.c + + Title: "Minor changes to ease port to MVS" + From: Len Johnson , SMTP%"BAHUFF@us.oracle.com" , + SMTP%"pfuntner@vnet.ibm.com" , pvhp@forte.com (Peter + Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199709162058.NAA00952@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> + Files: unixish.h miniperlmain.c + + Title: "Truer version string and more robust perlbug" + From: "Michael A. Chase" , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199709201514.QAA21187@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <1997Sep22.090701.2297448@cor.newman> + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Fix locale bug for constant (readonly) strings" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709262125.AAA28292@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Enable truly global glob()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710080000.UAA18972@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix for $0 truncation" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199710081703.SAA02653@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix for missing &import leaving stack untidy" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709282252.SAA22915@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Larry's proto fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709290004.UAA07559@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c t/comp/proto.t + + Title: "Fix bugs with magical arrays and hashes (@ISA)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709232148.RAA29967@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: perl.h proto.h av.c global.sym gv.c mg.c pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c + t/op/method.t + + Title: "Perl_debug_log stream used for all DEBUG_*(...) macro uses" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709230820.JAA11945@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: perl.c taint.c util.c + + Title: "Tainting bitwise vector ops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199710061726.NAA16438@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: doop.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Enhance $^E on OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709232236.SAA04463@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod mg.c os2/Changes + + Title: "option "!#... -- ..." in perl 5.004.03 seems not to work" + From: "John L. Allen" , Urs Thuermann + + Msg-ID: <199709232030.WAA30425@isnogud.escape.de>, + + Files: perl.c + + Title: "syswrite will again write a zero length buffer" + From: Cameron Simpson , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) + Msg-ID: <199710042107.AAA28561@alpha.hut.fi>, + <19971007104652-cameron-1-10391@sid.research.canon.com.au> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "make Odd number of elements in hash list warning non-mandatory" + From: Jason Varsoke {81530} + Msg-ID: <199710021651.MAA15690@caesun7.msd.ray.com> + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix defined() bug in m4t3 affecting LWP" + From: chip@atlantic.net@ig.co.uk () + Msg-ID: <199710101822.OAA14249@cyprus.atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Include $archname in perl -v output" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: perl.c + + Title: "-I flag can easily lead to whitespace in @INC" + From: Kenneth Stephen , Tim Bunce , + pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199710130922.KAA07780@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <5040400007001448000002L082*@MHS>, + <9710132015.AA12457@forte.com> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "perldiag.pod: gotcha in short pattern/char ops" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709050718.KAA31405@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Documenting the perl-thanks address" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Missing section for @_ in perlvar." + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199708142146.RAA13146@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Promised information about AvHASH in perguts is not delivered" + From: mjd@plover.com + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.doc - $_ aliasing in map, grep, foreach etc" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199708181852.OAA15901@ns.southern.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "-U Unsafe operations need -w to warn" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "document the return value of syscall" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <1997Sep7.160817.2297395@cor.newman> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "minor fix for perltrap.pod" + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709170500.BAA14805@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "xsubpp: document advanced dynamic typemap usage" + From: "Rujith S. de Silva" + Files: pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Improved diagnostic docs for here-documents" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[POD patch] do-FILE forces scalar context." + From: Robin Houston + Msg-ID: <199709221553.QAA28409@carryon.oneworld.org> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlop.pop. Behaviour of C vs C." + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709220107.VAA27064@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Clarify exec docs in perlfunc.pod" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199710081353.OAA00834@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Documentation patch for perlguts.pod--document tainting routines" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971007165226.02fd2cd4@osshe.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Man perlfunc: incorrect split example" + From: Joerg Porath + Msg-ID: <199709240620.IAA30928@pandora.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Improve "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method" disgnostic" + From: rjray@uswest.com (Randy J. Ray) + Msg-ID: <199709231710.LAA08854@tremere.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Document split-with-limit on empty string perl4/perl5 change" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Gisle Aas , Hugo + van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199709221419.PAA03987@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltrap.pod URI/URL/http.pm t/op/split.t + + Title: "Clarify close() docs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710081653.MAA20611@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perldiag log & sqrt - refer to Math::Complex package" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710042129.AAA20367@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod: sysread, syswrite docs" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710061910.WAA15266@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document //gc" + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709232302.TAA27947@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "repeating #! switches" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Robin Barker + + Msg-ID: <199709241736.NAA25855@rio.atlantic.net>, + <24778.9709241501@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Re: taint documentation bug" + From: Ken Estes , Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlsec.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "FileHandle.pm fails if Exporter has not been loaded previously" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <3445e05b.17874041@smtp2.ibm.net> + Files: lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Prefer startperl path over perlpath in MakeMaker" + From: Andreas Klussmann + Msg-ID: <199709162017.WAA05043@troubadix.infosys.heitec.net> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname fails under Solaris 2.5 when setuid" + From: Patrick Hayes + Msg-ID: <199708201240.OAA04243@goblin.renault.fr> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "Cwd::getcwd cannot handle path contains '0' element" + From: Hironori Ikura , Hironori Ikura + , Stephen Zander + Msg-ID: <19970830060142J.hikura@matsu.tcc.co.jp>, + + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "Getopt::Long 2.11" + From: JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "IO::Socket autoflush by default, assume tcp and PeerAddr" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Andy Dougherty + , Gisle Aas + + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Undocumented: $Test::Harness::switches" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9708272110.AA26904@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "Patches for lib/Math/Complex.pm and t/lib/complex.t" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709102009.WAA27428@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Win32: Install.pm not correctly comparing binary files." + From: Jeff Urlwin + Msg-ID: <01BCBFAA.E325C4A0.jurlwin@access.digex.net> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Document that File::Find doesn't follow symlinks" + From: Greg Ward + Msg-ID: <199708191853.OAA07111@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + Title: "fix subroutines called in a void context in perl5db.pl" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "xsubpp fix to allow #ifdef's around entire XSubs" + From: John Tobey + Msg-ID: <199709070034.AAA16457@remote119> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Banishing eval from getopt.pl and Getopt/Std.pm" + From: "John L. Allen" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/getopt.pl lib/Getopt/Std.pm + + Title: "further complex number patches" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi , d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199709221009.FAA21216@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu>, + <199709221216.PAA15130@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Trap Time::Local infinite loop" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199710030030.BAA17372@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Cosmetic Test::Harness patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032226.SAA15354@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "ExtUtil::Install sub my_cmp needs to binmode its files" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen Potter + + Msg-ID: <199710010617.BAA02037@psisa.psa.pencom.com>, + <199710011819.OAA03288@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Enable make test "TEST_FILES=t/*.t.were_failing"" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032231.SAA15364@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix for autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710071734.NAA19462@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex fixes - fixes problems on m68-linux" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709301422.HAA24368@koah.research.nokia.com> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Updated CPAN.pm for 5.004_04" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "debugger bug with 'c subname'" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709232331.TAA04546@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Fix atan2 & restrict $t to (-pi,pi] instead of to [-pi,pi]" + From: Daniel S. Lewart, Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199710010939.CAA00964@koah.research.nokia.com> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Cwd::fastcwd needs changes to work with tainting" + From: Hugo van der Sanden , Ulrich Pfeifer + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "use autouse: requires prototype now" + From: user@agate.berkeley.edu + Msg-ID: <9709220450.AA0380@tuzik.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: ""use base qw(Foo Bar);" to set @ISA at compile time" + From: Gisle Aas , Graham Barr , Graham Barr + , Tim Bunce , + jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois), larry@wall.org (Larry + Wall) + Msg-ID: <199710022151.WAA21250@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <199710031613.JAA11286@wall.org>, + <199710040829.KAA16739@furu.g.aas.no>, + <3434E4C6.AE24135E@ti.com>, <343C2278.7DC1ADC6@pobox.com>, + <343ec306.50394803@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> + Files: lib/base.pm + + Title: "Further Math/Complex.pm enhancements" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710132055.XAA02086@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Further Math::Complex fixes" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710120933.MAA01165@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "POD patches w.r.t. $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710030001.UAA14241@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ../pod/perlfunc.pod ../pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "libperl.sl on HP-UX 10.20" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199709250003.BAA18085@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <873emkbpit.fsf@perv.daft.com> + Files: + + Title: "myconfig / perl -V: remove randbits and add prototype" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709290857.JAA07706@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: myconfig + + Title: "Emacs CPerl update for 5.004_04" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710140835.EAA26825@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + Title: "Enhance perly.fixer to help porters." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: perly.fixer + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "Fix win32/Makefile for perl95" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "Win32 archnames" + From: Bill Middleton , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Peter Prymmer , Tim + Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709111929.PAA22488@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <341719E4.4923@forte.com>, + + Files: win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc + + Title: "pl2bat.bat -> pl2bat.pl change in win32/pod.mak" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <3411ee6f.9143607@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> + Files: win32/pod.mak + + Title: "Add test-notty target to Win32 Makefile" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <343f5106.12461608@smtp2.ibm.net> + Files: win32/Makefile + + Title: "Bug in Win32::GetShortPathName" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710092229.SAA21556@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Fix NT handles leak." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710111319.JAA10918@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "fix socket init duality on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710111523.LAA12407@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Tweak to hints/machten.sh: stop t/lib/complex.t from failing" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Irix 6.2 build problem - so_locations" + From: "Billinghurst, David" + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Porting/pumpkin.pod version 1.13" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "lib/timelocal.t fails test 1 for VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970908112449.0087bc90@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + Title: "Patches to updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970918100648.008b1c60@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Fix perl build on Digital UNIX after JDK installs libnet.so" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199709191826.OAA18040@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970912091524.008a3620@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Dynixptx hints" + From: bruce@aps.org ("Bruce P. Schuck") + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/dynixptx.sh + + Title: "Minor OS/2 patch for 4_03" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032224.SAA15345@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/os2.c + + Title: "OS2::REXX improvements" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709272214.SAA08638@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/Changes os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm + + Title: "hints/qnx.sh update" + From: Norton Allen + Msg-ID: <199709261508.LAA07889@dolores.harvard.edu> + Files: hints/qnx.sh + + Title: "New hints file for IBM OS/390 OpenEdition (MVS)" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <9709240106.AA26484@forte.com> + Files: hints/os390.sh + + Title: "OS/2 Hints" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710130631.CAA25426@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "op/glob.t test failure under Win32 with CVS" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Aug26.091048pdt.35761-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: t/op/glob.t + + Title: "tests fail if localhost/loopback address not defined" + From: David McLean >, David McLean + + Msg-ID: <34048947.2944@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov> + Files: t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_udp.t + + Title: "Improve pragma/locale test 102 - and don't fail, just warn" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970919160918.00857a50@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Identify t/*/*.t test failing because of file permissions" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "fix poor t/op/runlevel.t test" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Hugo van der Sanden + , Norton Allen + + Msg-ID: <199709261458.KAA28611@dolores.harvard.edu> + Files: t/op/runlevel.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Missing 'require' in auto-generated .pm by h2xs" + From: davidk@tor.securecomputing.com (David Kerry) + Msg-ID: <97Aug27.131618edt.11650@janus.tor.securecomputing.com> + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "Perldoc tiny patch to avoid $0" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph broken in 5.004_02" + From: David Mazieres , + kstar@www.chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic) + Msg-ID: <199708201454.KAA05122@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>, + <199708201700.KAA02621@www.chapin.edu> + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "add key_t caddr_t to h2ph", "eg/sysvipc/ipcsem bug", "update + hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Tony Sanders + Msg-ID: <199708272301.RAA12803@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: eg/sysvipc/ipcsem utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "perldoc search ., lib and blib/* if -f 'Makefile.PL'" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199708251732.KAA19299@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "5.004m4t1: perlbug: NIS domainname gets into wrong places" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "add better local patch info to perlbug", "perlbug checks perl + build/run version changes" + From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc - suggest modules if requested module not found" + From: Anthony David + Msg-ID: <3439CD83.6969@netinfo.com.au> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc mail::foo tries to read binary /usr/ucb/mail" + From: "Joseph Moof-in' Hall" , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199710082014.NAA00808@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc -f setpwent (for example) returns no descriptive text" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc diffs: don't search auto - much faster" + From: "Joseph N. Hall" + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_03 Maintenance release 3 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"To err is human, to forgive divine." + -- Alexander Pope + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Fixed 5.004_02 compilation failure on VMS. + Fixed Configure (non)errors being displayed to user. + Better support for Windows 95. + Assorted documentation and hint file improvements. + perl --foo no longer silently ignored. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "Show Configure failure reason even with -s" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can stop without fully explaining itself" + From: Jim Anderson + Msg-ID: <199708111328.JAA28976@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com>, + <199708111952.PAA29346@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com> + Files: Configure + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "typos in perl -h output" + From: "Richard A. Wells" + Msg-ID: <6D0BF914BC@gateuhs.harvard.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Some perldb -> PERLDB_* macro changes were missed" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199708100323.XAA27155@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Further fix to lseek's in lockf_emulate_flock" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199708060031.CAA07387@bombur2.uio.no>, + <199708102225.AAA16970@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "GNU style perl --version (or any other --foo) ignored" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Kenneth Albanowski + , Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "seen_dot declaration in perl.c needed for VMS" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708072033.QAA09167@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] -D info in perlrun", "[PATCH] Re: -D info in perlrun" + From: Stephen McCamant , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug10.195832.2224477@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + , + + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "perlop pod inconsistent in presentation of regexp options" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Hans Mulder , + jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com + Msg-ID: <199708061404.KAA06717@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <199708081505.LAA09810@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <1997Aug7.160530.2196011@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + , + + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "pod2man generated .IX lines upset whatis on Solaris" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com (John + Redford) + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "The description of the \Q metacharacter is confusing to novices" + From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) + Msg-ID: <199708101946.AA06339@world.std.com> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "doc patch for pack("p",undef) packing a NULL pointer" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod error" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199708102235.QAA18420@jhereg.perl.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "patch for documentation error in FileCache.pm" + From: Mike Stok , mikebo@tellabs.com + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/FileCache.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] 5.004_02: Complex/Trig: update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708081842.VAA31214@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "CPAN Use of uninitialized value in newest perl" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9708091738.AA16435@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] /x is not a valid shell switch on Win95" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708121720.NAA14760@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Win95-proofing pl2bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708121733.NAA14888@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/bin/pl2bat.pl + win32/bin/runperl.pl win32/bin/search.pl + win32/bin/webget.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] [OK] Perl5.004_02 on Alpha NT" + From: wmiddlet@adobe.com (William Middleton) + Msg-ID: <199708072100.OAA13141@ducks> + Files: win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------ + + Title: "Improve dual-universe comments in hints/sunos_4_1.sh" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "Dynamic Loading on MkLinux (osname=linux,archname=ppc-linux)" + From: Chris Nandor , Shimpei Yamashita + + Msg-ID: <33EF1634.B36B6500@pobox.com> + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "5.004_02 Configure - worrying but normal errors displayed to user" + From: Paul Marquess , pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk + (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <01BCA3DE.E257BFC0.pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, + <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: Configure os2/diff.configure + + Title: "Minor glitch with Perl 5.004_01 on SunOS 4.1.3 (groupstype)" + From: thad@thadlabs.com (Thad Floryan) + Msg-ID: <9708111415.AA03808@thadlabs.com> + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "SCO Openserver 5.0.4 - add comment to hint file re compiler bug" + From: Bill Glicker + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/sco.sh + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "perlbug -d non-interactive (with patch)" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199708071418.KAA15711@ns.southern.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_02 Maintenance release 2 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"When you work you are a flute through whose + heart the whispering of the hours turns to music." + -- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Major memory growth bug fixed. + Object destruction is more timely and orderly. + Further major enhancements to Win32 support, including: + Win32 binary compatibility between Visual C++ and Borland C++. + The -S option is now more useful on dos/Win32 (see perlrun). + Implicit -p print now checks for write errors. + DB_File now sub-classable (and other fixes). + Memory usage stats available with perl's malloc (see perldelta). + 'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated (see perldelta). + Internal integer to string conversions are faster. + Carp can be forced to give stack traces (see perldoc Carp). + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: Configure: cf_time always in C locale" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708061827.VAA09623@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can't find open3 on NeXTstep" + From: Andy Dougherty , hans@icgned.nl + (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9706271816.AA10551@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't use undef value in Config::myconfig" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: <199706271525.RAA13517@sissy.in-berlin.de> + Files: configpm + + Title: "make Configure recognize powerux hint (perl5.004_01)" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9707301938.AA08352@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "[PATCH]: HP-UX 10 w/o transition links" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199706181851.AA093329906@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>, + <199706231650.AA070364627@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL updates for GNU ld and __inet_* errors" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Additional patch for "Can't execute ..."" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707191651.MAA04897@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Band-aid fix for local([@%]$x)" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod op.c pp_hot.c t/op/local.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Bug in Regular Expressions when using colon as + delimiter" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Can't pack literals as pointers" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708012250.SAA20278@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/pack.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Do not constant-fold ops that depend on locale if C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199707210519.BAA13785@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eval fails in certain situations (eval "{'...")" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707211753.NAA14940@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/comp/term.t toke.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak on eval 'sub {}'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "stringify looses integerness" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix intolerance of a space between "print" and opening paren" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707011421.KAA15836@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Calling Perl from within C from within Perl" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706301842.OAA05569@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods (tests)" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "Avoid core dump on some paren'd regexp matches", "One-liner regex + causes SEGV on 5.003 under HP-UX and Linux" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199706261236.NAA03472@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707061144.MAA04443@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c t/op/re_tests + + Title: "Forbid negative splice offset beyond array start" + From: "John L. Allen" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Forbid "goto" into middle of foreach loop" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: gv.c lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "infinite recursion in malloc() with some compile flags" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706240050.CAA10550@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "sv_vcatpvfn hogs memory [Patch included]" + From: Matthias Neeracher + Msg-ID: <199706211521.RAA12778@solar.ethz.ch> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix '-' flag on sprintf() of floats" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705270646.JAA02510@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Free temps before calling END blocks", "Too late destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix C parsing" + From: "Chuck D. Phillips (NON-HP Employee)" , Chip + Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199706121737.KAA00503@palrel3.hp.com> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix lockf_emulate_flock() positioning" + From: Chip Salzenberg , gen@atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp + Msg-ID: <199706091132.UAA00895@wampa.atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use atol() for unsigned values", "signedness problem in + pack("N", "value");" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Roger Espel Llima + + Msg-ID: <19970531200007.40218@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't warn about "${foo}" in string, even if &foo exists" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -p does not check for failure of implicit print" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod toke.c + + Title: "Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150010.UAA00816@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Constant-fold sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199707210518.BAA13771@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "[PATCH] Make DEBUGGING_MSTATS info consistent" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL pod/perldelta.pod perl.h + + Title: "Minor Win32 glitch with -S flag" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun19.150511pdt.35717-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Slightly safer signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: mg.c perl.c + + Title: "Time::Local patch (plus perl.c and filehand.t)" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm perl.c t/lib/filehand.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Weirdness in sv_peek()" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Win32 UNC path causes autoload to fail" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun18.163826pdt.35714-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH]: reduced malloc patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: av.c + + Title: "[PATCH] $\1 and serious bug in evalling" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707262127.RAA12883@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Faster int to string conversion", "[PATCH} Re: memory leak in buffer + safety code" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199707140912.KAA09935@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707142050.QAA20976@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199707182035.VAA20990@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <9707151040.AA02883@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: global.sym sv.c + + Title: "object never destructs" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707131955.PAA29655@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "[PATCH] -S flag fixes for DOSISH platforms", "[RESEND] [PATCH] -S + flag fixes for DOSISH platforms" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250043.UAA02385@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301828.OAA19508@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod perl.c + + Title: "Perldb internal flag rehaul" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c + pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: q and escaping paired delimiters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Kenneth Albanowski + + Msg-ID: <199707280516.BAA14055@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + , + + Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c + + Title: "Enable PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS without -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: malloc.c perl.c + + Title: "semctl broken under Linux" + From: Andreas Schwab , Andreas + Schwab , Graham + Barr , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <33C38291.2D9302DA@ti.com>, + <9707040912.AA03470@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, + <9707041538.AA08946@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <9707070924.AA11774@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, + <9707090933.AA19012@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t2: problem in NetBSD 1.2D with sfio" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: perl.h + + Title: "fix substr fix (tests 27 etc)", "perl5.004_02 trial 1 available + (with substr bug and still some" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Hugo van der Sanden + , Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199707301759.SAA02899@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707302228.BAA18032@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199707310929.KAA06515@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fwd: substr("foo", -1000)", "substr: warn if substring doesn't + intersect original at all" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199707100655.JAA14924@alpha.hut.fi>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/substr.t + + Title: "[PATCH] work around compiler bug on CX/UX (perl5.004_01)" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9707301934.AA18594@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: hints/cxux.sh pp.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "Duplicates in perlguts.pod" + From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9707082346.AA13231@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Better "Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC" error documentation" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Jun24.195847.2091744@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "new perlembed.pod:match.c" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199707170355.XAA21370@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Document bug fix in localization of $1 etc." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Major goof in XS Tutorial regarding subdirs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707260920.FAA12453@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Magic info in perlguts, take 2" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] Missing semicolon message wrong in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: , + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Updates to perlguts (repost)" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707152223.SAA00776@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:47:LOG] Dropped "and" in pod2man" + From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9707082355.AA13254@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[BUG] perlembed.pod:power.c example" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199707181344.JAA10565@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] arguments swapped in perlapio.pod" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706240049.CAA10534@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: pod/perlapio.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] cool quote for perldebug" + From: Greg Bacon + Msg-ID: <199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com> + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] multiline commands in qx//" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707212350.TAA18496@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "patch to 5.004_01 perltrap.pod" + From: jmm@revenge.elegant.com (John Macdonald) + Msg-ID: <9706231525.AA22790@revenge.elegant.com> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "perl4 to perl5.004 converion with debugger problem" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "done3/perlbook.pod" + From: Randal Schwartz + Files: pod/perlbook.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] readline and readpipe are undocumented" + From: Hans Mulder + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document use of - in a regex char class." + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] splitpod broken in 5.004_01" + From: Hans Mulder , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199706240048.CAA10515@xs2.xs4all.nl>, + <9706241612.AA09119@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: pod/splitpod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "Carp::cluck() and -MCarp=verbose" + From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk, epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko) + Msg-ID: <199708060607.AAA16681@den-mdev1.tci.com>, + <199708062105.PAA09878@den-mdev1.tci.com> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Warning from calls using "use Shell"" + From: Andrew Pimlott + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Shell.pm + + Title: "confessing a carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + , Nick Ing-Simmons + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199708052155.WAA25393@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199708060721.IAA30894@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199708061533.LAA01313@rio.atlantic.net>, + <33E79BE2.4E6F@ni-s.u-net.com>, + <33E8E3C5.62C@ni-s.u-net.com>, + <9708051619.AA13764@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] dumpvar.pl parses some references incorrectly" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/dumpvar.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: minor doc patch (to obsolete I18N::Collate)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708060732.KAA02675@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Binary installers for Perl modules" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707210006.UAA06165@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "m2t2 broke CPAN.pm :-(" + From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] CPAN.pm on OS/2" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" , Ilya Zakharevich + + Msg-ID: <199707180415.AAA03180@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199707181407.QAA12920@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Docs of IO::Handle [PATCH]" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707222307.TAA08380@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Exporter errors give wrong location" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Exporter new export_to_level method" + From: epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko) + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "DB_File produces spurious output when trapping __DIE__" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9706302125.AA28254@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "Remove 'use UNIVERSAL;', switch to UNIVERSAL::isa()" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + + Title: "perl5.004 Time::Local still broken" + From: Mathias Koerber + Msg-ID: <199706260452.MAA22647@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__}" + From: Ken Shan + Msg-ID: <199707070357.XAA18065@digitas.harvard.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "xsubpp patch" + From: John Tobey + Msg-ID: <199707010221.CAA01234@remote133> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "DB_File 1.15 patch" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9707192117.AA01973@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/typemap + t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + Title: "Problems with setvbuf" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707250040.UAA11000@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Title: "[PATCH] Repost of fork() debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707252101.RAA11846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "IO::File and DB_File pollutes namespace with Fcntl constants" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "[MM] [PATCH] Re: Liblist problems for MSWin32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706182152.RAA20273@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Net::hostent documentation error" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199707082222.QAA24728@elara.frii.com> + Files: lib/Net/hostent.pm + + Title: "PATCH: make DBM*_File modules sub-classable" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9707121854.AA19472@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/GDBM_File/typemap ext/NDBM_File/typemap + ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/typemap + t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + + Title: "Sys::Syslog patch to allow unix domain sockets" + From: Sean Robinson + Msg-ID: <33B31342.7EB16A44@sc.maricopa.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated, do C instead", + "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Gisle Aas , + Graham Barr , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199706271701.NAA25664@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199706271904.UAA00120@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199706272054.QAA28913@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199706301554.LAA03763@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <33B22248.7D7C1985@ti.com>, + , + , + , + , + , + + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "[MM] Small patch to MakeMaker, new release" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" + Msg-ID: <199706281603.SAA10869@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "ExtUtils-Embed upgrade" + From: Doug MacEachern + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] icmp tweak for IO::Socket" + From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199707041240.NAA21484@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Allow concurrent mkdir in File::Path::mkpath" + From: schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy) + Msg-ID: <199707300943.LAA21574@kant.imb-jena.de> + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "CPAN.pm, $VERSION and nested (bundled) modules." + From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] perl debugger, win32, and emacs" + From: Jay Rogers + Msg-ID: <199707311759.NAA13276@crooked-i.mitre.org> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] pod2html mangles C<&foo(42);>" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706250057.CAA10162@xs1.xs4all.nl> + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] posix.xs broken on VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095755.00875ba0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "MM_Unix.pm nits for Win32 DMAKE" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708032051.QAA14248@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname -w unclean in trial 2" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708032055.QAA14278@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "(3) File::Find::find()/finddepth() bugs with toplevel paths" + From: "Conrad E. Kimball" + Msg-ID: <199707040045.RAA24459@mailgate2.boeing.com> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "EMERGENCY_SBRK or PERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK ?" + From: Andy Dougherty , + ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug1.191631.2167470@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + + Files: + Files: + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Embedding threaded apps in perl.dll" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707261518.LAA24346@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301833.OAA19570@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Minor fix for pl2bat.bat", "[PATCH] Re: Minor fix for pl2bat.bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Warren Jones + + Msg-ID: <199707061843.OAA23874@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <97Jun24.115804pdt.35752-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + Title: "WIN32 Build - pod2xxx.bat Missing?", "[PATCH] Re: WIN32 Build - + pod2xxx.bat Missing?" + From: Chris Williams , Gurusamy Sarathy + + Msg-ID: <199707011423.KAA15855@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <33B8B962.D96FA1F5@netinfo.com.au> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Win32 sitelib intuition from DLL location" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706231647.MAA23260@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/config_h.PL win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] binary coexistence on win32", "[RESEND] [PATCH] binary + coexistence on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250109.VAA02666@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301829.OAA19516@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h + win32/win32iop.h win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] docs for win32 utilities" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250045.UAA02510@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] exec() fixed on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706241525.LAA06554@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] getenv() after my_setenv() gets old entry on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706231700.NAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] getservby*() calls fail on Windows NT" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706231654.MAA23276@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] minor win32 scribbles" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199707262307.TAA28410@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707270832.JAA19399@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod README.win32 win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/config.vc win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] trial2: some batch files won't run" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708040226.WAA17301@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 docs and runperl.bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707070446.AAA29560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 extras and embedding" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250232.WAA03421@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301831.OAA19528@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: dosish.h win32/win32.h perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config_H.bc + win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 tweaks" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707042150.RAA01065@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32_stat() fixes (2nd try)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708040137.VAA16810@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/stat.t win32/win32iop.h win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------ + + Title: "Additional OS/2 patches" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Ilya Zakharevich + + Msg-ID: <199708020823.EAA19521@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199708021424.KAA28561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199708042108.RAA27671@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.os2 os2/Changes perl.c + + Title: "Additional patch is needed for os2/diff.configure" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199708020745.DAA19483@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/diff.configure + + Title: "Assorted OS/2 fixes" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Jun16.163234.2091727@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h README.os2 os2/Changes + os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c util.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Changes for VMS 7.1 support" + From: Charles Bailey , Dan Sugalski + + Msg-ID: <01ILDXUH0J1W00026U@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <3.0.2.32.19970718095935.0087a2d0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/sockadapt.h vms/config.vms vms/sockadapt.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Easier TCP stack selection for VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970624151939.00994490@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "Minor VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ILCUO6XXTE000WFK@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/vmsish.h vms/descrip.mms vms/test.com + vms/vms.c vms/ext/filespec.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Two un-disabled tests for VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095842.00879220@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/test.com + + Title: "fixes for hints/svr4 for UnixWare >= 2.1.1" + From: John Hughes + Msg-ID: <199707021230.OAA24230@titanic.AtlanTech.COM> + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "make depend loop fix and minor OS/2 improvements to build process" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Files: Makefile.SH hints/os2.sh os2/Makefile.SHs + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "Add xor tests to test suite" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199706250730.IAA06097@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/comp/cmdopt.t + + Title: "[PATCH] enable some tests on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250029.UAA02351@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Fix up problems with *DBM tests" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: utils/perlbug.PL: -ok report is not a bug" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708071022.NAA13008@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug - check sendmail and fix win32 tmp path" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708060349.XAA15895@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "OK: perl on (corrected)", "enhancements + to perlbug -ok" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: utils/Makefile utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug -ok [PATCH]" + From: "Charles F. Randall" + Msg-ID: <199706181824.MAA04082@free.click-n-call.com> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug broken" + From: Andreas Schwab + Msg-ID: <9707040912.AA03466@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perlbug under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707180333.XAA03102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc doesn't grok Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun17.184420pdt.35728-1@gateway.fluke.com>, + <97Jun18.165618pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perldoc under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707180340.XAA03114@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph corrections to avoid redefined sub warnings" + From: wdconsta + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_01 Maintenance release 1 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" + -- Anne Herbert + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + (..., undef, ...) = split(...) bug fixed. + Win32 support greatly improved, now very strong. + Memory leak using Tied hashes and arrays fixed. + Documentation updates. + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + CORE LANGUAGE + + Title: "[PATCH] first true value returned by scalar C<...> is wrong" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pp_ctl.c t/op/flip.t + + Title: "Regex Bug in 5.003_26 thru 003_99a" + From: Andreas Karrer , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: <199705152303.BAA08890@kuru.ee.ethz.ch>, + <199705161915.PAA18721@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -w interacts badly with -Dt" + From: Spider Boardman + Files: sv.c + + Title: "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Jay Rogers , + pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <199705170235.WAA00267@fluffy.rgrs.com>, + <199705172156.RAA20561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <9705171506.AA04491@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "magic_clear_all_env proto should match svt_clear" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: proto.h mg.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)", + "[PATCH] for NETaa13787: %ENV=(); doesn't clear the environment" + From: hansm@euronet.nl, pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199705292240.AAA01135@mail.euronet.nl> + Files: embed.h perl.h proto.h global.sym mg.c t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Patch to show @INC when require dies" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9705230121.AA27872@membrane.hal.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] bug with m// nested inside s///e" + From: hansm@euro.net + Files: op.c t/op/subst.t + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "[PATCH] perlembed Win32 update" + From: Doug MacEachern + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if + used as lvalue." + From: John Hughes + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu + (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <199705180052.UAA22066@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705180202.WAA22826@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705301341.JAA05204@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May17.235722.2033087@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pod2man produces broken pages", "weird condition in perldelta breaks + nroff" + From: Davin Milun , Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199705310447.AAA15721@obelix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>, + <1997May25.192350.2055977@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "Perl 5 pod2man fix", "perlguts man page corrupted" + From: chen@adi.com (Franklin Chen), gnat@frii.com, lvirden@cas.org, tom + (Tom Dinger on Feste), tom@edc.com (Tom Dinger on Feste) + Msg-ID: <199705210013.UAA09599@menhaden.adi.com>, + <199706011305.JAA18271@cas.org>, + <199706012116.PAA14102@elara.frii.com>, + <9504250959.AA23419@feste.edc.com>, + <9504251700.AA23823@feste.edc.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] reference form chomp to chop in perlfunc" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "pod2man gags if "=pod" is before "=head1 NAME"" + From: whyde@pezz.sps.mot.com (Warren Hyde) + Msg-ID: <9705212115.AA21730@pezz.sps.mot.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "perlfunc.pod unclear about return value range of rand" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)" + From: Chris Wick + Files: pod/perllol.pod + + Title: "5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Documentation bugs" + From: Stephen Potter + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "5.004 POD stuff", "make html - any takers?", "make html --> unusable + xref links", "pod/*.html -- all hyperlinks are invalid" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." , "Paul D. Smith" + , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + Michael R Cook , avera@hal.com (Jim + Avera), lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <199705162008.XAA06906@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199705171830.OAA15652@erawan.cognex.com>, + <199706081749.NAA04552@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May16.191039.2033079@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <87hgg2y1h4.fsf@perv.daft.com>, + <9705161931.AA01075@membrane.hal.com>, + <9705191839.AA28702@lemming.engeast> + Files: INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod installhtml + + Title: "checkpods- forget blank line status when starting a new file" + From: Larry Parmelee + Files: pod/checkpods.PL + + Title: "installhtml: Fix 'no title' & 'unexpected ...' warnings. Double speed." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/splitpod + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "sdbm can fail if a config.h exists in system directories" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + Title: "LWP and SIG __DIE__ traps not playing well together!" + From: Gisle Aas + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)" + From: Matthias Neeracher + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "Comments of this Sys::Syslog patch", "Unusual Sys::Syslog behaviour + with FQDN ? [Even in 5.004 - a bug?]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi , Russ Allbery , + alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz) + Msg-ID: <199705231621.TAA16790@alpha.hut.fi>, <5m4fjr$rhs@agate.berkeley.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Patch to CPAN.pm (perl5.004) for ncftp" + From: "Richard L. Maus, Jr." + Msg-ID: <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970530102300.008a2730@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "more Fcntl constants [PATCH]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + + Title: "5.004 breaks ftp.pl due to missing (although obsolete) chat2.pl" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: lib/chat2.pl + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "make test && ... doesn't work" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "[PATCH] INSTALL-1.18" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "improved gnuwin32 Configure support" + From: Chris Faylor + Msg-ID: <199706070318.XAA09214@hardy.bbc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "installhtml problems finding splitpod" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Files: installhtml INSTALL + + Title: "perl 5.004 (and 01) man pages not generated and installed" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Files: installman + + Title: "oddity in Configure" + From: Mike Stok + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX" + From: Peter van Heusden + Msg-ID: , + + Files: Makefile.SH perl_exp.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs perlio.sym + + Title: "Compiling perl5.004 on NEWS-OS 4.x" + From: Makoto MATSUSHITA (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJF4kRCQ3JD8kXiQzJEgbKEI=?=) + + Msg-ID: <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Files: Configure hints/newsos4.sh + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "win32: additional default libraries" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm win32/config.bc + + Title: "[PATCH] clean up perlocal.pod output on VMS" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Term::ReadKey on Win32: set console" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "pathname bug in xsubpp on win32" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705230126.SAA23401@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "MakeMaker stumbles on Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()" + From: Andy Dougherty , Jordan + Mendelson + Files: doio.c + + Title: "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS" + From: Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk + Msg-ID: + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP" + From: Henrik Tougaard + Files: mg.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints" + From: Gerd Knops + Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "win32: user defined shell" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod win32/win32.c + + Title: "misc perl5.004 doc fixes, especially vms" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705160419.AAA16317@cas.org> + Files: pod/perlfaq4.pod vms/perlvms.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/roffitall + vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] gen_shrfls.pl too picky for Dec C 5.6 preprocessor output" + From: Dan Sugalski + Files: vms/gen_shrfls.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705301335.JAA05079@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_sh.PL + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] README.win32 nits" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "porting.help" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod Porting/preprel + + Title: "Major 5.004 Win32 update (Borland win32 support, and other patches)", + "($a,undef,$b) = qw(a b c) and ties delaying DESTROY fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlguts.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h EXTERN.h + opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm + ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/op/mkdir.t t/op/stat.t win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c gv.c + mg.c op.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c util.c + win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/makefile.mk win32/makeperldef.pl win32/perlglob.c + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Maintenance release (remove PERL_DUMMY_SIZE)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h win32/win32.h gv.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h global.sym mg.c perl.c + t/op/magic.t util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: ExtUtils::Liblist support" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: borland C++Perl embedding failures re __declspec()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Files: t/op/magic.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Tests depend on locale" + From: "Jan D." , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705191127.NAA08148@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t + + Title: "op/groups test fails on Linux (groups in /bin)" + From: "Jan D." + Msg-ID: <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se> + Files: t/op/groups.t + + Title: "More simple regexp tests and test docs" + From: Hans Mulder + Files: t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Using undef to ignore values returned from split" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Files: t/op/split.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "bad test of -A flag in h2xs" + From: "Jeffrey S. Haemer" + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] h2xs missing from utils/Makefile" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/Makefile + + Title: "PATCH: bug in perlbug w.r.t. environment variables", "bug in perlbug + w.r.t. environment variables" + From: "Jan D." , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705191841.UAA00969@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191857.VAA09154@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] final newline missing in MANIFEST generated by h2xs" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + +------------- +Version 5.004 +------------- + +"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a release out of my hat!" +"Aww, that trick never works..." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make C reset pos on failure; make C not reset" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c op.c op.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c + t/op/pat.t toke.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{BASH_ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t + taint.c + + Title: "Allow exec() if $ENV{TERM} is tainted but innocuous" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t + taint.c + + Title: "Allow globbing when tainted under VMS (no external program)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Make Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Fix default HP-UX installation path" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199705132228.AA227042483@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:28:04 -0700 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "VMS update, including socket support (four patches)" + From: Jonathan Hudson , + Peter Prymmer , + Dan Sugalski + Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms.c + vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 perl.c win32/Makefile win32/config.H + win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/makedef.pl + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h + win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "Don't require executable bit on perl -S if DOSISH" + From: Danny Sadinoff + Msg-ID: <337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com> + Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400 + Files: perl.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "In C, always call &func in scalar context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix recursive substitution" + From: Chip Salzenberg; test from Tim Bunce + Files: cop.h global.sym pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c t/op/subst.t + + Title: "Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF" + From: Jonathan I. Kamens + Msg-ID: <199705121147.HAA03845@jik.saturn.net> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 07:47:13 -0400 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix core dump from get*() functions returning no alias array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo" + From: Mark K Trettin + Msg-ID: <199705102228.RAA11163@gv18c.ih.lucent.com> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:28:35 -0500 + Files: pp_sys.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use 'unset' in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Protect against having no such command as 'cc'" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:35:34 -0400 (EDT) + Files: Configure + + Title: "minor wording enhancement for Configure" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199705101038.NAA00471@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:38:31 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.36" + From: Lincoln Stein + Files: eg/cgi/frameset.cgi eg/cgi/javascript.cgi lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "In IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "Fix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs t/lib/io_xs.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Make rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT) + Files: t/op/rand.t + + Title: "Fix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199705151735.KAA01143@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:35:41 -0600 + Files: t/op/sleep.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "h2xs and @EXPORT_OK" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199705092348.AA057881699@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 16:48:20 -0700 + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Tweaks for perldelta" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705102346.BAA17300@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Sun, 11 May 97 01:46:00 +0200 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Mention perlfaq.pod and perlmodlib.pod in perldelta.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Fix example of use of lexicals with formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Explain that destruction order is not defined" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705150600.CAA13550@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 02:00:23 -0400 + Files: pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "Note that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}" + From: neilb@cre.canon.co.uk (Neil Bowers) + Msg-ID: <199705121227.NAA29718@tardis.cre.canon.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:27:43 +0100 + Files: pod/perldata.pod + + Title: "More detailed IO::Socket documentation" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199705141456.IAA19061@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:56:30 -0600 + Files: pod/perlipc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_99a +----------------- + +Herein we find the fruits of the gamma. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "(NeXT|Open)Step update" + From: Gerd Knops + Msg-ID: <9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com> + Date: Wed, 7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500 + Files: Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: Giles Lean + Msg-ID: <199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 23:46:37 +1000 (EST) + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "Irix hint update" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 06 May 1997 11:09:56 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:48:39 -0600 + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: EXTERN.h README.win32 lib/Sys/Hostname.pm pod/perldelta.pod + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/include/sys/socket.h + + Title: "Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99" + From: Gary Clark + Msg-ID: <1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com> + Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:49:03 -0700 + Files: win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "AFS patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg, Larry Schwimmer + Files: Configure installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Another blank line patch to Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Date: 08 May 1997 11:36:12 -0700 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Three bugs in pod2html" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Tue, 6 May 97 00:28:06 +0200 + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp" + From: Ralf S. Engelschall + Msg-ID: <199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:47:03 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Newer CPerl mode" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:32:46 -0400 (EDT) + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Updates to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Dominic Dunlop + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "More explicit Solaris instructions" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: 06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "perlfaq9, hostname" + From: John D Groenveld + Msg-ID: <199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu> + Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 13:41:12 EDT + Files: pod/perlfaq9.pod + + Title: "Debugger docs patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 21:07:14 -0400 (EDT) + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "Document that C is just like C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Refresh description of sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Mention the Regular Expressions book" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:37:37 -0500 + Files: pod/perlbook.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "OS/2 doc patch for _99" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT) + Files: README.os2 + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_99 +---------------- + +"Oops." Now this _has_ to be the gamma; we're out of numbers. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "NeXT hints update" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "Support shared libperl on AIX" + From: Eric Bartley + Msg-ID: <199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu> + Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Forget prototype of subroutine after C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix sysread() on tied handle" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 02:01:20 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:20:01 -0400 (EDT) + Files: os2/os2.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Add new globals to perl.exp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.14" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:45:09 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t + t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:48:26 +0200 + Files: t/io/pipe.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "typo fixes to installhtml" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:14:31 -0400 + Files: installhtml + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:42:46 +0200 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Fix typo in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_98 +---------------- + +Here it is, the second public beta (a.k.a gamma). + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldsc.pod + pod/perlref.pod t/op/ref.t vms/perly_c.vms + + CORE PORTABILITY + + (no changes) + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Reset errno after failed piped close" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:02:20 -0400 + Files: lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm pod/perlfunc.pod + t/io/pipe.t util.c + + Title: "Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:48:13 -0400 + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + (no changes) + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlmodlib.pod + + Title: "Add new diagnostics to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97j +----------------- + +This patch should be _98, unless it's egregiously broken somehow. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: matthew green + Msg-ID: <199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:18:02 +1000 + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:35:07 -0600 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c + + Title: "Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Eliminate Alpha warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth and Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + + Title: "Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: taint.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35" + From: Lincoln Stein + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.13" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:12:59 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical" + From: Jesse Glick and Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/SelfLoader.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Split perlmod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:09 -0400 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perldsc.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Doc fix for close of pipe handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97i +----------------- + +This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the +crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c + + Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes" + From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip + Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Guard against long numbers, <" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "Guard against C to deeply nested label" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV" + From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: perl.c util.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Undo private patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Cope with a that isn't related to DB" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall + t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2py.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington + Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97h +----------------- + +This patch eliminates almost all possible sources of buffer overflow; +in particular, there are no more sprintf() bugs. (!!) This patch +also has a few other fixes. With these changes in place, I can sleep +at night. (Because I've stopped hacking. :-)) + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support PRINTF for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Win32 update (two patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm win32/config.w32 + win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs + global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h + pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h + regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Problems with glob" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT) + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c scope.c + + Title: "Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Outermost scope is void, not scalar" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: without module name" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Silence warnings on simple C" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 19 Apr 1997 10:22:43 -0400 + Files: ext/Opcode/ops.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Don't put leading newline on numeric strings" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:47:00 +0200 + Files: t/pragma/constant.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington + Msg-ID: <199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Two doublewords less" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:38:13 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: pod/perlrun.pod vms/perlvms.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97g +----------------- + +This one has two security bug fixes for buffer overflows. Perl has +not yet been searched to see if more fixes are needed. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Improve sysseek(), remove systell(), fix Opcode" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + proto.h t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Fix (and test) spaces in {,un}pack()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Irix update" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:37:24 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6.sh hints/irix_6_0.sh hints/irix_6_1.sh + + Title: "ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm not built on Win32" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199704181742.SAA08407@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:42:32 +0100 + Files: win32/Makefile + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY FIX: 'Identifier too long'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "SECURITY FIX: Buffer overflow in gv_fetchfile()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Remove pp_method() inefficiency from last patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix unnecessary re-linking" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix tcsh hack in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Minor, optional patch to Makefile.SH" + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:32:17 -0600 + Files: Makefile.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Patch to Getopt::Long" + From: Johan Vromans + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 22:24 MET DST + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Fix NAME in SDBM_File build" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Make h2ph generate constant subs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:23:46 -0400 + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Document {,un}pack changes" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704181249.AA11733@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:49:39 BST + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97f +----------------- + +This is it before _98. No more last-minute features. Really, I mean +it this time. No kidding. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "New operator systell()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms + vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix error messages on method lookup failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix use of var before init in util.c" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400 + Files: util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh" + From: Michael De La Rue + Files: Configure hints/linux.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "CGI.pm broke again" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200 + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Revise quotewords()" + From: Shishir Gundavaram + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "Document size restrictions for packed integers" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97e +----------------- + +Y'know, I've heard of this "beta" thing, but it's been so long since +I've seen one, I'm not sure it really exists... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "New operator: sysseek()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym + keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Allow recursive substitution again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix STMT_{START,END} under g++" + From: Steven Parkes + Msg-ID: <199704141935.MAA11240@monterey.sierravista.com> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:35:34 -0700 + Files: perl.h + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c + utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL + win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "New API function: perl_eval_pv()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400 + Files: perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c + + Title: "Return a value from PerlIO_{,un}getc" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199704131228.OAA05695@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:14 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: perlio.c + + Title: "Fix for environment leak" + From: skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be (Sven Verdoolaege) + Msg-ID: <19970415103246.NN46698@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:32:46 +0200 + Files: util.c + + Title: "Fix comments in seed()" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199704141758.TAA06895@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:58:38 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Put extensions' autoload files in $archlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Use '-fPIC' for debugging compiles under Solaris with gcc" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI to 2.34" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: eg/cgi/customize.cgi eg/cgi/tryit.cgi lib/CGI.pm + lib/CGI/Apache.pm + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704142115.RAA09923@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:15:27 -0400 (EDT) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "diagnostics: $/ gotcha" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704151814.UAA03404@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:14:01 +0200 + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Update File::Path" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704151401.QAA02556@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:01:07 +0200 + Files: lib/File/Path.pm t/lib/filepath.t + + Title: "User::pwent.pm: g{,e}cos" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704130135.TAA23274@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:35:54 -0600 + Files: lib/User/pwent.pm + + Title: "Sys::Syslog: hyphens in hostnames" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704151421.RAA19693@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:21:53 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Clean up format of dlopen() debug info" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "xsubpp incorrectly handles 'class::newthing()'" + From: "John Q. Linux" + Msg-ID: <199704122201.PAA01780@jql.accessone.com> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:01:33 -0700 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add CGI to perldelta.pod and improve its description in MANIFEST" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Describe probs with majordomo 1.94.1" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Fix description of /\G/g" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Mention '...' operator in precedence table" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704131724.LAA23120@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0600 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97d +----------------- + +Any minute now... second public beta... no, really... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix for incorrect overloaded assignment" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704112225.SAA03482@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:25:33 -0400 (EDT) + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Fix C< $x=''; pos($x)=0; $x=~/\G$/ >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix label on C statement" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.y + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "update to 5.003_97b/hint/irix_6_2.sh" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Apr 1997 18:05:03 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Before 'BEGIN not safe', explain why" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "New error msg for low-key failure of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c t/pragma/strict-subs + t/pragma/strict-vars + + Title: "Put "dXSUB_SYS" last in declarations" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/perllib.c + + Title: "Minor type cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "win32: perl5db patch" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704102142.RAA27396@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:13 -0400 + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Enhancements to debugger, Term::ReadLine, Term::Cap" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704101948.PAA01841@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:48:07 -0400 (EDT) + Files: lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "MM_Unix patch for use under CVS" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:59:00 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Complex update (five patches)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Fix undef warning in Math::BigInt" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Math/BigInt.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the default" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.pod x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "typo in lib/diagnostics.pm" + From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) + Msg-ID: <199704111800.OAA27297@grymoire.crd.ge.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:00:54 -0400 + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Use B<> for options in Class::Struct pod" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <334D2E7B.67F0@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:16:27 +0100 + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm + + Title: "Explain //g and \G issues" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704122048.QAA25060@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:48:41 -0400 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "more (err, less) doubled words" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704111931.WAA24460@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:31:25 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm + ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm lib/CGI.pm lib/Exporter.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + lib/vars.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod + pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlipc.pod + + Title: "Freudian slip error in perlsub.pod" + From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) + Msg-ID: <199704111755.NAA27200@grymoire.crd.ge.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:55:07 -0400 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Little patch for perl5.003_97c/pod/perlpod.pod" + From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) + Msg-ID: <199704112048.WAA08733@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:48:37 +0200 + Files: pod/perlpod.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97c +----------------- + +That second public beta will be Real Soon Now... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Refine setgroups() behavior of C<$)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Forbid -[Mm] on #! line" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix dynamic loading (and argv[0]) under AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724842@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 22:01:45 +0200 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + Title: "Special mkdir() for VMS" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IHGOXN6MZM0004K3@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:33:56 -0400 (EDT) + Files: dosish.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/File/Path.pm os2/os2ish.h + plan9/plan9ish.h pp_sys.c unixish.h vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix assignment from magic SV that becomes a glob" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix syntax error in Configure comment(!)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "For Solaris, if -DDEBUGGING, default to '-KPIC', not '-Kpic'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Fix usage of dXSUB_SYS, esp. in ExtUtils::Miniperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dosish.h minimod.pl os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h vms/vmsish.h + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Replace Class::Template with improved Class::Struct" + From: Jim Miner + Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Struct.pm 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 pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "MakeMaker pathname patch" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199704091908.UAA00877@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:08:23 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Fix configuration of new socket" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Improve IO::Handle docs; don't export _open_mode_string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Complex.pm: 0**0 sanity" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704091804.VAA13930@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:04:23 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in Math::Trig" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Trig.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Accommodate CodeBuilder variant of Machten 4.0.3" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:15:15 +0200 + Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "IO::Socket doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28383.860527843@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:30:43 -0400 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97b +----------------- + +Working on the second public beta... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make assignment to C<$)> call setgroups()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH mg.c plan9/config.plan9 + pod/perldelta.pod vms/config.vms win32/config.H + win32/config.w32 + + Title: "Grandfather "$$" in strings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect warn and die hooks _after_ object destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Forbid recursive substitutions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Use SSize_t for values of PerlIO_{read,write}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c perlio.h perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "perlwin-97a_4: win32 environ fix" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704060431.XAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 23:31:11 -0500 + Files: win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "length($') isn't" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704070730.DAA07310@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 03:30:44 -0400 + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix obscure regex bug related to leading C<.*>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Add warning for glob failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C in presence of local patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't suggest 'Configure -der' in config.sh comments" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "CGI->redirect patch" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704051527.KAA11280@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:27:52 -0500 + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Updates to Math::Complex and Math::Trig" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/perldelta.pod + t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Fix FindBin under Win32, and document success" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704051504.QAA09507@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:04:52 +0100 + Files: README.win32 lib/Cwd.pm lib/FindBin.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Patch for 'perldoc -f'" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199704061732.TAA00353@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:32:04 +0200 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Document required module versions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Document sample function perl_eval()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704051524.KAA06090@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:24:43 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Make L refer to L" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97a +----------------- + +This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm +planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact" + From: John Cerney + Msg-ID: <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2 + cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld + ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h + pp_sys.c + + Title: "Win32 update (six patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t + t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t + t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak + win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "AmigaOS update" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix const-sub-related panic on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor cleanups" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500 + Files: mg.c mg.h perl.c + + Title: "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix impossible test in vivification" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "runlevel is I32, not int" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: " + From: Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "CPAN & TRL-Gnu" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200 + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm + + Title: "Don't use $4 when it might be undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/bigfloat.pl + + TESTS + + Title: "Make *dbm tests work with Win32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t + t/lib/sdbm.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update INSTALL" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Pod style" + From: Nathan Torkington + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_97 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h + + Title: "Improve definition of Sock_size_t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.h + + Title: "Win32 update" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500 + Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC- + 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.24" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Title: "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix POSIX::raise()" + From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" + Msg-ID: + Msg-ID: <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t + + Title: "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Tweaks to constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/constant.pm + + Title: "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Clean up some poddities, and make C work again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::"" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Eliminate pod warnings in libs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_96 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Implement void context, in which C is undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c + pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + pp_sys.c proto.h + + Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod + pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t + + Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make C mean C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C in sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600 + Files: regcomp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "safefree() mismatch" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500 + Files: util.c + + Title: "FreeBSD update" + From: Slaven Rezic + Msg-ID: <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak + win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl + win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200 + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C{KEY}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500 + Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c + + Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c + + Title: "Re: strict @F" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/diagnostics.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t + + Title: "Remove chat2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl + + Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm + lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm + lib/CGI/Switch.pm + + Title: "Fix C in debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Re: Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET) + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500 + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "C doesn't always restore" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500 + Files: lib/SelectSaver.pm + + Title: "Patch for Benchmark.pm" + From: Hugo van der Sanden w/Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm" + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700 + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT + Files: installhtml + + Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.11" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET) + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Improve documentation of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per " + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod + pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat + + Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t + + Title: "Update docs on $]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "perlvar.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100 + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Fix example of C vs. C<||>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch" + From: Larry W. Virden + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "Pod updates" + From: "Cary D. Renzema" + Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_95 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "If C, do equivalent of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t + t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Shigeya Suzuki + Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp> + Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "Another MachTen Patch" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (five patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t + t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t + win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c + win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t + + Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no other changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix C in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000 + Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm + + Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100 + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100 + Files: t/lib/complex.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Missing item in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlref.pod + + Title: "Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET) + Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod + pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "DB_File documentation fix" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "FAQ update" + From: Nathan Torkington + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_94 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h + sv.c + + Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c + + Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + Title: "Abort compilation at C or C after errors" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t + + Title: "allow C" + From: David Dyck + Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Regularize C, esp. when y is negative" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Flush before C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "Warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Don't warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" + From: Christopher Davis + Msg-ID: + Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "More MachTen hints" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t + utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "vmsish.t and related patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness + t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t + t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t + t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t + t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t + t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c + win32/* + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C on tied default handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c + + Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500 + Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c + x2p/util.c + + Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500 + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it" + From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty + Files: Configure + + Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT + Files: installman installperl + + Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET) + Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh + hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh + hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh + hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh + hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module: autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500 + Files: lib/Symbol.pm + + Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "In Exporter, don't C at file scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perlfaq.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST) + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Update site list" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Patch to document illegal characters" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Document trap with //o and closures" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Re: Inline PI function" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "XSUB's doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document return from do FILE" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document $^M in perlvar" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93" + From: Jim Meyering + Msg-ID: + Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod + pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "clarify example in perlfunc" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_93 +---------------- + +Me, last time: + "This release will be the public beta of 5.004, + or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger." +Me, now: + "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl + vms/sockadapt.h + + Title: "AmigaOS hint patch" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: av.c + + Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c proto.h + + Title: "perl -P path patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Carp with multiple arguments" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500 + Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000 + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: README.os2 + + Title: "PODs corrections" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm + lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm + lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm + lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_92 +---------------- + +This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't +Larson T. Pettifogger. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C and nested subs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Raphael Manfredi + Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t + + Title: "VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h + t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms + vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c + + Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET) + Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c + pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c + + Title: "Update copyright dates" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Newer ReadLine" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9" + From: Johan Vromans + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Benchmark: using code refs" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Fix quotewords" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000 + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com> + Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph" + From: (name lost) + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Clarify C documentation" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_91 +---------------- + +This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c + t/op/runlevel.t + + Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c + + Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: hv.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches post _90" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST) + Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c + vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c + + Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t" + From: Michael H. Moran + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500 + Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST) + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500 + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm" + From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin + Files: Configure + + Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: os2/diff.configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000 + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "New test op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: , Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Fix references to perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perltoc.pod + + ---------------- Version 5.003_90 ---------------- @@ -23,20 +5505,20 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. CORE PORTABILITY Title: "Ultrix hints" - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500 Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET) Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100 Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t @@ -44,7 +5526,7 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t - #20: "Hints for DC/OSx" + Title: "Hints for DC/OSx" From: Stephen Zander Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800 @@ -63,7 +5545,7 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. BUILD PROCESS Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work" - From: Andy Dougherty + From: Andy Dougherty Msg-ID: + From: Spider Boardman Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500 Files: installperl Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)" - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500 Files: installperl @@ -87,23 +5569,23 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Files: lib/perl5db.pl Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500 Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm Title: "Pod::Text fixes" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500 Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean" - From: Tim Bunce + From: Tim Bunce Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000 Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm @@ -115,7 +5597,7 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. TESTS Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()" - From: Tom Phoenix + From: Tom Phoenix Files: t/op/rand.t Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do" @@ -131,19 +5613,19 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. UTILITIES Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates" - From: Andy Dougherty + From: Andy Dougherty Msg-ID: + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500 Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu> and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 @@ -151,7 +5633,7 @@ At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. utils/perlbug.PL Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod" - From: Andy Dougherty + From: Andy Dougherty Msg-ID: + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: Changes Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line" - From: Tom Phoenix + From: Tom Phoenix Msg-ID: + From: Ilya Zakharevich Files: gv.c Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context" @@ -205,7 +5687,7 @@ I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) CORE PORTABILITY Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: hints/dec_osf.sh Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()" @@ -213,7 +5695,7 @@ I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) Files: hints/aix.sh Title: "VMS patches post _27" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST) Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm @@ -223,7 +5705,7 @@ I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST) Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes @@ -250,7 +5732,7 @@ I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) Files: op.c Title: "Minor update to malloc.c" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST) Files: malloc.c @@ -266,13 +5748,13 @@ I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Debugger patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/perl5db.pl Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm @@ -315,7 +5797,7 @@ I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) DOCUMENTATION Title: "INSTALL updates since _26" - From: Andy Dougherty + From: Andy Dougherty Msg-ID: vs. $SIG{CHLD}" - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Files: pod/perlvar.pod Title: "Add pumpkin.pod" @@ -357,19 +5839,19 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]" - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100 Files: sv.c Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}" - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000 Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c Title: "Allow C" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500 Files: pp_sys.c @@ -389,7 +5871,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. CORE PORTABILITY Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST) Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm @@ -406,7 +5888,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h Title: "Digital UNIX hints" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET) Files: hints/dec_osf.sh @@ -429,13 +5911,13 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. Files: perl.c Title: "Re: Fragile signals" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST) Files: mg.c Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500 Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c @@ -492,11 +5974,11 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm Title: "Refresh CPAN.pm to 1.21" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm TESTS @@ -508,7 +5990,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. UTILITIES Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal" - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Msg-ID: Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100 Files: pod/pod2man.PL @@ -516,7 +5998,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. DOCUMENTATION Title: "Update To-Do list" - From: Tim Bunce + From: Tim Bunce Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000 Files: Todo @@ -549,7 +6031,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c Title: "VMS patches post _25" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST) Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm @@ -578,13 +6060,13 @@ This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c Title: "Regexp optimizations" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST) Files: regcomp.c regexec.c Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow" - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100 Files: sv.c @@ -604,19 +6086,19 @@ This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." BUILD PROCESS Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: configure.gnu LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs Title: "Faster File::Compare" - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100 Files: lib/File/Compare.pm @@ -632,7 +6114,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." TESTS Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100 Files: t/op/closure.t @@ -640,13 +6122,13 @@ This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." UTILITIES Title: "perldoc -f " - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100 Files: utils/perldoc.PL Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET) Files: pod/pod2man.PL @@ -689,7 +6171,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... CORE PORTABILITY Title: "VMS patches for _24" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST) Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs @@ -699,13 +6181,13 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET) Files: hints/dec_osf.sh Title: "amigaos.sh" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100 Files: hints/amigaos.sh @@ -725,7 +6207,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... Files: pp_sys.c Title: "Fix /\G/g with patterns that match empty string" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Files: pp_hot.c Title: "Fix scalar leak in av_unshift" @@ -753,11 +6235,11 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.19" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Files: lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm Title: "Debugger update" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199702030406.XAA23029@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:06:34 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/perl5db.pl @@ -771,7 +6253,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Title: "Make IO::Handle::gets() an alias of getline" - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: <199701301103.MAA11291@bergen.sn.no> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:03:15 +0100 Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm @@ -779,7 +6261,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... TESTS Title: "More Amiga test patches" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724725@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:07:33 +0100 Files: README.amiga t/lib/safe2.t t/op/closure.t @@ -815,7 +6297,7 @@ This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... Files: pod/perldelta.pod Title: "perlfunc.pod tweaks" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <20526.854659255@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:20:55 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -841,19 +6323,19 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "glob defaults to $_" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500 Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t Title: "Re: an overloading bug " - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500 Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c Title: "Don't warn on C<$\ = undef>" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: mg.c CORE PORTABILITY @@ -863,7 +6345,7 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. Files: MANIFEST win32/* Title: "Amiga files" - From: Norbert Pueschel + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100 Files: MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh @@ -877,27 +6359,27 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Prevent premature death of @_ during leavesub" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t Title: "Deref old stash when re-blessing" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: sv.c Title: "Don't abort when RCHECK and DEBUGGING" - From: Tim Bunce + From: Tim Bunce Msg-ID: <9701272339.AA16537@toad.ig.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:48 +0000 Files: malloc.c Title: "Fix overloading macro conflict with Digital 'cc -fast'" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701272216.AAA04557@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:16:49 +0200 (EET) Files: perl.h Title: "global.sym: typo?" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701261937.VAA07556@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:37:59 +0200 (EET) Files: global.sym @@ -905,39 +6387,39 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. BUILD PROCESS Title: "Put all extensions' modules in $archlib" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: installperl Title: "Configure fixes: set $archlib, omit _NO_PROTO" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure Title: "Make configure{,.gnu} ignore --cache-file option" - From: Norbert Pueschel + From: Norbert Pueschel Files: configure configure.gnu LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Version checking in XS bootstrap is optional" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: XSUB.h Title: "Update $VERSION of DynaLoader and POSIX" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm Title: "Refresh Text::Wrap to 97.011701" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/Text/Wrap.pm Title: "Fcntl.xs: F_[GS]ETOWN were in wrong case branch" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701251510.RAA05142@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:10:20 +0200 (EET) Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs Title: "Fix $Is_VMS typo in Test::Harness" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm Title: "Allow for really big keys in Tie::SubstrHash" @@ -947,19 +6429,19 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. Files: lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm Title: "Avoid newRV_noinc() in IO, for compiling with old Perls" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/IO/IO.xs TESTS Title: "New test op/closure.t" - From: Tom Phoenix , Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Tom Phoenix, Ulrich Pfeifer Files: MANIFEST t/op/closure.t UTILITIES Title: "xsubpp handing of void funcs breaks extensions using XST_m*()" - From: Tim Bunce + From: Tim Bunce Msg-ID: <9701271659.AA15137@toad.ig.co.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:59:06 +0000 Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp @@ -967,17 +6449,17 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. DOCUMENTATION Title: "perldelta Fcntl enhancement" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET) Files: pod/perldelta.pod Title: "Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Files: pod/perldelta.pod Title: "Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod Title: "perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s" @@ -987,7 +6469,7 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. Files: pod/perldiag.pod Title: "perlfunc.pod: localtime" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET) Files: pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -999,19 +6481,19 @@ It's, well, bunches better than _23. Files: pod/perlfunc.pod Title: "Updates to guts" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST) Files: pod/perlguts.pod Title: "perltoot fixes" - From: Tom Christiansen + From: Tom Christiansen Msg-ID: <6807.854214205@jinete> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:43:25 -0800 Files: pod/perltoot.pod Title: "5.003_23: small typo in perlsyn.pod" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701270824.DAA01169@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:24:25 -0500 Files: pod/perlsyn.pod @@ -1026,11 +6508,11 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c Title: "Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST) Files: gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod @@ -1044,21 +6526,21 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. Files: toke.c Title: "Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c Title: "Protect against '0' in 'stmt while '" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c CORE PORTABILITY Title: "VMS patches for _22" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST) Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp @@ -1067,7 +6549,7 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_21: OS/2 patches" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701170446.XAA28939@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:46:40 -0500 (EST) Files: os2/Changes os2/os2.c @@ -1077,7 +6559,7 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile Title: "Bugfixes for AmigaOS" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724691@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:13:54 +0100 Files: hints/amigaos.sh lib/File/Basename.pm @@ -1089,7 +6571,7 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. Files: hints/dec_osf.sh Title: "on NeXT: gdbm problem fixed" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Msg-ID: <199701210201.DAA17794@anna.in-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 03:01:32 +0100 Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_3_0.sh @@ -1115,49 +6597,49 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C" - From: Tim Bunce + From: Tim Bunce Msg-ID: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000 Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c Title: "Fix /\G.a/" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c Title: "Extend stack in pp_undef (!)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Allow for sub to be redefined while executing" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t Title: "Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c Title: "Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST) Files: pp_hot.c Title: "When sorting, promote to PVNV only for built-in comparison" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_ctl.c Title: "Remove "suidperl security patch" message" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perl.c BUILD PROCESS Title: "Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu Title: "Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf" @@ -1167,23 +6649,23 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com Title: "Compile with optimization when testing memory functions" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure Title: "Minor patch for Debian installation" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: installperl LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Debugger update" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701190455.XAA02579@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:54:59 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/perl5db.pl Title: "DynaLoader enhancement: support RTLD_GLOBAL" - From: Nick Ing-Simmons + From: Nick Ing-Simmons Msg-ID: <199701240937.JAA11443@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:37:18 GMT Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs @@ -1198,21 +6680,21 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs Title: "Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_pipe.t Title: "Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.15" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm Title: "Add E* and SA_* constants" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500 Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs @@ -1226,18 +6708,18 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. Files: t/base/lex.t Title: "Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t Title: "Patch tests for systems without fork()" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100 Files: t/io/pipe.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/fork.t Title: "Test patches for OS/2" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST) Files: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t @@ -1253,11 +6735,11 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. UTILITIES Title: "Translate \200 to È in pod2html" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/pod2html.PL Title: "VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST) Files: pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL @@ -1275,50 +6757,50 @@ This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. DOCUMENTATION Title: "First cut at INSTALL edit" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: INSTALL Title: "Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod Title: "Document #line directive" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500 Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod Title: "Perlguts version 30" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199701172117.AA116515863@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:17:43 -0800 Files: pod/perlguts.pod Title: "delta for perldelta" - From: Tom Christiansen + From: Tom Christiansen Msg-ID: <804.854121463@jinete> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800 Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod Title: "Updates to perldelta" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST) Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod Title: "perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET) Files: pod/perlnews.pod Title: "Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall Title: "Remove bad advice from perllocale.pod" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/perllocale.pod @@ -1332,43 +6814,43 @@ which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Fix parsing of C< ${ xyz } >" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Don't parse method calls in strings" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Fix overly picky carping about leading '{' in regex" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: regcomp.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix memory corruption from formats" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c perl.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c BUILD PROCESS Title: "Fix '_mopop' typo" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Makefile.SH LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Gut IO::Handle::DESTROY" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm Title: "RiscOS is case-insensitive" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/File/Basename.pm TESTS Title: "Fix thinko in db-recno.t" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/db-recno.t UTILITIES @@ -1386,7 +6868,7 @@ which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats. Files: INSTALL pod/roffitall Title: "srand() doc update" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <24195.853379065@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:44:25 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1409,27 +6891,27 @@ significant changes: CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST) Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t Title: "Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c pod/perlguts.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c sv.c t/op/method.t Title: "Formats can be closures" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h Title: "Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}>" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs Title: "Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered" @@ -1437,19 +6919,19 @@ significant changes: Files: MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t Title: "Fail regex that starts with '{'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: regcomp.c CORE PORTABILITY Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST) Files: hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c Title: "VMS patches for _20" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST) Files: configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h @@ -1471,21 +6953,21 @@ significant changes: Files: Configure hints/machten.sh Title: "Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } >" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c t/op/misc.t Title: "Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c Title: "Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values" @@ -1495,39 +6977,39 @@ significant changes: Files: pp.c pp_hot.c Title: "Keep array from dying during foreach(@array)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c Title: "Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o >" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c t/op/misc.t Title: "Fix infinite loop for undef function in @SIG{__WARN__,__DIE__}" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: util.c Title: "Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500 Files: pp.c Title: "Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Patch for Object subroutines" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST) Files: cop.h Title: "Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c pp_hot.c Title: "Undo change that freed large pad vars" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: scope.c BUILD PROCESS @@ -1545,7 +7027,7 @@ significant changes: Files: Configure Title: "Make installperl quieter; only shared libraries need 0555" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: installperl TESTS @@ -1557,15 +7039,15 @@ significant changes: Files: t/TEST Title: "UNIVERSAL tests" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Files: MANIFEST t/op/universal.t Title: "Test deletion of array during foreach" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: t/op/misc.t Title: "patch for db-recno.t" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Msg-ID: <9701121509.AA11147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT) Files: t/lib/db-recno.t @@ -1573,7 +7055,7 @@ significant changes: LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/File/Basename.pm pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL @@ -1589,39 +7071,39 @@ significant changes: Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.10" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Msg-ID: <9701141247.AA21242@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 12:47:40 GMT Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs Title: "Re: FileCache::cacheout clobbers $_" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:45:58 -0500 Files: lib/FileCache.pm lib/cacheout.pl Title: "PATCH: AutoSplit" - From: Graham Barr + From: Graham Barr Msg-ID: <9603111010.AA29935@tiuk.ti.com> Date: 11 Mar 1996 06:01:58 -0500 Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm Title: "Re: Uninitialized value in Carp.pm ? " - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701141815.NAA07960@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:15:25 -0500 Files: lib/Carp.pm Title: "Avoid "uninitialized" warnings from POSIX::constant()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm Title: "Eliminate warning from C" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/overload.pm Title: "low priority patches" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Msg-ID: <9701081655.AA27349@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:55:02 GMT Files: lib/Cwd.pm t/comp/redef.t t/lib/db-btree.t @@ -1629,13 +7111,13 @@ significant changes: UTILITIES Title: "Re: xsubpp and Tk ==> segfault" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701080825.DAA15813@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 03:25:47 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Title: "Re: MakeMaker and 'make uninstall'" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Msg-ID: <199701101243.NAA26400@anna.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:43:39 +0100 Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm @@ -1647,13 +7129,13 @@ significant changes: Files: utils/perldoc.PL Title: "Yet another perldoc option" - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Msg-ID: <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200 Files: utils/perldoc.PL Title: "Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500 Files: utils/perldoc.PL @@ -1667,30 +7149,30 @@ significant changes: Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc Title: "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod" - From: "M.J.T. Guy" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" Msg-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000 Files: pod/perlsyn.pod Title: "Document use of pos() and /\G/" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod Title: "Fix example #4 in perlXStut" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199701050739.CAA11112@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 02:39:45 -0500 (EST) Files: pod/perlxstut.pod Title: "Document new closure warnings" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod Title: "Misc. doc patches missing in _20" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500 Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1712,11 +7194,11 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Rescind named closures" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c Title: "Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens" - From: Graham Barr + From: Graham Barr Msg-ID: <32CE30F0.7E8425A5@tiuk.ti.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000 Files: perly.c perly.y @@ -1724,37 +7206,37 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" CORE PORTABILITY Title: "Fix $^X on systems that set it to Perl's basename" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c Title: "Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)" - From: Andy Dougherty + From: Andy Dougherty Msg-ID: + From: Ilya Zakharevich Files: MANIFEST OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y Title: "plug for safe/opcode leaks" - From: Doug MacEachern + From: Doug MacEachern Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500 Files: op.c Title: "Finish OP= warnings: none on ^=" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doop.c pp.c t/op/assignwarn.t Title: "Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500 Files: pp_hot.c @@ -1762,11 +7244,11 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" BUILD PROCESS Title: "Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure Title: "Start all helper scripts with $startsh" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure Title: "Support libperl.so under FreeBSD" @@ -1778,13 +7260,13 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" TESTS Title: "New test: comp/proto.t" - From: Graham Barr + From: Graham Barr Msg-ID: <32D0C21F.3FB28D51@tiuk.ti.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000 Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t Title: "More magic variable tests" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <7043.852565192@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:39:52 -0500 Files: t/harness t/op/magic.t @@ -1798,13 +7280,13 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t Title: "sigaction() problems" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500 Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod Title: "Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm Title: "Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures" @@ -1824,31 +7306,31 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" DOCUMENTATION Title: "tiny doc patches" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500 Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod Title: "doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod Title: "doc patch: perldsc" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500 Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod Title: "Re: constant function inlining" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 07 Jan 1997 15:27:50 -0500 Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsub.pod Title: "scalar caller doc fix" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1860,7 +7342,7 @@ updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" Files: pod/perlpod.pod Title: "Misc perlfunc updates" - From: Tom Christiansen + From: Tom Christiansen Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod @@ -1880,22 +7362,22 @@ Here's a list of the more significant changes... CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Make method cache invisible to user code" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: dump.c gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c perl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c Title: "Never parse "{m,s,y,tr,q{,q,w,x}}:{,:}" as package or label" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c CORE PORTABILITY Title: "Fix $^X under HP-UX" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c Title: "New hints/hpux.sh" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199612312309.AA283393772@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:09:32 -0800 Files: hints/hpux.sh @@ -1903,45 +7385,45 @@ Here's a list of the more significant changes... OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix segv when calling named closures" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_hot.c Title: "Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t Title: "Arrange for all "_ + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: gv.c lib/perl5db.pl Title: "Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199701012042.PAA25994@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 15:42:05 -0500 Files: cv.h pp_hot.c Title: "Reword 'may be "0"' warning per Larry; fix its line number" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod Title: "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes" - From: Doug MacEachern + From: Doug MacEachern Msg-ID: <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500 Files: perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t Title: "Fix lost value from READLINE after TIEHANDLE" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Files: pp_hot.c sv.h Title: "Free memory of large lexical variables when leaving scope" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: scope.c TESTS Title: "Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH t/TEST t/comp/use.t t/lib/locale.t t/op/overload.t t/op/use.t t/pragma/locale.t t/pragma/overload.t t/pragma/strict-refs t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars @@ -1955,7 +7437,7 @@ Here's a list of the more significant changes... LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Make libs clean under '-w'" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm lib/Env.pm lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Pod/Functions.pm lib/Search/Dict.pm lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/chat2.pl @@ -1965,13 +7447,13 @@ Here's a list of the more significant changes... DOCUMENTATION Title: "Perlguts, version 28" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199701032110.AA102535846@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:10:46 -0800 Files: pod/perlguts.pod Title: "Re: perldelta, take 3" - From: Tim Bunce + From: Tim Bunce Msg-ID: <9701031748.AA15335@toad.ig.co.uk> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:48:46 +0000 Files: pod/perlnews.pod @@ -1982,17 +7464,17 @@ Here's a list of the more significant changes... pod/perlguts.pod Title: "expanded flock() docs" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <4481.852337871@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod Title: "Use Text::Wrap in buildtoc; run buildtoc" - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Files: pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod Title: "Remove obsolete perlovl.pod" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms @@ -2006,69 +7488,69 @@ Yet further down the road to 5.004.... CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Inherited overloading" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST) Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t Title: "Hide lexicals from Cd or Cd module (!)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_ctl.c Title: "Closures at file scope must be anonymous" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or " - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod Title: "Warn on 'undef $x; $x OP 1' where OP is *=, /=, %=, or **=" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c CORE PORTABILITY Title: "Ultrix setlocale() workaround" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh util.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cop.h gv.c op.c Title: "Don't forget $c in C<(($a,$b,$c)=(1,2))=(3,4,5)>" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_hot.c Title: "Fix core dump on perl_construct()/perl_destruct() loop" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perl.c Title: "Add missing syms to global.sym; update magic doc" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod TESTS Title: "Expanded locale.t and misc.t" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t Title: "Expanded my.t" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/my.t Title: "test harness for C" - From: Graham Barr + From: Graham Barr Msg-ID: <32C76882.3F3C7999@tiuk.ti.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:00:18 +0000 Files: MANIFEST t/op/use.t Title: "More tests" - From: Tom Phoenix + From: Tom Phoenix Msg-ID: + From: Tom Phoenix Msg-ID: + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612280347.WAA00293@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:47:24 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t @@ -2101,7 +7583,7 @@ Yet further down the road to 5.004.... pod/perlre.pod pod/perlsec.pod Title: "Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ..."" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500 Files: pod/perldiag.pod @@ -2117,7 +7599,7 @@ tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?) CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Support named closures" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c CORE PORTABILITY @@ -2133,7 +7615,7 @@ tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?) Files: hints/freebsd.sh Title: "Minor OS/2 fixes" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612252105.QAA11890@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:05:42 -0500 (EST) Files: os2/os2ish.h pod/perlxstut.pod @@ -2141,11 +7623,11 @@ tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?) OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix {,un}tainting of $1 etc. when C" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: mg.c sv.c Title: "Limit effects of "=pod" to a single file" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c TESTS @@ -2155,19 +7637,19 @@ tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?) Files: MANIFEST t/lib/locale.t t/op/method.t Title: "Test C< ()=() >" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/op/misc.t LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.39" - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm Title: "Newer debugger" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612261954.OAA12999@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:54:34 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/perl5db.pl @@ -2175,19 +7657,19 @@ tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?) DOCUMENTATION Title: "Perlguts, version 27" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199612250144.AA059528263@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:44:23 -0800 Files: pod/perlguts.pod Title: "perlpod.pod patch for _16" - From: Kenneth Albanowski + From: Kenneth Albanowski Msg-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:00:10 -0500 (EST) Files: pod/perlpod.pod Title: "tiny perllocale.pod diff for _16" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199612261306.PAA21161@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:06:04 +0200 (EET) Files: pod/perllocale.pod @@ -2203,13 +7685,13 @@ updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-) CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Fix closures that are not in subroutines" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c CORE PORTABILITY Title: "_13: patches for unicos/unicosmk" - From: Dean Roehrich + From: Dean Roehrich Msg-ID: <199612202038.OAA22805@poplar.cray.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:38:50 -0600 Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/unicos.sh hints/unicosmk.sh @@ -2217,25 +7699,25 @@ updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-) OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix 'foreach(@ARGV) { while (<>) { push @p,$_ } }'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cop.h pp_hot.c scope.c Title: "Eliminate warnings from C< undef $x; $x OP= "foo" >" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doop.c pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c Title: "Try again to improve method caching" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612240113.UAA09487@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:13:56 -0500 (EST) Files: gv.c sv.c Title: "Be more careful about 'o' magic memory management" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: mg.c sv.c Title: "Fix bad pointer refs when localized object loses magic" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: scope.c LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS @@ -2260,7 +7742,7 @@ updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-) BUILD PROCESS AND UTILITIES Title: "Don't recurse into subdirs twice on 'make realclean'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Makefile.SH Title: "Use root EXTERN.h when compiling x2p/malloc.c." @@ -2274,11 +7756,11 @@ updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-) DOCUMENTATION Title: "Edit INSTALL to describe new binary compat setup" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: INSTALL Title: "Update to perllocale.pod" - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Files: pod/perllocale.pod @@ -2301,63 +7783,63 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Eliminate support for {if,unless,while,until} BLOCK BLOCK" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c Title: "Taint $x after $x =~ s/pat/xyz/ if pat or xyz is tainted by locale" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cop.h mg.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c Title: "Complete support for modifying undefined array members in foreach" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "patch for regex bug: (x|x){n}" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199612210259.VAA10170@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:59:22 -0500 Files: regexec.c Title: "Bug in debugger with import manipulations" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612231037.FAA08617@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:37:48 -0500 (EST) Files: pp_hot.c Title: "Import and dynamic methods" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612230645.BAA08378@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:45:37 -0500 (EST) Files: gv.c hv.c sv.c Title: "malloc.c patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612220748.CAA07164@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0500 (EST) Files: malloc.c Title: "sv_gets patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612220824.DAA07235@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:24:04 -0500 (EST) Files: pp_hot.c Title: "pos $str patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612220831.DAA07247@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:31:21 -0500 (EST) Files: mg.c pp_hot.c t/op/pat.t Title: "Prevent warnings when STDCHAR is unsigned" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perlio.c perlio.h PORTABILITY Title: "Fix bugs in bincompat3 usage" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perl.h perl_exp.SH Title: "Support shared libperl on SunOS" @@ -2365,7 +7847,7 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. Files: Makefile.SH Title: "Configure on OS/2" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612202325.SAA05505@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:25:30 -0500 (EST) Files: Configure @@ -2377,11 +7859,11 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. Files: hints/isc.sh op.c pp_sys.c universal.c Title: "Use "proto" instead of "_" in sdbm.h" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_13" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01IDBYYFYPIS002ASE@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:26:47 -0500 (EST) Files: deb.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c lib/File/Copy.pm mg.c perl.c @@ -2394,11 +7876,11 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Remove libnet" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST pod/perlmod.pod Title: "Refresh CPAN module to 1.08" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.28" @@ -2406,15 +7888,15 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm Title: "Update IO->VERSION() to 1.1201 for CPAN's sake" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm Title: "Remodel File::Copy." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/File/Copy.pm Title: "dumb bug in User::pwent.pm" - From: Tom Christiansen + From: Tom Christiansen Msg-ID: <199612201145.EAA27860@mox.perl.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:45:37 -0700 Files: lib/User/pwent.pm @@ -2422,7 +7904,7 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. DOCUMENTATION Title: "Better support for =for" - From: Kenneth Albanowski + From: Kenneth Albanowski Msg-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:43:35 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL @@ -2434,18 +7916,18 @@ We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. Files: pod/perllocale.pod Title: "Perlguts, version 26" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199612201943.AA048111018@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:43:38 -0800 Files: pod/perlguts.pod Title: "Update pod/Makefile; s/perli18n/perllocale/" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/I18N/Collate.pm pod/Makefile pod/perl.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/roffitall Title: "obstruct pod2man doc tweaks" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <3923.851106237@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:23:57 -0500 Files: lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm @@ -2462,33 +7944,33 @@ everyone up to a common working base. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_ctl.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix core dump bug with anoncode" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: sv.c PORTABILITY Title: "Add missing backslash in Configure" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP" - From: Graham Barr + From: Graham Barr Files: MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm @@ -2500,7 +7982,7 @@ everyone up to a common working base. Files: lib/Net/FTP.pm Title: "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500 Files: MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl @@ -2508,20 +7990,20 @@ everyone up to a common working base. t/lib/open3.t Title: "Long-standing problem in Socket module" - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Msg-ID: <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500 Files: Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs Title: "flock() constants" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500 Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod Title: "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500 Files: lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl @@ -2529,13 +8011,13 @@ everyone up to a common working base. DOCUMENTATION Title: "small doc tweaks for _12" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500 Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod Title: "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500 Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL @@ -2553,109 +8035,109 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Support C" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/delete.t Title: "Autovivify scalars" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c Title: "Fix nested closures" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_hot.c Title: "Fix core dump on C" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_sys.c Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_sys.c Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: regexec.c Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + From: Norbert Pueschel Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100 Files: doio.c Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perl.c Title: "Re: Bug in formline " - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500 Files: pp_ctl.c Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_hot.c Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hv.c Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: av.c Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c PORTABILITY Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perlio.c Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH @@ -2666,11 +8148,11 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod @@ -2686,7 +8168,7 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hints/linux.sh Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet" @@ -2696,17 +8178,17 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: Files: hints/svr4.sh Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500 Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST) Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/* @@ -2714,7 +8196,7 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: TESTING Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..." - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET) Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t @@ -2722,7 +8204,7 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm pod/perlmod.pod @@ -2734,47 +8216,47 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm Title: "Add File::Compare" - From: Nick Ing-Simmons + From: Nick Ing-Simmons Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod Title: "Add Tie::RefHash" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500 Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod Title: "Put "splain" in utils." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL Title: "Some h2ph fixes" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800 Files: utils/h2ph.PL Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line" - From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons) + From: Nick Ing-Simmons Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move" - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs Title: "Debugger update" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST) Files: lib/perl5db.pl @@ -2787,13 +8269,13 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: pod/perlnews.pod Title: "perltoot.pod" - From: Tom Christiansen + From: Tom Christiansen Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700 Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod Title: "Perlguts, version 25" - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST Files: pod/perlguts.pod @@ -2811,7 +8293,7 @@ the more significant changes in 5.003_12: Files: pod/*.pod Title: "Misc doc updates" - From: Tom Christiansen + From: Tom Christiansen Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700 Files: pod/* @@ -2826,91 +8308,91 @@ value. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y Title: "Don't reset $. on open()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_sys.c Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c Title: "Don't let expression context force return context" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doio.c sv.c Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_sys.c Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c toke.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c sv.h Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c Title: "Fix line numbers near control structures" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_ctl.c util.c Title: "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed" - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 Title: "Less malloc in magic" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: mg.c Title: "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 Title: "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c PORTABILITY AND TESTING Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "hints/dgux.sh update" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500 Files: hints/dgux.sh @@ -2922,7 +8404,7 @@ value. Files: hints/hpux.sh Title: "VMS patches for 5.003_10" - From: Charles Bailey + 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 @@ -2931,7 +8413,7 @@ value. vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h Title: "_10+ under OS/2" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -2939,7 +8421,7 @@ value. LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "{in,ob}structive pods" - From: Tom Christiansen + 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 @@ -2948,38 +8430,38 @@ value. lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm Title: "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File" - From: Nick Ing-Simmons + From: Nick Ing-Simmons Msg-ID: <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT Files: MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm Title: "10+ debugger patch" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm Title: "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?" - From: Hallvard B Furuseth + 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 Title: "DB_File 1.07" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: 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 Title: "DB_File 1.08" - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: Paul Marquess Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs @@ -2993,7 +8475,7 @@ valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions @@ -3001,25 +8483,25 @@ valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. Files: toke.c Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}"" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: regexec.c Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: sv.c Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: sv.c Title: "Better support for UVs" @@ -3029,51 +8511,51 @@ valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. Title: "Minor locale cleanups" (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to 'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.) - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doop.c Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doop.c Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: doop.c pp_sys.c Title: "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perl.c Title: "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_ctl.c Title: "Namespace cleanup" - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH PORTABILITY Title: "Reliable signal patch" - From: Kenneth Albanowski + 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp_sys.c Title: "3_09: minor patches for OS/2" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -3089,7 +8571,7 @@ valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h Title: "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS" - From: Charles Bailey + 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 @@ -3097,29 +8579,29 @@ valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Minor patch to debugger" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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) + From: 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod DOCUMENTATION Title: "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/perlfunc.pod Title: "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()" - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500 Files: pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3137,17 +8619,17 @@ scoping and locale handling. Title: "Lexical locales" (make effectiveness of locales depend on C) - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + 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 + 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 @@ -3156,11 +8638,11 @@ scoping and locale handling. OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: Configure Title: "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: proto.h Title: "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1, @@ -3170,55 +8652,55 @@ scoping and locale handling. Files: sv.c Title: ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can" - From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com + From: Nick Ing-Simmons Msg-ID: <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT Files: universal.c Title: "die -> croak" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: embed.pl Title: "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: global.sym old_global.sym Title: "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Cleanups from Ilya." - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pp.c Title: "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: hv.c hv.h proto.h Title: "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya." - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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) + From: 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 @@ -3228,20 +8710,20 @@ scoping and locale handling. vms/vmsish.h Title: "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + 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 + From: Jeff Okamoto Msg-ID: <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800 Files: hints/hpux.sh @@ -3249,15 +8731,15 @@ scoping and locale handling. LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Title: "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/db-hash.t Title: "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm Title: "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t Title: "minimal timelocal.pl for _09" @@ -3267,11 +8749,11 @@ scoping and locale handling. Files: lib/Time/Local.pm Title: "Socket test improvement from Ilya." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: t/lib/io_sock.t Title: "Re: blib" - From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons) + From: 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 @@ -3279,19 +8761,19 @@ scoping and locale handling. DOCUMENTATION Title: "perldiag documentation patch." - From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + From: 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 + 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) + From: Paul Marquess Msg-ID: <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT Files: pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3303,13 +8785,13 @@ scoping and locale handling. Files: pod/perlpod.pod Title: "Update locale documentation." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: pod/perli18n.pod BUNDLED UTILITIES Title: "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}." - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: x2p/util.c @@ -3324,13 +8806,13 @@ many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Title: "Make C fail if C fails" - From: Tim Bunce + 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 + 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 @@ -3341,78 +8823,78 @@ many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. structure. Also adds new construct "for my", which automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits its scope to the loop.) - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + 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) + From: Paul Marquess Files: opcode.pl Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->"" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: perly.c perly.y Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'"" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c OTHER CORE CHANGES Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: proto.h toke.c util.c Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: toke.c Title: "Fixes for pack('w')" - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Files: sv.c Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches" - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h Title: "Fix for formline()" - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + 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 + 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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym PORTABILITY Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes" - From: Charles Bailey + 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 @@ -3433,14 +8915,14 @@ many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc Title: "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS" - From: "Norbert Pueschel" + 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) + From: Paul Marquess 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" @@ -3449,7 +8931,7 @@ many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. Title: "Kludge for bareword handles" (Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm) - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm Title: "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module" @@ -3460,7 +8942,7 @@ many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. BUNDLED UTILITIES Title: "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'" - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y @@ -3560,14 +9042,14 @@ Index: MANIFEST Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich os2/Changes added. Index: Makefile.SH Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with shared library target, which is delegated to @@ -3633,14 +9115,14 @@ Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Index: gv.c Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + From: Ilya Zakharevich Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some memory present - 32M should be quite enough). @@ -3655,14 +9137,14 @@ Index: hints/sco.sh Index: installperl Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + From: Ilya Zakharevich Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be done outside of OS/2 too?). @@ -3670,28 +9152,28 @@ Index: lib/Cwd.pm Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + From: Ilya Zakharevich `bool' entry added. Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + From: Ilya Zakharevich Subject: Cleanup after new test Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just @@ -3700,7 +9182,7 @@ Index: lib/File/Copy.pm Index: lib/FindBin.pm Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm @@ -3722,7 +9204,7 @@ Index: lib/newgetopt.pl Index: makedepend.SH Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH @@ -3731,7 +9213,7 @@ Index: makedepend.SH Index: mg.c Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 () - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06 The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error @@ -3740,20 +9222,20 @@ Index: mg.c Index: os2/Changes Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 + From: Ilya Zakharevich added. Index: os2/Makefile.SHs Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Convoluted process to create chimera executables added. aout_clean is done automatically on clean. @@ -3761,7 +9243,7 @@ Index: os2/Makefile.SHs Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Use `unlink' where appropriate. @@ -3772,7 +9254,7 @@ Index: os2/diff.configure Index: os2/os2.c Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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). @@ -3781,7 +9263,7 @@ Index: os2/os2.c Index: os2/os2ish.h Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit. updates for fork()ing. @@ -3793,7 +9275,7 @@ Index: patchlevel.h Index: perl.c Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000 - From: Tim Bunce + 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 @@ -3804,7 +9286,7 @@ Index: perl.c 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 + From: Ilya Zakharevich Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n. Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted. @@ -3878,7 +9360,7 @@ Index: plan9/versnum Index: pod/perldiag.pod Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE. OS/2-specific messages added. @@ -3886,7 +9368,7 @@ Index: pod/perldiag.pod Index: pod/perlfunc.pod Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack Index: pod/perli18n.pod @@ -3896,7 +9378,7 @@ Index: pod/perli18n.pod Index: pod/perlop.pod Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Crossrefs corrected. @@ -3908,14 +9390,14 @@ Index: pod/perltrap.pod Index: pod/perlvar.pod Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich $^E under OS/2. Index: pp.c Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack Index: pp_sys.c @@ -3929,7 +9411,7 @@ Index: pp_sys.c Index: sv.c Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work >> > print sort (4,1,2,3); @@ -3948,7 +9430,7 @@ Index: sv.c Index: t/lib/anydbm.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -3960,7 +9442,7 @@ Index: t/lib/anydbm.t Index: t/lib/db-btree.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -3972,7 +9454,7 @@ Index: t/lib/db-btree.t Index: t/lib/db-hash.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -3984,7 +9466,7 @@ Index: t/lib/db-hash.t Index: t/lib/db-recno.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -3996,7 +9478,7 @@ Index: t/lib/db-recno.t Index: t/lib/gdbm.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -4008,7 +9490,7 @@ Index: t/lib/gdbm.t Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Better error message on dying. @@ -4032,7 +9514,7 @@ Index: t/lib/io_taint.t Index: t/lib/ndbm.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -4044,7 +9526,7 @@ Index: t/lib/ndbm.t Index: t/lib/odbm.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -4056,7 +9538,7 @@ Index: t/lib/odbm.t Index: t/lib/sdbm.t Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + 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 @@ -4068,7 +9550,7 @@ Index: t/lib/sdbm.t Index: t/lib/socket.t Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + 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 @@ -4077,19 +9559,19 @@ Index: t/lib/socket.t Index: t/op/pack.t Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + 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 + 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 + 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). @@ -4118,6 +9600,7 @@ Index: x2p/cflags.SH ---------------- 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: @@ -4169,7 +9652,7 @@ Here are the specific file-by-file changes. # 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 +# -- Andy Dougherty # We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them # executable. @@ -4205,12 +9688,6 @@ designed so you can examine each change with a command such as 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. @@ -4231,7 +9708,7 @@ Index: Configure Index: INSTALL Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4241,7 +9718,7 @@ Index: INSTALL Index: MANIFEST Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -4249,13 +9726,13 @@ Index: MANIFEST out are applied. Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200 - From: Andreas Koenig + 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 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4286,13 +9763,13 @@ Index: configure Index: doio.c Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + 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 + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -4414,7 +9891,7 @@ Index: ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm: @@ -4438,7 +9915,7 @@ Index: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4448,7 +9925,7 @@ Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4459,7 +9936,7 @@ Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200 - From: Andreas Koenig + 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. @@ -4484,7 +9961,7 @@ Index: global.sym Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -4494,7 +9971,7 @@ Index: global.sym improved. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4509,7 +9986,7 @@ Index: gv.c Index: handy.h Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT) - From: Kenneth Albanowski + 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 @@ -4529,7 +10006,7 @@ Index: hints/next_3.sh the optimizier. Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200 - From: Andreas Koenig + 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. @@ -4537,7 +10014,7 @@ Index: hints/next_3.sh Index: hv.c Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 @@ -4551,7 +10028,7 @@ Index: hv.c flag. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -4563,7 +10040,7 @@ Index: hv.c Index: hv.h Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 @@ -4597,21 +10074,21 @@ Index: installperl Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996 - From: Gisle Aas + 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 + 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 + From: Gisle Aas Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD() @@ -4624,7 +10101,7 @@ Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm Index: lib/Benchmark.pm Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST) - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: a really really tiny typo Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) @@ -4709,7 +10186,7 @@ Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm @@ -4731,7 +10208,7 @@ Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm @@ -4750,24 +10227,24 @@ Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Index: lib/File/Basename.pm Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + 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 + From: Gisle Aas Subject: File::Basename documentation patch Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + 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 + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 Index: lib/File/Copy.pm @@ -4821,7 +10298,7 @@ Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4849,7 +10326,7 @@ Index: lib/IPC/Open3.pm Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -4877,7 +10354,7 @@ Index: lib/Pod/Text.pm Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + 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 @@ -4896,7 +10373,7 @@ Index: lib/SelfLoader.pm Index: lib/Symbol.pm Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)' @@ -4924,7 +10401,7 @@ Index: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200 - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Subject: Patch for Term::Cap 'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The @@ -4961,13 +10438,13 @@ Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + 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 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts) This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle @@ -5007,7 +10484,7 @@ Index: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm Index: lib/bigint.pl Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5035,7 +10512,7 @@ Index: lib/overload.pm Index: lib/perl5db.pl Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work Index: lib/splain @@ -5073,14 +10550,14 @@ Index: mg.c Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT) - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -5090,11 +10567,11 @@ Index: mg.c improved. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT) - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, @@ -5109,7 +10586,7 @@ Index: op.c Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -5144,26 +10621,26 @@ Index: patchlevel.h Index: perl.c - From: Roderick Schertler + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 @@ -5174,7 +10651,7 @@ Index: perl.h ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -5187,7 +10664,7 @@ Index: perl.h 5.003. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5213,13 +10690,13 @@ Index: perlsdio.h Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + 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 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5247,7 +10724,7 @@ Index: pod/perl.pod Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5317,7 +10794,7 @@ Index: pod/perldiag.pod 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 Index: pod/perldsc.pod @@ -5370,7 +10847,7 @@ Index: pod/perlguts.pod From: "Daniel S. Lewart" Subject: POD spelling patches Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT - From: Jeff Okamoto + From: Jeff Okamoto Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This @@ -5386,7 +10863,7 @@ Index: pod/perlguts.pod Index: pod/perli18n.pod Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5429,7 +10906,7 @@ Index: pod/perlmod.pod 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400 - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Subject: documentation for $? in END Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines. @@ -5453,7 +10930,7 @@ Index: pod/perlop.pod 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT) - From: Kenneth Albanowski + From: Kenneth Albanowski Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page Add alternative names for various escape sequences. @@ -5485,7 +10962,7 @@ Index: pod/perlre.pod 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT) - From: Kenneth Albanowski + From: Kenneth Albanowski Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page Add alternative names for various escape sequences. @@ -5580,7 +11057,7 @@ Index: pod/perltoc.pod Index: pod/perltrap.pod Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: a perl425 trap Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory. @@ -5603,7 +11080,7 @@ Index: pod/perlvar.pod 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400 - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Subject: documentation for $? in END Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines. @@ -5667,7 +11144,7 @@ Index: pp_ctl.c Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5732,7 +11209,7 @@ Index: pp_sys.c then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + 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 @@ -5745,7 +11222,7 @@ Index: proto.h Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -5755,7 +11232,7 @@ Index: proto.h improved. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5773,7 +11250,7 @@ Index: sv.c Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -5783,7 +11260,7 @@ Index: sv.c improved. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + 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 @@ -5794,7 +11271,7 @@ Index: sv.c already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5822,7 +11299,7 @@ Index: sv.h * Add the "untaint" keyword. Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 @@ -5838,7 +11315,7 @@ Index: sv.h Index: t/base/term.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5848,7 +11325,7 @@ Index: t/base/term.t Index: t/comp/package.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5858,7 +11335,7 @@ Index: t/comp/package.t Index: t/lib/abbrev.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5866,7 +11343,7 @@ Index: t/lib/abbrev.t out are applied. Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200 - From: Ulrich Pfeifer + From: Ulrich Pfeifer Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts) This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle @@ -5875,7 +11352,7 @@ Index: t/lib/abbrev.t Index: t/lib/anydbm.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5885,7 +11362,7 @@ Index: t/lib/anydbm.t Index: t/lib/autoloader.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5893,7 +11370,7 @@ Index: t/lib/autoloader.t out are applied. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional, since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the @@ -5902,7 +11379,7 @@ Index: t/lib/autoloader.t Index: t/lib/basename.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5910,12 +11387,12 @@ Index: t/lib/basename.t out are applied. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Fix the number of tests. Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends. @@ -5923,7 +11400,7 @@ Index: t/lib/basename.t Index: t/lib/checktree.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5942,7 +11419,7 @@ Index: t/lib/complex.t Index: t/lib/db-btree.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5952,7 +11429,7 @@ Index: t/lib/db-btree.t Index: t/lib/db-hash.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -5962,7 +11439,7 @@ Index: t/lib/db-hash.t Index: t/lib/env.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5972,7 +11449,7 @@ Index: t/lib/env.t Index: t/lib/fatal.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5982,7 +11459,7 @@ Index: t/lib/fatal.t Index: t/lib/filecache.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -5992,7 +11469,7 @@ Index: t/lib/filecache.t Index: t/lib/filecopy.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6002,7 +11479,7 @@ Index: t/lib/filecopy.t Index: t/lib/filefind.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6012,7 +11489,7 @@ Index: t/lib/filefind.t Index: t/lib/filepath.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6022,7 +11499,7 @@ Index: t/lib/filepath.t Index: t/lib/findbin.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6032,7 +11509,7 @@ Index: t/lib/findbin.t Index: t/lib/gdbm.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6042,7 +11519,7 @@ Index: t/lib/gdbm.t Index: t/lib/getopt.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6052,7 +11529,7 @@ Index: t/lib/getopt.t Index: t/lib/hostname.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6062,7 +11539,7 @@ Index: t/lib/hostname.t Index: t/lib/ndbm.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6072,7 +11549,7 @@ Index: t/lib/ndbm.t Index: t/lib/odbm.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6082,7 +11559,7 @@ Index: t/lib/odbm.t Index: t/lib/parsewords.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6092,7 +11569,7 @@ Index: t/lib/parsewords.t Index: t/lib/sdbm.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6102,7 +11579,7 @@ Index: t/lib/sdbm.t Index: t/lib/searchdict.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6112,7 +11589,7 @@ Index: t/lib/searchdict.t Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6122,7 +11599,7 @@ Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t Index: t/lib/symbol.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6130,7 +11607,7 @@ Index: t/lib/symbol.t out are applied. Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + 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: @@ -6138,7 +11615,7 @@ Index: t/lib/symbol.t Index: t/lib/texttabs.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6148,7 +11625,7 @@ Index: t/lib/texttabs.t Index: t/lib/textwrap.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6158,7 +11635,7 @@ Index: t/lib/textwrap.t Index: t/lib/timelocal.t Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 - From: Gisle Aas + From: Gisle Aas Subject: More standard library test scripts This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. @@ -6168,7 +11645,7 @@ Index: t/lib/timelocal.t Index: t/op/each.t Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 - From: Spider Boardman + From: Spider Boardman Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements @@ -6178,7 +11655,7 @@ Index: t/op/each.t improved. Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6188,7 +11665,7 @@ Index: t/op/each.t Index: t/op/glob.t Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + 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 @@ -6200,7 +11677,7 @@ Index: t/op/glob.t Index: t/op/magic.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6208,7 +11685,7 @@ Index: t/op/magic.t Index: t/op/readdir.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6218,7 +11695,7 @@ Index: t/op/readdir.t Index: t/op/sort.t Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6228,7 +11705,7 @@ Index: t/op/sort.t Index: toke.c Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch) I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately @@ -6236,7 +11713,7 @@ Index: toke.c expectation decisions in the lexer). Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: perl lexer won't accept C$b;> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400 @@ -6260,7 +11737,7 @@ Index: toke.c Index: util.c Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 - From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Subject: LC_COLLATE. Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. @@ -6291,7 +11768,7 @@ Index: utils/h2ph.PL Index: utils/h2xs.PL Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500 - From: Dean Roehrich + From: Dean Roehrich Subject: h2xs bug fix The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from @@ -6316,7 +11793,7 @@ Index: utils/h2xs.PL Index: utils/perldoc.PL Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT) - From: Kenneth Albanowski + From: Kenneth Albanowski Subject: perldoc patch Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2. @@ -6324,31 +11801,31 @@ Index: utils/perldoc.PL Index: vms/config.vms Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) - From: Charles Bailey + 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 + 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 + 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 + 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 + From: Charles Bailey Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 Index: x2p/a2p.pod @@ -6368,6 +11845,7 @@ Index: x2p/s2p.PL 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 ---------------- @@ -6423,7 +11901,7 @@ Here are the specific file-by-file changes. # 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 +# -- Andy Dougherty # We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it # executable. @@ -6446,12 +11924,6 @@ 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. @@ -6521,7 +11993,7 @@ Index: av.h Subject: turbidity in av.[ch] Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Some unclean code that I noticed today. @@ -6538,7 +12010,7 @@ Index: config_h.SH Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Subject: Newer CPerl-mode Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm @@ -6552,14 +12024,14 @@ Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT) - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + From: Roderick Schertler Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0 This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin. @@ -6580,7 +12052,7 @@ Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/ultrix.pl Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200 - From: Andreas Koenig + From: Andreas Koenig Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless @@ -6620,14 +12092,14 @@ Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh Index: hv.c Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + 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 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04) @@ -6733,7 +12205,7 @@ Index: lib/open3.pl Index: lib/syslog.pl Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400 - From: Roderick Schertler + From: Roderick Schertler Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage syslog.pl tries but fails to use @@ -6761,7 +12233,7 @@ Index: mg.c (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 + From: Chip Salzenberg Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) > This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers @@ -6782,7 +12254,7 @@ Index: nostdio.h Index: op.c - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more) Index: patchlevel.h @@ -6846,7 +12318,7 @@ Index: pod/perlipc.pod Index: pod/perlref.pod - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more) Index: pod/perltie.pod @@ -6882,14 +12354,14 @@ Index: pod/perlvar.pod Index: pp.c Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT) - From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + 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(). @@ -6897,7 +12369,7 @@ Index: pp.c Index: pp_hot.c Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400 - From: Gurusamy Sarathy + From: Gurusamy Sarathy Subject: minor misc. cleanup This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change @@ -6927,7 +12399,7 @@ Index: sv.c Perl_debug_log instead. Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT) - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it @@ -6985,18 +12457,18 @@ Index: t/op/misc.t Index: t/op/pack.t Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT) - From: Kenneth Albanowski + 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 + 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 + From: Graham Barr Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference @@ -7015,7 +12487,7 @@ Index: util.c Index: utils/h2xs.PL Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT) - From: Ilya Zakharevich + From: Ilya Zakharevich Subject: updated h2xs Changes: @@ -7084,6 +12556,7 @@ Index: vms/vmsish.h VMS 5.003_05 Update. + ---------------- Version 5.003_04 ---------------- @@ -7125,7 +12598,7 @@ Here are the specific file-by-file changes. # 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 +# -- Andy Dougherty # Obsolete perl4 hint file. rm -f hints/dnix.sh @@ -7153,13 +12626,6 @@ 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. @@ -7220,8 +12686,7 @@ Index: config_h.SH 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. + of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth for the fix. Index: dump.c @@ -7524,7 +12989,7 @@ Index: sv.c reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). - From: Chip Salzenberg + From: Chip Salzenberg Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY". @@ -7616,6 +13081,7 @@ Index: utils/perldoc.PL HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS doesn't support the -x option.) + ---------------- Version 5.003_03 ---------------- @@ -7653,7 +13119,7 @@ Here are the specific file-by-file changes. # 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 +# -- Andy Dougherty # Absorbed into Changes5.002 rm -f Changes.Conf @@ -7692,12 +13158,6 @@ 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. @@ -8233,9 +13693,11 @@ 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 @@ -8275,6 +13737,7 @@ o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support - Applied OS/2 patches. - Typo patch for VMS. + ---------------- Version 5.003_01 ----------------