[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_11 to perl5.003_12]
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/delete.t
Subject: Autovivify scalars
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod pod/perlnews.pod
Subject: perltoot.pod
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
Msg-ID: <
199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
32e22efaa9ec59b73a208b6c532a0b435e2c6462)
Subject: Perlguts, version 25
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
private-msgid: <
199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Subject: pod patches for English errors
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
Files: pod/*.pod
Msg-ID: <24616.
850167191@castor>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
0135f10892ed8a21c4dbd1fca21fbcc365df99dd)
Subject: Misc doc updates
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/*
Subject: Re: perldelta.pod
Here are some diffs to the _11 pods. I forgot to add perldelta to
perl.pod though.
And *PLEASE* fix the Artistic License so it no longer has the bogus
"whomever" misdeclined in the nominative case:
under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated
them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
It should obviously be "whoever".
p5p-msgid: <
199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
Subject: Fix nested closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
Subject: Fix core dump on auto-vivification
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c
Subject: Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c
Subject: Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c
Subject: Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
Subject: Fix paren matching during backtracking
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: regexec.c
Subject: Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c
Subject: Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c
Subject: Fix local($pack::{foo})
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c
Subject: Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perl.c
Subject: Re: Bug in formline
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_ctl.c
Msg-ID: <
199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
b386bda18108ba86d0b76ebe2d8745eafa80f39e)
Subject: Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c
Subject: Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h
Subject: Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
PORTABILITY
Subject: Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm
Subject: Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
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
Subject: Look for gettimeofday() in Configure
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c
Subject: perl5.003_11, Should base use of gettimeofday on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY, not I_SYS_TIME
I've been installing perl5.003_11 on a SCO system that has the TCP/IP runtime
installed but not the TCP/IP development system.
Unfortunately the <sys/time.h> include file is included in the TCP/IP runtime
while libsocket.a is in the development system.
This means that pp.c decides to use "gettimeofday" because <sys/time.h> is
present but I can't link the perl that gets compiled.
So, here's a patch to base the use of "gettimeofday" on "HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY"
instead of "I_SYS_TIME". I also took the liberty of removing the special
case for plan9 (I assume plan9 has <sys/time.h> but no gettimeofday. Am I
right?).
p5p-msgid: <
01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
Subject: Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure
Subject: Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
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 pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
Subject: LynxOS support
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
From: Greg Seibert <seibert@Lynx.COM>
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
6693373533b15e559fd8f0f1877e5e6ec15483cc)
Subject: Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
10e40321ee752c58e3407b204c74c8049894cb51)
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_11
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*
private-msgid: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
TESTING
Subject: recurse recurse recurse ...
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t
private-msgid: <
199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>
UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
Subject: Add CPAN and Net::FTP
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
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
Subject: Add File::Compare
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: <
199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
ec971c5c328aca84fb827f69f2cc1dc3be81f830)
Subject: Add Tie::RefHash
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: <
199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit
9a079709134ebbf4c935cc8752fdb564e5c82b94)
Subject: Put "splain" in utils.
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL
Subject: Some h2ph fixes
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: utils/h2ph.PL
Here is a message regarding changes to h2ph that should probably be folded
into the 5.004 release.
p5p-msgid: <
199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>