Update Changes
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [Thu, 5 Jan 2006 16:58:51 +0000 (16:58 +0000)]
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Changes

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@@ -29,6 +29,1188 @@ Version v5.9.X             Development release working toward v5.10
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 ____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26659] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/05  16:22:50
+        Log: Subject: MinGW and lib/CORE/Win32.h
+             From: "Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au>
+             Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:29:19 +1100
+             Message-ID: <024301c61119$bca4a840$e201140a@desktop>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26658] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/05  15:33:32
+        Log: Install less README files
+     Branch: perl
+          ! installperl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26657] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/05  14:36:40
+        Log: Remove old Pod::Man parser creation.
+             Fix a run-time warning.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! installman
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26656] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/05  14:33:16
+        Log: Change installman to instantiate a new Pod::Man instance for each
+             file processed.  This is now required with podlators-2.0.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! installman
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26655] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/05  09:21:52
+        Log: Reorder changes made in change 26630
+             
+             (Keep the order in win32/config.* and win32/config_H.* the same as in
+             Configure and config_H.SH for easier diffing)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config.vc64 win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/config_H.vc64
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26654] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/04  17:57:14
+        Log: Run regen.pl (Just updating copyright years)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embedvar.h global.sym opcode.h perlapi.c perlapi.h
+          ! proto.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26653] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/04  17:49:38
+        Log: Don't try to export PL_my_ctx_mutex and PL_my_cxt_* when
+             PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT is not defined
+             
+             Fixes non-threaded build errors on Win32 following change 26523
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26652] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/04  17:19:37
+        Log: More copyright updates
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h dump.c gv.c gv.h handy.h locale.c op.c perlio.c
+          ! pp_pack.c sv.h thread.h universal.c xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26651] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/04  16:50:47
+        Log: Subject: Re: [patch] optimized constant subs are cool, teach B::Concise about them
+             From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+             Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:18:09 -0700
+             Message-ID: <43BB68A1.7060708@gmail.com>
+             
+             With syntactic tweaks to the test file
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/t/concise-xs.t
+          ! ext/B/t/optree_constants.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26650] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  16:42:03
+        Log: Move all the xxxpvs() macros to handy.h.
+             This brings them closer to STR_WITH_LEN.  Besides only half
+             of them were sv-related after change 26649.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! handy.h sv.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26649] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  16:15:34
+        Log: Make the new STR_WITH_LEN() affected compile under -Dusethreads.
+             Can't use STR_WITH_LEN() as argument to a macro :-(
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c locale.c mg.c perl.c perlio.c pp_sys.c sv.c sv.h toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26648] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  14:23:20
+        Log: Add an extra NUL so that we can use sv_catpvs()
+             for "our @F=split..." and get rid of 15 and the
+             explaination for why it's there.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26647] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  14:10:34
+        Log: Get rid of hardcoded string length.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! thread.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26646] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  14:04:16
+        Log: Introduce newSVpvs_share() macro.
+             Gets rid of some hardcoded string lengths.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c perl.c sv.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26645] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  13:53:16
+        Log: Get rid of a few more hardcoded string lengths.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! locale.c mg.c perl.c perlio.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26644] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/04  13:13:50
+        Log: Update copyright year.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26643] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/04  13:02:18
+        Log: Fix some compilation warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26642] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  13:00:45
+        Log: Get rid of a few more hardcoded string lengths.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c perl.c perlio.c pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26641] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  12:48:34
+        Log: Introduce the macros newSVpvs(str) and sv_catpvs(sv, str).
+             Gets rid of many hardcoded string lengths.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c gv.c op.c perl.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_pack.c
+          ! pp_sys.c regcomp.c sv.c sv.h toke.c universal.c utf8.c util.c
+          ! xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26640] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  12:35:45
+        Log: Removed unused part of string passed to sv_catpvn().
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26639] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/04  12:31:17
+        Log: Updates to various configurations courtesy of Jarkko.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Cross/config.sh-arm-linux NetWare/config.wc epoc/config.sh
+          ! plan9/config_sh.sample symbian/config.sh uconfig.sh
+          ! wince/config.ce
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26638] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/04  12:19:49
+        Log: Don't warn about invalid dirhandles in DirHandle::DESTROY().
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/DirHandle.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26637] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/04  11:10:36
+        Log: Make Borland and MinGW happy with change 26379
+             
+             (They both complain "invalid conversion from `void*' to `HWND__*'"
+             otherwise)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/perlhost.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26636] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  10:46:42
+        Log: Fix typo in comment.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! handy.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26635] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  10:44:48
+        Log: Introduce STR_WITH_LEN macro in the form suggested by Chip.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! handy.h toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26634] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/04  10:39:13
+        Log: Workaround Win32 compiler bugs following change 26395
+             
+             Can't understand what VC++ 6 and Borland don't like about it.  There
+             is similar code for SvMAGIC and SvSTASH already in sv.h.  Must be
+             compiler bugs since VC++ 7 and MinGW (and compilers on other platforms)
+             are all happy.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26633] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/04  10:25:42
+        Log: Silence compiler warning; ref change 26598
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26632] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/04  03:43:20
+        Log: Added snprintf() and vsnprintf() to configure.com as 'undef'. 
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26631] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/04  03:31:08
+        Log: Add warnings for the various other *dir() functions when attempted
+             on invalid dirhandles.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26630] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/04  02:47:39
+        Log: Add snprintf() and vsnprintf() to the various Win32 configuration 
+             files.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config.vc64 win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/config_H.vc64
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26625] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/03  20:03:49
+        Log: Subject: Re: [perl #38034] A combination eval, DESTROY method and $@ - dangerous - bug
+             From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:18:41 +0000 
+             Message-Id: <E1Etrg9-0005XE-LZ@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk> 
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlobj.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26623] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/03  19:38:24
+        Log: If NV_ZERO_IS_ALLBITS_ZERO is not true, then it's important to inialise
+             the NV only if the new body has an NV. (D'oh!)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26617] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/03  18:14:27
+        Log: Attemting to readdir() something that isn't a dirhandle should cause
+             a warning.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26608] By: steveh                                on 2006/01/03  15:57:18
+        Log: Fix release mode builds following change 26598
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26607] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/03  15:56:19
+        Log: perldiag.pod additions to go with change #26602.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26606] By: merijn                                on 2006/01/03  15:46:10
+        Log: Add probe for snprintf () and vsnprintf ()
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] snprintf() and vsnprintf() (was Re: [PATCH] Configure: stdio char (un)signedness)
+             From: Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
+             Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:37:27 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20060102153727.GA14247@mccoy.peters.homeunix.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary config_h.SH handy.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26605] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/03  15:42:19
+        Log: Update perldelta, up to change 25344 more or less.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perl593delta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26602] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/03  14:58:21
+        Log: Bad symbols that are pretending to be dirhandles, should say they 
+             are dirhandles in their error messages.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26601] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/03  14:10:04
+        Log: Sync perlfaq.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq.pod pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq6.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq9.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26598] By: davem                                 on 2006/01/03  12:29:38
+        Log: silence some compiler warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26595] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/03  10:09:39
+        Log: Subject: Re: [patch] optimized constant subs are cool, teach B::Concise about them
+             From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+             Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:06:48 -0700
+             Message-ID: <43B9A3F8.8060609@gmail.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/t/concise-xs.t
+          ! ext/B/t/optree_constants.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26594] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/03  09:33:59
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: [perl #36837] B::Deparse fails when it comes to ByteLoader programs
+             From: Stephen McCamant <smcc@mit.edu>
+             Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:52:24 -0800
+             Message-ID: <17337.59112.502009.496275@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26593] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/03  09:23:24
+        Log: Subject: [patch@26561] utf8.c const issue.
+             From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw@qsl.net>
+             Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:16:02 -0500
+             Message-ID: <43B97BF2.2050201@qsl.net>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26592] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/03  09:02:04
+        Log: Subject: [PAUSE] CPAN Upload: A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.81.tar.gz
+             From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+             Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 00:33:27 +0100
+             Message-ID: <87u0cm433s.fsf@k75.linux.bogus>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26591] By: davem                                 on 2006/01/03  02:20:28
+        Log: ithreads: SVs that were only on the tmps stack leaked
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26589] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  22:52:03
+        Log: The two never used NOTYET switch ops can go.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26587] By: davem                                 on 2006/01/02  21:50:55
+        Log: stop DEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS producing spurious memory pool errors
+             (change #25775 wasn't complete)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26586] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  20:48:30
+        Log: More missing AUTHORS
+     Branch: perl
+          ! AUTHORS Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26581] By: craigb                                on 2006/01/02  19:22:52
+        Log: Subject: patch@26561 & earlier - buffer overrun in VMS.C
+             From: "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw@qsl.net>\r        Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:05:43 -0500\r  Message-id: <43B97987.70201@qsl.net>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26580] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  18:48:13
+        Log: Erk! craigb's changes come out of p4 with ^Ms as line endings.
+             Long term, need to fix the update changes script to cope.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26579] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  18:44:14
+        Log: More missing AUTHORS
+     Branch: perl
+          ! AUTHORS Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26578] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  17:04:55
+        Log: Fix up missing and duplicate AUTHORS
+     Branch: perl
+          ! AUTHORS Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26576] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/02  15:54:25
+        Log: Subject: Re: [patch] optimized constant subs are cool, teach B::Concise about them
+             From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+             Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:05:00 -0700
+             Message-ID: <43B8C28C.20502@gmail.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          + ext/B/t/optree_constants.t
+          ! MANIFEST ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/t/concise-xs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26574] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/02  15:19:59
+        Log: Since we no longer autovivify stashes (change #26370), we need
+             to turn off strict-refs on them, or we'll have a stricture
+             error the first time we'd try to access them (when they'll be
+             actually autovivified).
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c t/op/stash.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26573] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/02  14:57:18
+        Log: Documentation fix for File::Temp::new
+             
+             Subject: [perl #38127] Bug in perldoc File::Temp 
+             From: pm@capmon.dk (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
+             Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:48:41 -0800
+             Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-38127-126764.0.578515622359532@perl.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Temp.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26572] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  14:43:37
+        Log: Happy New Year. (It's not just embed.pl).
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README opcode.pl perl.c reentr.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26571] By: stevep                                on 2006/01/02  14:24:58
+        Log: Note that the "unlink"ing directories is attempted when running as a
+             superuser, and that some operating systems may not support it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26570] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  12:19:51
+        Log: Typo fix in the description of change 26370.
+             (Also corrected in the repository)        
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26569] By: davem                                 on 2006/01/02  12:09:37
+        Log: add svt_local slot to magic vtable, and fix local $shared
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/threads/shared/shared.xs mg.c mg.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26565] By: nicholas                              on 2006/01/02  11:48:28
+        Log: Add 2006 to the copyright years in the header generated by embed.pl
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26564] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/02  11:20:25
+        Log: Subject: [patch] comment grammar and indentation, spurious tab
+             From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+             Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:45:55 -0700
+             Message-ID: <43B61B13.3050704@gmail.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26563] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/02  11:04:37
+        Log: Subject: [PAUSE] CPAN Upload: A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-1.80_58.tar.gz
+             From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+             Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:12:46 +0100
+             Message-ID: <87zmmgnwfl.fsf@k75.linux.bogus>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26562] By: rgs                                   on 2006/01/02  10:56:05
+        Log: Update copyrights for files modified in 2006
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c doop.c hv.c mg.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sort.c
+          ! regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c utf8.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26561] By: gisle                                 on 2006/01/01  20:43:00
+        Log: Get rid of length argument for the FEATURE_IS_ENABLED() macro.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26558] By: merijn                                on 2006/01/01  10:42:16
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Making 0 pointers to NULLs
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:05:58 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051231050558.GA29093@petdance.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c doop.c hv.c mg.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sort.c
+          ! regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c utf8.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26556] By: merijn                                on 2006/01/01  10:23:19
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Making 0 pointers to NULLs
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:05:58 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051231050558.GA29093@petdance.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c doop.c hv.c mg.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sort.c
+          ! regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c utf8.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26555] By: davem                                 on 2005/12/31  23:24:26
+        Log: make threads use MY_CXT API rather than using PL_modglobal
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/threads/threads.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26554] By: davem                                 on 2005/12/31  21:36:05
+        Log: tidy index arrangements in new MY_CXT code
+     Branch: perl
+          ! intrpvar.h sv.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26553] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/31  18:45:37
+        Log: Upgrade to CPAN-1.80_57
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/Debug.pm lib/CPAN/HandleConfig.pm
+          ! lib/CPAN/Tarzip.pm lib/CPAN/t/mirroredby.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26552] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/31  17:24:34
+        Log: Turn a for loop that's almost a while into an honest-to-goodness while.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26551] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/31  16:57:32
+        Log: Calling Perl_hv_clear_placeholders while the hash iterator was active
+             would turn lazy delete on, causing the hash to become corrupted at the
+             next iterator change.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c lib/Hash/Util.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26550] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/31  16:42:08
+        Log: Remove unneeded test in Perl_hv_clear_placeholders.
+             Rejig S_hfreeentries to a double loop, which is clearer and smaller.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26549] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/31  15:24:48
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] op/pack.t failure on Win64
+             From: Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>
+             Date: Dec 30, 2005 9:55 PM
+             Message-ID: <017a01c60d83$5dc73110$2217a8c0@candy>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_pack.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26548] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/31  15:07:16
+        Log: Add a test for change 26547. (We no longer expect to see errors about
+             unbalanced string table reference counts.)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/stash.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26547] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/31  14:57:27
+        Log: Re-attempt to clear the hash in S_hfreeentries if anything adds to it.
+             Panic if we seem to be looping forever.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26546] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/31  13:16:06
+        Log: Stop 'sub a { // }; %::=()' panicing because the backreference array
+             became lost.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26545] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  22:44:06
+        Log: Marcus Holland-Moritz suggested that assert should 
+             Perl_croak_nocontext rather than Perl_croak.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26544] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  20:02:56
+        Log: Tweak S_init_main_stash so as allocate PL_curstname as a shared string
+             scalar, and hence avoid thrashing the shared string table for "main".
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26543] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/30  17:47:45
+        Log: Convert t/op/sleep.t to using test.pl
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/sleep.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26542] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  16:53:39
+        Log: Document why it's a bad plan to move the backreferences array from
+             the magic structure to the hv_aux structure during backreference
+             deletion. Add an optimisation for an empty backreference array.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26541] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  15:55:05
+        Log: Now that the backreference array has no NULL entries, and is correctly
+             marked as AvREAL_off(), there's no reason not to use sv_dup to clone
+             it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26540] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  15:39:53
+        Log: POSIX now declares missing constants as sub ... ();, so Net::Ping
+             needs to define them with a prototype to match.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Net/Ping.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26539] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/30  15:10:41
+        Log: Update perltodo. First shot at perl593delta.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perl593delta.pod pod/perltodo.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26538] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  14:57:00
+        Log: In the shared string table, if we add new entries to the head of the
+             linked list chain, then we don't need as much bookkeeping in the loop.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26537] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/30  14:39:49
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Differences from Perl 6
+             From: Robin Houston <robin@cpan.org> 
+             Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:45:34 +0000 
+             Message-ID: <20051230134534.GA18675@rpc142.cs.man.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26536] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/30  12:25:24
+        Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: INSTALLSCRIPT versus INSTALLDIRS
+             From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@mandriva.com>
+             Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:22:32 +0100
+             Message-ID: <20051212192232.39cd0c1e@grubert.mandrakesoft.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Any.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26535] By: davem                                 on 2005/12/30  12:21:05
+        Log: fix errors in new MY_CTX code
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26534] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/30  11:57:14
+        Log: Reduce size of buffers for identifier names, as suggested in
+             
+             Subject: Stack usage (in gv_stashpvn and others)
+             From: Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:40:49 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200512291840.50765@bloodgate.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26533] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/30  11:43:42
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] perlio.c - gv_stashpvn() vs gv_stashpv()
+             From: Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:57:43 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200512291857.59458@bloodgate.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perlio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26532] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/30  10:40:31
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Perl_gv_fetchpv vs. gv_fetchpvn
+             From: Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:32:10 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200512291832.20651@bloodgate.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26531] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/30  09:53:54
+        Log: Skip my_cxt_init if PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT isn't defined
+             (spotted by Jan Dubois)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26530] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/30  01:08:46
+        Log: RMAGIC on symbol tables is bad, m'kay.
+             Allow hashes (and therefore all symbol tables) to store the
+             backreference array in the hv_aux structure, and thereby undo the
+             performance damage of 24966, which resulted in 60% of all hash lookups
+             trying to mg_find tiehash magic.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c embed.fnc embed.h hv.c hv.h mg.c proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26529] By: davem                                 on 2005/12/30  01:06:05
+        Log: change #26523 didn't make my_cxt_init public
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.fnc embed.h global.sym
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26528] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  17:32:21
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] $a = \$a oddity
+             From: Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:01:42 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200512291802.00742@bloodgate.com>
+             
+             plus trim some whitespace
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlreftut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26527] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  15:59:30
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Actual real consting of parms
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:15:09 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051229071509.GA32653@petdance.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.fnc proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26526] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  15:32:42
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] av.c cleanup, plus!
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 15:44:14 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051228214414.GD26033@petdance.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c dump.c embed.fnc gv.c perl.c proto.h sv.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26525] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  14:32:09
+        Log: Fix test for perl version number in Makefile.PL
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26524] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  14:17:38
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Fixing the SVREFCNT macro
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:30:51 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051228193051.GD23207@petdance.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26523] By: davem                                 on 2005/12/29  12:00:29
+        Log: re-implement MY_CXT API more efficiently, and add explicit
+             interpeter arg variant
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.fnc embed.h embedvar.h ext/XS/APItest/APItest.xs
+          ! intrpvar.h perl.h perlapi.h perlvars.h pod/perlxs.pod proto.h
+          ! sv.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26522] By: davem                                 on 2005/12/29  11:35:04
+        Log: add tests for MY_CXT API and improve its documentation
+     Branch: perl
+          + ext/XS/APItest/t/my_cxt.t
+          ! MANIFEST ext/XS/APItest/APItest.pm ext/XS/APItest/APItest.xs
+          ! pod/perlxs.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26521] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  10:21:23
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Test that constant overloading is propagated into eval
+             From: Robin Houston <robin@cpan.org>
+             Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:56:48 +0000
+             Message-ID: <20051226175648.GA28402@rpc142.cs.man.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/overload.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26520] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/29  10:11:56
+        Log: Subject: [DOC PATCH] rindex clarification
+             From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
+             Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:42:40 -0800
+             Message-ID: <20051227024240.GA2940@efn.org>
+             
+             plus another formatting nit
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26519] By: craigb                                on 2005/12/29  03:49:58
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] fortify Pod::Simple::Search against non-case-preserving filesystems\r     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>\r    Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:59:35 -0600\r  Message-id: <43B1D567.9080504@mac.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Simple/Search.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/Simple/t/other_test_lib/squaa/Wowo.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26518] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/29  00:19:01
+        Log: A GVs stash can be NULL, so don't call macros that assume otherwise
+             without checking.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26517] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/28  19:40:26
+        Log: As the backreferences AV doesn't hold references on its contents,
+             surely it should have AvREAL turned off?
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26516] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/28  13:35:03
+        Log: PL_amagic_generation is always non-zero, so remove the test for this.
+             (Since change 17990 added version object overloading)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26515] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/28  13:31:02
+        Log: Upgrade to Sys-Syslog-0.11
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Changes ext/Sys/Syslog/README
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm ext/Sys/Syslog/t/podspell.t
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26514] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/28  13:25:30
+        Log: Cleanup; replace a croak("panic: ...") with assert().
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26513] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/28  13:12:30
+        Log: assert(av);  Cleanup the way that the av_*() functions check
+             that they are really passed an av argument.
+             Should improve the test coverage a bit.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26512] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/28  12:38:03
+        Log: Use memchr() instead of ninstr() to locate the end-of-line.
+             The call to memchr() will faster.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26511] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/28  12:18:58
+        Log: Leaner ninstr().
+             The compiled function ended up 37% smaller on Linux/gcc.
+             I ought to be faster as well, but I did not try to measure that.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26510] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/28  11:01:46
+        Log: Remove test for NUL ending in r?instr().
+             This test is actually harmful because we will search
+             for any garbage found past the empty search string.
+             Ref change 26509.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26509] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/28  10:57:46
+        Log: Fix 2 off-by-one errors in the call to ninstr().
+             This code managed to still work because of a bug
+             in how ninstr() treats empty search strings.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Filter/Util/Call/Call.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26508] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/28  03:27:13
+        Log: Upgrade to PathTools-3.15
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Cwd/Changes lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Spec.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26507] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/27  23:39:42
+        Log: s/%/%%/ in the package name so that it can be used safely in the
+             sprintf format string (and hence not need runtime %s interpolation)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26506] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/27  22:19:28
+        Log: Pass in the full arguments to ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs
+             Prototype all the missing constants, so that parsing doesn't depend on
+             the phase of the moon. (Well, the system headers)
+             Add an option for making missing constants generate errors at read time
+             (which can be during constant folding). This isn't the default.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26505] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/27  22:07:44
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] pre-likely cleanup
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> 
+             Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 14:39:39 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051227203939.GC1781@petdance.com> 
+             
+             Includes a small fix to the changes in tryAMAGICbinW_var() in pp.h.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c doop.c handy.h hv.c mg.c pp.c pp.h sv.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26504] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/27  18:36:19
+        Log: It'd be nice if I hadn't broken corecpan.pl.  Its fixed now, though.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Porting/Maintainers.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26503] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/27  17:33:13
+        Log: gv_fetch_flags in newATTRSUB can actually be const.
+             Comment the logic behind the terms in the ternary that chooses the
+             flags value.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26502] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/27  17:24:11
+        Log: As what we're doing is generating subroutines, which are methods, we
+             need to invalidate cached methods. For constant.pm we need to create
+             &Internals::inc_sub_generation
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm lib/constant.pm universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26501] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/27  14:10:20
+        Log: Subject: [patch] ext/b/t/lint.t fails on win32
+             From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
+             Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 20:06:52 +0100 
+             Message-ID: <9b18b3110512231106k7ad395bfp8a0c05cd0f87fc61@mail.gmail.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/t/lint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26500] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/27  12:02:57
+        Log: Refactor the require failure message generation to use 1 less temporary
+             SV, and to build as much text as possible with newSVpvf
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26499] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/27  00:29:33
+        Log: Removing MAKE_JOBS_FIFO from %ENV causes FreeBSD make to forget about
+             any -j flags. (And their implied disabling of backwards compatibility,
+             which is the real cause of the make disttest failure).
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26498] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  23:52:44
+        Log: tabs, not spaces, in MANIFEST. No, I can't remember why this is.
+             Or whether it could be relaxed.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! MANIFEST
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26497] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  23:50:14
+        Log: Remove the hard wired test numbers in the generated test script for
+             simple tests. Use this script twice, firstly for testing the old style
+             autoloaded constants, then for testing the ProxySubs.
+             Make testing the dogfood/regeneration code optional, as the ProxySubs
+             output doesn't contain it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26496] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  23:48:00
+        Log: Support type UNDEF, and correct a bug in the macro generation by using
+             macro_from_item.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26495] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  23:47:01
+        Log: Add method macro_from_item to encapsulate the entire logic for getting
+             the correct macro direct from the item hash.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/Base.pm lib/ExtUtils/Constant/XS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26494] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  23:10:53
+        Log: Don't try to store PL_sv_undef in pads. (For now)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26493] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/26  22:01:49
+        Log: Upgrade to CPAN-1.80_56
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/CPAN/Debug.pm lib/CPAN/HandleConfig.pm lib/CPAN/Tarzip.pm
+          ! MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/SIGNATURE
+          ! lib/CPAN/bin/cpan
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26492] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/26  17:29:13
+        Log: In this, the last tale of the NGROUPS saga, a former pumpking prods
+             a mere committer to remove the last of the NGROUPS-sized arrays...
+             
+             Perl_magic_set() was using the last of these arrays to do the 
+             lvalue work on $).  Instead of an array, a pointer is used and 
+             re-sized as needed.  
+     Branch: perl
+          ! mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26491] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  17:01:35
+        Log: Add a couple of newlines for tidier regen output, consistent with the
+             code generated by WriteConstants()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/XS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26490] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  16:13:57
+        Log: Add C_FH and XS_FH arguments to ExtUtils::Constant::WriteConstants,
+             to allow the caller to pass in file handles. Use this in Contant.t
+             with tied file handles to capture the output, rather than calling
+             the lower level routines directly.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26489] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/26  16:08:49
+        Log: Subject: chg 26486 removes last use of NGROUPS, so remove the macro-def
+             From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+             Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:57:51 -0700
+             Message-ID: <43B004EF.8060500@gmail.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26488] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  12:48:10
+        Log: The values for proxy constant subroutines need to be read only.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26487] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/26  12:31:01
+        Log: Rework constant.pm to take advantage of the space savings of proxy
+             constant subroutines whenever it can.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/constant.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26486] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/26  03:51:24
+        Log: Obviously, Perl_ingroup() is also using 256k of stack memory on Linux.
+             Adapt change #26480 to reduce memory usage here as well.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26485] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/24  16:27:28
+        Log: The value from caller doesn't change, so my $pkg = caller;
+             should be moved out of the loop.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/constant.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26484] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/24  16:06:10
+        Log: Tests for creating constants where prototypes or other symbols of the
+             same name already exist.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/constant.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26483] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/24  15:09:28
+        Log: Using a hash reference rather than a hash can save a hash copy.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/constant.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26482] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/24  14:48:42
+        Log: Unless the peephole optimiser already knows that we're in void context,
+             avoid even attempting the whole proxy constant sub copying
+             optimisation.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26481] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/24  14:09:56
+        Log: Given that IO::Socket is documented as exporting all of Socket's
+             exports, there's no need for IO::Socket::INET or IO::Socket::UNIX to
+             use both. (And re-exporting removes some of the efficiency of the new
+             constants implementation)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/UNIX.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26480] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/24  03:30:02
+        Log: Subject: Re: [perl #37907] Perl_magic_get reqires ridiculous amounts of stackmemory
+             From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
+             Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:24:29 -0700
+             Message-ID: <43AC5CFD.3060200@gmail.com>
+             
+             Includes a change in variable names from "j" to "num_groups".
+     Branch: perl
+          ! mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26479] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/24  00:01:50
+        Log: Looks like the macro CLK_TCK is not actually a constant on Solaris.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26478] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  17:30:19
+        Log: For PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL with PERL_POISON, Poison the end of any block
+             being shrunk in realloc()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26477] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  17:24:44
+        Log: For the rare case of EMFILE during require, save object code space
+             by using newSVpvf
+             (Would it be worth using it for all require failures?)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26476] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  16:55:35
+        Log: If PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL and PERL_POISON are in use, then scribble all
+             over memory to invalidate it just before free()ing it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26475] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  16:20:53
+        Log: Provide support for types PVN and UNDEF in
+             ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26474] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  15:27:10
+        Log: Create a struct to use as the header with PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL, so that
+             other information can be stored in it.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26473] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  13:54:37
+        Log: ExtUtils::ParseXS needs to stack $filepathname to make #line directives
+             in #INCLUDEs work.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26472] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  12:21:19
+        Log: Add support for PV to ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs, and enable its
+             use in Sys::Syslog
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26471] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  12:01:29
+        Log: inlining autoloaded constants is TODOne.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perltodo.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26470] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  11:36:43
+        Log: Now that proxy subroutines can be unproxied in 2 places without
+             becoming the same newCONSTSUB, need an explicit check to avoid a
+             warning about subroutines being redefined, as there has never been
+             a warning when you assing the same subroutine to a glob's GvCV()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c t/op/gv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26469] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  11:35:21
+        Log: like and unlike weren't reporting failure where correctly in test.pl
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/test.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26468] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/23  11:06:34
+        Log: Fix build of Compress::Zlib on MVS (by Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Compress/Zlib/zlib-src/zconf.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26467] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/23  10:13:30
+        Log: Clarify example of .. in perlop
+             to fix [perl #38008] Documentation bug: perlop
+             plus some minor formatting nits
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26466] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/23  09:21:09
+        Log: Subject: [REPATCH lib/UNIVERSAL.pm] Recommend Against Using Methods as Functions
+             From: chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>
+             Date: Dec 22, 2005 8:58 PM
+             Message-Id: <200512221158.54474.chromatic@wgz.org>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26465] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  01:38:01
+        Log: Need to be more careful with the symbol table manipulation - if there
+             is already an entry in place, back off and generate a real constant
+             subroutine. (fixes lib/Net/hostent.t failure)
+             Fix a bug with how hv_store was being called.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26464] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  01:09:05
+        Log: SIGRTMAX, SIGRTMIN, LDBL_MAX, LDBL_MIN, LDBL_EPSILON and HUGE_VAL
+             aren't constants on (at least some) Linux.
+             And more evil than that, HUGE_VAL likes to use the C preprocessor
+             in its value, necessitating use of a temporary.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26463] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  00:37:04
+        Log: Use inlineable proxy constant subs for Socket
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Socket/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26462] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/23  00:28:54
+        Log: ctime_r() and asctime_r() seem to have some problems before HP-UX 11.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26461] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  00:27:50
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Speed up Perl_sv_derived_from
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Message-ID: <20051222220044.GH4370@petdance.com>
+             Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:00:44 -0600
+     Branch: perl
+          ! universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26460] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  00:18:49
+        Log: Create a sub LC_ALL with the correct prototype.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/locale.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26459] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  00:18:27
+        Log: De-duplicate the items in @EXPORT. (@EXPORT is built from all the tags,
+             and some constants are mentioned in multiple tags).
+             Should this logic be in Exporter::Heavy?
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26458] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/23  00:10:25
+        Log: Make hostname.t deal with undefined or blank hostnames and domain 
+             names.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Net/t/hostname.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26457] By: stevep                                on 2005/12/23  00:06:58
+        Log: Fix for pod2man() in ExtUtils::Command::MM to work with 
+             the Pod::Man 2.04.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26456] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/23  00:06:52
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Speedup (rn|n)?instr
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Message-ID: <20051222223839.GI4370@petdance.com>
+             Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:38:39 -0600
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26455] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  23:57:27
+        Log: Use inlineable proxy constant subs for POSIX.
+             There may be trouble ahead, as it seems that not all POSIX "constants"
+             are. I wonder if too many systems are going to have too many
+             variations to make this viable.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Constant/Base.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26454] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  23:43:22
+        Log: Missing ; in Tie::File
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Tie/File.pm lib/Tie/File/t/00_version.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26453] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  21:02:19
+        Log: Make ExtUtils::Constant generate the inlineable proxy constant subs.
+             So far just enough to make Fcntl work.
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
+          ! MANIFEST ext/Fcntl/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26452] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/22  19:37:42
+        Log: Compilation help for EBCDIC platforms, from Jarkko,
+             tested by Rajarshi Das
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26451] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  19:00:52
+        Log: Break out the code to generate #ifdef/#endif into new methods
+             macro_to_ifdef and macro_to_endif
+             Add an args hashref to normalise_items; provide a
+             disable_utf8_duplication argument to disable the utf8 duplication code.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/Base.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26450] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/22  17:09:59
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] Ho! Ho! Ho!  Santa brings consting!
+             From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
+             Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:57:17 -0600
+             Message-ID: <20051222165717.GA2874@petdance.com>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c embed.fnc embed.h gv.c hv.c op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+          ! pp_sys.c proto.h regcomp.c sv.c toke.c universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26449] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  17:01:33
+        Log: Break out the item normalisation code into a method normalise_items.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Constant/Base.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26448] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  15:43:20
+        Log: Regression tests for proxy subroutine glob assignment.
+             Fix a bug (it turns out that a typeglob isn't SvOK())
+             Remove stray debugging code.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c t/op/gv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26447] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/22  14:55:52
+        Log: Subject: [PATCH] eliminate HINT_HH_FOR_EVAL
+             From: Robin Houston <robin@cpan.org>
+             Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:54:55 +0000
+             Message-ID: <20051222115455.GB30301@rpc142.cs.man.ac.uk>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/feature.pm lib/overload.pm lib/sort.pm op.c perl.h
+          ! t/comp/hints.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26446] By: nicholas                              on 2005/12/22  11:23:34
+        Log: Add an optimisation to allow proxy constant subroutines to be copied
+             as proxy constant subroutines in a new symbol table where possible.
+             (Rather than converting them to full blown constant subroutines and
+             instantiating 2 typeglobs)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/t/concise-xs.t gv.c gv.h op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 26445] By: rgs                                   on 2005/12/22  11:13:25
+        Log: Regenerate Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [ 26444] By: gisle                                 on 2005/12/22  10:42:36
         Log: Remove unused variable 'stash' since change 26437.
      Branch: perl