----------------
____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4324] By: gsar on 1999/10/09 19:43:10
+ Log: fix Exporter::export_to_level() documentation
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Exporter.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4323] By: gsar on 1999/10/09 18:48:31
+ Log: don't run END blocks when running under -c switch (older,
+ rarely useful, behavior may still be obtained by putting
+ BEGIN { $^C = 0; exit; } at the end of the script)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4322] By: jhi on 1999/10/09 05:31:26
+ Log: While awaiting a good test program to detect the broken gcc.
+ From: Thomas Conté <tom@fr.uu.net>
+ To: <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Cc: <perl5-porters@perl.org>
+ Subject: Re: [ID 19990825.007] test t/lib/ipc_sysv.t failing under irix 6.4
+ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 19:56:29 +0200
+ Message-ID: <000a01bf1024$1d938f20$252ad0d4@eng.iway.fr>
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! hints/irix_6.sh perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4321] By: gsar on 1999/10/09 00:41:02
+ Log: POPSUB() gave up the refcount to the CV before LEAVE had a chance to
+ clear entries in the CV's pad, leading to coredumps when CV had no
+ other references to it; this is a slightly edited version of the
+ patch suggested by Russel O'Connor <roconnor@world.std.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4320] By: gsar on 1999/10/08 22:50:51
+ Log: revert POP{SUB,LOOP}{1,2} logic to the simpler pre-5.003_24
+ situation (assumptions about cx invalidation are not valid
+ anymore)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4319] By: jhi on 1999/10/08 14:33:31
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ !> cop.h ext/Thread/Thread.xs op.c opcode.h perl.c perl.h perly.c
+ !> perly.y pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c
+ !> t/comp/bproto.t thrdvar.h toke.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4318] By: jhi on 1999/10/08 13:51:34
+ Log: The second cut at AIX C++ extension troubles.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs ext/DynaLoader/hints/aix.pl
+ ! hints/aix.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4317] By: jhi on 1999/10/08 10:44:13
+ Log: The first cut at fixing Perl extensions written in C++ in AIX,
+ statics don't get initialized right. This patch at least
+ doesn't seem to break the build in my AIX, but unfortunately
+ I don't have the IBM C++ to do further testing.
+
+ Problem reported by Stephanie Beals in
+ From: bealzy@us.ibm.com
+ To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+ Subject: [ID 19991007.005] DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs problem using load and unload on AIX
+ Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:05:54 -0400
+ Message-Id: <85256803.0068E70D.00@D51MTA03.pok.ibm.com>
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ + ext/DynaLoader/hints/aix.pl
+ ! MANIFEST ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs hints/aix.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4316] By: gsar on 1999/10/08 10:26:15
+ Log: remove kludgey duplicate background error avoidance (caused
+ "leaks"; %@ wasn't even user-visible under -Dusethreads);
+ only repeats of most recent error are now avoided
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/Thread/Thread.xs perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c thrdvar.h util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4315] By: jhi on 1999/10/08 09:48:59
+ Log: Fix omission.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4314] By: gsar on 1999/10/08 07:17:01
+ Log: extend change#2299 to C<use> (fixes scoping problems in
+ C<if (...) { use foo; ... }>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4313] By: gsar on 1999/10/08 04:52:19
+ Log: small tweak for change#4309
+ Branch: perl
+ ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4312] By: gsar on 1999/10/08 02:31:13
+ Log: add suggested patch =~ s/NOTOP/OP_NOT/ with tests
+ From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
+ Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
+ Message-Id: <199910061655.JAA11333@kiev.wall.org>
+ Subject: Re: [ID 19991001.004] apparent parsing error with not(arg)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! opcode.h t/comp/bproto.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4311] By: gsar on 1999/10/08 00:58:19
+ Log: typo
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4310] By: gsar on 1999/10/07 23:51:38
+ Log: fix setpgrp vs getpgrp and POSIX vs BSD confusion (spotted by
+ Brian Mitchell <brian@chele.cais.net>)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4309] By: gsar on 1999/10/07 22:57:52
+ Log: change#3728 was flawed (loop contexts saw the wrong statement
+ info, causing loop control constructs to not find the label);
+ disable OP_SETSTATE entirely and add a fix that is specifically
+ targetted at disabling the OP_LINESEQ optimization in else BLOCK,
+ which was what the original patch was supposed to fix
+
+ TODO: remove the remainder of the setstate logic if it can't
+ be used anywhere else (it isn't used anywhere now)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! cop.h op.c perly.c perly.y
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4308] By: jhi on 1999/10/07 19:21:27
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ !> lib/Pod/Man.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2man.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4307] By: gsar on 1999/10/07 15:12:24
+ Log: update to podlators-0.08 from Russ Allbery
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/Pod/Man.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2man.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4306] By: jhi on 1999/10/06 17:20:34
+ Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+ Branch: cfgperl
+ !> (integrate 45 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4305] By: gsar on 1999/10/06 16:55:45
+ Log: some versions of mingw32 have __int64, define iff it isn't
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 4304] By: gsar on 1999/10/06 03:45:44
+ Log: fix typos in change#4288
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes dump.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
[ 4303] By: gsar on 1999/10/06 03:22:46
Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
Branch: perl
+ t/lib/gol-basic.t t/lib/gol-compat.t t/lib/gol-linkage.t
! Changes MANIFEST lib/Getopt/Long.pm
____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 4117] By: jhi on 1999/09/09 18:24:30
- Log: Remove ill-designed %B introduced by change #4111.
- Branch: cfgperl
- ! sv.c t/op/sprintf.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
[ 4116] By: jhi on 1999/09/09 15:56:52
Log: perldeltify change #4115.
Branch: cfgperl
Branch: cfgperl
! regexec.c t/op/pat.t
____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 4111] By: jhi on 1999/09/09 07:50:07
- Log: %#b in particular and %B in general were kaputt.
- Branch: cfgperl
- ! sv.c t/op/sprintf.t
-____________________________________________________________________________
[ 4110] By: jhi on 1999/09/09 07:29:17
Log: Tidy up 64-bit situation in perldelta.
Branch: cfgperl
Branch: perl
! win32/win32.c
____________________________________________________________________________
-[ 3315] By: nick on 1999/05/06 21:44:38
- Log: open(FH,undef) # creates new_tmpfile opened read/write
- Add t/io/open.t with test for above.
- Branch: perl
- + t/io/open.t
- ! pp_sys.c
-____________________________________________________________________________
[ 3314] By: gsar on 1999/05/06 08:01:23
Log: compiler fixes from Vishal Bhatia <vishalb@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 23:40:34 PST
=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_61)
+perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_62)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head2 Perl Source Incompatibilities
-TODO
+Beware that any new warnings that have been added are B<not> considered
+incompatible changes.
+
+Since all new warnings must be explicitly requested via the C<-w>
+switch or the C<warnings> pragma, it is ultimately the programmer's
+responsibility to ensure that warnings are enabled judiciously.
=over 4
Perl programs that depend on reproducing a specific set of pseudo-random
numbers will now likely produce different output.
+=item Hashing function for hash keys has changed
+
+Perl hashes are not order preserving. The apparently random order
+encountered when iterating on the contents of a hash is determined
+by the hashing algorithm used. To improve the distribution of lower
+bits in the hashed value, the algorithm has changed slightly as of
+5.005_52. When iterating over hashes, this may yield a random order
+that is B<different> from that of previous versions.
+
+=item C<undef> fails on read only values
+
+Using the C<undef> operator on a readonly value (such as $1) has
+the same effect as assigning C<undef> to the readonly value--it
+throws an exception.
+
+=item Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe() handles
+
+On systems that support a close-on-exec flag on filehandles, the
+flag will be set for any handles created by pipe(), if that is
+warranted by the value of $^F that may be in effect. Earlier
+versions neglected to set the flag for handles created with
+pipe(). See L<perlfunc/pipe> and L<perlvar/$^F>.
+
+=item Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported
+
+Perl 5.004 deprecated the interpretation of C<$$1> and
+similar within interpolated strings to mean C<$$ . "1">,
+but still allowed it.
+
+In Perl 5.6 and later, C<"$$1"> always means C<"${$1}">.
+
+=item values(%h) and C<\(%h)> operate on aliases to values, not copies
+
+each(), values() and hashes in a list context return the actual
+values in the hash, instead of copies (as they used to in earlier
+versions). Typical idioms for using these constructs copy the
+returned values, but this is can make a significant difference when
+creating references to the returned values.
+
+Keys in the hash are still returned as copies when iterating on
+on a hash.
+
+=item vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS
+
+vec() generates a run-time error if the BITS arguments is not
+a valid power-of-two integer.
+
+=item Text of some diagnostic output has changed
+
+Most references to internal Perl operations in diagnostics
+have been changed to be more descriptive. This may be an
+issue for programs that may incorrectly rely on the exact
+text of diagnostics for proper functioning.
+
+=item C<%@> has been removed
+
+The undocumented special variable C<%@> that used to accumulate
+"background" errors (such as those that happen in DESTROY())
+has been removed, because it could potentially result in memory
+leaks.
+
=back
=head2 C Source Incompatibilities
included (as required before), so there is no source incompatibility
from the change.
+=item Support for C++ exceptions
+
+change#3386, also needs perlguts documentation
+[TODO - Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>]
+
=back
=head2 Binary Incompatibilities
The usethreads or usemultiplicity builds are B<not> binary compatible
with the corresponding builds in 5.005.
+=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+=head2 New Configure flags
+
+The following new flags may be enabled on the Configure command line
+by running Configure with C<-Dflag>.
+
+ usemultiplicity
+ usemorebits
+ uselargefiles
+ [what others?]
+
+[TODO - Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]
+
+=head2 installusrbinperl
+
+You can use "Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl" which causes installperl
+to skip installing perl also as /usr/bin/perl. This is useful if you
+prefer not to modify /usr/bin for some reason or another but harmful
+because many scripts assume to find Perl in /usr/bin/perl.
+
+=head2 SOCKS support
+
+You can use "Configure -Dusesocks" which causes Perl to probe
+for the SOCKS proxy protocol library, http://www.socks.nec.com/
+
+=head2 C<-A> flag
+
+You can "post-edit" the Configure variables using the Configure C<-A>
+flag. The editing happens immediately after the platform specific
+hints files have been processed but before the actual configuration
+process starts. Run C<Configure -h> to find out the full C<-A> syntax.
+
=head1 Core Changes
=head2 Unicode and UTF-8 support
Perl can optionally use UTF-8 as its internal representation for character
-strings. The C<use utf8> pragma enables this support in the current lexical
+strings. The C<utf8> pragma enables this support in the current lexical
scope. See L<utf8> for more information.
=head2 Lexically scoped warning categories
level using the C<use warnings> pragma. See L<warnings> and L<perllexwarn>
for details.
+=head2 Lvalue subroutines
+
+WARNING: This is an experimental feature.
+
+change#4081
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>,
+Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>)]
+
+=head2 "our" declarations
+
+An "our" declaration introduces a value that can be best understood
+as a lexically scoped symbolic alias to a global variable in the
+current package. This is mostly useful as an alternative to the
+C<vars> pragma, but also provides the opportunity to introduce
+typing and other attributes for such variables. See L<perlfunc/our>.
+
+=head2 Weak references
+
+WARNING: This is an experimental feature.
+
+change#3385, also need perlguts documentation
+
+[TODO - Tuomas Lukka <lukka@fas.harvard.edu>]
+
=head2 Binary numbers supported
Binary numbers are now supported as literals, in s?printf formats, and
$answer = 0b101010;
printf "The answer is: %b\n", oct("0b101010");
+=head2 Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
+
+Perl now allows the arrow to be omitted in many constructs
+involving subroutine calls through references. For example,
+C<$foo[10]->('foo')> may now be written C<$foo[10]('foo')>.
+This is rather similar to how the arrow may be omitted from
+C<$foo[10]->{'foo'}>. Note however, that the arrow is still
+required for C<foo(10)->('bar')>.
+
=head2 syswrite() ease-of-use
-The length argument of C<syswrite()> is now optional.
+The length argument of C<syswrite()> has become optional.
+
+=head2 Filehandles can be autovivified
+
+The construct C<open(my $fh, ...)> can be used to create filehandles
+more easily. The filehandle will be automatically closed at the end
+of the scope of $fh, provided there are no other references to it. This
+largely eliminates the need for typeglobs when opening filehandles
+that must be passed around, as in the following example:
+
+ sub myopen {
+ open my $fh, "@_"
+ or die "Can't open '@_': $!";
+ return $fh;
+ }
+
+ {
+ my $f = myopen("</etc/motd");
+ print <$f>;
+ # $f implicitly closed here
+ }
+
+[TODO - this idiom needs more pod penetration]
=head2 64-bit support
=over 4
-=item constants (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, binary) in the code
+=item *
+
+constants (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, binary) in the code
+
+=item *
-=item arguments to oct() and hex()
+arguments to oct() and hex()
-=item arguments to print(), printf() and sprintf() (flag prefixes ll, L, q)
+=item *
+
+arguments to print(), printf() and sprintf() (flag prefixes ll, L, q)
+
+=item *
-=item printed as such
+printed as such
-=item pack() and unpack() "q" and "Q" formats
+=item *
+
+pack() and unpack() "q" and "Q" formats
+
+=item *
+
+in basic arithmetics: + - * / %
+
+=item *
-=item in basic arithmetics: + - * / %
+vec() (but see the below note about bit arithmetics)
-=item vec() (but see the below note about bit arithmetics)
-
=back
Note that unless you have the case (a) you will have to configure
=head2 pack() and unpack() support counted strings
-The template character '#' can be used to specify a counted string
+The template character '/' can be used to specify a counted string
type to be packed or unpacked. See L<perlfunc/"pack">.
+=head2 Comments in pack() templates
+
+The '#' character in a template introduces a comment up to
+end of the line. This facilitates documentation of pack()
+templates.
+
=head2 $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
Formerly, $^X was synonymous with ${"\cX"}, but $^XY was a syntax
F<AutoSplit.pm> and F<SelfLoader.pm> have been updated to keep the attributes
with the stubs they provide. See L<attributes>.
+=head2 Regular expression improvements
+
+change#2827,2373,2372,2365,1813,1800,4112,4158,4215,4301
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 Overloading improvements
+
+change#2150
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 open() with more than two arguments
+
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 Support for interpolating named characters
+
+change#4052
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 Experimental support form user-hooks in @INC
+
+[TODO - Ken Fox <kfox@ford.com>]
+
+=head2 C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
+
+C<require> and C<do 'file'> operations may be overridden locally
+by importing subroutines of the same name into the current package
+(or globally by importing them into the CORE::GLOBAL:: namespace).
+Overriding C<require> will also affect C<use>, provided the override
+is visible at compile-time.
+See L<perlsub/"Overriding Built-in Functions">.
+
+=head2 New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
+
+C<$^C> contains a boolean that reflects whether perl is being run
+in compile-only mode (i.e. via the C<-c> switch). Since
+BEGIN blocks are executed under such conditions, this variable
+enables perl code to determine whether actions that make sense
+only during normal running are warranted. See L<perlvar>.
+
+=head2 Optional Y2K warnings
+
+If Perl is built with the cpp macro C<PERL_Y2KWARN> defined,
+it emits optional warnings when concatenating the number 19
+with another number.
+
+This behavior must be specifically enabled when running Configure.
+See L<INSTALL> and L<README.Y2K>.
+
=head1 Significant bug fixes
=head2 E<lt>HANDLEE<gt> on empty files
the replacement expression in C<eval 's/.../.../e'>. This has
been fixed.
+=head2 All compilation errors are true errors
+
+Some "errors" encountered at compile time were by neccessity
+generated as warnings followed by eventual termination of the
+program. This enabled more such errors to be reported in a
+single run, rather than causing a hard stop at the first error
+that was encountered.
+
+The mechanism for reporting such errors has been reimplemented
+to queue compile-time errors and report them at the end of the
+compilation as true errors rather than as warnings. This fixes
+error messages that used to leak through as warnings when code
+was compiled at run time using C<eval STRING>, and allows such
+errors to be reliably trapped using __DIE__ hooks.
+
=head2 Automatic flushing of output buffers
fork(), exec(), system(), qx//, and pipe open()s now flush buffers
were opened only for writing will now produce warnings (just as
writing to read-only filehandles does).
-=head2 Buffered data discarded from input filehandle when dup'ed.
+=head2 Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
+
+C<open(NEW, "E<lt>&OLD")> now attempts to discard any data that
+was previously read and buffered in C<OLD> before duping the handle.
+On platforms where doing this is allowed, the next read operation
+on C<NEW> will return the same data as the corresponding operation
+on C<OLD>. Formerly, it would have returned the data from the start
+of the following disk block instead.
+
+=head2 system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
+
+On Unix and similar platforms, system(), qx() and open(FOO, "cmd |")
+etc., are implemented via fork() and exec(). When the underlying
+exec() fails, earlier versions did not report the error properly,
+since the exec() happened to be in a different process.
+
+The child process now communicates with the parent about the
+error in launching the external command, which allow these
+constructs to return with their usual error value and set $!.
+
+=head2 Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
+
+Sometimes implicitly closed filehandles (as when they are localized,
+and Perl automatically closes them on exiting the scope) could
+inadvertently set $? or $!. This has been corrected.
+
+=head2 C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
+
+An scalar reference prototype now correctly allows a hash or
+array element in that slot.
+
+=head2 Pseudo-hashes work better
+
+Dereferencing some types of reference values in a pseudo-hash,
+such as C<$ph->{foo}[1]>, was accidentally disallowed. This has
+been corrected.
+
+When applied to a pseudo-hash element, exists() now reports whether
+the specified value exists, not merely if the key is valid.
+
+=head2 C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
+
+C<goto &sub> construct works correctly when C<&sub> happens
+to be autoloaded.
+
+=head2 C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
+
+The autoquoting of barewords preceded by C<-> did not work
+in prior versions when the C<integer> pragma was enabled.
+This has been fixed.
+
+=head2 Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
+
+Constructs such as C<($a ||= 2) += 1> are now allowed.
+
+=head2 C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
+
+sort() did not accept a subroutine reference as the comparison
+function in earlier versions. This has been fixed.
+
+=head2 Failures in DESTROY()
+
+When code in a destructor threw an exception, it went unnoticed
+in earlier versions of Perl, unless someone happened to be
+looking in $@ just after the point the destructor happened to
+run. Such failures are now visible as warnings when warnings are
+enabled.
+
+=head2 Locale bugs fixed
-C<open(NEW, "E<lt>&OLD")> now discards any data that was previously
-read and buffered in C<OLD>. The next read operation on C<NEW> will
-return the same data as the corresponding operation on C<OLD>.
-Formerly, it would have returned the data from the start of the
-following disk block instead.
+change#3542
+[TODO - Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>]
-=head1 Supported Platforms
+=head2 Memory leaks
+
+The C<eval 'return sub {...}'> construct could sometimes leak
+memory. This has been fixed.
+
+Operations that aren't filehandle constructors used to leak memory
+when used on invalid filehandles. This has been fixed.
+
+Constructs that modified C<@_> could fail to deallocate values
+in C<@_> and thus leak memory. This has been corrected.
+
+=head2 Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
+
+Perl could sometimes create empty subroutine stubs when a
+subroutine was not found in the package. Such cases stopped
+later method lookups from progressing into base packages.
+This has been corrected.
+
+=head2 Consistent numeric conversions
+
+change#3378,3318
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 Taint failures under C<-U>
+
+When running in unsafe mode, taint violations could sometimes
+cause silent failures. This has been fixed.
+
+=head2 END blocks and the C<-c> switch
+
+Prior versions used to run BEGIN B<and> END blocks when Perl was
+run in compile-only mode. Since this is typically not the expected
+behavior, END blocks are not executed when the C<-c> switch
+is used.
+
+Note that something resembling the previous behavior can still be
+obtained by putting C<BEGIN { $^C = 0; exit; } at the very end of
+the top level source file.
+
+=head2 Potential to leak DATA filehandles
+
+Using the C<__DATA__> token creates an implicit filehandle to
+the file that contains the token. It is the program's
+responsibility to close it when it is done reading from it.
+
+This caveat is now better explained in the documentation.
+See L<perldata>.
+
+=head2 Diagnostics follow STDERR
+
+Diagnostic output now goes to whichever file the C<STDERR> handle
+is pointing at, instead of always going to the underlying C runtime
+library's C<stderr>.
+
+=head2 Other fixes for better diagnostics
+
+Line numbers are suppressed no more (under most likely circumstances)
+during the global destruction phase.
+
+Diagnostics emitted from code running in threads other than the main
+thread are now accompanied by the thread ID.
+
+Embedded null characters in diagnostics now actually show up. They
+used to truncate the message in prior versions.
+
+$foo::a and $foo::b are now exempt from "possible typo" warnings only
+if sort() is encountered in package foo.
+
+Unrecognized alphabetic escapes encountered when parsing quoting
+constructs now generate a warning, since they may take on new
+semantics in later versions of Perl.
+
+=head1 Performance enhancements
+
+=head2 Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
+
+Many common sort() opertions using a simple inlined block are now
+optimized for faster performance.
+
+=head2 Optimized assignments to lexical variables
+
+Certain operations in the RHS of assignment statements have been
+optimized to directly set the lexical variable on the LHS,
+eliminating redundant copying overheads.
+
+=head2 Method lookups optimized
+
+[TODO - Chip Salzenberg <chip@perlsupport.com>]
+
+=head2 Faster mechanism to invoke XSUBs
+
+change#4044,4125
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 Perl_malloc() improvements
+
+change#4237
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 Faster subroutine calls
+
+Minor changes in how subroutine calls are handled internally
+provide marginal improvements in performance.
+
+=head1 Platform specific changes
+
+=head2 Additional supported platforms
=over 4
=back
+=head2 DOS
+
+[TODO - Laszlo Molnar <laszlo.molnar@eth.ericsson.se>]
+
+=head2 OS/2
+
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=head2 VMS
+
+[TODO - Charles Bailey <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>]
+
+=head2 Win32
+
+Site library searches failed to look for ".../site/5.XXX/lib"
+if ".../site/5.XXXYY/lib" wasn't found. This has been corrected.
+
+When given a pathname that consists only of a drivename, such
+as C<A:>, opendir() and stat() now use the current working
+directory for the drive rather than the drive root.
+
+The builtin XSUB functions in the Win32:: namespace are
+documented. See L<Win32>.
+
+$^X now contains the full path name of the running executable.
+
+A Win32::GetLongPathName() function is provided to complement
+Win32::GetFullPathName() and Win32::GetShortPathName(). See L<Win32>.
+
+POSIX::uname() is supported.
+
+system(1,...) now returns true process IDs rather than process
+handles. kill() accepts any real process id, rather than strictly
+return values from system(1,...).
+
+The C<Shell> module is supported.
+
+[TODO - GSAR]
+
=head1 New tests
=over 4
provides a way to fetch subroutine and variable attributes.
See L<attributes>.
+=item B
+
+[TODO - Vishal Bhatia <vishal@gol.com>,
+Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>]
+
=item ByteLoader
-The ByteLoader is a dedication extension to generate and run
+The ByteLoader is a dedicated extension to generate and run
Perl bytecode. See L<ByteLoader>.
=item B
The Perl Compiler suite has been extensively reworked for this
release.
+=item constant
+
+References can now be used. See L<constant>.
+
+=item charnames
+
+change#4052
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
+=item Data::Dumper
+
+A C<Maxdepth> setting can be specified to avoid venturing
+too deeply into data structures that may be very deep.
+See L<Data::Dumper>.
+
+Dumping C<qr//> objects works correctly.
+
+=item DB
+
+C<DB> is an experimental module that exposes a clean abstraction
+to Perl's debugging API.
+
+=item DB_File
+
+[TODO - Paul Marquess <paul.marquess@bt.com>]
+
=item Devel::DProf
-Devel::DProf, a Perl source code profiler has been added.
+Devel::DProf, a Perl source code profiler has been added. See L<DProf>.
=item Dumpvalue
New features: "each for at least N CPU seconds...", "wallclock secs",
and the "@ operations/CPU second (n=operations)".
+change#4265,4266,4292
+[TODO - Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>]
+
=item Devel::Peek
The Devel::Peek module provides access to the internal representation
of Perl variables and data. It is a data debugging tool for the XS programmer.
+=item ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+change#4135, also needs docs in module pod
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
+
=item Fcntl
More Fcntl constants added: F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW64, O_LARGEFILE for
locking behaviour flags F_FLOCK, F_POSIX, Linux F_SHLCK, and
O_ACCMODE: the mask of O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR.
+=item File::Compare
+
+A compare_text() function has been added, which allows custom
+comparison functions. See L<File::Compare>.
+
+=item File::Find
+
+File::Find now works correctly when the wanted() function is either
+autoloaded or is a symbolic reference.
+
+A bug that cause File::Find to lose track of the working directory
+when pruning top-level directories has been fixed.
+
=item File::Spec
New methods have been added to the File::Spec module: devnull() returns
$fullname = File::Spec->catfile($dir1, $dir2, $file);
+=item Getopt::Long
+
+[TODO - Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>]
+
+=item IO
+
+write() and syswrite() will now accept a single-argument
+form of the call, for consistency with Perl's syswrite().
+
+You can now create a TCP-based IO::Socket::INET without forcing
+a connect attempt. This allows you to configure its options
+(like making it non-blocking) and then call connect() manually.
+
+A bug that prevented the IO::Socket::protocol() accessor
+from ever returning the correct value has been corrected.
+
+=item JPL
+
+Java Perl Lingo is now distributed with Perl. See jpl/README
+for more information.
+
=item Math::BigInt
The logical operations C<E<lt>E<lt>>, C<E<gt>E<gt>>, C<&>, C<|>,
A little bit of radial trigonometry (cylindrical and spherical),
radial coordinate conversions, and the great circle distance were added.
+=item Pod::Parser
+
+[TODO - Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>]
+
+=item Pod::Text and Pod::Man
+
+[TODO - Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]
+
=item SDBM_File
An EXISTS method has been added to this module (and sdbm_exists() has
on an SDBM_File tied hash and get the correct result, rather than a
runtime error.
+A bug that may have caused data loss when more than one disk block
+happens to be read from the database in a single FETCH() has been
+fixed.
+
=item Time::Local
The timelocal() and timegm() functions used to silently return bogus
results when the date exceeded the machine's integer range. They
-now consistently croak() if the date falls in an unsupported range--
-but on the other hand they now accept "out-of-limits" day-of-month
-to make "Julian date" conversions easier.
+now consistently croak() if the date falls in an unsupported range.
=item Win32
attribute.
Lexical warnings pragma, C<use warnings;>, to control optional warnings.
+See L<perllexwarn>.
C<use filetest> to control the behaviour of filetests (C<-r> C<-w> ...).
Currently only one subpragma implemented, "use filetest 'access';",
=head1 Utility Changes
-Todo.
+=head2 h2ph
+
+[TODO - Kurt Starsinic <kstar@chapin.edu>]
+
+=head2 perlcc
+
+C<perlcc> now supports the C and Bytecode backends. By default,
+it generates output from the simple C backend rather than the
+optimized C backend.
+
+Support for non-Unix platforms has been improved.
+
+=head2 h2xs
+
+change#4232
+[TODO - Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]
=head1 Documentation Changes
A tutorial on managing class data for object modules.
+=item perlcompile.pod
+
+An introduction to using the Perl Compiler suite.
+
=back
=head1 New Diagnostics
or false result of matching the pattern against $_ as the string,
which is probably not what you had in mind.
-=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics
+=item %s() called too early to check prototype
-Todo.
-
-=head1 Configuration Changes
-
-=head2 installusrbinperl
+(W) You've called a function that has a prototype before the parser saw a
+definition or declaration for it, and Perl could not check that the call
+conforms to the prototype. You need to either add an early prototype
+declaration for the subroutine in question, or move the subroutine
+definition ahead of the call to get proper prototype checking. Alternatively,
+if you are certain that you're calling the function correctly, you may put
+an ampersand before the name to avoid the warning. See L<perlsub>.
-You can use "Configure -Uinstallusrbinperl" which causes installperl
-to skip installing perl also as /usr/bin/perl. This is useful if you
-prefer not to modify /usr/bin for some reason or another but harmful
-because many scripts assume to find Perl in /usr/bin/perl.
-
-=head2 SOCKS support
-
-You can use "Configure -Dusesocks" which causes Perl to probe
-for the SOCKS proxy protocol library, http://www.socks.nec.com/
-
-=head2 -A flag
+=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics
-You can "post-edit" the Configure variables using the Configure -A
-flag. The editing happens immediately after the platform specific
-hints files have been processed but before the actual configuration
-process starts. Run Configure -h to find out the full -A syntax.
+Todo.
=head1 BUGS
=head1 HISTORY
-Written by Gurusamy Sarathy <F<gsar@umich.edu>>, with many contributions
-from The Perl Porters.
+Written by Gurusamy Sarathy <F<gsar@activestate.com>>, with many
+contributions from The Perl Porters.
Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.com>>.
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