--------------
____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7891] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 14:57:23
+ Log: Subject: Re: perlfaq style changes
+ From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 23:32:26 -0800
+ Message-ID: <KyLI6gzkgiRK092yn@efn.org>
+
+ plus a note from Ronald Kimball.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perlfaq.pod pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7890] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 14:53:14
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@7825] Re: [ID 20001122.006] weird behaviour of $|
+ From: Benjamin Holzman <bah@ecnvantage.com>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:27:33 -0500
+ Message-ID: <20001126162733.J25040@ecnvantage.com>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! gv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7889] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 14:43:11
+ Log: Subject: [ID 20001127.004] White space problem in perlamiga.pod
+ From: lvirden@cas.org
+ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:32:06 -0500 (EST)
+ Message-Id: <200011271432.JAA09550@lwv26awu.cas.org>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.amiga
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7888] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 14:32:34
+ Log: Restore also the locale test to no-sprintf-taint state.
+ Fixes the bug 20001127.003.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c t/pragma/locale.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7887] By: gsar on 2000/11/27 14:13:05
+ Log: integrate changes#6613..6616,6620..6665 from mainline
+
+ VMS configure.com update continues.
+
+ Subject: Test fails / warnings with perl-current #6612
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] @+, @- readonly (was Re: @<punct> interpolating in "")
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000807.003] [PATCH] Debugger treatment of condition "0"
+
+ For now remove the mail code.
+
+ Subject: Re: [PATCH] @+, @- readonly
+
+ Subject: warning: storage class after type is obsolescent
+
+ Subject: sfio2000
+
+ Subject: Re: File::Temp problems on VMS in bleedperl
+
+ README.os2 update.
+ Subject: Re: [PATCH perl-current] Make op/sprintf.t more comprehensive,
+
+ Make the user to give up his firstborn, err, to knowingly
+ verify installing an unstable developer release. Also bump
+ the release to 5.7.0, but leave a patch tag in the local
+ patches saying that this is not yet the real thing.
+
+ Update (kinda) to Test 1.14, from Joshua Pritikin.
+
+ make ok etc also for win32.
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000815.005] [PATCH] perldoc not looking in the right place for script pod
+
+ Don't blow limited stacks, a lower number is enough to
+ tickle the lookbehind limit.
+
+ Use -Dusedevel; regen Configure and the respective Porting stuff.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] debugger exit code should reflect user exit code
+
+ Subject: [PATCH perl@6620] cygwin port
+
+ Missed a file from #6638.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] for t/lib/peek.t (was Re: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13)
+
+ magic callbacks all need to have same type signature
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000815.014] [PATCH] INSTALL doesn't mention 64 bit support.
+
+ Fix a dependency problem.
+ Subject: [PATCH: 6640] VMS Makefile.SH update
+
+ The numeric locale was reset to "C" by s?printf and never restored.
+ Subject: [ID 20000809.003] setlocale(LC_NUMERIC...) produces different results in 5.005 and 5.6
+ No test since adding the failing example to locale.t
+ does not fail -- probably because the locale settings are so
+ thoroughly tweaked by that time. Running the example standalone
+ does fail, though. UPDATE: test case added at change #7540.
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000324.040] minor fix to perlhpux.pod
+
+ Update to CPAN 1.57.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] Cwd::_backtick_pwd does not check return value
+
+ Change the perlbug address to perl.org since it's more forgiving.
+
+ Change the regx compilation error markers to use = instead of <
+ since pod makes using the latter quite messy. Reported in
+ ID 20000814.006 by Abigail and in
+ Subject: Unknown escape E<> ?
+
+ Update to perldebtut 1.9, from Richard Foley.
+
+ check that the number pseudo children doesn't exceed
+ MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS, which is currently 64 (avoids overflowing
+ the WaitForMultipleObjects() limit that would cause wait()
+ to crash)
+ wait() and waitpid() could potentially be rewritten to use
+ more than one thread to do the waiting to eliminate this
+ limitation
+
+ change#6328 could make close(SOCKET) return false on windows
+ when it shouldn't
+
+ pod nit seen in passing
+
+ on windows, the return values from wait() and waitpid() don't
+ match those of pseudo-pids
+
+ waitpid() now handles externally spawned pids correctly;
+ fixes for backtick/wait/waitpid failures on Windows 9x
+ these changes make the pid returned by process functions on
+ Windows 9x always positive by clearing the high bit (which
+ is always set on Win9x); pseudo-process PIDs are likewise
+ always negative now on Win9x (just as on NT/2000)
+
+ trailing new %ENV entries weren't being pushed into the real
+ environment of subprocesses on Windows
+
+ Tweak the regex compilation errors once more.
+
+ avoid warnings from dense compiler
+
+ add "ok" targets from change#6632 in makefile.mk
+ Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+ - lib/Pod/PlainText.pm vms/configure.com
+ !> (integrate 66 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7886] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 13:54:18
+ Log: __FUNCTION__ isn't portable and trying to emulate it leads
+ into practically spelling out the name of the function.
+ Takes care of the bug 20001127.001.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perlio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7885] By: gsar on 2000/11/27 13:53:18
+ Log: integrate changes#6540..6541,6546..6549,6552..6554,6557..6606,
+ 6610..6611 from mainline
+
+ Make regular expression parse error messages easier to understand.
+ Subject: Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages
+
+ Tiny tidying on report_evil_fh().
+
+ Subject: Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages
+ plus Capitalize the error messages, plus perldiag them.
+
+ Subject: Patch against 5.6.0 to allow "-d:Module=arg,arg,arg"
+
+ Document here-doc better.
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000807.003] [PATCH] Debugger treatment of condition "0"
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20000807.008] Double reads considered evil? (deja vu)
+ Do away with array context, from Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
+ (either perlbug or p5p ate the original), plus regen
+ perlapi and perltoc.
+
+ Regen global.sym.
+
+ Double check that we have a dirhandle.
+
+ Subject: Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages
+ (plus two small patches sent privately)
+ (this still seems to leave few test failures)
+
+ warn is a macro, avoid using at a variable to avoid warnings
+ in some configurations; readdir.t is too conservative in
+ estimating number of *.t's
+
+ Get back into sync with Jeffrey on the enhanced regex warnings.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] cygwin port
+
+ Zero entries were skipped, fix from Adrian Goalby
+ <argoalby@yahoo.co.uk>
+
+ Subject: Remove dead entry in perldiag
+
+ Amend the description of Perl6.
+ Subject: [PATCH Perl-5.6.0] perlfaq1.pod
+
+ detypo
+
+ It's the 2ndO'ROSSC.
+
+ Revert the sv.c part of #6559, a better fix is needed.
+
+ Iterating perl6 description.
+
+ Update to Term::ANSIColor 1.03, from Russ Allbery.
+
+ Update to Getopt::Long 2.23_05, from Johan Vromans.
+
+ Small AUTHORS and MAINTAIN updates. Could do with big updates.
+
+ Update to Pod::Parser 1.17, from Brad Appleton.
+
+ Update to CPAN 1.56, from Andreas König.
+
+ Update to CGI 2.70, from Lincoln Stein.
+
+ Put back the std @INC thing.
+
+ Fixes to looking-like-number to keep behaviour as it was in 5.005_03.
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000810.002] $a["1foo"] same as $a[0]
+
+ Document the IO::Select timeout.
+
+ sleep(1) does not necessarily return 1.
+ Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] op/lex_assign.t
+
+ Subject: debugger "d" command doesnt check line number
+
+ B::Deparse didn't do sub attributes.
+ Subject: B::Deparse was Re: [ID 20000808.005] refs to returned lvalues are lvalues??
+
+ Preprocessing and postprocessing for File::Find.
+ Subject: Patch to Find::File.pm to allow alphabetical results
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000809.005] trouble with long string and /m modifier - uninitialized value
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000809.006] Debugger lost the ability to see $1 et al
+
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000730.003] utf8::length() bad
+
+ Subject: Getting perlio and threads to compile
+ (the Solaris version changes in Configure skipped)
+
+ Tests for #6589.
+ Subject: Re: B::Deparse was Re: [ID 20000808.005] refs to returned lvalues are lvalues??
+
+ Add Perl debugging tutorial, regen toc.
+ Subject: perldebtut.pod
+
+ Add a few missing files, update MANIFEST.
+
+ Rewrite of vms/subconfigure.com as configure.com,
+ from Peter Prymmer and the vmsperl crew.
+
+ Should have deleted this in #6603.
+
+ Fix the test for 5005threads.
+
+ Fix-n-skip the tests under 5005threads.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] t/op/regmesg.t fails if REG_INFTY set
+
+ Upgrade to CGI 2.71, from Lincoln Stein.
+ Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+ +> lib/CGI/eg/make_links.pl lib/CGI/eg/wilogo.gif
+ +> lib/Pod/PlainText.pm pod/perldebtut.pod t/lib/gol-oo.t
+ +> t/op/regmesg.t t/pod/find.t vms/configure.com
+ - vms/subconfigure.com
+ ! lib/lib.pm
+ !> (integrate 115 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7884] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 13:44:33
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH perl@7795 (and earlier)] VMS test cleanup
+ From: lane@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu (Charles Lane)
+ Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:23:54 EST
+ Message-Id: <001127082318.6381c@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! vms/descrip_mms.template vms/test.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7883] By: gsar on 2000/11/27 11:50:46
+ Log: integrate changes#6469..6484,6486..6501,6504..6505,6507..6509,
+ 6511..6513,6515..6523,6525..6536
+
+ The swallow_bom() saga continues. The #23 of require.t
+ (UTF16-LE) still fails (silently, no output) but the #22
+ (UTF16-BE) seems to be working now. The root of the
+ failure may be in sv_gets(): is it UTF-16LE-aware,
+ especially when it comes to line endings?
+
+ Document the problem with -P in HP-UX and its workaround.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] allow non-variable as lhs of non-updating tr///
+ (aka ID 20000730.002)
+
+ Subject: fix and question re: waitpid() under win32
+
+ Make the safety catch for buggy gccs work with triple version
+ numbers like 2.95.2. Reported in
+ Subject: [ID 20000731.005] Perl 5.6.0 "Configure" fails to recognize gcc 2.95.2
+
+ In Digital UNIX warn if gcc explicitly chosen because even
+ 2.95.2 is known to cause problems.
+
+ Make chr() for values >127 to create utf8 when under utf8.
+
+ various syntax errors and such (not fixed: comp/require.t#22 coredump
+ on Windows)
+
+ Stash away the largefiles flags and libswanted.
+
+ BOM patching from Simon Cozens.
+
+ If gccosandvers is equal to osname, clear gccosandvers.
+
+ Make p4desc to skip non-mainperl branches by default.
+
+ Subject: [Proposed PATCH] Let Perl define QUAD_MIN and _MAX itself
+
+ The test from this
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions
+
+ In new BSDs changes to argv[] do not show up in ps(1) output,
+ instead one must use setproctitle(). This was already addressed
+ by change #6457, but the below has a new variant for FreeBSD 4.0
+ or later, and the matter is also documented more.
+
+ FreeBSD 3.* updates from
+ Subject: [ID 20000801.007] setting $0 on FreeBSD 4.x does not get reflected in /bin/ps
+
+ regen_headers, regen perltoc.
+
+ Document in one place the memory abstractions used in Perl core.
+
+ memcpy has n o in it, as pinted ut by Sarathy.
+
+ Remove the extraneous "main::" prefix from all the
+ "opened only for", "on closed", and "never opened" warnings.
+
+ The name of a filehandle does not have <these>.
+
+ The tr utf8 patching continues.
+
+ The new setproctitle() feature is available only in
+ bleeding edge FreeBSD. From Paul Saab.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] [ID 20000731.010] regex error
+
+ Dump UVs as UVs in Data::Dumper.
+
+ detypo #6494
+
+ Document the IVdf UVuf UVof UVxf.
+
+ require.t needs binmode() to work on windows
+
+ Generate OP_IS_SOCKET() and OP_IS_FILETEST() macros
+ that are hopefully soon put into use.
+
+ Allow "no Module;" even if there is no 'unimport'.
+
+ Better skip message for the test; one of the two problems in
+ Subject: [ID 20000224.003] Not OK: perl v5.5.660 on i86pc-solaris 2.7
+
+ The subtest 4 may fail also on VOBS, as pointed out
+ by Nick Ing-Simmons in November 1999, bug id 19991124.003
+ (but the failure in that bug report isn't the subtest 4).
+
+ Be more informative on what is skipped and why,
+ also repeat the list at the end.
+
+ Add a URL for FSF.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] sv.h documentation - SvLEN
+
+ Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] [ID 20000803.001] further regexp counting problems
+
+ Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Comings and goings in op/sprintf.t
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] bad cppsymbols on os2 + Configure question
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000802.002] [PATCH] memory pseudo-leak in sv_dump
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000802.004] Tests op/grent.t and op/pwent.t fail unnecessarily
+ mention the idea of @( and @)
+
+ This is 6512. Really.
+
+ Subject: [ID 19990721.004] Documentation bug in perlfunc
+
+ Subject: Minor tweak to perlvar.pod
+
+ In the warnings call filehandles consistently so;
+ add "unopened" warning for stat().
+
+ After the #6519 a warning about stat() is just that,
+ not about a filetest, which now have their own warning.
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000804.002] configure.gnu and arguments with whitespace characters
+
+ Subject: Re: Array vs. List context
+
+ Subject: New perlcc, take 2
+
+ Weed buglets pointed out by
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000803.005] miniperl aborts during Perl make
+
+ gcc versions might have (parentheses) in them.
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000724.004] Perl interpreter segfault when using built-in flock
+
+ Essential prototype changes were missing from #6527.
+ Also make report_evil_fh() more bomb-proof.
+
+ Zap lib/Sys directory when cleaning up.
+
+ Change the Policy policy: now -Dprefix= with an existing
+ Policy.sh and prefix == siteprefix == vendorprefix, then all
+ of them follow along the new prefix.
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000508.002] -Dprefix completely broken [PATCH]
+
+ Continue fixing the io warnings. This also
+ sort of fixes bug ID 20000802.003: the core dump
+ is no more. Whether the current behaviour is correct
+ (giving a warning: "Not a format reference"), is another matter.
+
+ Have symbols for the IoTYPEs.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod use documentation (5.6.0)
+
+ Document a bit that UDP is not what you might think.
+ Subject: Re: IO::Socket::INET bug sending large UDP packets/fragmentation
+ tr memory corruption fix from Simon Cozens.
+
+ Plug the security hole described in the Aug 05 2000 bugtraq message
+ "sperl 5.00503 (and newer ;) exploit" by Michal Zalewski.
+ The security hole exists only in suidperls, which isn't
+ installed or even built by default.
+ Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+ !> (integrate 71 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7882] By: gsar on 2000/11/27 10:25:36
+ Log: integrate changes#6439..6444,6446..6453,6455..6457,6460..6465,6467..6468
+ from mainline
+
+ Make the unimplemented POSIX regex features [[.cc.]] and [[=c=]]
+ to be fatal errors (instead of by default ignoring them, and
+ ignoring with a bug: even though -w gave an error, the opening [
+ was left in) Reported in:
+
+ Subject: [PATCH: perl@6409] bug fix for munchconfig (turned up by CXX)
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] split /^/
+
+ MacOS nits from Matthias Neeracher.
+
+ More split() doc and test patches from Mike Guy.
+
+ Allow "sub AUTOLOAD;" to stop AUTOLOAD inheritance,
+ from Graham Barr in the module list.
+
+ docfix from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>.
+
+ File::Temp patches for VMS and OS/2 from Tim Jenness.
+
+ open() wariness in perlbug.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] minor doc change - perlguts
+
+ Subject: Minor doc patch: handy.h
+
+ Be wary of close()s, too.
+
+ Further File::Temp patches from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
+ and Craig A. Berry.
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] fixes bug 20000508.004
+
+ Subject: [ID 19990709.002] [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] perldiag
+
+ Allow "no AutoLoader;", based on change #6444,
+ suggested by Graham Barr.
+
+ Use setproctitle() if available to modify $0.
+
+ Warn if the version of the operating system used to compile gcc
+ differs from the current version of the operating system.
+ Also display the gcc compilation os and version in myconfig.
+ Inspiration from
+
+ Tiny fixes for #6460.
+
+ The problem described in this
+ Subject: [ID 20000322.018] named chars aren't magical enough
+ has been fixed in perl 5.6.0 but just in case added a test
+ to keep it away. (The report from Joseph Hall.)
+
+ Tune the comments and hopefully stop a memory leak.
+
+ Subject: UTF8 concat
+ (with a memory leak fixed, plus a few casts added)
+ This also seems to help for
+ Subject: [ID 20000716.015] join UTF8 weirdness
+
+ Do not upgrade SVs into utf8 just because they participate
+ in eq or cmp. Reported and fix suggested in
+ Subject: [ID 20000720.009] sv_eq UTF8 bug
+
+ Fix the HALF_UPGRADE() macro introduced in #6263.
+
+ Find green threads before native threads.
+ Subject: Re: Patch to jpl/JNI/Makefile.PL
+ Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+ !> (integrate 30 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7881] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 05:48:41
+ Log: It seems that *both* the unused submatch loop cleanup
+ codes are needed.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7880] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 04:50:07
+ Log: Clean .exists deeper.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7879] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 02:31:35
+ Log: The code in regcppop() (see #7878) contains the correct lower
+ limit for the unused submatch 'cleanup' loop so that under
+ "use utf8" the following code wouldn't dump core:
+ "," =~ /([^,]*,)*/ With the the wrong lower limit (>=1)
+ the cleanup loop in regtry() stomped beyond allocated area
+ in the startp[] array. Therefore, copied the correct lower
+ loop limit (*PL_reglastparen) to regtry(). Note: something
+ may still not be quite right: why was the _higher_ loop limit
+ (prog->nparens) different in the utf8 case?
+
+ After this patch "./perl -Ilib -Mutf8 t/op/regexp.t" works
+ without core dumps, there were about 17 of them before
+ the patch (with us since Perl 5.7.0). Two failures, still:
+ 496 and 505 (though these may not be severe).
+
+ Patch #7881 is also needed since both the cleanup loops
+ seem to be needed.
+
+ Also, the t/op/pat#44 seems to core dump under utf8.
+ Plus a couple of failures. UGH-8.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7878] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 02:21:17
+ Log: The unused submatch cleanup code in regtry() seems to be more crucial,
+ the code in regcppop() seems to be redundant for the test suite --
+ but it contains a germ of truth, and it needed for the build
+ process itself: see #7879 and #7881.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7877] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 01:53:09
+ Log: Comment on comment.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7876] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 00:49:59
+ Log: Adjust the docs to agree with #7875.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! pod/perllocale.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7875] By: jhi on 2000/11/27 00:49:27
+ Log: Retract #7863. It makes more sense not to taint formatted output,
+ not even by sprintf().
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7874] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 23:36:02
+ Log: Debug dump of ANYOFUTF8 was garbage (data from ANYOF).
+ Not really fixed (should really dump the UTF-8 charclass),
+ but stopped displaying the garbage.
+
+ Also add a note on the (missing) Unicode PSXSPC and BLANK.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7873] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 21:31:13
+ Log: BOUND regex opcodes (\b, \B) could try to scan zero length UTF-8.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7872] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 21:06:04
+ Log: No need to scan till infinity, 13 is enough.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! handy.h utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7871] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 20:20:32
+ Log: Test line numbers are different with utf8.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/op/re_tests
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7870] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 20:10:12
+ Log: Message nit.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7869] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 19:01:05
+ Log: Make utf8_length() and utf8_distance() (the latter of which
+ is unused at the moment) to be less forgiving about bad UTF-8.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! embed.h embed.pl objXSUB.h proto.h utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7868] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 18:45:56
+ Log: Subject: Re: [ID 20001125.004] OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7825 on i686-linux 2.2.17 (UNINSTALLED)
+ From: Benjamin Holzman <bah@ecnvantage.com>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:40:20 -0500
+ Message-ID: <20001125204020.A25040@ecnvantage.com>
+
+ Debian allows installing /usr/bin/locale without installing
+ any locales, an error message will ensue.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/pragma/locale.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7867] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 18:31:12
+ Log: Subject: Re: [PATCH: perl@7825] SvTEMP-ness on rhs of aassign can wreak havoc
+ From: Benjamin Holzman <bah@ecnvantage.com>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 02:42:34 -0500
+ Message-ID: <20001126024234.G25040@ecnvantage.com>
+
+ Patch for the bug 20000212.002.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c t/op/array.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7866] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 18:28:09
+ Log: Subject: PATCH: File::Temp fix on WindowsNT/VMS
+ From: Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:38:34 -1000 (HST)
+ Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011241833230.18423-100000@lapaki.jach.hawaii.edu>
+
+ File::Temp 0.11.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/File/Temp.pm t/lib/ftmp-tempfile.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7865] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 18:24:22
+ Log: The metaconfig unit change for #7864.
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! need_va_copy.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7864] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 18:23:41
+ Log: Make the va_copy() test not to be so talkative.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7863] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 18:11:02
+ Log: Fix locale inconsistencies unearthed by Hugo's work.
+ Now the floating point sprintf really does taint the result
+ string as perllocale promises (has promised for a long time)
+ if "use locale" is in the lexical scope.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c t/pragma/locale.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7862] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 00:35:15
+ Log: Subject: [PATCH] Re: pp_add -> pp_i_add efficiency hack?
+ From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:07:50 +0000
+ Message-ID: <20001126000750.A22446@plum.flirble.org>
+
+ Infinit.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7861] By: jhi on 2000/11/26 00:01:26
+ Log: Integrate perlio.
+ Branch: perl
+ !> doio.c perlio.c perliol.h pp_sys.c win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7860] By: nick on 2000/11/25 22:04:17
+ Log: Correct relative path from new ext\Filter\Util\Call location
+ back to miniperl.
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7859] By: nick on 2000/11/25 21:26:54
+ Log: Integrate mainline.
+ Branch: perlio
+ +> ext/Filter/Util/Call/Call.pm ext/Filter/Util/Call/Call.xs
+ +> ext/Filter/Util/Call/Makefile.PL t/lib/filter-util.pl
+ +> t/lib/filter-util.t
+ - ext/Filter/Util/Call.pm ext/Filter/Util/Call.xs
+ - ext/Filter/Util/Makefile.PL t/lib/filt-util.pl
+ - t/lib/filt-util.t
+ !> AUTHORS Configure MANIFEST README.amiga configure.com doio.c
+ !> embed.h embed.pl ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B/Lint.pm ext/B/B/Terse.pm
+ !> hints/solaris_2.sh hints/uwin.sh hints/vmesa.sh
+ !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm makedef.pl perl.h perlio.c perlio.h
+ !> perlsdio.h proto.h t/lib/io_sock.t win32/Makefile
+ !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7858] By: gsar on 2000/11/25 20:52:17
+ Log: C<foreach my $x ...> in pseudo-fork()ed process may diddle
+ parent's memory; fix it by keeping track of the actual pad
+ offset rather than a raw pointer (this change is probably also
+ relevant to non-ithreads case to avoid fallout from reallocs of
+ the pad array, but is currently only enabled for the ithreads
+ case in the interests of minimal disruption to existing "well
+ tested" code)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! embed.h embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c pp_ctl.c
+ ! proto.h scope.c scope.h sv.c t/op/fork.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7857] By: nick on 2000/11/25 20:01:28
+ Log: All tests pass on Win32/gcc/USE_PERLIO.
+ - when crlf layer is pushed make unix-level binary.
+ - remove :crlf injection in pp_backtick in pp_sys.c
+ - (Change dependacy of extension .dll's to perldll.def rather than perl.exe)
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! doio.c perlio.c pp_sys.c win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7856] By: jhi on 2000/11/25 18:38:30
+ Log: Update the metaconfig units for #7855.
+ Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+ ! useperlio.U usesocks.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7855] By: jhi on 2000/11/25 18:37:54
+ Log: Undo the SOCKS workarounds, instead start using PerlIO
+ if SOCKS is selected.
+
+ Subject: perl@7847, [ID 20001030.005], close-patch, perlio - The big cleanup
+ From: Jens Hamisch <jens@Strawberry.COM>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 18:31:30 +0100
+ Message-ID: <20001124183130.E28337@Strawberry.COM>
+
+ Subject: Re: perl@7847, [ID 20001030.005], close-patch, perlio - Patch the patch ...
+ From: Jens Hamisch <jens@Strawberry.COM>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 19:11:51 +0100
+ Message-ID: <20001124191151.A28753@Strawberry.COM>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Configure doio.c embed.h embed.pl makedef.pl perl.h perlio.c
+ ! perlio.h perlsdio.h proto.h t/lib/io_sock.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7854] By: jhi on 2000/11/25 17:39:08
+ Log: Undo #7848. Some of the code seems to use walkoptree(),
+ some walkoptree_slow(). An unfinished renaming?
+ Now the sub is walkoptree() (which is @EXPORT_OK),
+ the walkoptree_slow() is a typeglob alias to walkoptree.
+ This makes the tests to pass, at least.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B/Lint.pm ext/B/B/Terse.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7853] By: nick on 2000/11/24 22:24:33
+ Log: Re-arrange crlf vs binary for platforms that care.
+ crlf layer is now "the" buffer layer and can turn its behaviour on/off.
+ Lip-service to making stdio layer work on such platfroms (untested).
+ Now fails 3 tests rather than one, checkin to see if I can debug
+ the issue under linux. (Do not merge.)
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! doio.c perlio.c perliol.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7852] By: jhi on 2000/11/24 18:57:39
+ Log: AUTHORS edits.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7851] By: jhi on 2000/11/24 17:34:56
+ Log: Add Jan-Erik Karlsson.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! AUTHORS
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7850] By: jhi on 2000/11/24 17:27:56
+ Log: Configure should find stdchar on its own.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7849] By: jhi on 2000/11/24 17:24:55
+ Log: Subject: PATCH over 7848: Filter test flawed
+ From: andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
+ Date: 24 Nov 2000 10:28:29 +0100
+ Message-ID: <m3k89tbtxe.fsf@ak-71.mind.de>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! t/lib/filter-util.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7848] By: jhi on 2000/11/24 17:22:15
+ Log: Subject: [ID 20001124.001] B exports "walkoptree" but does not define it
+ From: Simon Cozens <simon@pembro4.pmb.ox.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 16:12:58 +0000
+ Message-Id: <E13zLT8-0005FN-00@pembro4.pmb.ox.ac.uk>
+ Branch: perl
+ ! ext/B/B.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7847] By: jhi on 2000/11/24 03:07:01
+ Log: Integrate perlio.
+ Branch: perl
+ !> doio.c perlio.c perlio.h pp_sys.c t/lib/io_tell.t
+ !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7846] By: gsar on 2000/11/24 00:55:57
+ Log: integrate changes#6415..6418,6420..6438 from mainline
+
+ Fix the bitvector ops for utf8 (tricky since past 7 bits
+ the utf8 'characters' can be more than one octet).
+
+ MPE/ix updates for perl 5.6.0 from Mark Bixby.
+
+ Subject: SDBM_File documentation
+
+ Detypo.
+
+ Decutandpasto.
+
+ Send all installperl messages to STDERR and be -w clean.
+
+ Out-of-date note removed.
+
+ Protect against "wild next"s, that is, callbacks doing "next"
+ instead of "return".
+
+ Use STDOUT consistently.
+
+ The output might have been produced in the wrong order.
+
+ A missing 'break' after the [[:space:]] switch case.
+
+ Add tests for
+ [ID 19991110.003] another matching finding by pcre author
+ which has already been fixed by some patch, as verified in
+
+ Documentation to explain the behaviour of map().
+
+ Add an optimization for map-maps-a-list-element-to-more-list-elements
+ case, but add also notes explaining the relationship of this
+ patch and the earlier notes by Sarathy.
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000716.023] syslog test fails without sockets
+
+ Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ID 20000716.011] strangeness with split($_ =~ m/.../)
+ Test cases for #6431.
+
+ File::Spec::VMS fixup for tmpdir from Craig Berry.
+
+ Make the "uninit variable" warning to say "concat or string"
+ or "join or string" when in concat or join .
+
+ Get UTF16 BOMs working. Patch from
+ Subject: Re: [ID 20000719.001] Problem with bleadperl of 7/18/00
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] Make large file tests deal with SIGXFSZ
+
+ Subject: [ID 20000724.003] Documentation changes for perllocale.pod
+
+ Subject: [PATCH] av.c apidoc
+ Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+ !> (integrate 43 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7845] By: gsar on 2000/11/24 00:20:45
+ Log: integrate changes#6406..6414 from mainline
+
+ Merge perlhacktut into perlhack, update perlguts.
+
+ Fix AutoSplit to use File::Spec the right way in VMS,
+ from Peter Prymmer.
+
+ The bug report
+ [ID 19991110.002] minimal matching discrepancy found by pcre author
+ seems to have been fixed (though differently from what was suggested
+ in the report) in 5.6.0. Add tests to keep the bug from reappearing.
+
+ thinko fix in vms/descrip_mms.template, the win32.pod in lib,
+ not in pod, from Peter Prymmer
+
+ Subject: [docpatch] Re: [ID 19991002.011] perldoc -f shift
+ From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:05:20 +0100
+ Message-Id: <200007142205.XAA17882@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+
+ Didn't anymore apply, but that point still could use another fix.
+
+ lib/b test fixes from Peter Prymmer.
+
+ More docs for sv functions.
+
+ perlvms.pod whitespace cleanup to keep pod utils happy.
+
+ another VMS build tweak from Peter Prymmer
+ Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+ !> embed.pl lib/AutoSplit.pm pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ !> pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlhack.pod sv.c t/lib/b.t t/op/re_tests
+ !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7844] By: nick on 2000/11/23 23:42:45
+ Log: Win32/perlio Now just fails one io/argv.t test - lack
+ of default :crlf on standard streams.
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! doio.c perlio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7843] By: nick on 2000/11/23 23:04:05
+ Log: Win32 passes all but t/lib/peek.t with perlio and home-grown crlf.
+ peek fail is showing a real problem (multiple crlf layers
+ are getting pushed.)
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! doio.c perlio.c win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7842] By: nick on 2000/11/23 19:46:23
+ Log: Implement PerlIO_binmode()
+ Fix PerlIOCrlf_unread() (*--ptr rather than *ptr-- ...)
+ Test on UNIX with PERLIO="perlio crlf" to mimic Win32,
+ make binmode in t/lib/io_tell.t unconditional so that works.
+ Checkin just so Win32 machine can see these changes.
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! doio.c perlio.c perlio.h pp_sys.c t/lib/io_tell.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7841] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 19:30:00
+ Log: README.amiga changes from Jan-Erik Karlsson <trg@privat.utfors.se>.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! README.amiga
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7840] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 17:18:02
+ Log: SOCKS wrestling continues, patches from Jens Hamisch.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! doio.c embed.h embed.pl perlsdio.h proto.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7839] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 16:54:14
+ Log: Push Filter::Util::Call one level deeper.
+ Branch: perl
+ + t/lib/filter-util.t
+ +> ext/Filter/Util/Call/Call.pm ext/Filter/Util/Call/Call.xs
+ +> ext/Filter/Util/Call/Makefile.PL t/lib/filter-util.pl
+ - ext/Filter/Util/Call.pm ext/Filter/Util/Call.xs
+ - ext/Filter/Util/Makefile.PL t/lib/filt-util.pl
+ - t/lib/filt-util.t
+ ! MANIFEST configure.com hints/uwin.sh hints/vmesa.sh
+ ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7838] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 16:52:40
+ Log: Reach back one higher up when searching for PERL_SRC.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7837] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 16:05:41
+ Log: Subject: Re: perl@7826
+ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 02:20:25 -0600
+ From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
+ Message-Id: <p04330102b6424b6cd4c9@[172.16.52.1]>
+
+ Make VMS to like Filter::Util::Call.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! configure.com ext/Filter/Util/Makefile.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7836] By: nick on 2000/11/23 16:04:08
+ Log: Implement crlf layer - not ready for merge.
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! perlio.c win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7835] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 15:56:52
+ Log: STDCHAR is different in Sparc v9 vs x86.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7834] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 15:50:47
+ Log: The type needs to be visible to protos.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7833] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 15:40:46
+ Log: Finish unfinished SOCKS workaround changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! doio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7832] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 15:33:30
+ Log: Integrate perlio.
+ Branch: perl
+ !> win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+ !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7831] By: nick on 2000/11/23 10:31:07
+ Log: Correct makefile.mk dependancies for ext/Filter/Util
+ Build ext/Encode
+ Run dmake regen_config_h
+ Branch: perlio
+ ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+ ! win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7830] By: nick on 2000/11/23 08:05:07
+ Log: Integrate mainline
+ Branch: perlio
+ +> ext/Filter/Util/Call.pm ext/Filter/Util/Call.xs
+ +> ext/Filter/Util/Makefile.PL lib/Filter/Simple.pm
+ +> t/lib/filt-util.pl t/lib/filt-util.t
+ !> (integrate 41 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7829] By: gsar on 2000/11/23 03:07:11
+ Log: build the Filter extension on windows
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7828] By: gsar on 2000/11/23 02:46:35
+ Log: regenerate win32/config* and fix some inconsistencies in the
+ makefiles; always export Perl_deb() because it is needed
+ by ext/re/* (whether perl itself is built with -DDEBUGGING
+ or not)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! makedef.pl win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+ ! win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7827] By: gsar on 2000/11/23 02:18:38
+ Log: get sources building on windows+MSVC again (untested with other
+ compilers)
+ Branch: perl
+ ! win32/include/sys/socket.h win32/perllib.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[ 7826] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 01:18:26
+ Log: Update Changes.
+ Branch: perl
+ ! Changes patchlevel.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
[ 7825] By: jhi on 2000/11/23 00:20:41
Log: Subject: Re: av.c patch (having slight problems)
From: "Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com>