From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:19:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update Changes, credits X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=76438f5e79927218b9a4456083aa82f4e7e798f1;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git update Changes, credits p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5168 --- diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 952f772..aeac550 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -14,37 +14,53 @@ releases.) To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their -current addresses (as of July 1998): +current addresses (as of February 2000): Gisle Aas Abigail Kenneth Albanowski Russ Allbery + Brad Appleton + Greg Bacon + Robin Barker + Vishal Bhatia Spider Boardman Tom Christiansen - Jan Dubois + Mark-Jason Dominus + Jan Dubois + Dominic Dunlop + Eric Fifer Hallvard B Furuseth M. J. T. Guy Jarkko Hietaniemi + Tom Hughes Nick Ing-Simmons Andreas Koenig + Douglas Lankshear Doug MacEachern + Raphael Manfredi Paul Marquess Stephen McCamant Laszlo Molnar Hans Mulder + Chris Nandor Matthias Neeracher Jeff Okamoto Ulrich Pfeifer Tom Phoenix Joshua Pritikin + Peter Prymmer Norbert Pueschel Dean Roehrich Hugo van der Sanden + Michael G Schwern Roderick Schertler Kurt D. Starsinic + Benjamin Stuhl Dan Sugalski + Nathan Torkington Larry W. Virden + Johan Vromans Ilya Zakharevich And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: @@ -79,6 +95,346 @@ Version v5.5.660 Development release working toward v5.6 ---------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5167] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 18:54:27 + Log: avoid reading out-of-bounds memory when matching against reference + Branch: perl + ! regexec.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5166] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 17:59:41 + Log: byte mode chop() should clear UTF8 (from Gisle Aas) + Branch: perl + ! doop.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5165] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 17:57:08 + Log: test fix needed by change#5164 + Branch: perl + ! t/pragma/warn/toke +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5164] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 17:50:38 + Log: default mkdir() mode argument to 0777 + Branch: perl + ! opcode.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + ! t/op/mkdir.t toke.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5163] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 16:34:33 + Log: glob() takes one or no user arguments and a non-user-visible second + hidden argument, fix its prototype-checking accordingly + Branch: perl + ! op.c opcode.h opcode.pl +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5162] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 16:07:38 + Log: make change#3386 a build-time option (avoids problems due to + perl_run() longjmping out) + Branch: perl + ! Todo-5.6 embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h intrpvar.h objXSUB.h + ! perl.c perl.h perlapi.c perlvars.h pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c + ! scope.h sv.c thrdvar.h util.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5161] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 12:13:37 + Log: IO::Socket now sets $!, avoids eval/die (patch from Graham Barr + modified to use Errno more portably) + Branch: perl + ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5160] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 11:53:28 + Log: mention portability caveat about C + Branch: perl + ! ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5159] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 11:14:36 + Log: revise docs on @+ and @- (from Tom "Camel" Christiansen) + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlvar.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5158] By: gsar on 2000/02/20 10:53:49 + Log: README.vms and related updates (from Peter Prymmer ) + Branch: perl + ! MANIFEST Makefile.SH README.vms pod/perl5005delta.pod + ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/podchecker.PL + ! vms/descrip_mms.template +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5157] By: jhi on 2000/02/19 20:29:26 + Log: Be explicit about what ops work with bt vectors. + (And implicit about which don't.) + Branch: cfgperl + ! pod/perldelta.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5156] By: jhi on 2000/02/19 18:38:14 + Log: Integrate with Sarathy. + Branch: cfgperl + +> lib/bytes.pm lib/bytes_heavy.pl + - lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl + !> (integrate 61 files) +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5155] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:57:39 + Log: char vs U8 warnings + Branch: perl + ! sv.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5154] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:44:56 + Log: remove outdated caveat about C (from + Hugo van der Sanden) + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlfunc.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5153] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:41:41 + Log: tests, doc tweak (from Gisle Aas) + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlfaq9.pod t/op/ord.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5152] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:35:50 + Log: document behavior of splice(@ary) (from Gisle Aas) + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlfunc.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5151] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:33:59 + Log: fix bug in backtracking optimizer (from Makoto Ishisone + ) + Branch: perl + ! regexec.c t/op/pat.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5150] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:33:05 + Log: more B fixups to cope with empty GVs (these can only happen in pads) + Branch: perl + ! ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/C.pm op.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5149] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:32:03 + Log: avoid compiler warnings + Branch: perl + ! malloc.c perl.h +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5148] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:18:09 + Log: document 'lvalue' attribute (from Simon Cozens ) + Branch: perl + ! lib/attributes.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5147] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 17:15:34 + Log: avoid failing on $!{ENOTHERE} (they can always use C + for that) + Branch: perl + ! ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5146] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 16:18:46 + Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline + Branch: perl + !> Configure config_h.SH ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + !> ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c ext/Socket/Socket.pm + !> ext/Socket/Socket.xs hints/hpux.sh perl.h pod/perldelta.pod + !> pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlopentut.pod t/lib/syslfs.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5145] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 16:10:37 + Log: POSIX::strftime gets the date wrong (from John Tobey + ) + Branch: perl + ! ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5144] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 16:02:40 + Log: don't blindly set bool=char on linux (from Andy Dougherty) + Branch: perl + ! handy.h hints/linux.sh x2p/a2p.h +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5143] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 15:54:04 + Log: some rearrangement of the includes for easier "microperl" build; + add PERL_MICRO guards supplied by Simon Cozens + Branch: perl + ! doio.c perl.c perl.h pp_hot.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5142] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 15:22:17 + Log: fixes for Pod::Html issues (from Wolfgang Laun + ) + Branch: perl + ! lib/Pod/Html.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5141] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 08:27:29 + Log: grammos (spotted by Tom Christiansen) + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlfunc.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5140] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 08:17:04 + Log: various xsubpp enhancements that make it easier to use with + C::Scan (from Ilya Zakharevich) + + TODO: still needs documentation + Branch: perl + ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5139] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:55:18 + Log: s/croak/Perl_croak/ + Branch: perl + ! sv.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5138] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:51:39 + Log: make comparisons promote to utf8 as necessary (from Gisle Aas) + Branch: perl + ! Todo-5.6 embed.h embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c + ! pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c toke.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5137] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:42:12 + Log: set close-on-exec flag on sockets too, like we do for files + and pipes + Branch: perl + ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod pp_sys.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5136] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 07:23:48 + Log: allocate sufficient buffer sizes for 64-bit wide utf8 characters + permitted by change#5011 (from Gisle Aas) + Branch: perl + ! pp.c utf8.c utf8.h +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5135] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 06:53:13 + Log: s/WARN_PRECEDENCE/WARN_BAREWORD/, vide change#5131 + Branch: perl + ! lib/warnings.pm op.c warnings.h warnings.pl +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5134] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 06:36:46 + Log: s/byte/bytes/g remnants + Branch: perl + ! lib/bytes.pm lib/bytes_heavy.pl +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5133] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 06:33:49 + Log: rename byte:: to bytes:: + Branch: perl + +> lib/bytes.pm lib/bytes_heavy.pl + - lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl + ! MANIFEST lib/charnames.pm lib/utf8.pm pod/perldelta.pod + ! pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlvar.pod + ! t/lib/charnames.t t/op/ver.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5132] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 05:58:42 + Log: English names for $^R and $^S + Branch: perl + ! lib/English.pm pod/perlvar.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5131] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 05:44:20 + Log: rename "Probable precendence problem" diagnostic to "Bareword found + in conditional" to better reflect the class of error (as suggested + by Larry) + Branch: perl + ! op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/warn/op +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5130] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 05:43:10 + Log: fix outdated info about PerlClinic and the bug-tracking system + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perltodo.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5129] By: gsar on 2000/02/19 04:14:19 + Log: some fixes for mingw32/GCC (SETERRNO() still appears to + trash memory) + Branch: perl + ! README.win32 t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t win32/makefile.mk + ! win32/win32.h +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5128] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 06:55:33 + Log: avoid $@-clearing sideeffect of require in Carp + Branch: perl + ! lib/Carp.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5127] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 04:58:26 + Log: stronger testcase for change#5126 + Branch: perl + ! t/op/pat.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5126] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 04:44:28 + Log: make /\S/ match the same things /[\S]/ matches; likewise for + \D (from Rick Delaney ) + Branch: perl + ! regexec.c t/op/pat.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5125] By: gsar on 2000/02/18 03:57:43 + Log: Compiler fixups from Jan Dubois + Branch: perl + ! ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/C.pm utils/perlcc.PL +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5124] By: jhi on 2000/02/17 22:09:09 + Log: Take out the -Wl,-z as we have survice so far without. + Branch: cfgperl + ! hints/hpux.sh +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5123] By: jhi on 2000/02/17 18:40:17 + Log: Integrate with Sarathy. + Branch: cfgperl + !> dump.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs t/op/split.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5122] By: gsar on 2000/02/17 18:01:14 + Log: fix test that depends on op_dump() output + Branch: perl + ! t/op/split.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5121] By: gsar on 2000/02/17 17:55:18 + Log: op_dump() tweak + Branch: perl + ! dump.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5120] By: jhi on 2000/02/16 23:11:04 + Log: Regularize the use* questions, and replace + "Configure *must* be run with -Duse..." with. + "can be run". + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure config_h.SH + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/threads/usethreads.U + Branch: metaconfig/U/perl + ! use64bits.U uselfs.U uselongdbl.U uselonglong.U + ! usemultiplicity.U useperlio.U usesocks.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5119] By: jhi on 2000/02/16 22:29:11 + Log: HP-UX 64-bitness/largefile fixes. + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure config_h.SH ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c hints/hpux.sh + ! perl.h + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/modified/cc.U U/modified/libpth.U U/modified/libs.U + Branch: metaconfig/U/perl + ! Extensions.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5118] By: jhi on 2000/02/16 19:47:51 + Log: Fcntl: more O_ constants, move SEEK_ to @EXPORT_OK + (tag :seek), add S_I constants (and functions) (tag :mode); + refer only to the SEEK_ of Fcntl, not the ones from + POSIX or IO::; add SHUT_ to Socket; get trigonometric + functions from Math::Trig instead of POSIX. + Branch: cfgperl + ! ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs ext/Socket/Socket.pm + ! ext/Socket/Socket.xs perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + ! pod/perlopentut.pod t/lib/syslfs.t + Branch: metaconfig/U/perl + + i_sysmode.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5117] By: gsar on 2000/02/16 06:39:06 + Log: avoid warnings due to redefined NULL + Branch: perl + ! ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5116] By: gsar on 2000/02/16 00:10:25 + Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline + Branch: perl + !> Configure Makefile.SH Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh + !> Porting/config_H config_h.SH ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs + !> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh + !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm myconfig.SH +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5115] By: jhi on 2000/02/15 23:11:55 + Log: Probe for . + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H + ! config_h.SH ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs + Branch: metaconfig/U/perl + + i_sysutsname.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5114] By: jhi on 2000/02/15 22:59:59 + Log: Integrate with Sarathy. + Branch: cfgperl + +> ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.pm ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.xs + +> ext/Sys/Hostname/Makefile.PL + - lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + !> (integrate 41 files) +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 5113] By: gsar on 2000/02/15 21:22:18 + Log: update Changes, patchlevel + Branch: perl + ! Changes patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc + ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk +____________________________________________________________________________ [ 5112] By: gsar on 2000/02/15 20:57:12 Log: fix change#5104 under useithreads Branch: perl