26 years ago] a2p: make sprintf less greedy without -o
Albert Dvornik [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:50:04 +0000]
] a2p: make sprintf less greedy without -o

Message-Id: <tqd879vf4z.fsf@puma.genscan.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2161

26 years agofix for bugs in -x mode
Ilya Zakharevich [Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:30:57 +0000]
fix for bugs in -x mode
Message-Id: <199810310530.AAA22277@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.00552] Fix h2xs

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2160

26 years agoData::Dumper update
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 31 Oct 1998 09:31:36 +0000]
Data::Dumper update

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2159

26 years agoadd testsuite portion of patch
Ilya Zakharevich [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:20:01 +0000]
add testsuite portion of patch
Message-Id: <199810300420.XAA25651@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.00321 ;-)] 87% speedup

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2153

26 years agomention the C<$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'> special case
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:08:11 +0000]
mention the C<$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'> special case

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2152

26 years agoPATCH: (5.005_02) a2p should use `chomp' instead of `chop'
Mark-Jason Dominus [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:24:23 +0000]
PATCH: (5.005_02)  a2p should use `chomp' instead of `chop'

Message-Id: <19981030192423.27276.qmail@plover.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2151

26 years agoOverloaded <> and deref again
Ilya Zakharevich [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 22:04:54 +0000]
Overloaded <> and deref again

Message-Id: <199810300304.WAA23291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2150

26 years agopatch for daemonization docs in perlipc
Roderick Schertler [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:50:18 +0000]
patch for daemonization docs in perlipc

Message-ID: <17625.909690618@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2149

26 years agowin32_opendir() fails on empty drives
Anton Berezin [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:06:25 +0000]
win32_opendir() fails on empty drives

Message-ID: <86pvbbuzcu.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2148

26 years agotweaked version of suggested patch
Anton Berezin [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:48:54 +0000]
tweaked version of suggested patch
Message-ID: <86yapzv5q1.fsf@lion.plab.ku.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_52] One more problem with win32_stat and MSVC

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2147

26 years agohand-apply whitespace-mutiliated patch
Vishal Bhatia [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:45:32 +0000]
hand-apply whitespace-mutiliated patch
Message-ID: <19981029074534.2334.qmail@hotmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_52]Compiling modules,more bugfixes for B

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2146

26 years agoremaining PL_foo stragglers
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:46:58 +0000]
remaining PL_foo stragglers

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2145

26 years agointegrate cfgperl tweaks into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:38:36 +0000]
integrate cfgperl tweaks into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2144

26 years agoThere can be multiple yacc/bison errors.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:27:39 +0000]
There can be multiple yacc/bison errors.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2143

26 years agoREADME.posix-bc update.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:18:43 +0000]
README.posix-bc update.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2142

26 years ago#2133 fallout.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:12:59 +0000]
#2133 fallout.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2141

26 years agoIntegrate from mainperl.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:43:18 +0000]
Integrate from mainperl.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2140

26 years agophase 1 of somewhat major rearrangement of PERL_OBJECT stuff
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 30 Oct 1998 02:51:39 +0000]
phase 1 of somewhat major rearrangement of PERL_OBJECT stuff
(objpp.h is gone, embed.pl now does some of that); objXSUB.h
should soon be automated also; the global variables that
escaped the PL_foo conversion are now reined in; renamed
MAGIC in regcomp.h to REG_MAGIC to avoid collision with the
type of same name; duplicated lists of pp_things in various
places is now gone; result has only been tested on win32

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2133

26 years agoPure bison yylex() proto was broken.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:31:26 +0000]
Pure bison yylex() proto was broken.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2130

26 years agoIntegrate mainperl.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:35:54 +0000]
Integrate mainperl.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2126

26 years agoEBCDIC Makefile.SH iteration converges. Hopefully.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:32:38 +0000]
EBCDIC Makefile.SH iteration converges.  Hopefully.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2125

26 years agoEBCDIC Makefile.SH tuneup.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:06:44 +0000]
EBCDIC Makefile.SH tuneup.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2124

26 years agoremove doubled hunk from integration
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:24:04 +0000]
remove doubled hunk from integration

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2119

26 years agoMinor debugger tweaks
Ilya Zakharevich [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:23:27 +0000]
Minor debugger tweaks

Message-Id: <199810280623.BAA06968@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2118

26 years agoMake sort respect overloading
Ilya Zakharevich [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:20:33 +0000]
Make sort respect overloading

Message-Id: <199810280620.BAA06893@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2117

26 years agoMM patches from Ilya Zakharevich
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:51:11 +0000]
MM patches from Ilya Zakharevich
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:27:04 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199810280627.BAA07053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.00552] Make MakeMaker more verbose
--
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 01:25:36 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <199810280625.BAA06980@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.00552] Make MakeMaker ignore errors in kid Makefile.PL

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2116

26 years agoadd explicit references to perl source path in ld2 and gcc2
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:46:19 +0000]
add explicit references to perl source path in ld2 and gcc2

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2115

26 years agoRe: Problems with: Creating an installable tar archive
Andy Dougherty [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:40:41 +0000]
Re: Problems with: Creating an installable tar archive

Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.96.981027103726.28498E-100000@newton.phys>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2114

26 years agointegrate cfgperl into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:21:16 +0000]
integrate cfgperl into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2113

26 years agominor cleanup
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:14:18 +0000]
minor cleanup

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2112

26 years agosmarter C<$SIG{FOO} = BAREWORD;> warning
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:52:10 +0000]
smarter C<$SIG{FOO} = BAREWORD;> warning

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2111

26 years agoposix-bc doesn't want to regenerate a2p.h from a2p.y.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:07:54 +0000]
posix-bc doesn't want to regenerate a2p.h from a2p.y.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2110

26 years agoa2p.y needs to generate also y.tab.h.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:39:54 +0000]
a2p.y needs to generate also y.tab.h.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2109

26 years agoThe "parse error" must be converted to "syntax error",
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:33:36 +0000]
The "parse error" must be converted to "syntax error",
just matching it aint' enough.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2108

26 years agoRegen sig_n{ame,umber}* if slightest doubt.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:23:05 +0000]
Regen sig_n{ame,umber}* if slightest doubt.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2107

26 years agoBison says 'parse error', not 'parser error'.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:44:49 +0000]
Bison says 'parse error', not 'parser error'.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2106

26 years agoyylex() parametrization.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:42:09 +0000]
yylex() parametrization.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2105

26 years agoBring in #2102.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:25:09 +0000]
Bring in #2102.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2104

26 years agoRe: perl5.004_04 testing problem
Dominic Dunlop [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:47:25 +0000]
Re: perl5.004_04 testing problem
Message-ID: <MLIST_v03110700b25b7dc95bbc@[212.24.192.87]>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2103

26 years agoutf8 change to quotemeta broke EBCDIC
Larry Wall [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:58:55 +0000]
utf8 change to quotemeta broke EBCDIC

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2102

26 years ago$Config{sig_num_init}.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:55:34 +0000]
$Config{sig_num_init}.
Also, a new approach to the 'pthreads-created-joinable': drop
it and use {PTHREAD_CREATE_{JOINABLE,UNDETACHED},__UNDETACHED}
directly. (See also #2096).

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2101

26 years agoRegenerated perly_c.diff.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:48:55 +0000]
Regenerated perly_c.diff.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2100

26 years agoFirst the mangler was Netscape, then it was me.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:42:25 +0000]
First the mangler was Netscape, then it was me.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2099

26 years ago`id -Gn` might be available where `groups` is not.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:34:40 +0000]
`id -Gn` might be available where `groups` is not.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2098

26 years agoNetscape had mangled the tabs.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:05:17 +0000]
Netscape had mangled the tabs.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2097

26 years agoATTR_JOINABLE logic, based on (private email)
Neale Ferguson [Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:44:42 +0000]
ATTR_JOINABLE logic, based on (private email)
Subject: Some little diffs
Message-ID: <36350969.DA33E7B4@mailbox.tabnsw.com.au>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2096

26 years agoMach cthreads support based on:
Brian Harrison [Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:01:55 +0000]
Mach cthreads support based on:
Subject: perl5.005_02 patch for mthreads
To: perl5-porters@perl.org
Message-ID: <MLIST_Pine.GSO.4.04.9810231410220.11111-200000@sulaco.eos.home.net>

Pthread yield probe (dejavu)
Cosmetic nanochange for the union semun output.
Better inttypes.h probe.
Undo the 'void *' $selecttype probe from #1971 because
it breaks the $selectminbits test.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2095

26 years agoAlso posix-bc wants to reyacc.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:02:07 +0000]
Also posix-bc wants to reyacc.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2094

26 years agoRemoved !(*s & 0x80) from pp_quotemeta(), introduced after
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:17:21 +0000]
Removed !(*s & 0x80) from pp_quotemeta(), introduced after
5_02 and really breaking things in non-ASCII worlds.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2093

26 years agoMore robustness.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:08:00 +0000]
More robustness.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2092

26 years agos/YYLEXPARAM/PERL_YYLEX_PARAM_DECL/g
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:47:32 +0000]
s/YYLEXPARAM/PERL_YYLEX_PARAM_DECL/g
Bison really wants YYLEX_PARAM.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2091

26 years agos/YYLEX_PARAM/YYLEXPARAM/
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:21:25 +0000]
s/YYLEX_PARAM/YYLEXPARAM/

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2090

26 years agoIndicate skipped subtests.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:17:33 +0000]
Indicate skipped subtests.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2089

26 years agoIntegrate from mainperl.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:11:36 +0000]
Integrate from mainperl.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2088

26 years agoAdd test for filetests.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 08:08:02 +0000]
Add test for filetests.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2087

26 years agovarious win32 tweaks; disable new xs_cpp section (it creates
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 02:44:44 +0000]
various win32 tweaks; disable new xs_cpp section (it creates
ambiguous inference graph for %.xs --> %.o)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2086

26 years agosanity-check $Config{drand01} in rand.t
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:50:02 +0000]
sanity-check $Config{drand01} in rand.t

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2085

26 years agoupdate win32/config*.?c
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:22:04 +0000]
update win32/config*.?c

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2078

26 years agoRe: die with a reference should use overload "" operator
Graham Barr [Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:45:50 +0000]
Re: die with a reference  should use overload "" operator

Message-ID: <19981024214550.C508@pobox.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2077

26 years agoRe: Auto-incrementing tied scalar causes SEGV
Graham Barr [Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:45:21 +0000]
Re: Auto-incrementing tied scalar causes SEGV

Message-ID: <19981024124521.C512@pobox.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2076

26 years agofix C<print $n += 5;> etc.
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 08:24:09 +0000]
fix C<print $n += 5;> etc.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2075

26 years agolist builtins with portability caveats
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:05:23 +0000]
list builtins with portability caveats
Message-Id: <199810231105.OAA02411@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: [PATCH] 5.005_02 and 5.005_52: perlfunc.pod and perlport.pod

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2074

26 years agofix stack overrun in file test operators
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:55:43 +0000]
fix stack overrun in file test operators

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2073

26 years agoimplement C<goto &func> and other fixes (via private mail)
Vishal Bhatia [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 22:59:03 +0000]
implement C<goto &func> and other fixes (via private mail)
Message-Id: <19981022055904.20083.qmail@hotmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_52] More fixes for B

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2072

26 years agoRe: taint checking for: use lib "$ENV{'EVIL'}"
Graham Barr [Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:42:41 +0000]
Re: taint checking for: use lib "$ENV{'EVIL'}"

Message-ID: <19981017204241.G510@pobox.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2071

26 years agoavoid bogus line number in XSUB redefined warnings
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:07:29 +0000]
avoid bogus line number in XSUB redefined warnings

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2070

26 years agoFile::Path::mkpath reports the wrong error
Martijn Koster [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:12:03 +0000]
File::Path::mkpath reports the wrong error

Message-ID: <19981021131203.A15661@excitecorp.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2069

26 years agoExporter.pm's export_to_level() argument handling buggy
Zachary Miller [Tue, 20 Oct 1998 20:52:20 +0000]
Exporter.pm's export_to_level() argument handling buggy

Message-Id: <199810210152.UAA07792@simon.er.usgs.gov>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2068

26 years agoMake _really_ sure Dynaloader.xs code is initialized only once
Jan Dubois [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:55:51 +0000]
Make _really_ sure Dynaloader.xs code is initialized only once

Message-ID: <36380269.55370608@smtp1.ibm.net>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2067

26 years agorecognize '%' as a shell metachar for win32
Jan Dubois [Tue, 20 Oct 1998 21:57:35 +0000]
recognize '%' as a shell metachar for win32
Message-ID: <3636ea31.49170453@smtp1.ibm.net>
Subject: [PATCH 5.005_02, Win32]  Re: %ENV% not expanded in backquotes?

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2066

26 years agoremove FAST_SV_GETS remnant (as suggested by Gisle Aas)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:46:30 +0000]
remove FAST_SV_GETS remnant (as suggested by Gisle Aas)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2065

26 years agoord() and unpack("U*",...) should not be negative
Gisle Aas [Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:24:44 +0000]
ord() and unpack("U*",...) should not be negative

Message-ID: <m34sszctf7.fsf@furu.g.aas.no>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2064

26 years agoImprove sbrk() on OS/2
Ilya Zakharevich [Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:20:57 +0000]
Improve sbrk() on OS/2

Message-Id: <199810190320.XAA28249@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2063

26 years agoSpeed up aassign
Ilya Zakharevich [Sun, 18 Oct 1998 23:10:29 +0000]
Speed up aassign

Message-Id: <199810190310.XAA28102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2062

26 years agoRe: '*' prototype does not allow bareword with strict
Graham Barr [Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:22:02 +0000]
Re: '*' prototype does not allow bareword with strict

Message-ID: <19981017222202.J510@pobox.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2061

26 years agohandle '::' in section names properly
Graham Barr [Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:57:54 +0000]
handle '::' in section names properly
Message-ID: <19981017125754.C510@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: pod2html

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2060

26 years agointegrate changes#1982,2014,2021 (from maint-5.005)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 06:33:43 +0000]
integrate changes#1982,2014,2021 (from maint-5.005)

p4raw-link: @2021 on //depot/maint-5.005/perl: ece095e7b265a16d4ec3543b1418100f9c635a87
p4raw-link: @2014 on //depot/maint-5.005/perl: cca0b9804acab4b7678c0f185888d57497a5c2a9
p4raw-link: @1982 on //depot/maint-5.005/perl: fe676099d996f70caaedeb6ae85adc3ee59d2240

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2059

26 years agoallow more win32 symbol exports (suggested by Jan Dubois)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:44:17 +0000]
allow more win32 symbol exports (suggested by Jan Dubois)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2058

26 years agointegrate change#2053 from maint-5.005
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:40:40 +0000]
integrate change#2053 from maint-5.005

p4raw-link: @2053 on //depot/maint-5.005/perl: 2c3f7d309175811e431d5baa7695e7610e2fa584

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2057
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/maint-5.005/perl@2056 'copy in'
t/cmd/while.t (@1649..) 'merge in' cop.h (@1649..)

26 years agocommented version of a patch suggested by Drago Goricanec
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:24:45 +0000]
commented version of a patch suggested by Drago Goricanec
Message-ID: <oeeogrc1ype.fsf@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.005_52] Linux select fails with more than 32 FDs

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2056

26 years agoinclude eof() in description of buffering caveats
Anton Berezin [Fri, 16 Oct 1998 19:22:41 +0000]
include eof() in description of buffering caveats
Message-Id: <199810161722.TAA28813@lion.plab.ku.dk>
Subject: [DOCPATCH] pod/perlfunc.pod

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2055

26 years agodisallow 'x' in hex numbers (except leading '0x')
Gisle Aas [Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:33:12 +0000]
disallow 'x' in hex numbers (except leading '0x')
Message-ID: <m3n26wtw47.fsf@furu.g.aas.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.005_52] 'x' is not a legal hex digit

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2054

26 years agoavoid the circular refcnt logic in magic_mutexfree()
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:49:04 +0000]
avoid the circular refcnt logic in magic_mutexfree()

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2052

26 years agoproperly restore PL_rsfp_filters after require
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 04:35:07 +0000]
properly restore PL_rsfp_filters after require

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2051

26 years agointegrate cfgperl changes back into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 02:42:32 +0000]
integrate cfgperl changes back into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2050

26 years agoavoid "mysterious" compile-time failures without messages
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 25 Oct 1998 01:30:48 +0000]
avoid "mysterious" compile-time failures without messages

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2049

26 years agochr(0xFFFFFFFF) didn't translate to utf8 character
Larry Wall [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:31:42 +0000]
chr(0xFFFFFFFF) didn't translate to utf8 character

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2040

26 years agotr///d does not seem to work
Larry Wall [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:48:34 +0000]
tr///d does not seem to work

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2039

26 years agoProgram with utf8 identifiers fails to compile
Larry Wall [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:00:41 +0000]
Program with utf8 identifiers fails to compile

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2038

26 years agoTest suite portability:
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:04:51 +0000]
Test suite portability:
- posix-bc does not write to broken pipes
- filehand #11 only iff we have fork
- warning.t can now match $expected using regular expressions

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2037

26 years agoyacc clarification.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:12:07 +0000]
yacc clarification.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2036

26 years agoSome C compilers get upset about 8-bit characters in /* comments. */
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:09:59 +0000]
Some C compilers get upset about 8-bit characters in /* comments. */

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2035

26 years agoConfigure update: both for pthread_yield more robust
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:11:52 +0000]
Configure update: both for pthread_yield more robust
testing (all variants of pthread_attr_getdetachstate()) --
and because Configure was broken in major way! About 1000
last lines were truncated.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2034

26 years agoDJGPP feedback for #2028.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 22 Oct 1998 07:47:10 +0000]
DJGPP feedback for #2028.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2033

26 years agoyielding, the saga continues.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:03:57 +0000]
yielding, the saga continues.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2032

26 years agoVM/ESA feedback for #2028.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:15:42 +0000]
VM/ESA feedback for #2028.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2031

26 years agofix handling of mayhaps-extended @_ in goto &sub
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 04:22:53 +0000]
fix handling of mayhaps-extended @_ in goto &sub

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2030

26 years agorestore sanity to "constant" references
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 21 Oct 1998 00:54:14 +0000]
restore sanity to "constant" references

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2029

26 years agoOLD_PTHREADS_API reorganizing.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:01:20 +0000]
OLD_PTHREADS_API reorganizing.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2028

26 years ago#2026 fallout.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:14:51 +0000]
#2026 fallout.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2027