Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information,
please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN
site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
releases.)
----------------
Version 5.003_07
----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004.
If it doesn't work for you, try
LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL
for Bourne shell users, or
setenv LC_ALL C
for C-shell users. Some versions of IRIX are reported to have
problems with sort when the locale is other than C. This manifests
as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step.
The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-Support for BER compressed integers. See perlfunc.pod for
documentation on the 'w' option.
-untaint support added to IO extension.
o Changes in Core Internals
-Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
with 5.003. (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.)
-Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4.
o Configure and build enhancements
-improved SCO hints. Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but
they may be right.
-OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
o Bug fixes
-print sort (4,1,3,2);
-group numbers are integers again.
-other things. See the specific changes for details.
o Specific Changes
Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_07.
Fixed a spelling error.
Index: Configure
Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc.
Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test
program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of
Configure have moved around unchanged. The patch is big but the
effect is little.
Allow for both <sys/select.h> and <time.h> in fd_set tests.
Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one
or the other in the hints file for now.
Index: INSTALL
Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values.
Index: MANIFEST
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
os2/Changes added.
Index: Makefile.SH
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with
shared library target, which is delegated to
$osname/Makefile.SHs if found.
config.h should depend on config_h.SH.
Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly
sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked).
Index: README.os2
New version.
Index: config_H
Update SH_PATH comment.
Index: config_h.SH
Update SH_PATH comment.
Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad
things it can do.
Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
and we might need to hide it.
Index: gv.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Better error message for overload.
Index: hints/os2.sh
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some
memory present - 32M should be quite enough).
Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately.
libc was in .../st/... instead of mt.
README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod.
Index: hints/sco.sh
Don't include <sys/select.h> along with <time.h>.
Index: installperl
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install).
Index: lib/Cwd.pm
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be
done outside of OS/2 too?).
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
`bool' entry added.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!).
Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Cleanup after new test
Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just
plain broken under OS/2 and VMS)
Index: lib/FindBin.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module
Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
Update to version 2.4.
Index: lib/lib.pm
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400
From: "Brent B. Powers" <powers@ml.com>
Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm
Ignore undefined entries.
Index: lib/newgetopt.pl
Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long.
Index: makedepend.SH
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH
(They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH
with more than two '.' Such names are illegal on some systems.)
Index: mg.c
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 ()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06
The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error
introduced in 5.003_06. This patch is required to fix the bug:
Index: os2/Changes
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
updates for fork()ing.
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
added.
Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Convoluted process to create chimera executables added.
aout_clean is done automatically on clean.
Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Use `unlink' where appropriate.
Index: os2/diff.configure
Updated.
Index: os2/os2.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
/bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe.
popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now).
builtins added for the sake of path manipulation.
Index: os2/os2ish.h
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
updates for fork()ing.
Index: patchlevel.h
Change to subversion 7.
Index: perl.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}
I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
(the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries
is frightning!).
If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range
of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.
Index: perl.h
Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version.
I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc,
and we might need to hide it.
Index: plan9/aperl
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/buildinfo
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/config.plan9
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/exclude
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/fndvers
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/genconfig.pl
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/mkfile
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/plan9.c
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/plan9ish.h
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/setup.rc
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: plan9/versnum
Updated for 5.003_07
Index: pod/perldiag.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE.
OS/2-specific messages added.
Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
Index: pod/perli18n.pod
Updated version with high bits intact.
Index: pod/perlop.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Crossrefs corrected.
Index: pod/perltrap.pod
Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4
and perl5.
Index: pod/perlvar.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
$^E under OS/2.
Index: pp.c
Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
Index: pp_sys.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT
From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com>
The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened
with write privileges for chsize to work correctly.
Index: sv.c
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work
>> > print sort (4,1,2,3);
>> >
>> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort. Bug? Feature?
This broke between 5.001n and 5.002. There was a long winded thread
about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around
the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on
p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that
the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called:
Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above
code breaks! Here's a patch against 5.00306.
Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Better error message on dying.
Index: t/lib/io_taint.t
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version
This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in
IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object
that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from
said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid.
This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the
pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and
adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST.
Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle.
Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/odbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is
no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in
database code.
So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests.
Index: t/lib/socket.t
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX)
fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is
rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases.
Index: t/op/pack.t
Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
Index: t/op/sort.t
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests
Index: util.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined
as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does).
Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: sh Configure?
Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
pathname of the file being extracted.
Index: x2p/cflags.SH
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt
From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: sh Configure?
Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down
in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full
pathname of the file being extracted.
----------------
Version 5.003_06
----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003.
The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for
locales, including LC_COLLATE. See the new pod/perli18n.pod.
Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi.
-new version of Math::Complex, with test suite. Ought to be
backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex.
-Pre-extending hashes now works. keys %hash = 5000 will pre-size
%hash.
-__DATA__ filehandle is untainted.
o Changes in Core Internals
-gv_fullname and gv_efullname have reverted to their pre-5.003_03
versions for binary compatibility. Actually, they are implemented
as stubs pointing to the new 3-argument forms gv_fullname3 and
gv_efullname3.
-Perl's malloc is once again called 'Mymalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC),
as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility
with 5.003.
o Configure and build enhancements
-many new tests for the standard library.
-test suite now locale-friendly.
-a2p.man and s2p.man now made into pods.
o Bug fixes
-whitespace lexer errors fixed.
-many, many other things. See details below.
o Specific Changes
Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
# This is my patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl5.003_05
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
# We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them
# executable.
for t in abbrev.t autoloader.t basename.t checktree.t complex.t \
env.t fatal.t filecache.t filecopy.t filefind.t filepath.t \
findbin.t getopt.t hostname.t parsewords.t searchdict.t \
selectsaver.t symbol.t texttabs.t textwrap.t timelocal.t
do
touch t/lib/$t
chmod +x t/lib/$t
done
# The a2p.man and s2p.man pages have been changed into pods.
rm -f x2p/a2p.man x2p/s2p.man
exit 0
This is patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl version 5.003_05.
This takes you from 5.003_05 to 5.003_06.
To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type
patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_06.pat
The changes are described after each /^Index:/ line below. This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
csplit -k perl5.003_06.pat '/^Index:/' '{999}'
(Of course, since there are more than 100 Index entries, your
csplit may complain, since many csplit's have an arbitrary limit of 100
files. Still, you can manually split the file or roll your own.)
Patch and enjoy,
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_06.
Index: Configure
Add -Wl,rpath option for irix* to find the installed shared
libperl.so
Add /shlib to libpth. It is used by Digital Unix 4.0.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Detect Cygnus Win32, or at least don't let Configure get fooled
into thinking it's OS/2.
Index: INSTALL
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
added LC_COLLATE doc.
Index: MANIFEST
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
added perli18n.pod.
Index: README
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Index: configpm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: configure
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Warn the user of case-insensitive file systems that they may have
accidentally gotten 'configure' instead of 'Configure'.
Index: doio.c
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: doop.c
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Index: dump.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Index: embed.h
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Index: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/IO.xs
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Updated to IO-1.12.
Index: ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl
Perl 5.003_05 compiles on DYNIX/ptx 4.0 (v4.1.3), and passes all tests.
The only change needed is in "ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL" - on this system,
ndbm is actually contained in the libc library, and must be linked against
-lc when compiling. (this is for dynamic ELF executables, I didn't compile
statically)
Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm:
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
enhanced setlocale() docs and introduced the one-argument variant doc.
Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
setlocale() allowed one argument only,
call to perl_init_fold() (in util.c) if setlocale() succeeded.
Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
5.003.
Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: global.sym
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
added var lc_collate_active and func mem_collxfrm.
Index: gv.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Index: handy.h
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
applied, use this one instead.
The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
Index: hints/machten.sh
Add notes about MachTen 4.0.3 SYSV IPC.
Index: hints/next_3.sh
Replace optimize="-g" by optimize="" since we're just trying to turn off
the optimizier.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Index: hv.c
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
flag.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Index: hv.h
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
flag.
Index: installman
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: installperl
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm
Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent
> This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
filename manipulations:
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix
It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
function. With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit
from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems.
This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by
updating its documentation.
Index: lib/Benchmark.pm
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Subject: a really really tiny typo
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Cwd.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Env.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Exporter.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
Remove unwantd space after the I in -I$Config[archlib}
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Change a reference from perlapi(1) to perlxs(1).
Index: lib/File/Basename.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS
The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when
fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect:
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: File::Basename documentation patch
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for
File::Basename was also wrong:
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/File/Find.pm
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:37:44 +0200
From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@it.com.pl>
Subject: File::Find assumes $_ remains unchanged; bug
The File::Find perl module assumes that the $_ variable remains unchanged
through the user defined function which is callbacked from find. It carries
out a stat operation
Simplest fix is merely to document this
Index: lib/File/Path.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/FindBin.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
deprecated and trapped (will whine if called and tell to migrate away)
Index: lib/IPC/Open2.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
ord() is a dangerous thing.
Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
# Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
# -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
# New version. Should be backwards compatible, but please
# check it out if you use it.
Index: lib/Pod/Text.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/
The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead
of tr/A-Z/a-z/. This will make folding of non-english letters work if
the locale is set up correctly.
Index: lib/SelfLoader.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Symbol.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)'
I don't understand why the module want to initialize %global from
<DATA> in the first place. Perhaps we want to apply this patch
instead.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm
Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Patch for Term::Cap
'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The
patch below avoids the warning.
[The $entry .= $_ usage is idiomatic enough that it ought to be
ok, I would think, but the patch certainly is ok too.]
Index: lib/Term/Complete.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
Index: lib/Text/Tabs.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/Time/Local.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
Add in stub file.
Index: lib/bigint.pl
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
ord() is a dangerous thing.
Index: lib/diagnostics.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/overload.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/perl5db.pl
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work
Index: lib/splain
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: lib/strict.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: makedepend.SH
Add explicit $touch $firstmakefile for QNX which apparently
preserves modification times for a 'cp' command.
I worry, though, that touch might not be portable to OS/2.
If it is, then I'll remove the fancy case statement.
Index: malloc.c
Not all sbrks return zeroed memory.
Index: mg.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $!
This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related
to the numeric value of $!.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E
This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c,
related to the numeric values of $! and $^E. This patch *REPLACES*
the one I posted earlier, which was only effective for $!.
[Some of this is superceded by similar stuff in the VMS patches.]
Index: op.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Index: opcode.h
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
C++ compiler.
Index: opcode.pl
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700
From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com>
Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program
The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter
into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the
C++ compiler.
Index: patchlevel.h
Change to subversion 6.
Index: perl.c
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC
support C<perl -e'attached code'>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch)
Message-Id: <199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv. Here's a patch.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: perl.h
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be
applied, use this one instead.
The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are
ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with
5.003.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: perl_exp.SH
Add new function perl_init_fold. (I'm not sure it goes here.)
Index: perlio.c
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58 PDT
From: Hunter Kelly <retnuh@zule.pixar.com>
Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
Fix PerlIO_reopen parameters.
Index: perlsdio.h
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:24:01 -0400
From: John Stoffel <jfs@jfs.fluent.com>
Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available.
Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: pod/Makefile
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
perli18n.pod (and perlapio.pod, btw) added.
Index: pod/buildtoc
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perl.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
perli18n advertised.
Index: pod/perlapio.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Index: pod/perlbook.pod
Updated for Second Edition.
Index: pod/perlcall.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perldata.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perldebug.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perldiag.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: pod/perldsc.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlembed.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlform.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlguts.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch
Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This
incorporates and supersedes Dean's patch.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perli18n.pod
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
written.
Index: pod/perlipc.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perllol.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlmod.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: documentation for $? in END
Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
Index: pod/perlobj.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlop.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
Index: pod/perlpod.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlre.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
Index: pod/perlref.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlrun.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlsec.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlstyle.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlsub.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlsyn.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perltie.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perltoc.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Index: pod/perltrap.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: a perl425 trap
Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory.
[interpolation issues]
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/perlvar.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: documentation for $? in END
Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
Index: pod/perlxstut.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: pod/pod2man.PL
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Bugs found in pod2man
The following bugs were noticed, and some fixed:
1. Where a L<> link extends over more than one line, pod2man does not
treat it as a link but displays it literally, and so these have been
rearranged to place the link on one line. This is the only bug worked
around. [Fixed; the rearrangements, which were done beforehand,
remain in some cases, but are no longer necessary, and pod paragraphs
can now be safely reformatted to whatever width is desired in the pod,
without breaking links.]
2. It seems to swallow spaces after certain links: for example, part
of the "open" entry in the perlfunc manpage comes out as "the
\f(CWbinmode\fR entry elsewhere in this documentfor tips", the source
having been "L</binmode> for tips". [Fixed.]
3. 'L</"Pass by Reference">', in perlsub.pod, comes out as '\fI/"Pass
by Reference\fR', that is, with an initial '/"'.
4. If a pod line begins with ".", nothing is done to prevent [tng]roff
from treating it as a [tng]roff instruction.
5. When the paragraph below =head1 NAME has more than one line, this
confuses pod2man: so in the case of Term::Readline, the manpage begins
with a stray line 'no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead
of basic functions."'.
Of course, it would be better to fix pod2man; I hope that the new Pod
modules, when ready, will not have these defects.
Index: pp_ctl.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
sortcmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
Index: pp_hot.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Index: pp_sys.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:26:57 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch to patch for untainting
The following patch ensures that a glob used as a filehandle that
has had the UNTAINT flag set will not carry that flag over on a
re-open. In a nutshell, a re-open of the DATA filehandle would be
considered untainted, and an object of class IO::Handle (or one of
its sub-classes) that is marked untainted with the untaint method,
then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a
miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the
library and the creation of Makefiles for the extensions didn't
work. Worse, it didn't just fail to open files, it dumped core.
Index: proto.h
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
mem_collxfrm() and perl_init_fold() added.
Index: run.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Index: sv.c
Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the
fast I/O fiddling with stdio in sv_gets(). These were useful
to me in setting up the VMS fast I/O, and I left them in in
case they're useful to someone in the future. However, if you
think it overloads -DP too much, feel free to drop it. (-DP
already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
sv_cmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch.
Index: sv.h
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over).
I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is
needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical
hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags.
Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem.
The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private
flag.
Index: t/base/term.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
\n not necessarily lt ' '.
Index: t/comp/package.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
XYZ not necessarily gt xyz.
Index: t/lib/abbrev.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both).
Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/autoloader.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
filename manipulations:
Index: t/lib/basename.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Fix the number of tests.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends.
Index: t/lib/checktree.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/complex.t
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200
From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
# Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
# -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996
Tests for new version.
Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/env.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/fatal.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/filecache.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/filecopy.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/filefind.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/filepath.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/findbin.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/getopt.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/hostname.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/odbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/parsewords.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/lib/searchdict.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/symbol.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
The various new lib/*.t tests didn't all work. For some, it was
only because the count of tests was wrong:
Index: t/lib/texttabs.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/textwrap.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/lib/timelocal.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent
out are applied.
Index: t/op/each.t
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
"keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for
pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from
when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/op/glob.t
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: Re: glob test 1 failing...bad test or bug
Under AIX 4.1.4, with LOCALE set en_GB (British english) glob test one
fails because <op/*> sorts op/re_* before op/rea*, while
$otherway = `echo op/*` sorts op/re_* after op/re[a-z]*.t
This version doesn't rely on the sorting order.
Index: t/op/magic.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/op/readdir.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: t/op/sort.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
A not necessarily gt a.
Index: toke.c
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch)
I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately
overwrite oldbufptr and oldoldbufptr (which are used in making
expectation decisions in the lexer).
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: perl lexer won't accept C<my($a,$b);$a<=>$b;>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles
This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles
on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given
file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on.
There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag
before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same
reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on
on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA
pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so
this should not introduce any insecurity.
This patch *does not*:
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Index: util.c
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
rewrote perl_init_i18n() completely.
- reworded to be much more friendly and clear.
- perl_init_fold() split to its own function.
wrote mem_collxfrm().
Index: utils/c2ph.PL
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: utils/h2ph.PL
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: utils/h2xs.PL
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500
From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
Subject: h2xs bug fix
The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from
finding #define statements and filling the constant() function. This patch
fixes that. The h2xs_test program found this--maybe people who are
modifying h2xs should get a copy of the test program.
This also adds a -d to enable debugging messages (there's just one for now).
I've also placed some of the doc-related things in alphabetical order.
h2xs_test can be found in my directory on CPAN. Those of you modifying
xsubpp should know there's a test suite for that, too, called XSTEST which
can also be found in my directory on CPAN.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Index: utils/perldoc.PL
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: perldoc patch
Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2.
Index: vms/config.vms
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/descrip.mms
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/genconfig.pl
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/perlvms.pod
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/vms.c
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: x2p/a2p.pod
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
This patch just changed the old a2p.man page into a pod page.
Index: x2p/s2p.PL
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments
This patch just changed the old s2p.man page into a pod page.
I then embedded the pod into the s2p script.
----------------
Version 5.003_05
----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the remaining issues from in 5.003_04. The details are described below.
A very brief summary is:
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-Add support for a READLINE method to tied filehandles.
-times function now uses CLK_TCK if HZ is not available, rather
than just defaulting to 60. times output might change on some
systems, but should be correct now.
-AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select
order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still
the same.
o Configure and build enhancements
-Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
[gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
-You can now build a shared libperl.so without running through
the LD_RUN_PATH hoops, if your system supports appropriate
ld command-line options. Solaris, NetBSD, and Linux are currently
supported. Others are easy to add. (This makes like a lot easier
for embedders.)
-VMS updates.
-Fix installperl and installman so that the -n option really only
prints commands. (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
o Bug fixes
-debugger ought to work.
-A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH is now quoted. This prevented
5.003_04 from working most places.
-numerous smaller ones, detailed below.
o Specific Changes
Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
# This is my patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl5.003_04
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
# executable.
touch t/io/read.t
chmod +x t/io/read.t
exit 0
This is patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl version 5.003_04.
This takes you from 5.003_04 to 5.003_05.
To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type
patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_05.pat
The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
Patch and enjoy,
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_05.
Index: Configure
Allow command line or hint-file overrides of $afs.
Allow trailing spaces in nm output for HPUX10.
Check for newer BIND 'search' directives in /etc/resolv.conf as well
as older 'domain' directive.
Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
[gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
Include -s in the -h summary of available options.
Allow command-line override of $afs.
Handle trailing spaces in nm-output on HPUX10.
Set shrpenv for handling LD_RUN_PATH, if needed. (This used to
be in Makefile.SH. Now it's available for other modules too.)
When using shared libperl, avoid LD_RUN_PATH if possible by adding
correct ld flags. Currently, Solaris and NetBSD get the correct
-R $archlibexp/CORE, and Linux gets its
-Wl,-rpath,$archlibexp/CORE flag. Other contributions are
welcome.
Index: INSTALL
Correct libperl5 -> libperl typo.
Describe MakeMaker's Warning (will try anyway) messages.
More info on where and how to send reports.
Add info on non-Unix ports.
Index: MANIFEST
Add new test t/io/read.t.
Add new hints files for ODBM_File for ultrix and hpux.
Add new pod checker script.
Index: Makefile.SH
A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH needs to be quoted.
shrpenv stuff moved to Configure.
Index: Porting/Glossary
Updated to match Configure.
Index: README.vms
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: av.h
Subject: turbidity in av.[ch]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Some unclean code that I noticed today.
Index: config_H
Updated to match newest config_h.SH.
Index: config_h.SH
Updated to match Configure.
Changed the DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE comment to
/**/ to conform to metaconfig style.
Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Newer CPerl-mode
Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
Update to DB_File 1.03.
Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
Update to DB_File 1.03.
Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl
Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading.
Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0
This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin.
Index: ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
Attempt to correct for "Bad free" in Ultrix and HPUX versions of
odbm.
Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/hpux.pl
Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().
Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/ultrix.pl
Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose().
Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200
From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm
This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless
auto/Socket/autosplit.ix.
Index: handy.h
Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
Index: hints/convexos.sh
Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle
this now.
Index: hints/hpux.sh
Add note about possible gcc GR3 warning message.
Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle
this now.
Index: hints/sco.sh
Turn off optimization for stock cc. This appears to
prevent miniperl core dumps.
Index: hints/solaris_2.sh
Catch GNU ld even though it doesn't identify itself as a GNU tool.
Thanks to Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>.
Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
Describe solution for the __lib_version problem with acc on
SunOS.
Index: hv.c
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: minor misc. cleanup
This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
in functionality whatsoever.
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:52:21 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04)
I have tried to avoid copying of hash keys that are passed to
magical hashes, but it seems that copying may be unavoidable
since the hv_*_ent() functions could be PADTMPs (and other
SVs that may get reused) as keys.
VMS dynamic %ENV fix
Index: installman
From: scotth@sgi.com
Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)
Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
(previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
*don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)
Index: installperl
From: scotth@sgi.com
Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m)
Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands.
(previously, it would still do the mkdirs.)
an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check
to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I
*don't* want it to do when I do #1 above)
Index: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected)
Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select
order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still
the same.
Add helpful "die" message to end of AnyDBM_File. Previously
it would return a 0, and the failure would eventually show up
somewhere else in the script and be hard to track down. It is
a failure if perl can't open AnyDBM_File. The test regression
suite is supposed to indicate this as a failure too.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Fix for VMS utime.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Updated to MakeMaker-5.39 to allow CFLAGS in hint files.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
Updated to MakeMaker-5.38.
Index: lib/File/Find.pm
From: Michael Mahan <mahanm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu>
Subject: Cwd::fastcwd in File::Find
Is there a good reason why File::Find uses Cwd::fastcwd instead of
Cwd:cwd when fastcwd isn't as portable?
[In particular, fastcwd() doesn't work on AFS.]
Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm
There was a mistake in the sqrt routine in lib/Math/Complex.pm that
gave wrong answers when the magnitude of the imaginary part of the
argument exceeded the magnitude of the real part. Line 69 had too
many sqrt($y)'s. Further, expressions were re-arranged so that
calls to the expensive real sqrt() routine were reduced from 4 to 2
in this case.
Index: lib/open3.pl
The I/O directions on the dad_wtr and kid_rdr were backwards.
IO/Open3.pm didn't have this error.
Index: lib/syslog.pl
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage
syslog.pl tries but fails to use
Socket.pm, the problem is that use doesn't return a true value. This
module should be recast in terms of Sys::Syslog, of course.
Index: makedepend.SH
This patch eliminates "\|" in sed patterns in makedepend.SH, since
they're not really needed anyway in this one case.
Index: mg.c
Ok, here's a tested patch for the debugger problem.
I was missing the fact that DB::dbline magic is actually
uppercase (which means hv_store_ent() etc., will pass SV keys
to the vtbl_dbline handlers).
Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
the simple MgPVKEY macro.
Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add
additional parens around the "mg".
(lines near 584) Part of VMS changes. I don't know what this did.
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) >
This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers
(C<sv_setiv>) instead of floats. It also eliminates a warning from
C< local($)) >, via a hack similar to $!.
Index: mg.h
Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with
the simple MgPVKEY macro.
Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add
additional parens around the "mg".
Index: nostdio.h
Add _STDIO_LOADED (VMS) to list of guard symbols.
Index: op.c
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
Index: patchlevel.h
Change to subversion 5.
Index: perl.c
Make floating point constants Locale-friendly.
Index: perl.h
One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler.
Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have
BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use
[gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible.
Index: perlio.c
Eliminate potential "signed vs. unsigned" warning
Add PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_cgetname functions.
Index: perlsdio.h
Don't supply redundant parameters for PerlIO_open and PerlIO_fdopen.
Include PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_getname.
s/FILE_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE/STDIO_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE to fix a typo.
This had prevented SV_FAST_FGETS from working anywhere.
Include PerlIO_canset_cnt. I'm not sure how this is supposed to
differ from STDIO_CNT_LVALUE.
Index: pod/Makefile
Remove trailing spaces in pods.
Include a call to the checkpods script in the Makefile (though it's
not ordinarily used by users).
Index: pod/checkpods.PL
New script to check for common errors in pods. This is not
normally called during the perl build process, but you can
use it with B<make check>.
Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp.
Index: pod/perlipc.pod
Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage.
Index: pod/perlref.pod
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
Index: pod/perltie.pod
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Subject: more TIEHANDLE
This adds support for a READLINE method.
Index: pod/perltrap.pod
Here's documentation on the change in split's behavior between Perl 4
and Perl 5.
Subject: More (and less!) 425traps
Large integer traps
Precedence
warn STDERR
Change blank lines to empty lines.
Index: pod/perlvar.pod
Be explicit about $/="" matching empty lines, that is, lines
with no spaces or tabs.
Change blank lines to empty lines.
Index: pp.c
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics
This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV
values when performing bitwise operations and modulus.
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
(double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv().
Index: pp_hot.c
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: minor misc. cleanup
This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
in functionality whatsoever.
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Subject: more TIEHANDLE
This adds support for a READLINE method.
Index: pp_sys.c
Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
Undef and then re-define my_chsize from Perl_my_chsize to
just plain chsize if this system HAS_CHSIZE. This probably only
applies to SCO. This shows the perils of having internal
functions with the same name as external library functions :-).
Use CLK_TCK if HZ is not available.
Index: sv.c
Fix more spots where we had PerlIO_stderr() and should have had
Perl_debug_log instead.
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation
I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it
would improve the safety of AV creation.
Remove potentially incorrect casts on PerlIO_set_ptrcnt.
'ptr' is already STDCHAR, which is supposed to be the type of
char used in stdio.h, so we shouldn't have to cast it.
Index: t/io/read.t
Clear any buffer space exposed by by read().
This is almost certainly a bug-fix.
Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
Update to DB_File 1.03.
Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
Update to DB_File 1.03.
Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
Update to DB_File 1.03.
Index: t/lib/io_sock.t
From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.m.isar.de>
Subject: Perl 5.003.03: race condition in t/lib/io_sock.t
io_sock.t works by forking a subprocess it can communicate with.
It has the subprocess wait for the main process by sleeping 10
seconds or until an alarm arrives.
With my setup, the alarm signal arrives *before* the child
has a chance to ignore the alarm signal.
I fixed this by moving the "$SIG{ALRM} = sub {};" up before the
fork. It does not hurt to have the parent ignore alarms, too.
Index: t/op/inc.t
One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
Index: t/op/misc.t
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200
From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
Subject: more TIEHANDLE
This adds support for a READLINE method.
Index: t/op/pack.t
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
Index: t/op/ref.t
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
Index: universal.c
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST
From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted
yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference
is an object, so the patch should be
Index: unixish.h
Change comment style so that IBM's picky xlc compiler doesn't
think we've mistakenly tried to nest comments.
Index: util.c
One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few
minor cleanups. Nothing crucial.
Index: utils/h2xs.PL
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: updated h2xs
Changes:
a) Docs and examples for -x updated;
b) Path to xxxx.h would not be changed to /usr/include/xxxx.h
unless this file exists (outside of VMS, I'm afraid to make an error
there). - Useful with -x option, when the file may be eaten via -I
inside -F.
c) .h file would be scanned only if needed.
d) typemap would be generated (with T_PTROBJ).
e) Documentation (=list) for autogenerated guys would be
included into POD.
f) duplicated XSUBs would not be generated;
g) arguments to XSUBs being arrays are recognized (note that
xsubpp would probably choke on such guys).
-x option requires C-Scan-0.3 (releases a couple of minutes ago to
ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl
should propagate to CPAN soon).
Index: utils/perlbug.PL
Fix typo $Config{'has_sockets'} ought to be $Config{'d_socket'};
Index: utils/perldoc.PL
More choices in the pager war. Unfortunately, we can't rely on
all users agreeing with the Sysadmin's choice, nor can we
assign a default preference order, since opinions vary. If the
user doesn't have $ENV{PAGER} set, we do want to pick up one that
at least works, so we'll try whatever Configure found.
Index: vms/Makefile
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/config.vms
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/descrip.mms
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/ext/filespec.t
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/gen_shrfls.pl
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/perlvms.pod
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/vms.c
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
Index: vms/vmsish.h
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
----------------
Version 5.003_04
----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the changes made in 5.003_03. The details are described below.
A very brief summary is:
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-Allow and document permissions for FileHandle::new and
IO::File::new.
-glob in Safe compartment used to allow shell access; now
it's in the same category as `` and system().
o Configure and build enhancements
-perl library name is again -lperl, not -lperl5 in some cases.
-Several hint files no longer set -g -DDEBUGGING by default.
Instead, they just turn off optimization, since that is
probably what was intended.
-Include OS/2 and Plan9 updates.
o Bug fixes
-SEGV with $_[0] and circular references fixed.
-Ilya's debugger patch.
-FAKE typeglobs fixed.
-truncate with file name now works.
-lval substr() no longer coredumps with refs
-lval substr now clears lexicals in re-entered scopes.
-core dump in caller() for signal handler for __DIE__.
o Specific Changes
Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
# This is my patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl5.003_03
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
# Obsolete perl4 hint file.
rm -f hints/dnix.sh
# Obsolete
rm -f os2/notes
# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
# executable.
touch t/op/gv.t
chmod +x t/op/gv.t
exit 0
This is patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl version 5.003_03.
This takes you from 5.003_03 to 5.003_04.
To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type
patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_04.pat
The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
csplit -k perl5.003_04.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
Patch and enjoy,
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_04.
Index: Configure
Change name of shared libperl library back to libperl.so.xxx,
so that a simple -lperl picks up either libperl.a or
libperl.so.xxx.
Check if $sh='' in case we've reloaded an old config.sh
Index: INSTALL
Change name of shared perl library to libperl, instead of
libperl5.
Add notes about fragility of shared libperl and the usefulness
of archlib to separate different binaries.
Index: MANIFEST
os2/notes removed
obsolete hints/dnix.sh removed.
New typeglob test.
Index: Makefile.SH
For building shared libperl, relocate whole rule to
inside the if test -f $osname/Makefile.SHs case.
Index: Porting/Glossary
Updated.
Index: README.os2
Updated.
Index: av.c
Subject: Re: SEGV with $_[0] and circular references
Subject: random cleanup
This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.
Index: config_H
Updated. Note new comments to make AIX happy.
Index: config_h.SH
Change /*#define../**/ into /*#define../ **/
to make IBM's xlc compiler shut up about nested comments.
The /*#define FOO /**/ is a perfectly legal un-nested comment, and
I wish IBM would fix it's blasted compiler instead. In the meantime
we'll take mercy on the poor AIX user and get rid of the screenfulls
of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth
<h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for the fix.
Index: dump.c
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
This patch documents the behavior of FileHandle::{new,open} with
regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
constants.
This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: FileHandle::new
didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: IO::File::new
didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch.
This patch documents the behavior of IO::File::{new,open} with
regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl
constants.
Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
Subject: Re: glob in Safe compartment allows shell access
I've moved the glob op into the same opcode tag as backticks and system
and added a comment.
Index: gv.c
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: handy.h
Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
symbols the complete set of
/PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
changed appropriately.
The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.
Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.
Index: hints/hpux.sh
Remove the d_bsdpgrp hint. The defaults should be ok.
Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh
Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
unless that's what the user really wants.
Index: hints/mpeix.sh
Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING,
unless that's what the user really wants.
Index: hints/os2.sh
Fixes for sh vs. bin_sh + cleanup.
Index: hints/ultrix_4.sh
Don't call optimize=-g, just call optimize=none. The -g
pulls in -DDEBUGGING, which might not be wanted.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
.C$(obj_ext) removed under OS/2 - conflicts with .c$(obj_ext).
Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Fix SCOPE? (See pod/perlxs.pod).
Up version number to 1.938.
Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm
Add a return value to runtests - non-zero if all tests ran ok,
zero otherwise.
Index: lib/perl5db.pl
Ilya's debugger patch.
Undefined subroutine &Carp::longmess called at
/opt/perl5.003_03/lib/perl5db.pl line 1423.
Make perl5db compatible with the recent 'strict refs' enforcement
in %SIG.
Index: malloc.c
A patch to perl5.003_02/malloc to give a sensible error abort() message
in ANSI C, and to give it to stderr instead of stdout.
Use config_h's STRINGIFY macro instead of pre-ANSI "p".
Index: mg.c
Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
so in 5.001n).
The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
which might coerce its first arg to a string.
Sub-critical patch to conceivably fix some %SIG problems. (Shared hash key
weren't being properly detected by some of the sig magic, but as shared
hash keys wouldn't normally be used in %SIG it's unlikely this is a
significant problem.)
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: myconfig
Update perlio-related variables.
Index: op.c
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: opcode.h
Updated. See opcode.pl.
Index: opcode.pl
Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
perllib vs. LIBPERL
Index: os2/diff.configure
Updated.
Index: os2/os2.c
SH_PATH_INI vs. BIN_SH
Index: os2/os2ish.h
SH_PATH_INI added (needed to redefine SH_PATH for binary
distribution).
SH_PATH is redefined.
Index: patchlevel.h
SUBVERSION 4.
Index: perl.h
Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this
should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the
previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX
symbols the complete set of
/PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to
those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard
Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN,
and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are
changed appropriately.
The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad
limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all
works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on.
Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV.
Index: perlio.c
Removes an incorrect prototype for setlinebuf from
perlio.c because it conflicts with the correct declaration in
MachTen's stdio.h (and possibly other stdio's as well).
Secondly, the code in perlio.c is not handling the (!PERLIO_IS_STDIO &
HAS_F[GS]ETPOS) case. The patch fixes this omission (in a rather lumpen
manner). I don't think this should affect platforms which try to hack a
different path through the #ifdef forest, but this assertion would benefit
from testing...
Dominic Dunlop
Index: plan9/config.plan9
Updated.
Index: plan9/fndvers
Updated.
Index: plan9/mkfile
Updated.
Index: plan9/setup.rc
Updated.
Index: pod/perldiag.pod
Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
an lvalue context.
The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
Index: pod/perlxs.pod
document xsubpp SCOPE:
Index: pp.c
Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)
substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.
Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
an lvalue context.
The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
Index: pp_ctl.c
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: pp_hot.c
Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: pp_sys.c
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: proto.h
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: run.c
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
Index: sv.c
Subject: random cleanup
This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source.
Subject: sv_setsv patch
This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY
When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY".
Although that flag improves the leak checking, it also breaks
destruction of global objects, because SVs aren't kept in captive
arenas any more.
This patch rectifies the problem by providing an alternative
method for keeping track of SVs when Perl is compiled for Purify.
It has no effect on normal operation.
Add comment about assert(len >=0) when len is unsigned anyway.
Index: t/io/fs.t
Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
The "not implemented" branch is missing a "\n".
Index: t/op/gv.t
Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch)
Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs
in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't
so in 5.001n).
The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname()
which might coerce its first arg to a string.
Index: t/op/substr.t
Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch)
substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that
are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of
1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off.
Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch)
substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in
an lvalue context.
The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference
first (and emitting a warning when appropriate).
Index: toke.c
Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch)
The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die
with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle).
I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up.
Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with
C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite.
Index: util.c
Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 dumps core executing caller() in signal handler for
__DIE__ (with patch)
sv_2pv() might call croak() (which is not prepared to handle that
when it calls sv_2pv(), itself). Likewise for warn() (but under
slightly more esoteric circumstances--mg_get() in sv_2pv() might
trigger a call to warn()).
Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co.
PERL_BADLANG is examined by default before issuing a warning during
internationalization.
Index: utils/h2xs.PL
Make leading =head NAME item a paragraph so pod2man finds it.
Index: utils/perldoc.PL
Use col -x to filter out half-line feeds (ESC-9) from
HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS
doesn't support the -x option.)
----------------
Version 5.003_03
----------------
Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation
process more robust. The details are described below. A very brief
summary is:
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
-Support for tied filehandles.
o Configure enhancements
-How to build and install a shared libperl.so is now documented
and supported, though it's not the default for most platforms.
o Bug fixes
-Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
-If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
that can result in null matches, perl no longer coredumps.
-Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
-Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
rather than extraction time.
o Specific Changes
Here are the specific file-by-file changes.
# This is my patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl5.003_02
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
# Absorbed into Changes5.002
rm -f Changes.Conf
# Not needed.
rm -f ext/POSIX/mkposixman.pl
# Moved to README.os2. I'm not sure why the README files are
# here rather than in the appropriate subdirectories.
rm -f os2/README
# Not needed.
rm -f pod/Makefile.PL
# New test for bit ops.
touch t/op/bob.t
# Patches that create new tests don't always make them executable.
chmod +x t/*/*.t
# Create a new directory for Porting and Patching info.
mkdir Porting
exit 0
This is patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl version 5.003_02.
This takes you from 5.003_02 to 5.003_03.
To apply this patch, run the above commands,
cd to your perl source directory and then type
patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_03.pat
The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is
designed so you can examine each change with a command such as
csplit -k perl5.003_03.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
Patch and enjoy,
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
Index: Changes
Include 5.003_03 change notes.
Move older change notes to separate files.
Index: Changes5.000
New file. Changes from perl4.036 to 5.000.
Index: Changes5.001
New file. Changes from 5.000 to 5.001
Index: Changes5.002
New file. Changes from 5.001 to 5.002
Index: Changes5.003
New file. Changes from 5.002 to 5.003
Index: Configure
Relaxed warning about ksh on exotic machines.
Changed usesafe to useopcode.
Add search for gzip and zip.
Look more carefully for $sh (the Bourne-ish shell).
Use that info to set $startsh correctly.
Change prompts for PerlIO interface. See INSTALL
for how this is supposed to work. The default is
still the same as in 5.003_02, namely don't use
any fancy new PerlIO stuff.
Don't look for sigvec() since we don't actually use it.
(Plus, it used to print an alarming misleading message about
race conditions.)
Look for stdio's _filbuf under the possible names of
_filbuf, __filbuf, and _fill.
New $useshrplib variable to control whether we build a shared
libperl.so. The name of the library is in $libperl.
Always install it in $installarchlib/CORE/$libperl.
Check for <sys/resource.h> and <sys/wait.h> for NetBSD.
Replace old $altmake stuff with newer autoconf-ish
$make_set_make, which checks if $make sets $(MAKE). Now you
choose an alternate make with sh Configure -Dmake=gmake (or
whatever).
Remove 'ln' for the list of essential commands. Simulate
it with 'cp' if necessary.
Change `logname` prompts to handle extra gratuitous spaces in
Ultrix output.
Autodetect os2.
Fix silly bug in checking for fully-qualified names in /etc/hosts.
Generalize Gconvert tests. Give correct and more useful
error messages.
Use $obj_ext instead of literal '.o' in the dynaloader test.
Include appropriate header files in bcopy() and memcpy()
tests. Note whether memmove is available.
Check whether struct sigaction works (needed for Solaris 2.5
with -Xc).
Include appropriate header files for randbits test.
Index: INSTALL
Add note about space requirements.
Update to match Configure changes (Opcode vs. Safe,
useperlio, useshrplib, etc.)
Reorganize the structure of some of the hints.
Miscellaneous clarifications.
Index: MANIFEST
Updated. 5.003_02 introduced some massive patches, mostly
due to spacing changes. I didn't bother to sort them all out;
I just started with 5.003's MANIEFST.
Index: Makefile.SH
Support the new simplified shared libperl mechanism.
Use new $make_set_make directive.
Remove redundant libperl Make variable.
Remove unnecessary MAB variable.
Remove dependency of minitest on lib/Config.pm, since it could
well have been a failure of configpm that inspired testing
miniperl in the first place!
Index: Porting/Glossary
New file describing all the config.sh variables.
Eventually, I hope to fill this directory with other useful
stuff.
Index: README.os2
Replace old README.os2 with more up-to-date os2/README.
Index: config_H
Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
dependencies in the metaconfig units.
Index: config_h.SH
Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH.
Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new
dependencies in the metaconfig units.
Include full descriptions of ARCHLIB, OLDARCHLIB, PRIVLIB,
SITEARCH, and SITELIB. Previous versions just included the
~-expanded names (with unhelpful descriptions). No functionality
is changed, but maybe it's a little better documented now.
Index: doio.c
Possibly Include <signal.h> and <unistd.h>
Index: doop.c
No longer prefer bcmp over memcmp when order doesn't matter.
Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
Index: embed.h
Auto-generated.
Index: embed.pl
Expand warning at the top.
Index: ext/IO/IO.pm
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
Add support for tied filehandles.
Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
Change the Mymalloc to match Perl_malloc in perl.h.
Index: ext/util/make_ext
Typo change.
Get rid of unused altmake.
Index: global.sym
Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
Index: handy.h
Change safe*alloc functions to have prototypes that
match the system's malloc and free types. That is, use
Malloc_t instead of char *, and Free_t instead of void.
This is necessary so . . .
Safefree cast matches type of free() whether it's perl's
malloc/free or the system's malloc/free.
Index: hints/README.hints
Remove out-of-date info.
Document a bit about how hint files work.
Index: hints/aix.sh
qmaxmem hint doesn't apply to gcc.
Index: hints/dgux.sh
Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.
Index: hints/dynixptx.sh
Fix typo in comment.
Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff.
Index: hints/epix.sh
Use glibpth instead of libpth. This allows Configure to
add local directories, such as /opt/local/lib, etc.
Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh
Include some info on cc -n32 compile.
Index: hints/linux.sh
Configure now tests gcvt() more thoroughly.
Index: hints/machten_2.sh
Update where to find dld.
Index: hints/mips.sh
Use glibpth instead of libpth.
Index: hints/next_3.sh
Build up $mab dynamically. Since $mab isn't used anywhere
anymore, this is useless. However, $mab was never used for
next_3.sh anyway, so there's been no change in functionality.
Index: hints/next_4.sh
Get rid of extraneous isnext_4 variable. Configure and
Makefile.SH will use $osname and $osvers instead.
Build up $mab dynamically based on available architectures.
Absorb $mab into ccflags and ccdlflags. I hope that will
cover everything. (Configure should automatically remove
the -arch stuff from cppflags.)
Configure now knows next4 needs to use a shared libperl.5.so.
Allow users to use -Dprefix.
Index: hints/os2.sh
Try to update to reflect newer shared libperl stuff.
I probably goofed :-).
Index: hints/sco.sh
Additional notes on using icc.
Additional flags for dynamic loading.
Index: hints/solaris_2.sh
Perl.h no longer prefers bcmp, so it's again ok if Configure
finds them, since perl will prefer the mem* versions anyway.
Index: hints/sunos_4_0.sh
Don't include <unistd.h>
Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh
Add brief note about GNU as and ld.
Don't include <unistd.h>
Add notes about WHOA THERE messages.
Index: hints/titanos.sh
Include sfio in libswanted.
Don't set libpth any more.
Index: hints/umips.sh
New hint file.
Index: hv.c
Use memcmp even in cases where ordering doesn't matter.
Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
Index: installperl
Simplify installation of shared libperl.so.
Avoid reaching Command Failed!!! with /usr/bin/perl.
Index: lib/AutoSplit.pm
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Remove MAB references.
Use 'useshrplib' instead of 'd_shrplib'
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
Remove mab references.
Index: lib/FindBin.pm
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: lib/Symbol.pm
Put back in the BEGIN { require 5.002; }. The version in
5.003_02 wouldn't work in 5.002 anyway. Further, the whole
point of the construct is to catch 5.001m, so we can't use
syntax introduced after 5.001m to do that.
Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
Remove double 'use strict'.
Index: lib/perl5db.pl
Add explicit '&' to avoid warnings under strict refs.
Index: lib/sigtrap.pm
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: makedepend.SH
Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make variables.
Index: mg.c
Include <unistd.h>
Use Safefree() macro instead of safefree() function with
a (possibly) incorrect cast. The whole point of the
Safefree() macro is that it does the correct cast for you.
Index: patchlevel.h
Change to SUBVERSION 3.
Index: perl.c
Include <unistd.h>
Index: perl.h
No longer prefer bcmp slightly for comparisons that don't care
about ordering.
Rely on Configure setting SH_PATH.
Change the function name to Pause() instead of pause() to
avoid potential prototype problems. (This naming convention
is similar to the Fwrite and Fflush macros.)
Fix problems with each() on tied hashes.
Work around crypt prototype problem on NeXT.
Index: perlio.c
Fixes to support non-std stdio.
Index: perlio.h
Try to document the various #defines a bit. This is far from
finished.
Remove a lot of trailing whitespace. (It's of no consequence, but
but I'm not going to redo the patch just to put back in the trailing
whitespace either.)
Index: perlsdio.h
Fixes to support non-std stdio.
Index: perly.c
Restore use of Safefree() macro.
Index: perly.c.diff
Restore use of Safefree() macro.
Index: perly.h
Delete duplicate line.
Index: plan9/buildinfo
Update.
Index: pod/perlapio.pod
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: pod/perlipc.pod
Fix typo.
Untaint port number.
Index: pod/perlmod.pod
Fix a minor nit regarding Exporter.
Index: pod/perlre.pod
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: pod/perltie.pod
Add support for tied filehandles.
Index: pod/perltrap.pod
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: pod/perlxstut.pod
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: pod/pod2man.PL
Clean up docmentation installation errors.
Index: pp.c
Add support for tied filehandles.
If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
Index: pp_hot.c
Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
Add support for tied filehandles.
Index: pp_sys.c
Include <unistd.h>, <sys/wait.h>, and <sys/resource.h>.
(The latter two are especially for NetBSD.)
Don't assume sys/time.h and sys/select.h can't coexist.
Use Pause macro.
Index: proto.h
Fix safe*alloc and safefree prototypes.
Index: regexec.c
Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
Index: sv.c
Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
Index: t/lib/opcode.t
Add support for tied filehandles.
Index: t/op/bop.t
Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes.
Index: t/op/misc.t
Add support for tied filehandles.
Index: t/op/split.t
If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns
that can result in null matches, perl coredumps.
Index: toke.c
Include <unistd.h>.
Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order.
Index: util.c
Include <unistd.h>.
Use correct types for safe*alloc and safefree functions.
Index: utils/h2ph.PL
Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time
rather than extraction time.
Index: writemain.SH
Remove unnecessary curlies. (They are a leftover from
an older auto_init mechanism.)
Index: x2p/Makefile.SH
Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make.
Remove MAB stuff, since it's now in ccflags.
Keep 5.003's RCS info.
Index: x2p/a2p.h
Keep 5.003's RCS info.
Index: x2p/str.c
Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.
----------------
Version 5.003_02
----------------
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
- Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
- Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer
- Warning for un-qualified bareword as handler in $SIG{}.
- UNIVERSAL::isa can now be called as static method.
o Changes in Core Internals
- PerlIO abstraction added.
Perl core and standard extensions no longer assume ANSI C's stdio is IO
mechanism, Default Configure mode is still to use stdio via set of C macros.
Alternate modes are to use stdio via one perlio.c module, or
to use sfio if available.
- Several bug fixs from perl5-porters
- Make sources non-ANSI C correct again.
- SUPER in gv.c
- Last of shared-hash-key patches
- eval '(0,1..3)'; # --> SegFault
- coredumps after simple subsitutes.
- Correction to UNIVERSAL::VERSION docs.
- Fixed io_udp test.
- Fixed another abuse of malloc'ed memory.
- Enabled DEBUGING_MSTATS whenever perl's malloc() is used.
- Reverted to default of not hiding perl's malloc (if used).
o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
- Fixed MakeMaker for static SDBM and builing in a link tree.
- Upgraded to IO-1.09, and includes latest (still experimental) IO::Select.
- Documentation/test tweak to DB_File
- h2xs upgrade to allow use C::Scan module
o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
- Attempted to re-created 5.003_01's NeXT support with metaconfig units.
- Updated MANIFEST
- make minitest now depends on lib/Config.pm, as some of tests require it.
- Included latest plan9 sub-directory
- Applied OS/2 patches.
- Typo patch for VMS.
----------------
Version 5.003_01
----------------
Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since
version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately
kept simple. In addition to numerous small bugfixes in the core,
library files, and documentation, this patch contains several
significant revisions, summarized below:
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
- A port to Plan9 has been started, and changes are integrated into
the standard distribution. As of this release, the Perl core
and several common extensions are working.
- A set of basic methods in the UNIVERSAL class have been added to
the Perl core. Since UNIVERSAL is an implicit member of every
class's @ISA, the methods can be called via any object.
- A mandatory warning has been added for 'declarations' of lexical
variables using the "my" operator which mask an existing lexical
variable declared in the same scope, making the previous variable
inaccessible by its name.
- The "use" and "require" operators have been extended to allow
checking of the required module's version. The "use" operator
can now be used for an immediate version check of Perl itself.
- A new "strict" pragma, "strict untie", has been added, which
produces an error if a tied value is untied when other references
exist to the internal object implementing the tie.
- Barewords used as associative array keys (i.e. when specifying
an associative array element like $foo{__BAR} or on the left
side of the => operator) may now begin with an underscore as
well as an alphabetic character.
- Some of the configuration information previously produced by the
-v switch has been moved to the -V switch, in order to keep -v
output concise.
o Changes in Core Internals
- Symbol table and method lookups have been made faster.
- Perl subroutines which just return a constant value are now
optimized at compile time into inline constants.
- Management of keys for associative arrays has been improved to
conserve space when the same keys are reused frequently, and
to pass true Perl values to tie functions, instead of stringified
representations.
- Messages normally output to stderr may be directed to another
stream when Perl is built. This allows some platforms to
present diagnostic output in a separate window from normal
program results.
- A bug which caused suiperl to fail silently, albeit securely,
in version 5.003 on some systems has been fixed.
- Management of Unix-style signal handlers via the %SIG associative
array has been made safer.
- Several global C symbols have been renamed to eliminate collisions
with system C header files or libraries on some platforms.
Unfortunately, this means that dynamic extensions compiled under
previous versions of Perl will need to be rebuilt for Perl
5.003_01. We're in the process of cleaning up Perl's C
namespace to make it easier to link Perl with other binaries,
so this will probably happen again between now and version 5.004.
After that, we'll do our best to maintain binary compatibility
between versions.
- An alternate allocation strategy has been added to Perl's
optional private memory management routines. This strategy,
which may be selected when Perl is built, is designed to
conserve memory in programs which allocate many small
chunks of memory with sizes near a power of 2, as is often
the case in Perl programs.
- Several memory leaks in the creation and destruction of
multiple interpreters have been fixed.
o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities
- The Opcode extension, which allows you to control a program's
access to Perl operations, has been added to the standard
distribution. This extends the work begun in the original
Safe extension, and subsumes it. The Safe interface is still
available.
- The IO extension, which provides a set of classes for object-
oriented handling of common I/O tasks, has been added to the
standard distribution. The IO classes will form the basis
for future development of Perl's I/O interface, and will
subsume the FileHandle class in the near future. The default
class to which all Perl I/O handles belong is now IO::Handle,
rather than FileHandle.
- The ExtUtils::Embed library module, which provides a set
of utility function to help in embedding Perl in other
applications, has been added to the standard distribution.
- The Fatal library module, which provides a simple interface
for creating "do-or-die" equivalents of existing functions,
has been added to the standard distribution.
- The FindBin library module, which determines the full path
to the currently executing program, has been added to the
standard distribution.
- The DB_File extension, and the Getopt::Long, Test::Harness,
Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Time::Local and sigtrap library modules
have been updated to the authors' latest versions.
- The Carp library module now considers the @ISA chain when
determining the caller's package for inclusion in error messages.
- The h2xs, perlbug, and xsubpp utilities have been updated.
- The standard Perl debugger has been updated, and the information
provided to the debugger when an XSUB is called has been improved,
making it possible for alternate debuggers (such as Devel::DProf)
to do a better job of tracking XSUB calls.
- The pod documentation formatting tools in the standard distribution
can now handle characters in the input stream whose high bit is set.
- The cperl-mode EMACS editing mode has been updated.
o Changes in Documentation
- Typographic and formatting errors have been corrected in the pod
documentation for the core and standard library files
- Explanations of several core operators have been improved
- The perldebug, perlembed, perlipc, perlsec, and perltrap documents
extensively revised.
o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support
- Support for the NeXT platform has been extended through
NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP 4.0, and now includes the ability to create MABs.
- Support for OS/2 has been extended as well, and now includes
options for building a.out binaries.
- Support for VMS has also been extended, incorporating improved
processing of file specification strings, optional suppression of
carriage control interpretation for record-structured files,
improved support for the -S command line switch, a number of
VMS-specific bugfixes, and significantly improved performance
in line-oriented reading of files.
- Several hints files have been added or updated: aux.sh (updated),
convexos.sh (updated), irix_4.sh (updated), irix_5.sh (updated),
irix_6_2.sh (updated), next_3.sh (updated), next_3_2.sh (new),
next_3_3.sh (new), next_4.sh (new), os2/sh (updated),
sco.sh (updated), and solaris_2.sh (updated).
- The test driver for the regression tests now reports when a set
of tests have been skipped (presumable because the operation
they're designed to test isn't supported on the current system).