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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2006-01-13 22:23:45 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2006-01-13 22:23:45 +0000
commitdebcf2ee555c03df09d3c50129429b155114398e (patch)
tree3d71e28510224044fc4d9342c70a84ef42af3c6c
parent7b17677a2dc44bef113e38763d53fafb3122b087 (diff)
downloadperl-debcf2ee555c03df09d3c50129429b155114398e.tar.gz
Perldelta ready for review.
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@26843
-rw-r--r--pod/perl588delta.pod38
1 files changed, 34 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl588delta.pod b/pod/perl588delta.pod
index 563fd3a3ce..de000f1c25 100644
--- a/pod/perl588delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl588delta.pod
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Devel::Peek upgraded to version 1.03
=item *
-Devel::PPPort upgraded to version 3.06
+Devel::PPPort upgraded to version 3.06_01
=item *
@@ -312,6 +312,14 @@ re upgraded to version 0.05
=item *
+Safe upgraded to version 2.12
+
+=item *
+
+Scalar::Util upgraded to version 1.18
+
+=item *
+
SDBM_File upgraded to version 1.05
=item *
@@ -330,7 +338,7 @@ Switch upgraded to version 2.10_01
=item *
-Sys::Syslog upgraded to version 0.11
+Sys::Syslog upgraded to version 0.13
=item *
@@ -388,12 +396,23 @@ User::grent upgraded to version 1.01
=item *
+utf8 upgraded to version 1.06, which has minor documentation fixes.
+
+=item *
+
vmsish upgraded to version 1.02
=item *
warnings upgraded to version 1.05
+=item *
+
+Win32 upgraded to version 0.2601, which provides Windows Vista support to
+C<Win32::GetOSName>.
+
+=for cynics And how many perl 5.8.x versions can I release ahead of Vista?
+
=back
=head1 Utility Changes
@@ -508,6 +527,17 @@ it proves stable.
=item *
+Training spaces are now trimmed from C<$!> and C<$^E>.
+
+=item *
+
+Operations that require perl to read a process' list of groups, such as reads
+of C<$(> and C<$)>, now dynamically allocate memory rather than using a
+fixed sized array. The fixed size array could cause C stack exhaustion on
+systems configured to use large numbers of groups.
+
+=item *
+
C<PerlIO::scalar> now works better with non-default C<$/> settings.
=item *
@@ -576,12 +606,12 @@ select(), instead of a bitmask.
# Wrong, will now warn
$rin = fileno(STDIN);
- ($nfound,$timeleft) = select($rout=$rin, udnef, undef, $timeout);
+ ($nfound,$timeleft) = select($rout=$rin, undef, undef, $timeout);
# Should be
$rin = '';
vec($rin,fileno(STDIN),1) = 1;
- ($nfound,$timeleft) = select($rout=$rin, udnef, undef, $timeout);
+ ($nfound,$timeleft) = select($rout=$rin, undef, undef, $timeout);
=head2 Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search pattern