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| author | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2015-04-10 10:33:16 +1000 |
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| committer | Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com> | 2015-04-10 10:33:16 +1000 |
| commit | e42530d222eb93e1f8f64050733a0885baea44f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ebc0fe64ab4b1cb6efbdca4076c38d104ffc9ad | |
| parent | 070e2677bff654753fc8dde8b9d1ce69816dfd42 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e42530d222eb93e1f8f64050733a0885baea44f0.tar.gz | |
perldelta for 070e2677bff6
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index ca5e199dc6..e3bf3d52cb 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -384,7 +384,11 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>. =item * -XXX +C<pack("D", $x)> and C<pack("F", $x)> now zero the padding on x86 long +double builds. GCC 4.8 and later, under some build options, would +either overwrite the zero-initialized padding, or bypass the +initialized buffer entirely. This caused F<op/pack.t> to fail. [perl +#123971] =back |