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authorTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2015-04-10 10:33:16 +1000
committerTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2015-04-10 10:33:16 +1000
commite42530d222eb93e1f8f64050733a0885baea44f0 (patch)
tree3ebc0fe64ab4b1cb6efbdca4076c38d104ffc9ad
parent070e2677bff654753fc8dde8b9d1ce69816dfd42 (diff)
downloadperl-e42530d222eb93e1f8f64050733a0885baea44f0.tar.gz
perldelta for 070e2677bff6
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
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@@ -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