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author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2015-10-31 11:34:16 +0000 |
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committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2015-10-31 11:34:16 +0000 |
commit | 7206936f09d5cb876114b9e8f87df676290f44d0 (patch) | |
tree | ad6ea405856a282118a9136dfe9549fb04a6278d | |
parent | 02b2b34aa408bd5a066eefe6180f744b5a076f95 (diff) | |
download | perl-7206936f09d5cb876114b9e8f87df676290f44d0.tar.gz |
perldelta for #126319
(manually cherry picked from commit 133117f50ce47b68b460f4a9e0dd2ce37078d28c)
[Moved to th Incompatible Changes section, with som extra blurb by me
committer about the exception being made here.]
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 22 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 717f680693..fe56a5e666 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -14,13 +14,21 @@ L<perl5220delta>, which describes differences between 5.20.0 and 5.22.0. =head1 Incompatible Changes -XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: - - There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX - If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a - report. See L</Reporting Bugs> below. - -[ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ] +There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.0 other than the +following single exception, which we deemed to be a sensible change to make in +order to get the new C<\b{wb}> and (in particular) C<\b{sb}> features sane +before people decided they're worthless because of bugs in their Perl 5.22.0 +implementation and avoided them in the future. +If any others exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. +See L</Reporting Bugs> below. + +=head2 + +Several bugs, including a segmentation fault, have been fixed with the bounds +checking constructs (introduced in Perl 5.22) C<\b{gcb}>, C<\b{sb}>, C<\b{wb}>, +C<\B{gcb}>, C<\B{sb}>, and C<\B{wb}>. All the C<\B{}> ones now match an empty +string; none of the C<\b{}> ones do. +L<[perl #126319]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126319> =head1 Modules and Pragmata |