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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2018-03-13 08:49:30 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2018-03-13 08:49:30 +0000
commitd195dbb598217b67f1d1161b43936abde0faa33f (patch)
tree500e0368f244ba0637b0311114bdd9c25c40abf7
parent871a12f074fc443943a33d99214258ce6fd8f119 (diff)
downloadperl-d195dbb598217b67f1d1161b43936abde0faa33f.tar.gz
perldelta tidy-ups
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod58
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 12a9b541fc..27a422f416 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -152,17 +152,17 @@ XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
However, any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in the L</Diagnostics>
section.
-=head3 L<XXX>
+=head3 L<perluniprops>
=over 4
=item *
-L<perluniprops> has been updated to note that C<\p{Word}> now includes
-code points matching the C<\p{Join_Control}> property. The change to
-the property was made in Perl 5.18, but not documented until now. There
-are currently only two code points that match this property U+200C (ZERO
-WIDTH NON-JOINER) and U+200D (ZERO WIDTH JOINER).
+This has been updated to note that C<\p{Word}> now includes code points
+matching the C<\p{Join_Control}> property. The change to the property was made
+in Perl 5.18, but not documented until now. There are currently only two code
+points that match this property: U+200C (ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER) and U+200D
+(ZERO WIDTH JOINER).
=back
@@ -313,9 +313,11 @@ L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
Visual C++ compiler version detection has been improved to work on non-English
language systems.
+L<[perl #132421]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132421>
We now set C<$Config{libpth}> correctly for 64-bit builds using Visual C++
versions earlier than 14.1.
+L<[perl #132484]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132484>
=back
@@ -346,46 +348,52 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
=item *
-The C<readpipe()> built-in function now checks at compile time that
-it has only one parameter expression, and puts it in scalar context,
-thus ensuring that it doesn't corrupt the stack at runtime. [perl #4574]
+The C<readpipe()> built-in function now checks at compile time that it has only
+one parameter expression, and puts it in scalar context, thus ensuring that it
+doesn't corrupt the stack at runtime.
+L<[perl #4574]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=4574>
=item *
-Fixed a use after free bug in pp_list introduced in 5.27.1. [perl #131954]
+Fixed a use after free bug in C<pp_list> introduced in Perl 5.27.1.
+L<[perl #131954]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131954>
=item *
-Parsing a C<sub> definition could cause a use after free if the C<sub>
-keyword was followed by whitespace including newlines (and comments.)
-[perl #131836]
+Parsing a C<sub> definition could cause a use after free if the C<sub> keyword
+was followed by whitespace including newlines (and comments).
+L<[perl #131836]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131836>
=item *
-The tokenizer now correctly adjusts a parse pointer when skipping
-whitespace in a C< ${identifier} > construct. [perl #131949]
+The tokenizer now correctly adjusts a parse pointer when skipping whitespace in
+an C< ${identifier} > construct.
+L<[perl #131949]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131949>
=item *
-Accesses to C<${^LAST_FH}> no longer assert after using any of a
-variety of I/O operations on a non-glob. [perl #128263]
+Accesses to C<${^LAST_FH}> no longer assert after using any of a variety of I/O
+operations on a non-glob.
+L<[perl #128263]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128263>
=item *
-C<sort> now performs correct reference counting when aliasing C<$a> and
-C<$b>, thus avoiding premature destruction and leakage of scalars if they
-are re-aliased during execution of the sort comparator. [perl #92264]
+C<sort> now performs correct reference counting when aliasing C<$a> and C<$b>,
+thus avoiding premature destruction and leakage of scalars if they are
+re-aliased during execution of the sort comparator.
+L<[perl #92264]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=92264>
=item *
-Some convoluted kinds of regexp no longer cause an arithmetic overflow
-when compiled. [perl #131893]
+Some convoluted kinds of regexp no longer cause an arithmetic overflow when
+compiled.
+L<[perl #131893]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131893>
=item *
-Fixed a duplicate symbol failure with C<-flto -mieee-fp> builds.
-F<pp.c> defined C<_LIB_VERSION> which C<-lieee> already defines. [perl
-#131786]
+Fixed a duplicate symbol failure with B<-flto -mieee-fp> builds. F<pp.c>
+defined C<_LIB_VERSION> which B<-lieee> already defines.
+L<[perl #131786]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131786>
=back