[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_09 to perl5.003_10]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Allow &{sub {...}} without warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} function
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod

Subject: Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@ibcinc.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 5fa5e7dfc2abaaadd377c97cd1ebe78ea844da88)

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h

Subject: Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Better support for UVs
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h

Subject: Minor locale cleanups
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c

    Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
    'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.

Subject: Always taint result of sprintf() on float
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c

Subject: Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c

Subject: Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c pp_sys.c

Subject: Namespace cleanup
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h

Subject: Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH

 PORTABILITY

Subject: Reliable signal patch
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 679728958e74b0ccd6d61567d84851f1ef994e1f)

Subject: Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: 3_09: minor patches for OS/2
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h

    Subject: 3_09: minor patches
    
    This patches mostly enable commpilation under OS/2, and fix malloc.c.
    
    Enjoy,
    
    p5p-msgid: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

Subject: Re: 5.003_09 and QNX
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est
From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h
Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit c5117498be098729dc2af28089bd130c88c8d42b)

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.qnx b/README.qnx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0cfe3533ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.qnx
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+README.qnx
+
+Please see hints/qnx.sh for more detailed information about compiling
+perl under QNX4.
+
+The files in the "qnx" directory are:
+
+ * "qnx/ar" is a script that emulates the standard unix archive (aka
+   library) utility.  Under Watcom 10.6, ar is linked to wlib and
+   provides the expected interface. With Watcom 9.5, a cover function
+   is required. This one is fairly crude but has proved adequate for
+   compiling perl.  A more thorough version is available at:
+
+	http://www.fdma.com/pub/qnx/porting/ar
+
+ * "qnx/cpp" is a script that provides C preprocessing functionality.
+   Configure can generate a similar cover, but it doesn't handle all
+   the command-line options that perl throws at it. This might be
+   reasonably placed in /usr/local/bin.
+
+--
+Norton T. Allen (allen@huarp.harvard.edu)