[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_22 to perl5.003_23]perl-5.003_23

 BUILD PROCESS

Subject: Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu

Subject: Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH hints/lynxos.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h plan9/config.plan9 sv.c utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com

Subject: Compile with optimization when testing memory functions
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c

Subject: Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlxs.pod
Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit e7ea3e70155d0bea30720ba41eb6bb6742aac0d1)

Subject: Nested here-docs
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800
From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Files: toke.c
Msg-ID: <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit fd2d0953290ddd46f0820dbd6c87245486b7ab28)

Subject: Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c

Subject: Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c

Subject: Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: VMS patches for _22
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/Test/Harness.pm toke.c vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms

    private-msgid: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

Subject: Plan9 update
From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@stratcom.com>
Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile

Subject: hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800
From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh
Msg-ID: <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 23f8769697279d7912be5943de9fdf93f6aa3013)

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod

Subject: Document #line directive
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod

    private-msgid: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

Subject: delta for perldelta
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod

    private-msgid: <804.854121463@jinete>

Subject: Updates to perldelta
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod

    private-msgid: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

Subject: perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod

    private-msgid: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi>

Subject: Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_pipe.t

Subject: Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm

Subject: Add E* and SA_* constants
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs

    private-msgid: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000
From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c

    private-msgid: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk>

Subject: Fix /\G.a/
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c

Subject: Extend stack in pp_undef (!)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Allow for sub to be redefined while executing
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t

Subject: Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c

Subject: Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c
Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 7e42bd57a6867e174bc3bc555c3268b485940a98)

Subject: Remove "suidperl security patch" message
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perl.c

 TESTS

Subject: Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t

Subject: Patch tests for systems without fork()
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100
From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Files: t/io/pipe.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/fork.t

    private-msgid: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>

Subject: Test patches for OS/2
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_cmprt.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_dllld.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_objcall.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_sql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tiesql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tievar.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tieydb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_varset.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_vrexx.t t/README t/cmd/while.t t/comp/colon.t t/comp/multiline.t t/io/argv.t t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t t/op/cmp.t t/op/magic.t
Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit bbad36071d5a6d4be3588f0f10c88247439076d8)

 UTILITIES

Subject: Translate \200 to &#200; in pod2html
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/pod2html.PL

Subject: VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL

    private-msgid: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 58 deletions

diff --git a/config_H b/config_H
index cec8188393..2b6834b2e5 100644
--- a/config_H
+++ b/config_H
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@
  */
 #define MEM_ALIGNBYTES 4	/**/
 
+/* ARCHNAME:
+ *	This symbol holds a string representing the architecture name.
+ *	It may be used to construct an architecture-dependant pathname
+ *	where library files may be held under a private library, for
+ *	instance.
+ */
+#define ARCHNAME "unknown"	/**/
+
 /* BIN:
  *	This symbol holds the path of the bin directory where the package will
  *	be installed. Program must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
@@ -335,13 +343,6 @@
 #define HAS_NTOHL		/**/
 #define HAS_NTOHS		/**/
 
-/* HAS_INET_ATON:
- *	This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that the
- *	inet_aton() function is available to parse IP address "dotted-quad"
- *	strings.
- */
-#define HAS_INET_ATON		/**/
-
 /* HAS_ISASCII:
  *	This manifest constant lets the C program know that isascii 
  *	is available.
@@ -723,22 +724,12 @@
  *	This symbol is defined if the FILE_cnt macro can be used as an
  *	lvalue.
  */
-/* FILE_filbuf:
- *	This macro is used to access the internal stdio _filbuf function
- *	(or equivalent), if STDIO_CNT_LVALUE and STDIO_PTR_LVALUE
- *	are defined.  It is typically either _filbuf or __filbuf.
- *	This macro will only be defined if both STDIO_CNT_LVALUE and
- *	STDIO_PTR_LVALUE are defined.
- */
 #define USE_STDIO_PTR 	/**/
 #ifdef USE_STDIO_PTR
 #define FILE_ptr(fp)	((fp)->_ptr)
 #define STDIO_PTR_LVALUE 		/**/
 #define FILE_cnt(fp)	((fp)->_cnt)
 #define STDIO_CNT_LVALUE 		/**/
-#if defined(STDIO_PTR_LVALUE) && defined(STDIO_CNT_LVALUE)
-#define FILE_filbuf(fp)	_filbuf(fp) 		/**/
-#endif
 #endif
 
 /* USE_STDIO_BASE:
@@ -813,19 +804,19 @@
 
 /* HAS_STRTOD:
  *	This symbol, if defined, indicates that the strtod routine is
- *	available to translate strings to doubles.
+ *	available to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
  */
 #define HAS_STRTOD	/**/
 
 /* HAS_STRTOL:
- *	This symbol, if defined, indicates that the strtol routine is
- *	available to translate strings to integers.
+ *	This symbol, if defined, indicates that the strtol routine is available
+ *	to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
  */
 #define HAS_STRTOL	/**/
 
 /* HAS_STRTOUL:
  *	This symbol, if defined, indicates that the strtoul routine is
- *	available to translate strings to integers.
+ *	available to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
  */
 #define HAS_STRTOUL	/**/
 
@@ -1290,6 +1281,33 @@
  */
 #define Mode_t mode_t	 /* file mode parameter for system calls */
 
+/* VAL_O_NONBLOCK:
+ *	This symbol is to be used during open() or fcntl(F_SETFL) to turn on
+ *	non-blocking I/O for the file descriptor. Note that there is no way
+ *	back, i.e. you cannot turn it blocking again this way. If you wish to
+ *	alternatively switch between blocking and non-blocking, use the
+ *	ioctl(FIOSNBIO) call instead, but that is not supported by all devices.
+ */
+/* VAL_EAGAIN:
+ *	This symbol holds the errno error code set by read() when no data was
+ *	present on the non-blocking file descriptor.
+ */
+/* RD_NODATA:
+ *	This symbol holds the return code from read() when no data is present
+ *	on the non-blocking file descriptor. Be careful! If EOF_NONBLOCK is
+ *	not defined, then you can't distinguish between no data and EOF by
+ *	issuing a read(). You'll have to find another way to tell for sure!
+ */
+/* EOF_NONBLOCK:
+ *	This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that a read() on
+ *	a non-blocking file descriptor will return 0 on EOF, and not the value
+ *	held in RD_NODATA (-1 usually, in that case!).
+ */
+#define VAL_O_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
+#define VAL_EAGAIN EAGAIN
+#define RD_NODATA -1
+#define EOF_NONBLOCK
+
 /* CAN_PROTOTYPE:
  *	If defined, this macro indicates that the C compiler can handle
  *	function prototypes.
@@ -1338,6 +1356,16 @@
  */
 #define Size_t size_t	 /* length paramater for string functions */
 
+/* SSize_t:
+ *	This symbol holds the type used by functions that return
+ *	a count of bytes or an error condition.  It must be a signed type.
+ *	It is usually ssize_t, but may be long or int, etc.
+ *	It may be necessary to include <sys/types.h> or <unistd.h>
+ *	to get any typedef'ed information.
+ *	We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
+ */
+#define SSize_t ssize_t	 /* signed count of bytes */
+
 /* STDCHAR:
  *	This symbol is defined to be the type of char used in stdio.h.
  *	It has the values "unsigned char" or "char".
@@ -1477,6 +1505,13 @@
 #define HAS_GETPGRP		/**/
 /*#define USE_BSD_GETPGRP	/ **/
 
+/* HAS_INET_ATON:
+ *	This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that the
+ *	inet_aton() function is available to parse IP address "dotted-quad"
+ *	strings.
+ */
+#define HAS_INET_ATON		/**/
+
 /* HAS_SETPGID:
  *	This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that 
  *	the setpgid(pid, gpid) function is available to set the
@@ -1591,33 +1626,6 @@
  */
 #define MYMALLOC			/**/
 
-/* VAL_O_NONBLOCK:
- *	This symbol is to be used during open() or fcntl(F_SETFL) to turn on
- *	non-blocking I/O for the file descriptor. Note that there is no way
- *	back, i.e. you cannot turn it blocking again this way. If you wish to
- *	alternatively switch between blocking and non-blocking, use the
- *	ioctl(FIOSNBIO) call instead, but that is not supported by all devices.
- */
-/* VAL_EAGAIN:
- *	This symbol holds the errno error code set by read() when no data was
- *	present on the non-blocking file descriptor.
- */
-/* RD_NODATA:
- *	This symbol holds the return code from read() when no data is present
- *	on the non-blocking file descriptor. Be careful! If EOF_NONBLOCK is
- *	not defined, then you can't distinguish between no data and EOF by
- *	issuing a read(). You'll have to find another way to tell for sure!
- */
-/* EOF_NONBLOCK:
- *	This symbol, if defined, indicates to the C program that a read() on
- *	a non-blocking file descriptor will return 0 on EOF, and not the value
- *	held in RD_NODATA (-1 usually, in that case!).
- */
-#define VAL_O_NONBLOCK O_NONBLOCK
-#define VAL_EAGAIN EAGAIN
-#define RD_NODATA -1
-#define EOF_NONBLOCK
-
 /* OLDARCHLIB:
  *	This variable, if defined, holds the name of the directory in
  *	which the user has perl5.000 or perl5.001 architecture-dependent
@@ -1718,16 +1726,6 @@
 #define SITELIB "/opt/perl/lib/site_perl"		/**/
 #define SITELIB_EXP "/opt/perl/lib/site_perl"		/**/
 
-/* SSize_t:
- *	This symbol holds the type used by functions that return
- *	a count of bytes or an error condition.  It must be a signed type.
- *	It is usually ssize_t, but may be long or int, etc.
- *	It may be necessary to include <sys/types.h> or <unistd.h>
- *	to get any typedef'ed information.
- *	We will pick a type such that sizeof(SSize_t) == sizeof(Size_t).
- */
-#define SSize_t ssize_t	 /* signed count of bytes */
-
 /* STARTPERL:
  *	This variable contains the string to put in front of a perl
  *	script to make sure (one hopes) that it runs with perl and not