[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_07 to perl5.003_08]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Bitwise op sign rationalization
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlop.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c t/op/bop.t

    Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use
    integer> is in effect.  Includes initial support for UVs.

Subject: Defined scoping for C<my> in control structures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c

    Finally defines semantics of "my" in control expressions,
    like the condition of "if" and "while".  In all cases, scope
    of a "my" var extends to the end of the entire control
    structure.  Also adds new construct "for my", which
    automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits
    its scope to the loop.

Subject: Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c

    This patch makes Perl correctly ignore SvIVX() if either
    NOK or POK is true, since SvIVX() may be a truncated or
    overflowed version of the real value.

Subject: Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: opcode.pl

Subject: Provide scalar context on left side of "->"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perly.c perly.y

Subject: Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: proto.h toke.c util.c

Subject: If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c

Subject: Fixes for pack('w')
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t

Subject: More complete output from sv_dump()
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: sv.c

Subject: Major '..' and debugger patches
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h

Subject: Fix for formline()
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c t/op/write.t

Subject: Fix stack botch in untie and binmode
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST embed.pl ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h global.sym handy.h malloc.c perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h regexec.c toke.c util.c x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/handy.h x2p/util.h

    New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by
    avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.

Subject: Support old embedding for people who want it
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym

 PORTABILITY

Subject: Miscellaneous VMS fixes
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/timelocal.pl perl.h perl_exp.SH proto.h t/TEST t/io/read.t t/lib/findbin.t t/lib/getopt.t util.c utils/h2xs.PL vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs vms/perlvms.pod vms/test.com vms/vms.c

Subject: DJGPP patches (MS-DOS)
From: "Douglas E. Wegscheid" <wegscd@whirlpool.com>
Files: doio.c dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c handy.h lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Find.pm malloc.c perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c util.c

Subject: Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS
From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/lib/File/Copy.pm b/lib/File/Copy.pm
index 5cea310265..2e555590f7 100644
--- a/lib/File/Copy.pm
+++ b/lib/File/Copy.pm
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ package File::Copy;
 
 require Exporter;
 use Carp;
+use UNIVERSAL qw(isa);
 
 @ISA=qw(Exporter);
 @EXPORT=qw(copy);
@@ -24,10 +25,11 @@ sub copy {
     croak("Usage: copy( file1, file2 [, buffersize]) ")
       unless(@_ == 2 || @_ == 3);
 
-    if (($^O eq 'VMS' or $^O eq 'os2') && ref(\$_[1]) ne 'GLOB' &&
-        !(defined ref $_[1] and (ref($_[1]) eq 'GLOB' ||
-          ref($_[1]) eq 'FileHandle' || ref($_[1]) eq 'VMS::Stdio')))
-        { return File::Copy::syscopy($_[0],$_[1]) }
+    if (defined &File::Copy::syscopy &&
+	\&File::Copy::syscopy != \&File::Copy::copy &&
+	ref(\$_[1]) ne 'GLOB' &&
+        !(defined ref $_[1] and isa($_[1], 'GLOB')))
+	    { return File::Copy::syscopy($_[0],$_[1]) }
 
     my $from = shift;
     my $to = shift;
@@ -158,10 +160,10 @@ C<copy> routine.  For VMS systems, this calls the C<rmscopy>
 routine (see below).  For OS/2 systems, this calls the C<syscopy>
 XSUB directly.
 
-=head2 Special behavior under VMS
+=head2 Special behavior if C<syscopy> is defined (VMS and OS/2)
 
 If the second argument to C<copy> is not a file handle for an
-already opened file, then C<copy> will perform an RMS copy of
+already opened file, then C<copy> will perform an "system copy" of
 the input file to a new output file, in order to preserve file
 attributes, indexed file structure, I<etc.>  The buffer size
 parameter is ignored.  If the second argument to C<copy> is a
@@ -169,10 +171,12 @@ Perl handle to an opened file, then data is copied using Perl
 operators, and no effort is made to preserve file attributes
 or record structure.
 
-The RMS copy routine may also be called directly under VMS
-as C<File::Copy::rmscopy> (or C<File::Copy::syscopy>, which
+The system copy routine may also be called directly under VMS and OS/2
+as C<File::Copy::syscopy> (or under VMS as C<File::Copy::rmscopy>, which
 is just an alias for this routine).
 
+=over
+
 =item rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
 
 The first and second arguments may be strings, typeglobs, or
@@ -207,6 +211,8 @@ it defaults to 0.
 Like C<copy>, C<rmscopy> returns 1 on success.  If an error occurs,
 it sets C<$!>, deletes the output file, and returns 0.
 
+=back
+
 =head1 RETURN
 
 Returns 1 on success, 0 on failure. $! will be set if an error was