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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-08-15 09:29:03 +0000 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-08-15 09:29:03 +0000 |
commit | 8a6dcfeb07db7b6a4227e1b9781a2b9b8a6cec7a (patch) | |
tree | 7f14890311a088d3b7b0c20b4701a212c4ce4686 /pod/perl594delta.pod | |
parent | c86b7e916b443ee192c5638ad9d077ad4e244713 (diff) | |
download | perl-8a6dcfeb07db7b6a4227e1b9781a2b9b8a6cec7a.tar.gz |
Remove some of the known problems documented in perldelta, which were
caused by change #28319, just backed out. Add some Windows news (by
Steve Hay)
p4raw-link: @28319 on //depot/perl: eb7d7d25d2f780edcbedc124a5bdca0d53ad8687
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28721
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perl594delta.pod')
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1 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl594delta.pod b/pod/perl594delta.pod index 921102a1b7..34a23caf4c 100644 --- a/pod/perl594delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl594delta.pod @@ -232,6 +232,13 @@ matching to find the start point. (Yves Orton) =back +=head2 Sloppy stat on Windows + +On Windows, perl's stat() function normally opens the file to determine +the link count and update attributes that may have been changed through +hard links. Setting ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT} to a true value speeds up +stat() by not performing this operation. (Jan Dubois) + =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements =head2 Relocatable installations @@ -266,6 +273,23 @@ available. When they are not available, perl's own version is used (from Russ Allbery's public domain implementation). Various places in the perl interpreter now use them. (Steve Peters) +=head2 Windows build improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Building XS extensions + +Support for building XS extension modules with the free MinGW compiler has +been improved in the case where perl itself was built with the Microsoft +VC++ compiler. (ActiveState) + +=item 64-bit compiler + +Support for building perl with Microsoft's 64-bit compiler has been +improved. (ActiveState) + +=back + =head1 Selected Bug Fixes =head2 PERL5SHELL and tainting @@ -295,6 +319,13 @@ stringification overloaded have been fixed. (Nicholas Clark) Traditionally, C<eval 'syntax error'> has leaked badly. Many (but not all) of these leaks have now been eliminated or reduced. (Dave Mitchell) +=head2 Random device on Windows + +In previous versions, perl would read the file F</dev/urandom> if it +existed when seeding its random number generator. That file is unlikely +to exist on Windows, and if it did would probably not contain appropriate +data, so perl no longer tries to read it on Windows. (Alex Davies) + =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics =over 4 @@ -324,15 +355,6 @@ locales. Bytecode tests fail under several platforms. We are considering removing support for byteloader and compiler before the 5.10.0 release. -On threaded perls, the construct C<eval("syntax error")> might lead, under -some circumstances, to a segmentation fault. This is due to the flaw in -the bug fix implmented by change #28319. - -=head2 Platform-specific Problems - -The test F<ext/Socket/t/socketpair.t> crashes after completing all tests -successfully when built with USE_ITHREADS and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS on Win32. - =head1 Reporting Bugs If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles |