[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_11 to perl5.003_12]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/delete.t

Subject: Autovivify scalars
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod pod/perlnews.pod

Subject: perltoot.pod
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 32e22efaa9ec59b73a208b6c532a0b435e2c6462)

Subject: Perlguts, version 25
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: pod/perlguts.pod

    private-msgid: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>

Subject: pod patches for English errors
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
Files: pod/*.pod
Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 0135f10892ed8a21c4dbd1fca21fbcc365df99dd)

Subject: Misc doc updates
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/*

    Subject: Re: perldelta.pod 
    
    Here are some diffs to the _11 pods.  I forgot to add perldelta to
    perl.pod though.
    
    And *PLEASE* fix the Artistic License so it no longer has the bogus
    "whomever" misdeclined in the nominative case:
    
        under the copyright of this Package, but belong to whomever generated
        them, and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
    
    It should obviously be "whoever".
    
    p5p-msgid: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c

Subject: Fix nested closures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix core dump on auto-vivification
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c

Subject: Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c

Subject: Fix paren matching during backtracking
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: regexec.c

Subject: Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c

Subject: Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c

Subject: Fix local($pack::{foo})
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c

Subject: Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perl.c

Subject: Re: Bug in formline 
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_ctl.c
Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit b386bda18108ba86d0b76ebe2d8745eafa80f39e)

Subject: Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_hot.c

Subject: Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h

Subject: Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c

 PORTABILITY

Subject: Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm

Subject: Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH

Subject: Look for gettimeofday() in Configure
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c

    Subject: perl5.003_11, Should base use of gettimeofday on HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY, not I_SYS_TIME
    
    I've been installing perl5.003_11 on a SCO system that has the TCP/IP runtime
    installed but not the TCP/IP development system.
    
    Unfortunately the <sys/time.h> include file is included in the TCP/IP runtime
    while libsocket.a is in the development system.
    
    This means that pp.c decides to use "gettimeofday" because <sys/time.h> is
    present but I can't link the perl that gets compiled.
    
    So, here's a patch to base the use of "gettimeofday" on "HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY"
    instead of "I_SYS_TIME".  I also took the liberty of removing the special
    case for plan9 (I assume plan9 has <sys/time.h> but no gettimeofday.  Am I
    right?).
    
    p5p-msgid: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>

Subject: Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure

Subject: Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod 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 x2p/a2py.c x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL

Subject: LynxOS support
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
From: Greg Seibert <seibert@Lynx.COM>
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 6693373533b15e559fd8f0f1877e5e6ec15483cc)

Subject: Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 10e40321ee752c58e3407b204c74c8049894cb51)

Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_11
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*

    private-msgid: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>

 TESTING

Subject: recurse recurse recurse ...
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t

    private-msgid: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>

 UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: Add CPAN and Net::FTP
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm pod/perlmod.pod

Subject: Add File::Compare
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit ec971c5c328aca84fb827f69f2cc1dc3be81f830)

Subject: Add Tie::RefHash
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 9a079709134ebbf4c935cc8752fdb564e5c82b94)

Subject: Put "splain" in utils.
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL

Subject: Some h2ph fixes
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Files: utils/h2ph.PL

    Here is a message regarding changes to h2ph that should probably be folded
    into the 5.004 release.
    
    p5p-msgid: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlxs.pod b/pod/perlxs.pod
index 6a898a5331..cc83c8b843 100644
--- a/pod/perlxs.pod
+++ b/pod/perlxs.pod
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ the following statement.
 
 =head2 Returning Undef And Empty Lists
 
-Occasionally the programmer will want to simply return
+Occasionally the programmer will want to return simply
 C<undef> or an empty list if a function fails rather than a
 separate status value.  The rpcb_gettime() function offers
 just this situation.  If the function succeeds we would like
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ other C<XSRETURN> macros.
 
 The REQUIRE: keyword is used to indicate the minimum version of the
 B<xsubpp> compiler needed to compile the XS module.  An XS module which
-contains the following statement will only compile with B<xsubpp> version
+contains the following statement will compile with only B<xsubpp> version
 1.922 or greater:
 
 	REQUIRE: 1.922
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ terminate the code block.
 =head2 The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
 
 The VERSIONCHECK: keyword corresponds to B<xsubpp>'s C<-versioncheck> and
-C<-noversioncheck> options.  This keyword overrides the commandline
+C<-noversioncheck> options.  This keyword overrides the command line
 options.  Version checking is enabled by default.  When version checking is
 enabled the XS module will attempt to verify that its version matches the
 version of the PM module.
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ To disable version checking:
 =head2 The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
 
 The PROTOTYPES: keyword corresponds to B<xsubpp>'s C<-prototypes> and
-C<-noprototypes> options.  This keyword overrides the commandline options.
+C<-noprototypes> options.  This keyword overrides the command-line options.
 Prototypes are enabled by default.  When prototypes are enabled XSUBs will
 be given Perl prototypes.  This keyword may be used multiple times in an XS
 module to enable and disable prototypes for different parts of the module.
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ C<&> through, so the function call looks like C<rpcb_gettime(host, &timep)>.
 =head2 Inserting Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
 
 C preprocessor directives are allowed within BOOT:, PREINIT: INIT:,
-CODE:, PPCODE: and CLEANUP: blocks, as well as outside the functions.
+CODE:, PPCODE:, and CLEANUP: blocks, as well as outside the functions.
 Comments are allowed anywhere after the MODULE keyword.  The compiler
 will pass the preprocessor directives through untouched and will remove
 the commented lines.