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diff --git a/Changes5.004 b/Changes5.004 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..90a8b53374 --- /dev/null +++ b/Changes5.004 @@ -0,0 +1,13909 @@ +Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes +between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete +list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information, +please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant +release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN +site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases, +or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version +releases.) + + + --------------- + CAST AND CREW + --------------- + +To give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 what is is today, +here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their +current addresses (as of March 1997): + + Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> + Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com> + Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com> + Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us> + Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com> + Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> + M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> + Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de> + Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl> + Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com> + Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> + Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org> + Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + +And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: + + Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> + Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> + +And, of course, the Author of Perl: + + Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> + +---------------- +Version 5.004_04 Maintenance release 4 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. + 2. From discord, find harmony. + 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." + -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Fixed gaps in tainting (readdir, readlink, gecos, bit vector ops). + Fixed memory leak in splice(@_). + Fixed debugger core dumps. + IO::Socket now sets autoflush by default. + Several perldoc bugs fixed, now faster and more helpful. + Fixed Win32 handle leak. + Many other improvements to Win32 support. + Many many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "ExtUtils::Liblist prints diagnostics to STDOUT (vs. STDERR)" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, jesse@ginger + (Jesse Glick) + Msg-ID: <199708290032.UAA15663@ginger>, + <Pine.SUN.3.96.970829132217.28552A-100000@newton.phys> + Files: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Set LD_RUN_PATH when building suidperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Tony Sanders + <sanders@bsdi.com> + Msg-ID: <199708272226.QAA10206@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "INSTALL version 1.26" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970828143314.27416B-100000@newton.phys> + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Propagate MAKE=$(MAKE) through perl build" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970908143853.13750C-100000@newton.phys> + Files: Makefile.SH makedepend.SH x2p/Makefile.SH ext/util/make_ext + + Title: "update to installperl for perl5.004_02 to skip CVS dir" + From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com> + Msg-ID: <199708272307.RAA13451@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: installperl + + Title: "makedepend loop on HP-UX 10.20" + Msg-ID: <1997Sep20.183731.2297443@cor.newman> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Tiny Grammaro in INSTALL" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: <sfcwwkb2pc8.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Fix Configured osvers under Linux 1" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, Hugo van der + Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709241439.PAA17114@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <Pine.SUN.3.96.970924112654.5054D-100000@newton.phys> + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL-1.28" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.971010131207.23751A-100000@newton.phys> + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "makedepend.SH fix for UNICOS" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199710132039.XAA21459@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: makedepend.SH + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph" + From: Jochen Wiedmann <wiedmann@neckar-alb.de>, Stephen McCamant + <alias@mcs.com>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu>, + <3407639E.FEBF20BA@neckar-alb.de>, + <m0x4ZGj-000EZYC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Allow $obj->$coderef()" + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Msg-ID: <199708291649.MAA23276@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and + perl5" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen McCamant + <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <m0x4u2o-000EZkC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "Avoid assumption that STRLEN == I32" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hallvard B Furuseth + <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> + Msg-ID: <199708242310.BAA05497@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: hv.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak in splice(@_)" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@fkfuga.pc.helsinki.fi>, Chip Salzenberg + <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <m0x3iQE-000CBrC@lukka.student.harvard.edu> + Files: proto.h av.c global.sym pp.c + + Title: "Fix line number of warnings in while() conditional", "misleading + uninit value warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Greg Bacon + <gbacon@crp-201.adtran.com> + Msg-ID: <199708271607.LAA01403@crp-201.adtran.com> + Files: proto.h op.c perly.c perly.y + + Title: "-t and POSIX::isatty on IO::Handle objects", "Fix C<-t $handle>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Greg Ward + <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Msg-ID: <199708261754.NAA24826@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix output of invalid printf formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199708241529.QAA02457@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: sv.c t/op/sprintf.t + + Title: "regexec.c regcppartblow declaration missing an arg" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199708290059.BAA05808@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "taint readlink, readdir, gecos" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199709131651.TAA13471@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "clean up old style package' usage in op.c" + From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Msg-ID: <199709151813.NAA14433@psisa.psa.pencom.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "beautifying usage() code in perl.c" + From: "John L. Allen" <"John L. Allen"<allen@gateway.grumman.com>> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970905091314.5991C-100000@gateway> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "debugger to fix core dumps, adds $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709170823.EAA21359@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c lib/perl5db.pl mg.c perl.c toke.c + + Title: "downgrade "my $foo masks earlier" from mandatory to "-w"" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen Potter + <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Msg-ID: <199709091832.NAA14763@psisa.psa.pencom.com>, + <199709102019.QAA09591@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod op.c + + Title: "fix overridden glob() problems" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709171645.MAA13988@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlsub.pod lib/File/DosGlob.pm op.c t/lib/dosglob.t + toke.c + + Title: "Reverse previous "Fix C<qq #hi#>" patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Kenneth Albanowski + <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Tom Christiansen + <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> + Msg-ID: <199707050155.VAA27394@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199708172326.RAA19344@jhereg.perl.com>, + <Pine.LNX.3.93.970817200236.170F-100000@kjahds.com> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "printf type warning buglets in m3t2" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> + Msg-ID: <199708141017.MAA10225@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c util.c x2p/util.c + + Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and + perl5" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen McCamant + <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <m0x4AUk-000EUJC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "unpack now allows commas but -w warns", "unpack() difference + 5.003->5.004" + From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Chip Salzenberg + <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, + Jim Esten <jesten@wdynamic.com>, Jim Esten + <jesten@wepco.com>, timbo (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199709031632.LAA29584@wepco.com>, + <199709090257.WAA32670@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199709090917.MAA05602@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199709091000.LAA24094@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <341077FE.132F@wdynamic.com>, + <Pine.SOL.3.91.970905171243.14630A-100000@gateway> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + Title: "5.004_04 trial 1 assorted minor details" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> + Msg-ID: <HBF.970921p5f6@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod hv.c op.c sv.c x2p/util.c + + Title: "A couple of 4_04t1 problems" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9709210959.AA28772@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: lib/Cwd.pm perl.c + + Title: "Minor changes to ease port to MVS" + From: Len Johnson <lenjay@ibm.net>, SMTP%"BAHUFF@us.oracle.com" , + SMTP%"pfuntner@vnet.ibm.com" , pvhp@forte.com (Peter + Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199709162058.NAA00952@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> + Files: unixish.h miniperlmain.c + + Title: "Truer version string and more robust perlbug" + From: "Michael A. Chase" <mchase@ix.netcom.com>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709201514.QAA21187@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <1997Sep22.090701.2297448@cor.newman> + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Fix locale bug for constant (readonly) strings" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199709262125.AAA28292@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Enable truly global glob()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710080000.UAA18972@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix for $0 truncation" + From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199710081703.SAA02653@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix for missing &import leaving stack untidy" + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Msg-ID: <199709282252.SAA22915@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Larry's proto fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Msg-ID: <199709290004.UAA07559@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c t/comp/proto.t + + Title: "Fix bugs with magical arrays and hashes (@ISA)" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <199709232148.RAA29967@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: perl.h proto.h av.c global.sym gv.c mg.c pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c + t/op/method.t + + Title: "Perl_debug_log stream used for all DEBUG_*(...) macro uses" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>, Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709230820.JAA11945@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: perl.c taint.c util.c + + Title: "Tainting bitwise vector ops" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <199710061726.NAA16438@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: doop.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Enhance $^E on OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709232236.SAA04463@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod mg.c os2/Changes + + Title: "option "!#... -- ..." in perl 5.004.03 seems not to work" + From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Urs Thuermann + <urs@isnogud.escape.de> + Msg-ID: <199709232030.WAA30425@isnogud.escape.de>, + <Pine.SOL.3.91.970930105158.10789A-100000@gateway> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "syswrite will again write a zero length buffer" + From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, + aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) + Msg-ID: <199710042107.AAA28561@alpha.hut.fi>, + <19971007104652-cameron-1-10391@sid.research.canon.com.au> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "make Odd number of elements in hash list warning non-mandatory" + From: Jason Varsoke {81530} <jjv@caesun10.msd.ray.com> + Msg-ID: <199710021651.MAA15690@caesun7.msd.ray.com> + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix defined() bug in m4t3 affecting LWP" + From: chip@atlantic.net@ig.co.uk () + Msg-ID: <199710101822.OAA14249@cyprus.atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Include $archname in perl -v output" + From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "-I flag can easily lead to whitespace in @INC" + From: Kenneth Stephen <y2kmvs@us.ibm.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>, + pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199710130922.KAA07780@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <5040400007001448000002L082*@MHS>, + <9710132015.AA12457@forte.com> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "perldiag.pod: gotcha in short pattern/char ops" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199709050718.KAA31405@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Documenting the perl-thanks address" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970913064628.12359F-100000@julie.teleport.com> + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Missing section for @_ in perlvar." + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199708142146.RAA13146@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Promised information about AvHASH in perguts is not delivered" + From: mjd@plover.com + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.doc - $_ aliasing in map, grep, foreach etc" + From: Ted Ashton <ashted@southern.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708181852.OAA15901@ns.southern.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "-U Unsafe operations need -w to warn" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970826141343.13463h-100000@julie.teleport.com> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "document the return value of syscall" + From: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl> + Msg-ID: <1997Sep7.160817.2297395@cor.newman> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "minor fix for perltrap.pod" + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709170500.BAA14805@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "xsubpp: document advanced dynamic typemap usage" + From: "Rujith S. de Silva" <desilva@netbox.com> + Files: pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Improved diagnostic docs for here-documents" + From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970921074004.21358G-100000@julie.teleport.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[POD patch] do-FILE forces scalar context." + From: Robin Houston <robin@oneworld.org> + Msg-ID: <199709221553.QAA28409@carryon.oneworld.org> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlop.pop. Behaviour of C<qq#hi#> vs C<qq #hi#>." + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709220107.VAA27064@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Clarify exec docs in perlfunc.pod" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199710081353.OAA00834@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Documentation patch for perlguts.pod--document tainting routines" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalskd@osshe.edu> + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971007165226.02fd2cd4@osshe.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Man perlfunc: incorrect split example" + From: Joerg Porath <Joerg.Porath@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> + Msg-ID: <199709240620.IAA30928@pandora.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Improve "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method" disgnostic" + From: rjray@uswest.com (Randy J. Ray) + Msg-ID: <199709231710.LAA08854@tremere.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Document split-with-limit on empty string perl4/perl5 change" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>, Hugo + van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709221419.PAA03987@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <hiuvttdkv.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltrap.pod URI/URL/http.pm t/op/split.t + + Title: "Clarify close() docs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710081653.MAA20611@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perldiag log & sqrt - refer to Math::Complex package" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi> + Msg-ID: <199710042129.AAA20367@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod: sysread, syswrite docs" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi> + Msg-ID: <199710061910.WAA15266@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document //gc" + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709232302.TAA27947@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "repeating #! switches" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Robin Barker + <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709241736.NAA25855@rio.atlantic.net>, + <24778.9709241501@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Re: taint documentation bug" + From: Ken Estes <estes@ms.com>, Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971006121349.10551X-100000@usertest.teleport.com> + Files: pod/perlsec.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "FileHandle.pm fails if Exporter has not been loaded previously" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <3445e05b.17874041@smtp2.ibm.net> + Files: lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Prefer startperl path over perlpath in MakeMaker" + From: Andreas Klussmann <andreas@infosys.heitec.de> + Msg-ID: <199709162017.WAA05043@troubadix.infosys.heitec.net> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname fails under Solaris 2.5 when setuid" + From: Patrick Hayes <Patrick.Hayes.CAP_SESA@renault.fr> + Msg-ID: <199708201240.OAA04243@goblin.renault.fr> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "Cwd::getcwd cannot handle path contains '0' element" + From: Hironori Ikura <hikura@tcc.co.jp>, Hironori Ikura + <hikura@trans-nt.com>, Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com> + Msg-ID: <19970830060142J.hikura@matsu.tcc.co.jp>, + <m0x4TzI-0003F1C@wsuse5.mckesson.com> + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "Getopt::Long 2.11" + From: JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans) + Msg-ID: <m0xBcdR-000RArC@plume.nl.compuware.com> + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "IO::Socket autoflush by default, assume tcp and PeerAddr" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Andy Dougherty + <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, Gisle Aas + <aas@bergen.sn.no> + Msg-ID: <E0x9WpH-0003HT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <Pine.SUN.3.96.970915115856.23236F-100000@newton.phys>, + <hvi07zvo9.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer <upf@de.uu.net> + Msg-ID: <p5iuw1cris.fsf@knowway.de.uu.net> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Undocumented: $Test::Harness::switches" + From: Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de> + Msg-ID: <9708272110.AA26904@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "Patches for lib/Math/Complex.pm and t/lib/complex.t" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de> + Msg-ID: <199709102009.WAA27428@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Win32: Install.pm not correctly comparing binary files." + From: Jeff Urlwin <jurlwin@access.digex.net> + Msg-ID: <01BCBFAA.E325C4A0.jurlwin@access.digex.net> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Document that File::Find doesn't follow symlinks" + From: Greg Ward <greg@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Msg-ID: <199708191853.OAA07111@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + Title: "fix subroutines called in a void context in perl5db.pl" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0x6Gsa-0004VR-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "xsubpp fix to allow #ifdef's around entire XSubs" + From: John Tobey <jtobey@user1.channel1.com> + Msg-ID: <199709070034.AAA16457@remote119> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Banishing eval from getopt.pl and Getopt/Std.pm" + From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970920154720.3683A@gateway> + Files: lib/getopt.pl lib/Getopt/Std.pm + + Title: "further complex number patches" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199709221009.FAA21216@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu>, + <199709221216.PAA15130@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Trap Time::Local infinite loop" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199710030030.BAA17372@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Cosmetic Test::Harness patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710032226.SAA15354@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "ExtUtil::Install sub my_cmp needs to binmode its files" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Stephen Potter + <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Msg-ID: <199710010617.BAA02037@psisa.psa.pencom.com>, + <199710011819.OAA03288@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Enable make test "TEST_FILES=t/*.t.were_failing"" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710032231.SAA15364@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix for autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710071734.NAA19462@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex fixes - fixes problems on m68-linux" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jarkko.hietaniemi@research.nokia.com> + Msg-ID: <199709301422.HAA24368@koah.research.nokia.com> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Updated CPAN.pm for 5.004_04" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: <sfcpvpv8teo.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "debugger bug with 'c subname'" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709232331.TAA04546@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Fix atan2 & restrict $t to (-pi,pi] instead of to [-pi,pi]" + From: Daniel S. Lewart, Jarkko Hietaniemi + <jarkko.hietaniemi@research.nokia.com> + Msg-ID: <199710010939.CAA00964@koah.research.nokia.com> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Cwd::fastcwd needs changes to work with tainting" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Ulrich Pfeifer + <pfeifer@wait.de>, Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <yfmwwk6y0bc.ulp@gretchen.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "use autouse: requires prototype now" + From: user@agate.berkeley.edu + Msg-ID: <9709220450.AA0380@tuzik.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: ""use base qw(Foo Bar);" to set @ISA at compile time" + From: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>, Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>, Graham Barr + <gbarr@ti.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>, + jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois), larry@wall.org (Larry + Wall) + Msg-ID: <199710022151.WAA21250@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <199710031613.JAA11286@wall.org>, + <199710040829.KAA16739@furu.g.aas.no>, + <3434E4C6.AE24135E@ti.com>, <343C2278.7DC1ADC6@pobox.com>, + <343ec306.50394803@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> + Files: lib/base.pm + + Title: "Further Math/Complex.pm enhancements" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199710132055.XAA02086@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Further Math::Complex fixes" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199710120933.MAA01165@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "POD patches w.r.t. $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710030001.UAA14241@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ../pod/perlfunc.pod ../pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "libperl.sl on HP-UX 10.20" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709250003.BAA18085@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <873emkbpit.fsf@perv.daft.com> + Files: + + Title: "myconfig / perl -V: remove randbits and add prototype" + From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709290857.JAA07706@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: myconfig + + Title: "Emacs CPerl update for 5.004_04" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710140835.EAA26825@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + Title: "Enhance perly.fixer to help porters." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: perly.fixer + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "Fix win32/Makefile for perl95" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "Win32 archnames" + From: Bill Middleton <wmiddlet@Adobe.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy + <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>, Tim + Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199709111929.PAA22488@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <341719E4.4923@forte.com>, + <Pine.GSO.3.95.970905123145.12361B-100000@ducks> + Files: win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc + + Title: "pl2bat.bat -> pl2bat.pl change in win32/pod.mak" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <3411ee6f.9143607@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> + Files: win32/pod.mak + + Title: "Add test-notty target to Win32 Makefile" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <343f5106.12461608@smtp2.ibm.net> + Files: win32/Makefile + + Title: "Bug in Win32::GetShortPathName" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710092229.SAA21556@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Fix NT handles leak." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710111319.JAA10918@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "fix socket init duality on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710111523.LAA12407@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Tweak to hints/machten.sh: stop t/lib/complex.t from failing" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@tcp.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03110700b06a30bdfc42@[194.51.248.80]> + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Irix 6.2 build problem - so_locations" + From: "Billinghurst, David" <David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au> + Msg-ID: <D54B1932FFB4CF11B5C80000F8018BD2907E31@CRCMAIL> + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Porting/pumpkin.pod version 1.13" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970828142011.27416A-100000@newton.phys> + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "lib/timelocal.t fails test 1 for VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970908112449.0087bc90@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + Title: "Patches to updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970918100648.008b1c60@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Fix perl build on Digital UNIX after JDK installs libnet.so" + From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us> + Msg-ID: <199709191826.OAA18040@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970912091524.008a3620@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Dynixptx hints" + From: bruce@aps.org ("Bruce P. Schuck") + Msg-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.95.971002104651.12112G-200000@lancelot.aps.org> + Files: hints/dynixptx.sh + + Title: "Minor OS/2 patch for 4_03" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710032224.SAA15345@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/os2.c + + Title: "OS2::REXX improvements" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709272214.SAA08638@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/Changes os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm + + Title: "hints/qnx.sh update" + From: Norton Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709261508.LAA07889@dolores.harvard.edu> + Files: hints/qnx.sh + + Title: "New hints file for IBM OS/390 OpenEdition (MVS)" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <9709240106.AA26484@forte.com> + Files: hints/os390.sh + + Title: "OS/2 Hints" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199710130631.CAA25426@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "op/glob.t test failure under Win32 with CVS" + From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <97Aug26.091048pdt.35761-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: t/op/glob.t + + Title: "tests fail if localhost/loopback address not defined" + From: David McLean <David McLean<davem@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov>>, David McLean + <davem@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov> + Msg-ID: <34048947.2944@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov> + Files: t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_udp.t + + Title: "Improve pragma/locale test 102 - and don't fail, just warn" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970919160918.00857a50@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Identify t/*/*.t test failing because of file permissions" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: <sfcraah0xvy.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "fix poor t/op/runlevel.t test" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Norton Allen + <allen@huarp.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709261458.KAA28611@dolores.harvard.edu> + Files: t/op/runlevel.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Missing 'require' in auto-generated .pm by h2xs" + From: davidk@tor.securecomputing.com (David Kerry) + Msg-ID: <97Aug27.131618edt.11650@janus.tor.securecomputing.com> + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "Perldoc tiny patch to avoid $0" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph broken in 5.004_02" + From: David Mazieres <dm@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>, + kstar@www.chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic) + Msg-ID: <199708201454.KAA05122@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>, + <199708201700.KAA02621@www.chapin.edu> + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "add key_t caddr_t to h2ph", "eg/sysvipc/ipcsem bug", "update + hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com> + Msg-ID: <199708272301.RAA12803@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: eg/sysvipc/ipcsem utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "perldoc search ., lib and blib/* if -f 'Makefile.PL'" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199708251732.KAA19299@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "5.004m4t1: perlbug: NIS domainname gets into wrong places" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: <sfcg1qy38as.fsf@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "add better local patch info to perlbug", "perlbug checks perl + build/run version changes" + From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc - suggest modules if requested module not found" + From: Anthony David <adavid@netinfo.com.au> + Msg-ID: <3439CD83.6969@netinfo.com.au> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc mail::foo tries to read binary /usr/ucb/mail" + From: "Joseph Moof-in' Hall" <joseph@cscaper.com>, Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199710082014.NAA00808@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc -f setpwent (for example) returns no descriptive text" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc diffs: don't search auto - much faster" + From: "Joseph N. Hall" <joseph@5sigma.com> + Msg-ID: <MailDrop1.2d7dPPC.971012211957@screechy.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_03 Maintenance release 3 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"To err is human, to forgive divine." + -- Alexander Pope + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Fixed 5.004_02 compilation failure on VMS. + Fixed Configure (non)errors being displayed to user. + Better support for Windows 95. + Assorted documentation and hint file improvements. + perl --foo no longer silently ignored. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "Show Configure failure reason even with -s" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970812141623.14256K-100000@newton.phys> + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can stop without fully explaining itself" + From: Jim Anderson <jander@ml.com> + Msg-ID: <199708111328.JAA28976@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com>, + <199708111952.PAA29346@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com> + Files: Configure + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "typos in perl -h output" + From: "Richard A. Wells" <Rwells@uhs.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <6D0BF914BC@gateuhs.harvard.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Some perldb -> PERLDB_* macro changes were missed" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708100323.XAA27155@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Further fix to lseek's in lockf_emulate_flock" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> + Msg-ID: <199708060031.CAA07387@bombur2.uio.no>, + <199708102225.AAA16970@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "GNU style perl --version (or any other --foo) ignored" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Kenneth Albanowski + <kjahds@kjahds.com>, Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <E0wx8MO-0007BS-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <Pine.LNX.3.93.970813122557.9443C-100000@kjahds.com>, + <m0wy8nl-000EYgC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "seen_dot declaration in perl.c needed for VMS" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708072033.QAA09167@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] -D info in perlrun", "[PATCH] Re: -D info in perlrun" + From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug10.195832.2224477@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <m0wxNNL-000EYgC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>, + <m0wxz6l-000EYgC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "perlop pod inconsistent in presentation of regexp options" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl>, + jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com + Msg-ID: <199708061404.KAA06717@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <199708081505.LAA09810@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <1997Aug7.160530.2196011@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <E0wwnqc-00057s-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0wwswg-00017x-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "pod2man generated .IX lines upset whatis on Solaris" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com (John + Redford) + Msg-ID: <E0wxoUZ-0006Ee-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "The description of the \Q metacharacter is confusing to novices" + From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) + Msg-ID: <199708101946.AA06339@world.std.com> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "doc patch for pack("p",undef) packing a NULL pointer" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod error" + From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> + Msg-ID: <199708102235.QAA18420@jhereg.perl.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "patch for documentation error in FileCache.pm" + From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk>, mikebo@tellabs.com + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970810143321.437C-100000@stok.co.uk> + Files: lib/FileCache.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] 5.004_02: Complex/Trig: update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199708081842.VAA31214@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "CPAN Use of uninitialized value in newest perl" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9708091738.AA16435@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] /x is not a valid shell switch on Win95" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708121720.NAA14760@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Win95-proofing pl2bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708121733.NAA14888@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/bin/pl2bat.pl + win32/bin/runperl.pl win32/bin/search.pl + win32/bin/webget.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] [OK] Perl5.004_02 on Alpha NT" + From: wmiddlet@adobe.com (William Middleton) + Msg-ID: <199708072100.OAA13141@ducks> + Files: win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------ + + Title: "Improve dual-universe comments in hints/sunos_4_1.sh" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970812170358.14488E-100000@newton.phys> + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "Dynamic Loading on MkLinux (osname=linux,archname=ppc-linux)" + From: Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>, Shimpei Yamashita + <shimpei@socrates.patnet.caltech.edu> + Msg-ID: <33EF1634.B36B6500@pobox.com> + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "5.004_02 Configure - worrying but normal errors displayed to user" + From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk + (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <01BCA3DE.E257BFC0.pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, + <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: Configure os2/diff.configure + + Title: "Minor glitch with Perl 5.004_01 on SunOS 4.1.3 (groupstype)" + From: thad@thadlabs.com (Thad Floryan) + Msg-ID: <9708111415.AA03808@thadlabs.com> + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "SCO Openserver 5.0.4 - add comment to hint file re compiler bug" + From: Bill Glicker <billg@burrelles.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.96.970811153021.18457A-100000@laura.burrelles.com> + Files: hints/sco.sh + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "perlbug -d non-interactive (with patch)" + From: Ted Ashton <ashted@southern.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708071418.KAA15711@ns.southern.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_02 Maintenance release 2 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"When you work you are a flute through whose + heart the whispering of the hours turns to music." + -- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Major memory growth bug fixed. + Object destruction is more timely and orderly. + Further major enhancements to Win32 support, including: + Win32 binary compatibility between Visual C++ and Borland C++. + The -S option is now more useful on dos/Win32 (see perlrun). + Implicit -p print now checks for write errors. + DB_File now sub-classable (and other fixes). + Memory usage stats available with perl's malloc (see perldelta). + 'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated (see perldelta). + Internal integer to string conversions are faster. + Carp can be forced to give stack traces (see perldoc Carp). + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: Configure: cf_time always in C locale" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199708061827.VAA09623@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can't find open3 on NeXTstep" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, hans@icgned.nl + (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9706271816.AA10551@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't use undef value in Config::myconfig" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@sissy.in-berlin.de>, Chip Salzenberg + <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Msg-ID: <199706271525.RAA13517@sissy.in-berlin.de> + Files: configpm + + Title: "make Configure recognize powerux hint (perl5.004_01)" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9707301938.AA08352@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "[PATCH]: HP-UX 10 w/o transition links" + From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <199706181851.AA093329906@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>, + <199706231650.AA070364627@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL updates for GNU ld and __inet_* errors" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Files: INSTALL + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Additional patch for "Can't execute ..."" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707191651.MAA04897@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Band-aid fix for local([@%]$x)" + From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <m0wsb7J-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod op.c pp_hot.c t/op/local.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Bug in Regular Expressions when using colon as + delimiter" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0wtbhv-0005Mm-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Can't pack literals as pointers" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708012250.SAA20278@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/pack.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Do not constant-fold ops that depend on locale if C<use + locale>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Msg-ID: <199707210519.BAA13785@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eval fails in certain situations (eval "{'...")" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707211753.NAA14940@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/comp/term.t toke.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak on eval 'sub {}'" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "stringify looses integerness" + From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> + Msg-ID: <hbu4l96z2.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix intolerance of a space between "print" and opening paren" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707011421.KAA15836@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Calling Perl from within C from within Perl" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199706301842.OAA05569@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods (tests)" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0whfHh-0007bW-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "Avoid core dump on some paren'd regexp matches", "One-liner regex + causes SEGV on 5.003 under HP-UX and Linux" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199706261236.NAA03472@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707061144.MAA04443@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c t/op/re_tests + + Title: "Forbid negative splice offset beyond array start" + From: "John L. Allen" <allen@gateway.grumman.com>, Chip Salzenberg + <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970625111744.19300A-100000@gateway> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Forbid "goto" into middle of foreach loop" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C<qq #hi#>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle" + From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> + Msg-ID: <hyb80drrz.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Files: gv.c lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "infinite recursion in malloc() with some compile flags" + From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> + Msg-ID: <199706240050.CAA10550@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "sv_vcatpvfn hogs memory [Patch included]" + From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> + Msg-ID: <199706211521.RAA12778@solar.ethz.ch> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix '-' flag on sprintf() of floats" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Jarkko Hietaniemi + <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199705270646.JAA02510@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Free temps before calling END blocks", "Too late destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <m33erfv5hx.fsf@chany-p100.emwp.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix C<print $foo x 2> parsing" + From: "Chuck D. Phillips (NON-HP Employee)" <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com>, Chip + Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <199706121737.KAA00503@palrel3.hp.com> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix lockf_emulate_flock() positioning" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, gen@atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp + Msg-ID: <199706091132.UAA00895@wampa.atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use atol() for unsigned values", "signedness problem in + pack("N", "value");" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Roger Espel Llima + <espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr> + Msg-ID: <19970531200007.40218@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't warn about "${foo}" in string, even if &foo exists" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -p does not check for failure of implicit print" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v0311070aafea3fa83061@[194.51.248.75]> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod toke.c + + Title: "Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707150010.UAA00816@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Constant-fold sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Msg-ID: <199707210518.BAA13771@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "[PATCH] Make DEBUGGING_MSTATS info consistent" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970731131529.3740A-100000@newton.phys> + Files: INSTALL pod/perldelta.pod perl.h + + Title: "Minor Win32 glitch with -S flag" + From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <97Jun19.150511pdt.35717-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Slightly safer signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Files: mg.c perl.c + + Title: "Time::Local patch (plus perl.c and filehand.t)" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm perl.c t/lib/filehand.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Weirdness in sv_peek()" + From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <m0wsEMU-000EYLC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net>, + <m0wsf7Y-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Win32 UNC path causes autoload to fail" + From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <97Jun18.163826pdt.35714-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH]: reduced malloc patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: av.c + + Title: "[PATCH] $\1 and serious bug in evalling" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707262127.RAA12883@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Faster int to string conversion", "[PATCH} Re: memory leak in buffer + safety code" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199707140912.KAA09935@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707142050.QAA20976@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199707182035.VAA20990@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <9707151040.AA02883@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: global.sym sv.c + + Title: "object never destructs" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707131955.PAA29655@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "[PATCH] -S flag fixes for DOSISH platforms", "[RESEND] [PATCH] -S + flag fixes for DOSISH platforms" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707250043.UAA02385@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301828.OAA19508@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod perl.c + + Title: "Perldb internal flag rehaul" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c + pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: q and escaping paired delimiters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Kenneth Albanowski + <kjahds@kjahds.com> + Msg-ID: <199707280516.BAA14055@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <Pine.LNX.3.93.970727172201.350K-100000@kjahds.com>, + <Pine.LNX.3.93.970728013540.350U-100000@kjahds.com> + Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c + + Title: "Enable PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS without -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: malloc.c perl.c + + Title: "semctl broken under Linux" + From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@LS5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Andreas + Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Graham + Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <33C38291.2D9302DA@ti.com>, + <9707040912.AA03470@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, + <9707041538.AA08946@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <9707070924.AA11774@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, + <9707090933.AA19012@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t2: problem in NetBSD 1.2D with sfio" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: perl.h + + Title: "fix substr fix (tests 27 etc)", "perl5.004_02 trial 1 available + (with substr bug and still some" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199707301759.SAA02899@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707302228.BAA18032@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199707310929.KAA06515@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <E0wtruH-0002JM-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fwd: substr("foo", -1000)", "substr: warn if substring doesn't + intersect original at all" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199707100655.JAA14924@alpha.hut.fi>, + <E0wm1JG-0000UY-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/substr.t + + Title: "[PATCH] work around compiler bug on CX/UX (perl5.004_01)" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9707301934.AA18594@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: hints/cxux.sh pp.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "Duplicates in perlguts.pod" + From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9707082346.AA13231@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Better "Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC" error documentation" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Jun24.195847.2091744@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "new perlembed.pod:match.c" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Msg-ID: <199707170355.XAA21370@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Document bug fix in localization of $1 etc." + From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Major goof in XS Tutorial regarding subdirs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707260920.FAA12453@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Magic info in perlguts, take 2" + From: Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <m0wr6P8-000EYLC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] Missing semicolon message wrong in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0welEn-0002vT-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0wfRJU-0006Aw-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Updates to perlguts (repost)" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707152223.SAA00776@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:47:LOG] Dropped "and" in pod2man" + From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9707082355.AA13254@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[BUG] perlembed.pod:power.c example" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Msg-ID: <199707181344.JAA10565@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] arguments swapped in perlapio.pod" + From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> + Msg-ID: <199706240049.CAA10534@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: pod/perlapio.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] cool quote for perldebug" + From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com> + Msg-ID: <199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com> + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] multiline commands in qx//" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707212350.TAA18496@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "patch to 5.004_01 perltrap.pod" + From: jmm@revenge.elegant.com (John Macdonald) + Msg-ID: <9706231525.AA22790@revenge.elegant.com> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "perl4 to perl5.004 converion with debugger problem" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0wdKJY-00010w-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "done3/perlbook.pod" + From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: pod/perlbook.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] readline and readpipe are undocumented" + From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document use of - in a regex char class." + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03102804afd578bcef2c@[194.51.248.88]> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] splitpod broken in 5.004_01" + From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199706240048.CAA10515@xs2.xs4all.nl>, + <9706241612.AA09119@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: pod/splitpod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "Carp::cluck() and -MCarp=verbose" + From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk, epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko) + Msg-ID: <199708060607.AAA16681@den-mdev1.tci.com>, + <199708062105.PAA09878@den-mdev1.tci.com> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Warning from calls using "use Shell"" + From: Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@abel.math.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970806173903.7320H-100000@abel> + Files: lib/Shell.pm + + Title: "confessing a carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@rio.atlantic.net>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, Nick Ing-Simmons + <nick@ni-s.u-net.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199708052155.WAA25393@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199708060721.IAA30894@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199708061533.LAA01313@rio.atlantic.net>, + <33E79BE2.4E6F@ni-s.u-net.com>, + <33E8E3C5.62C@ni-s.u-net.com>, + <9708051619.AA13764@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] dumpvar.pl parses some references incorrectly" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0wwAjQ-0004l6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: lib/dumpvar.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: minor doc patch (to obsolete I18N::Collate)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199708060732.KAA02675@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Binary installers for Perl modules" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707210006.UAA06165@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "m2t2 broke CPAN.pm :-(" + From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] CPAN.pm on OS/2" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@anna.in-berlin.de>, Ilya Zakharevich + <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707180415.AAA03180@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199707181407.QAA12920@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Docs of IO::Handle [PATCH]" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707222307.TAA08380@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Exporter errors give wrong location" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0wdJra-0000n8-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Exporter new export_to_level method" + From: epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko) + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "DB_File produces spurious output when trapping __DIE__" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9706302125.AA28254@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "Remove 'use UNIVERSAL;', switch to UNIVERSAL::isa()" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0whaZJ-0007BA-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + + Title: "perl5.004 Time::Local still broken" + From: Mathias Koerber <mathias@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg> + Msg-ID: <199706260452.MAA22647@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__}" + From: Ken Shan <ken@digitas.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707070357.XAA18065@digitas.harvard.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "xsubpp patch" + From: John Tobey <jtobey@user1.channel1.com> + Msg-ID: <199707010221.CAA01234@remote133> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "DB_File 1.15 patch" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9707192117.AA01973@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/typemap + t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + Title: "Problems with setvbuf" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707250040.UAA11000@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Title: "[PATCH] Repost of fork() debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707252101.RAA11846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "IO::File and DB_File pollutes namespace with Fcntl constants" + From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> + Msg-ID: <h205qyijy.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "[MM] [PATCH] Re: Liblist problems for MSWin32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199706182152.RAA20273@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Net::hostent documentation error" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199707082222.QAA24728@elara.frii.com> + Files: lib/Net/hostent.pm + + Title: "PATCH: make DBM*_File modules sub-classable" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9707121854.AA19472@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/GDBM_File/typemap ext/NDBM_File/typemap + ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/typemap + t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + + Title: "Sys::Syslog patch to allow unix domain sockets" + From: Sean Robinson <robinson_s@sc.maricopa.edu> + Msg-ID: <33B31342.7EB16A44@sc.maricopa.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated, do C<UNIVERSAL::isa()> instead", + "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>, + Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>, Gurusamy Sarathy + <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199706271701.NAA25664@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199706271904.UAA00120@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199706272054.QAA28913@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199706301554.LAA03763@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <33B22248.7D7C1985@ti.com>, + <E0wf5TN-0006ps-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0wguTR-0005bs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0whaZJ-0007BA-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0whfHh-0007bW-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0wiyUG-00073j-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <hiuyv6q9k.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "[MM] Small patch to MakeMaker, new release" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" <k@anna.in-berlin.de> + Msg-ID: <199706281603.SAA10869@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "ExtUtils-Embed upgrade" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] icmp tweak for IO::Socket" + From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199707041240.NAA21484@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Allow concurrent mkdir in File::Path::mkpath" + From: schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy) + Msg-ID: <199707300943.LAA21574@kant.imb-jena.de> + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "CPAN.pm, $VERSION and nested (bundled) modules." + From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] perl debugger, win32, and emacs" + From: Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com> + Msg-ID: <199707311759.NAA13276@crooked-i.mitre.org> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] pod2html mangles C<&foo(42);>" + From: Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl> + Msg-ID: <199706250057.CAA10162@xs1.xs4all.nl> + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] posix.xs broken on VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095755.00875ba0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "MM_Unix.pm nits for Win32 DMAKE" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708032051.QAA14248@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname -w unclean in trial 2" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708032055.QAA14278@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "(3) File::Find::find()/finddepth() bugs with toplevel paths" + From: "Conrad E. Kimball" <cek@tblv021.ca.boeing.com> + Msg-ID: <199707040045.RAA24459@mailgate2.boeing.com> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "EMERGENCY_SBRK or PERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK ?" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@newton.phys.lafayette.edu>, + ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug1.191631.2167470@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <Pine.SUN.3.96.970801134400.4393F-100000@newton.phys> + Files: + Files: + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Embedding threaded apps in perl.dll" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707261518.LAA24346@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301833.OAA19570@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Minor fix for pl2bat.bat", "[PATCH] Re: Minor fix for pl2bat.bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Warren Jones + <wjones@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <199707061843.OAA23874@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <97Jun24.115804pdt.35752-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + Title: "WIN32 Build - pod2xxx.bat Missing?", "[PATCH] Re: WIN32 Build - + pod2xxx.bat Missing?" + From: Chris Williams <chrisw@netinfo.com.au>, Gurusamy Sarathy + <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707011423.KAA15855@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <33B8B962.D96FA1F5@netinfo.com.au> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Win32 sitelib intuition from DLL location" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199706231647.MAA23260@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/config_h.PL win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] binary coexistence on win32", "[RESEND] [PATCH] binary + coexistence on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707250109.VAA02666@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301829.OAA19516@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h + win32/win32iop.h win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] docs for win32 utilities" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707250045.UAA02510@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] exec() fixed on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199706241525.LAA06554@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] getenv() after my_setenv() gets old entry on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199706231700.NAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] getservby*() calls fail on Windows NT" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199706231654.MAA23276@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] minor win32 scribbles" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Hugo van der Sanden + <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199707262307.TAA28410@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707270832.JAA19399@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod README.win32 win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/config.vc win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] trial2: some batch files won't run" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708040226.WAA17301@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 docs and runperl.bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707070446.AAA29560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 extras and embedding" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707250232.WAA03421@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301831.OAA19528@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: dosish.h win32/win32.h perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config_H.bc + win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 tweaks" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707042150.RAA01065@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32_stat() fixes (2nd try)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708040137.VAA16810@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/stat.t win32/win32iop.h win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------ + + Title: "Additional OS/2 patches" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Ilya Zakharevich + <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708020823.EAA19521@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199708021424.KAA28561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199708042108.RAA27671@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.os2 os2/Changes perl.c + + Title: "Additional patch is needed for os2/diff.configure" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708020745.DAA19483@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/diff.configure + + Title: "Assorted OS/2 fixes" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Jun16.163234.2091727@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h README.os2 os2/Changes + os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c util.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Changes for VMS 7.1 support" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>, Dan Sugalski + <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <01ILDXUH0J1W00026U@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <3.0.2.32.19970718095935.0087a2d0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/sockadapt.h vms/config.vms vms/sockadapt.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Easier TCP stack selection for VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970624151939.00994490@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "Minor VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Msg-ID: <01ILCUO6XXTE000WFK@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/vmsish.h vms/descrip.mms vms/test.com + vms/vms.c vms/ext/filespec.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Two un-disabled tests for VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095842.00879220@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/test.com + + Title: "fixes for hints/svr4 for UnixWare >= 2.1.1" + From: John Hughes <john@titanic.atlantech.com> + Msg-ID: <199707021230.OAA24230@titanic.AtlanTech.COM> + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "make depend loop fix and minor OS/2 improvements to build process" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Files: Makefile.SH hints/os2.sh os2/Makefile.SHs + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "Add xor tests to test suite" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199706250730.IAA06097@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/comp/cmdopt.t + + Title: "[PATCH] enable some tests on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707250029.UAA02351@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Fix up problems with *DBM tests" + From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: utils/perlbug.PL: -ok report is not a bug" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199708071022.NAA13008@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug - check sendmail and fix win32 tmp path" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199708060349.XAA15895@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "OK: perl <some_version> on <some_system> (corrected)", "enhancements + to perlbug -ok" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>, Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com> + Msg-ID: <E0wukVt-0006Da-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <E0wvMQl-00055y-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>, + <m0wv81x-000EYPC@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> + Files: utils/Makefile utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug -ok [PATCH]" + From: "Charles F. Randall" <crandall@free.click-n-call.com> + Msg-ID: <199706181824.MAA04082@free.click-n-call.com> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug broken" + From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Msg-ID: <9707040912.AA03466@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perlbug under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707180333.XAA03102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc doesn't grok Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones <wjones@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <97Jun17.184420pdt.35728-1@gateway.fluke.com>, + <97Jun18.165618pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perldoc under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199707180340.XAA03114@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph corrections to avoid redefined sub warnings" + From: wdconsta <wdconsta@cs.adelaide.edu.au> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.93.970708143446.23808A-100000@florence.teaching.cs.adelaide.edu.au> + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_01 Maintenance release 1 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" + -- Anne Herbert + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + (..., undef, ...) = split(...) bug fixed. + Win32 support greatly improved, now very strong. + Memory leak using Tied hashes and arrays fixed. + Documentation updates. + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + CORE LANGUAGE + + Title: "[PATCH] first true value returned by scalar C<...> is wrong" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pp_ctl.c t/op/flip.t + + Title: "Regex Bug in 5.003_26 thru 003_99a" + From: Andreas Karrer <karrer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>, Chip Salzenberg + <chip@atlantic.net> + Msg-ID: <199705152303.BAA08890@kuru.ee.ethz.ch>, + <199705161915.PAA18721@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -w interacts badly with -Dt" + From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jay Rogers <jay@rgrs.com>, + pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <199705170235.WAA00267@fluffy.rgrs.com>, + <199705172156.RAA20561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <9705171506.AA04491@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "magic_clear_all_env proto should match svt_clear" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: proto.h mg.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)", + "[PATCH] for NETaa13787: %ENV=(); doesn't clear the environment" + From: hansm@euronet.nl, pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199705292240.AAA01135@mail.euronet.nl> + Files: embed.h perl.h proto.h global.sym mg.c t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Patch to show @INC when require dies" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9705230121.AA27872@membrane.hal.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] bug with m// nested inside s///e" + From: hansm@euro.net + Files: op.c t/op/subst.t + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "[PATCH] perlembed Win32 update" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if + used as lvalue." + From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu + (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <199705180052.UAA22066@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705180202.WAA22826@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705301341.JAA05204@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May17.235722.2033087@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pod2man produces broken pages", "weird condition in perldelta breaks + nroff" + From: Davin Milun <milun@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl> + Msg-ID: <199705310447.AAA15721@obelix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>, + <1997May25.192350.2055977@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "Perl 5 pod2man fix", "perlguts man page corrupted" + From: chen@adi.com (Franklin Chen), gnat@frii.com, lvirden@cas.org, tom + (Tom Dinger on Feste), tom@edc.com (Tom Dinger on Feste) + Msg-ID: <199705210013.UAA09599@menhaden.adi.com>, + <199706011305.JAA18271@cas.org>, + <199706012116.PAA14102@elara.frii.com>, + <9504250959.AA23419@feste.edc.com>, + <9504251700.AA23823@feste.edc.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] reference form chomp to chop in perlfunc" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "pod2man gags if "=pod" is before "=head1 NAME"" + From: whyde@pezz.sps.mot.com (Warren Hyde) + Msg-ID: <9705212115.AA21730@pezz.sps.mot.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "perlfunc.pod unclear about return value range of rand" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" <tjl@lukka.student.harvard.edu> + Msg-ID: <m0wSMiC-000C9xC@lukka.student.harvard.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)" + From: Chris Wick <cwick@lmc.com> + Files: pod/perllol.pod + + Title: "5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Documentation bugs" + From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "5.004 POD stuff", "make html - any takers?", "make html --> unusable + xref links", "pod/*.html -- all hyperlinks are invalid" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>, "Paul D. Smith" + <psmith@BayNetworks.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy + <gsar@engin.umich.edu>, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, + Michael R Cook <mcook@cognex.com>, avera@hal.com (Jim + Avera), lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <199705162008.XAA06906@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199705171830.OAA15652@erawan.cognex.com>, + <199706081749.NAA04552@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May16.191039.2033079@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <87hgg2y1h4.fsf@perv.daft.com>, + <9705161931.AA01075@membrane.hal.com>, + <9705191839.AA28702@lemming.engeast> + Files: INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod installhtml + + Title: "checkpods- forget blank line status when starting a new file" + From: Larry Parmelee <parmelee@CS.Cornell.EDU> + Files: pod/checkpods.PL + + Title: "installhtml: Fix 'no title' & 'unexpected ...' warnings. Double speed." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/splitpod + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "sdbm can fail if a config.h exists in system directories" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + Title: "LWP and SIG __DIE__ traps not playing well together!" + From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no> + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)" + From: Matthias Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch> + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "Comments of this Sys::Syslog patch", "Unusual Sys::Syslog behaviour + with FQDN ? [Even in 5.004 - a bug?]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, + alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz) + Msg-ID: <199705231621.TAA16790@alpha.hut.fi>, <5m4fjr$rhs@agate.berkeley.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Patch to CPAN.pm (perl5.004) for ncftp" + From: "Richard L. Maus, Jr." <rmaus@monmouth.com> + Msg-ID: <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970530102300.008a2730@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "more Fcntl constants [PATCH]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + + Title: "5.004 breaks ftp.pl due to missing (although obsolete) chat2.pl" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: lib/chat2.pl + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "make test && ... doesn't work" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "[PATCH] INSTALL-1.18" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970529142739.662D-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu> + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "improved gnuwin32 Configure support" + From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com> + Msg-ID: <199706070318.XAA09214@hardy.bbc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "installhtml problems finding splitpod" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Files: installhtml INSTALL + + Title: "perl 5.004 (and 01) man pages not generated and installed" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Files: installman + + Title: "oddity in Configure" + From: Mike Stok <mike@stok.co.uk> + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX" + From: Peter van Heusden <pvh@junior.uwc.ac.za> + Msg-ID: <Pine.A32.3.93.970519142625.22442B-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za>, + <Pine.A32.3.93.970519163700.25188A-100000@junior.uwc.ac.za> + Files: Makefile.SH perl_exp.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs perlio.sym + + Title: "Compiling perl5.004 on NEWS-OS 4.x" + From: Makoto MATSUSHITA (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJF4kRCQ3JD8kXiQzJEgbKEI=?=) + <matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Msg-ID: <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Files: Configure hints/newsos4.sh + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "win32: additional default libraries" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm win32/config.bc + + Title: "[PATCH] clean up perlocal.pod output on VMS" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Term::ReadKey on Win32: set console" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "pathname bug in xsubpp on win32" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705230126.SAA23401@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "MakeMaker stumbles on Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones <wjones@TC.FLUKE.COM> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()" + From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>, Jordan + Mendelson <jordy@snappy.wserv.com> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS" + From: Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk + Msg-ID: <XFMail.970522181042.Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP" + From: Henrik Tougaard <ht.000@foa.dk> + Files: mg.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints" + From: Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com> + Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "win32: user defined shell" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod win32/win32.c + + Title: "misc perl5.004 doc fixes, especially vms" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705160419.AAA16317@cas.org> + Files: pod/perlfaq4.pod vms/perlvms.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/roffitall + vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] gen_shrfls.pl too picky for Dec C 5.6 preprocessor output" + From: Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/gen_shrfls.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705301335.JAA05079@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_sh.PL + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] README.win32 nits" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "porting.help" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod Porting/preprel + + Title: "Major 5.004 Win32 update (Borland win32 support, and other patches)", + "($a,undef,$b) = qw(a b c) and ties delaying DESTROY fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlguts.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h EXTERN.h + opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm + ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/op/mkdir.t t/op/stat.t win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c gv.c + mg.c op.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c util.c + win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/makefile.mk win32/makeperldef.pl win32/perlglob.c + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Maintenance release (remove PERL_DUMMY_SIZE)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h win32/win32.h gv.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h global.sym mg.c perl.c + t/op/magic.t util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: ExtUtils::Liblist support" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: borland C++Perl embedding failures re __declspec()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos" + From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Files: t/op/magic.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Tests depend on locale" + From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi + <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199705191127.NAA08148@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t + + Title: "op/groups test fails on Linux (groups in /bin)" + From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se> + Msg-ID: <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se> + Files: t/op/groups.t + + Title: "More simple regexp tests and test docs" + From: Hans Mulder <hansm@euronet.nl> + Files: t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Using undef to ignore values returned from split" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/op/split.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "bad test of -A flag in h2xs" + From: "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jsh@woodcock.boulder.qms.com> + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] h2xs missing from utils/Makefile" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/Makefile + + Title: "PATCH: bug in perlbug w.r.t. environment variables", "bug in perlbug + w.r.t. environment variables" + From: "Jan D." <jan.djarv@mbox200.swipnet.se>, Jarkko Hietaniemi + <jhi@iki.fi> + Msg-ID: <199705191841.UAA00969@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191857.VAA09154@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] final newline missing in MANIFEST generated by h2xs" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + +------------- +Version 5.004 +------------- + +"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a release out of my hat!" +"Aww, that trick never works..." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make C<m//g> reset pos on failure; make C<m//gc> not reset" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c op.c op.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c + t/op/pat.t toke.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{BASH_ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t + taint.c + + Title: "Allow exec() if $ENV{TERM} is tainted but innocuous" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t + taint.c + + Title: "Allow globbing when tainted under VMS (no external program)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Make Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Fix default HP-UX installation path" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199705132228.AA227042483@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:28:04 -0700 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "VMS update, including socket support (four patches)" + From: Jonathan Hudson <Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk>, + Peter Prymmer <pvhp@forte.com>, + Dan Sugalski <sugalsd@lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms.c + vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 perl.c win32/Makefile win32/config.H + win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/makedef.pl + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h + win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "Don't require executable bit on perl -S if DOSISH" + From: Danny Sadinoff <sadinoff@olf.com> + Msg-ID: <337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com> + Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400 + Files: perl.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "In C<eval &func>, always call &func in scalar context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix recursive substitution" + From: Chip Salzenberg; test from Tim Bunce + Files: cop.h global.sym pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c t/op/subst.t + + Title: "Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF" + From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us> + Msg-ID: <199705121147.HAA03845@jik.saturn.net> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 07:47:13 -0400 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix core dump from get*() functions returning no alias array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo" + From: Mark K Trettin <mkt@lucent.com> + Msg-ID: <199705102228.RAA11163@gv18c.ih.lucent.com> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:28:35 -0500 + Files: pp_sys.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use 'unset' in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Protect against having no such command as 'cc'" + From: Hans Mulder <hansm@icgned.nl> + Msg-ID: <1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:35:34 -0400 (EDT) + Files: Configure + + Title: "minor wording enhancement for Configure" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199705101038.NAA00471@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:38:31 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.36" + From: Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu> + Files: eg/cgi/frameset.cgi eg/cgi/javascript.cgi lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "In IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "Fix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs t/lib/io_xs.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Make rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970510190846.23340K-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT) + Files: t/op/rand.t + + Title: "Fix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1" + From: Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <199705151735.KAA01143@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:35:41 -0600 + Files: t/op/sleep.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "h2xs and @EXPORT_OK" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199705092348.AA057881699@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 16:48:20 -0700 + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Tweaks for perldelta" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705102346.BAA17300@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Sun, 11 May 97 01:46:00 +0200 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Mention perlfaq.pod and perlmodlib.pod in perldelta.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Fix example of use of lexicals with formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Explain that destruction order is not defined" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705150600.CAA13550@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 02:00:23 -0400 + Files: pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "Note that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}" + From: neilb@cre.canon.co.uk (Neil Bowers) + Msg-ID: <199705121227.NAA29718@tardis.cre.canon.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:27:43 +0100 + Files: pod/perldata.pod + + Title: "More detailed IO::Socket documentation" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199705141456.IAA19061@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:56:30 -0600 + Files: pod/perlipc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_99a +----------------- + +Herein we find the fruits of the gamma. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "(NeXT|Open)Step update" + From: Gerd Knops <gerti@BITart.com> + Msg-ID: <9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com> + Date: Wed, 7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500 + Files: Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> + Msg-ID: <199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 23:46:37 +1000 (EST) + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "Irix hint update" + From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> + Msg-ID: <yd83es0fp57.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com> + Date: 06 May 1997 11:09:56 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs" + From: Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:48:39 -0600 + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: EXTERN.h README.win32 lib/Sys/Hostname.pm pod/perldelta.pod + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/include/sys/socket.h + + Title: "Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99" + From: Gary Clark <GaryC@mail.jeld-wen.com> + Msg-ID: <1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com> + Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:49:03 -0700 + Files: win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "AFS patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg, Larry Schwimmer <rosebud@cyclone.Stanford.EDU> + Files: Configure installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Another blank line patch to Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> + Msg-ID: <m3afm5g6ar.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU> + Date: 08 May 1997 11:36:12 -0700 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Three bugs in pod2html" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Tue, 6 May 97 00:28:06 +0200 + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp" + From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> + Msg-ID: <199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:47:03 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Newer CPerl mode" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:32:46 -0400 (EDT) + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Updates to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Dominic Dunlop + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "More explicit Solaris instructions" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970508171206.438A-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed + Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:14:54 -0400 (EDT) + Files: INSTALL hints/solaris_2.sh + + Title: "Document 'Possible attempt to separate words with commas'" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <hyb9snvdw.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Date: 06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "perlfaq9, hostname" + From: John D Groenveld <groenvel@cse.psu.edu> + Msg-ID: <199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu> + Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 13:41:12 EDT + Files: pod/perlfaq9.pod + + Title: "Debugger docs patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 21:07:14 -0400 (EDT) + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "Document that C<m?x?> is just like C<?x?>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Refresh description of sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Mention the Regular Expressions book" + From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Msg-ID: <199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:37:37 -0500 + Files: pod/perlbook.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "OS/2 doc patch for _99" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT) + Files: README.os2 + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_99 +---------------- + +"Oops." Now this _has_ to be the gamma; we're out of numbers. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "NeXT hints update" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "Support shared libperl on AIX" + From: Eric Bartley <bartley@icd.cc.purdue.edu> + Msg-ID: <199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu> + Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Forget prototype of subroutine after C<undef &subr>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix sysread() on tied handle" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 02:01:20 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:20:01 -0400 (EDT) + Files: os2/os2.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Add new globals to perl.exp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.14" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:45:09 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t + t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03102801af8e160d3879@[194.51.248.68]> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:48:26 +0200 + Files: t/io/pipe.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "typo fixes to installhtml" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:14:31 -0400 + Files: installhtml + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:42:46 +0200 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Fix typo in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_98 +---------------- + +Here it is, the second public beta (a.k.a gamma). + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldsc.pod + pod/perlref.pod t/op/ref.t vms/perly_c.vms + + CORE PORTABILITY + + (no changes) + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Reset errno after failed piped close" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:02:20 -0400 + Files: lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm pod/perlfunc.pod + t/io/pipe.t util.c + + Title: "Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:48:13 -0400 + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + (no changes) + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlmodlib.pod + + Title: "Add new diagnostics to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97j +----------------- + +This patch should be _98, unless it's egregiously broken somehow. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: matthew green <mrg@splode.eterna.com.au> + Msg-ID: <199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:18:02 +1000 + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Chuck D. Phillips <cdp@hpescdp.fc.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:35:07 -0600 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c + + Title: "Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Eliminate Alpha warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth and Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + + Title: "Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: taint.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35" + From: Lincoln Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu> + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.13" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:12:59 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical" + From: Jesse Glick <jesse@ginger> and Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/SelfLoader.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Split perlmod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:09 -0400 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perldsc.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Doc fix for close of pipe handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97i +----------------- + +This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the +crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c + + Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes" + From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip + Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV" + From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: perl.c util.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Undo private patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Cope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall + t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2py.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com> + Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97h +----------------- + +This patch eliminates almost all possible sources of buffer overflow; +in particular, there are no more sprintf() bugs. (!!) This patch +also has a few other fixes. With these changes in place, I can sleep +at night. (Because I've stopped hacking. :-)) + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support PRINTF for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Win32 update (two patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm win32/config.w32 + win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs + global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h + pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h + regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Problems with glob" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT) + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c scope.c + + Title: "Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Outermost scope is void, not scalar" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:02:27 -0400 (EDT) + Files: Configure hints/linux.sh + + Title: "There is no standard answer to 'Use suidperl?'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/bsdos.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/linux.sh + hints/machten_2.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Math::Complex update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Croak on C<use autouse> without module name" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Silence warnings on simple C<use ops>" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzybafum6k.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 19 Apr 1997 10:22:43 -0400 + Files: ext/Opcode/ops.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Don't put leading newline on numeric strings" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:47:00 +0200 + Files: t/pragma/constant.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com> + Msg-ID: <199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Two doublewords less" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:38:13 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: pod/perlrun.pod vms/perlvms.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97g +----------------- + +This one has two security bug fixes for buffer overflows. Perl has +not yet been searched to see if more fixes are needed. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Improve sysseek(), remove systell(), fix Opcode" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + proto.h t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Fix (and test) spaces in {,un}pack()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Irix update" + From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> + Msg-ID: <yd8d8rsi0ln.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com> + Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:37:24 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6.sh hints/irix_6_0.sh hints/irix_6_1.sh + + Title: "ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm not built on Win32" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199704181742.SAA08407@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:42:32 +0100 + Files: win32/Makefile + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY FIX: 'Identifier too long'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "SECURITY FIX: Buffer overflow in gv_fetchfile()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Remove pp_method() inefficiency from last patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix unnecessary re-linking" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix tcsh hack in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Minor, optional patch to Makefile.SH" + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Msg-ID: <rjray-9703180132.AA00374040@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> + Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:32:17 -0600 + Files: Makefile.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Patch to Getopt::Long" + From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> + Msg-ID: <m0wIKCO-00081IC@phoenix.squirrel.nl> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 22:24 MET DST + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Fix NAME in SDBM_File build" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Make h2ph generate constant subs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pz2088w5ot.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:23:46 -0400 + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Document {,un}pack changes" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704181249.AA11733@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:49:39 BST + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97f +----------------- + +This is it before _98. No more last-minute features. Really, I mean +it this time. No kidding. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "New operator systell()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms + vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix error messages on method lookup failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix use of var before init in util.c" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400 + Files: util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh" + From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk> + Files: Configure hints/linux.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "CGI.pm broke again" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200 + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Revise quotewords()" + From: Shishir Gundavaram <shishir@ruby.ora.com> + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "Document size restrictions for packed integers" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97e +----------------- + +Y'know, I've heard of this "beta" thing, but it's been so long since +I've seen one, I'm not sure it really exists... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "New operator: sysseek()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym + keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Allow recursive substitution again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix STMT_{START,END} under g++" + From: Steven Parkes <parkes@sierravista.com> + Msg-ID: <199704141935.MAA11240@monterey.sierravista.com> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:35:34 -0700 + Files: perl.h + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c + utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL + win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "New API function: perl_eval_pv()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400 + Files: perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c + + Title: "Return a value from PerlIO_{,un}getc" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199704131228.OAA05695@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:14 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: perlio.c + + Title: "Fix for environment leak" + From: skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be (Sven Verdoolaege) + Msg-ID: <19970415103246.NN46698@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:32:46 +0200 + Files: util.c + + Title: "Fix comments in seed()" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199704141758.TAA06895@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:58:38 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Put extensions' autoload files in $archlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Use '-fPIC' for debugging compiles under Solaris with gcc" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI to 2.34" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: eg/cgi/customize.cgi eg/cgi/tryit.cgi lib/CGI.pm + lib/CGI/Apache.pm + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704142115.RAA09923@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:15:27 -0400 (EDT) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "diagnostics: $/ gotcha" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704151814.UAA03404@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:14:01 +0200 + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Update File::Path" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704151401.QAA02556@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:01:07 +0200 + Files: lib/File/Path.pm t/lib/filepath.t + + Title: "User::pwent.pm: g{,e}cos" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704130135.TAA23274@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:35:54 -0600 + Files: lib/User/pwent.pm + + Title: "Sys::Syslog: hyphens in hostnames" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704151421.RAA19693@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:21:53 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Clean up format of dlopen() debug info" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "xsubpp incorrectly handles 'class::newthing()'" + From: "John Q. Linux" <jql@jql.accessone.com> + Msg-ID: <199704122201.PAA01780@jql.accessone.com> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:01:33 -0700 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add CGI to perldelta.pod and improve its description in MANIFEST" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Describe probs with majordomo 1.94.1" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Fix description of /\G/g" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Mention '...' operator in precedence table" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704131724.LAA23120@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0600 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97d +----------------- + +Any minute now... second public beta... no, really... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix for incorrect overloaded assignment" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704112225.SAA03482@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:25:33 -0400 (EDT) + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Fix C< $x=''; pos($x)=0; $x=~/\G$/ >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix label on C<for(;;)> statement" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.y + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "update to 5.003_97b/hint/irix_6_2.sh" + From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> + Msg-ID: <yd8hghdjbk0.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com> + Date: 11 Apr 1997 18:05:03 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Before 'BEGIN not safe', explain why" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "New error msg for low-key failure of C<require>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c t/pragma/strict-subs + t/pragma/strict-vars + + Title: "Put "dXSUB_SYS" last in declarations" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/perllib.c + + Title: "Minor type cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "win32: perl5db patch" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704102142.RAA27396@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:13 -0400 + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Enhancements to debugger, Term::ReadLine, Term::Cap" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704101948.PAA01841@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:48:07 -0400 (EDT) + Files: lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "MM_Unix patch for use under CVS" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: <yfmd8s1vhpn.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:59:00 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Complex update (five patches)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Fix undef warning in Math::BigInt" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Math/BigInt.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the default" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.pod x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "typo in lib/diagnostics.pm" + From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) + Msg-ID: <199704111800.OAA27297@grymoire.crd.ge.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:00:54 -0400 + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Use B<> for options in Class::Struct pod" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <334D2E7B.67F0@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:16:27 +0100 + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm + + Title: "Explain //g and \G issues" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704122048.QAA25060@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:48:41 -0400 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "more (err, less) doubled words" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704111931.WAA24460@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:31:25 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm + ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm lib/CGI.pm lib/Exporter.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + lib/vars.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod + pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlipc.pod + + Title: "Freudian slip error in perlsub.pod" + From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) + Msg-ID: <199704111755.NAA27200@grymoire.crd.ge.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:55:07 -0400 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Little patch for perl5.003_97c/pod/perlpod.pod" + From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) + Msg-ID: <199704112048.WAA08733@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:48:37 +0200 + Files: pod/perlpod.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97c +----------------- + +That second public beta will be Real Soon Now... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Refine setgroups() behavior of C<$)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Forbid -[Mm] on #! line" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix dynamic loading (and argv[0]) under AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724842@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 22:01:45 +0200 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + Title: "Special mkdir() for VMS" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IHGOXN6MZM0004K3@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:33:56 -0400 (EDT) + Files: dosish.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/File/Path.pm os2/os2ish.h + plan9/plan9ish.h pp_sys.c unixish.h vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix assignment from magic SV that becomes a glob" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix syntax error in Configure comment(!)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "For Solaris, if -DDEBUGGING, default to '-KPIC', not '-Kpic'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Fix usage of dXSUB_SYS, esp. in ExtUtils::Miniperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dosish.h minimod.pl os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h vms/vmsish.h + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Replace Class::Template with improved Class::Struct" + From: Jim Miner <jfm@winternet.com> + Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/Class/Template.pm + lib/File/stat.pm lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm + lib/Net/protoent.pm lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm + lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm + lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "MakeMaker pathname patch" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199704091908.UAA00877@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:08:23 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Fix configuration of new socket" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Improve IO::Handle docs; don't export _open_mode_string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Complex.pm: 0**0 sanity" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704091804.VAA13930@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:04:23 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in Math::Trig" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Trig.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Accommodate CodeBuilder variant of Machten 4.0.3" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03020902af704d320f27@[194.51.248.88]> + Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:15:15 +0200 + Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "IO::Socket doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28383.860527843@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:30:43 -0400 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97b +----------------- + +Working on the second public beta... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make assignment to C<$)> call setgroups()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH mg.c plan9/config.plan9 + pod/perldelta.pod vms/config.vms win32/config.H + win32/config.w32 + + Title: "Grandfather "$$<digit>" in strings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect warn and die hooks _after_ object destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Forbid recursive substitutions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Use SSize_t for values of PerlIO_{read,write}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c perlio.h perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "perlwin-97a_4: win32 environ fix" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704060431.XAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 23:31:11 -0500 + Files: win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "length($') isn't" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704070730.DAA07310@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 03:30:44 -0400 + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix obscure regex bug related to leading C<.*>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Add warning for glob failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C<perl -V> in presence of local patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't suggest 'Configure -der' in config.sh comments" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "CGI->redirect patch" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704051527.KAA11280@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:27:52 -0500 + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Updates to Math::Complex and Math::Trig" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/perldelta.pod + t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Fix FindBin under Win32, and document success" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704051504.QAA09507@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:04:52 +0100 + Files: README.win32 lib/Cwd.pm lib/FindBin.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Patch for 'perldoc -f'" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199704061732.TAA00353@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:32:04 +0200 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Document required module versions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Document sample function perl_eval()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704051524.KAA06090@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:24:43 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Make L<perltrap> refer to L<perldelta>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97a +----------------- + +This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm +planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact" + From: John Cerney <j-cerney1@ti.com> + Msg-ID: <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2 + cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld + ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h + pp_sys.c + + Title: "Win32 update (six patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t + t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t + t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak + win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "AmigaOS update" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix const-sub-related panic on C<sub foo { my $x; 0 } foo>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor cleanups" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500 + Files: mg.c mg.h perl.c + + Title: "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix impossible test in vivification" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "runlevel is I32, not int" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970404124326.647K-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed + Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:02:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: Makefile.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Math::Trig, based on (and from an author of) Math::Complex" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm + pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t + + Title: "Update AutoLoader and docs; support C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD'>" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "CPAN & TRL-Gnu" + From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Msg-ID: <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200 + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm + + Title: "Don't use $4 when it might be undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/bigfloat.pl + + TESTS + + Title: "Make *dbm tests work with Win32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t + t/lib/sdbm.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update INSTALL" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Pod style" + From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com> + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_97 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h + + Title: "Improve definition of Sock_size_t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.h + + Title: "Win32 update" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500 + Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC- + 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.24" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Title: "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix POSIX::raise()" + From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" <jensthi@ifi.uio.no> + Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970401153125.8053A-100000@holmenkollen.ifi.uio + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:34:47 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm + + Title: "Eliminate warnings in File::Basename" + From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t + + Title: "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Tweaks to constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331205519.16684I-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/constant.pm + + Title: "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzn2ri9gto.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Clean up some poddities, and make C<make html> work again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::"" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Eliminate pod warnings in libs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_96 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Implement void context, in which C<wantarray> is undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c + pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + pp_sys.c proto.h + + Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod + pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t + + Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make C<scalar(reverse)> mean C<scalar(reverse $_)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C<my $x = $x> in sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever" + From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com> + Msg-ID: <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600 + Files: regcomp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "safefree() mismatch" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500 + Files: util.c + + Title: "FreeBSD update" + From: Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de> + Msg-ID: <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak + win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl + win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200 + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C<my $x; ++$x->{KEY}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500 + Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c + + Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c + + Title: "Re: strict @F" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/diagnostics.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t + + Title: "Remove chat2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl + + Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm + lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm + lib/CGI/Switch.pm + + Title: "Fix C<print $_> in debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Re: Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET) + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pz4tdu7j57.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500 + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "C<new SelectSaver $fh> doesn't always restore" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500 + Files: lib/SelectSaver.pm + + Title: "Patch for Benchmark.pm" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> w/Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm" + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Msg-ID: <rjray-9702272117.AA001223633@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700 + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml" + From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT + Files: installhtml + + Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.11" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970326140905.10178A-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:27:52 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Patch for perl.pod" + From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton) + Msg-ID: <199703262305.PAA13121@ducks> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET) + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331122546.14185C-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Improve documentation of C<return>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per <gnat@frii.com>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod + pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat + + Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t + + Title: "Update docs on $]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "perlvar.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100 + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Fix example of C<or> vs. C<||>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch" + From: Larry W. Virden + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "Pod updates" + From: "Cary D. Renzema" <caryr@mxim.com> + Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_95 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "If C<perl -a>, do equivalent of C<use vars '@F'>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t + t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@foretune.co.jp> + Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp> + Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "Another MachTen Patch" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970324152150.20610P-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (five patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t + t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t + win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c + win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t + + Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no other changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix C<require> in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> + Msg-ID: <qumend4qq08.fsf@cyclone.stanford.edu> + Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w9DwX-0000Zr-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000 + Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm + + Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100 + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03020902af5d8e03c5ab@[194.51.248.84]> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100 + Files: t/lib/complex.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:52:53 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Document possible problems with -Mdiagnostics after upgrade" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Mention perldelta in INSTALL" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Describe pod format at top of INSTALL" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Document C</a *b/x> fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Missing item in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlref.pod + + Title: "Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET) + Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod + pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "DB_File documentation fix" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "FAQ update" + From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com> + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_94 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h + sv.c + + Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c + + Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + Title: "Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t + + Title: "allow C<substr 'hello', -10>" + From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com> + Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" + From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com> + Msg-ID: <w47mjakw5t.fsf@loiosh.kei.com> + Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "More MachTen hints" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970316133852.27997A-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:40:35 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "HP/UX hint comments" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t + utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "vmsish.t and related patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness + t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t + t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t + t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t + t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t + t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c + win32/* + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C<print> on tied default handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c + + Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500 + Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c + x2p/util.c + + Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500 + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it" + From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty + Files: Configure + + Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}" + From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT + Files: installman installperl + + Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET) + Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh + hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh + hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh + hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh + hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module: autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzlo7ut03b.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500 + Files: lib/Symbol.pm + + Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perlfaq.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST) + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321112326.1414A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:25:32 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Document that $. is not reset on implicit open" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Re: Embedding success with _93 " + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Update site list" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Patch to document illegal characters" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Document trap with //o and closures" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Re: Inline PI function" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310143125.22489V-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:33:20 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Illegal character in input" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "XSUB's doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document return from do FILE" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document $^M in perlvar" + From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93" + From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com> + Msg-ID: <wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com> + Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod + pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "clarify example in perlfunc" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_93 +---------------- + +Me, last time: + "This release will be the public beta of 5.004, + or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger." +Me, now: + "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl + vms/sockadapt.h + + Title: "AmigaOS hint patch" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C<shift>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: av.c + + Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C<BEGIN{die}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c proto.h + + Title: "perl -P path patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308120242.23766D-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:45:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: config_H config_h.SH perl.c plan9/config.plan9 t/comp/cpp.t + vms/config.vms win32/config.H + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix for Unisys UNIX and libperl.so" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: <memo.147328@cix.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970306110532.11070A-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:15:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Use 'test -f', not 'test -x'" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703080053.TAA13943@web.zk3.dec.com> + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: <memo.147326@cix.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Carp with multiple arguments" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w3STZ-0007RW-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500 + Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000 + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308131806.23766F-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 13:21:22 -0500 (EST) + + Title: "Fix more E-Mail addresses in pods" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + lib/diagnostics.pm pod/buildtoc + + Title: "Warn about '.' terminating E-Mail" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlform.pod + + Title: "OS/2 doc update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703080537.AAA25157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: README.os2 + + Title: "PODs corrections" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm + lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm + lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm + lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_92 +---------------- + +This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't +Larson T. Pettifogger. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970305091611.3572E-100000@kelly.teleport.com> + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t + + Title: "VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h + t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms + vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c + + Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET) + Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c + pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c + + Title: "Update copyright dates" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzg1yfuiza.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Newer ReadLine" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9" + From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Benchmark: using code refs" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Fix quotewords" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000 + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com> + Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST) + Files: t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix taint test for systems without csh" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Don't test locales if there is no setlocale()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Update pod2html" + From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton) + Msg-ID: <199703030025.QAA08106@ducks> + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph" + From: (name lost) + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Improve sample module header" + From: Tom Christiansen and Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Clarify C<crypt> documentation" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970228131112.12357D-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:18:25 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Update list of CPAN sites" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_91 +---------------- + +This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c + t/op/runlevel.t + + Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c + + Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: hv.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches post _90" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST) + Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c + vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c + + Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t" + From: Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com> + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500 + Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST) + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500 + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm" + From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin + Files: Configure + + Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: os2/diff.configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0w0Sqc-00046E-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000 + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "New test op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST) + Files: MANIFEST t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Patch to t/op/rand.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST) + Files: t/op/rand.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc" + From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>, Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970228112136.24038G-100000@fractal.lafayette. + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:35:49 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Updates to perlfunc.pod" + From: Tom Phoenix (with help from M.J.T. Guy and Tom C.) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod" + From: Nat <gnat@frii.com> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Fix references to perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perltoc.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_90 +---------------- + +At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Ultrix hints" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500 + Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh + + Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET) + Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl + ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t + t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Hints for DC/OSx" + From: Stephen Zander <srz@loopback> + Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800 + Files: hints/dcosx.sh + + Title: "Update VMS version" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "'installperl -v' doesn't do enough" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500 + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzn2sv722y.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm + + Title: "Pod::Text fixes" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "C<use vars> didn't work until 5.002" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/vars.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: t/op/rand.t + + Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]> + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100 + Files: t/op/magic.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224170713.5700H-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:09:09 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Re: Hash key created by subroutine call? (fwd) " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman + utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224155702.5700D-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:06:02 -0500 (EST) + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Fix typo in 'Tolkien quotation typo' fix" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: Changes + + Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970223182745.15989A-100000@kelly.teleport.com + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:41:02 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_28 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #6. If this isn't good enough to go beta, +I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....) + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't let C<sub foo;> undefine &foo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: run.c + + Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c op.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()" + From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld) + Files: hints/aix.sh + + Title: "VMS patches post _27" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod + pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile + vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl + vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes + os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h + os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness + t/op/magic.t + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix a typo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor update to malloc.c" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.y + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm + + Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm + + Title: "prototype error in File::stat" + From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy> + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT + Files: lib/File/stat.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray" + From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000 + Files: t/op/misc.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL updates since _26" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970218155815.2014F-100000@fractal.lafayette.e + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Document "$$0" change" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Don't recommend impossible //o for C<$x =~ $y>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Correct doc that claimed that <FH> was never false" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Add pumpkin.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl + pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_27 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <hwwsbpeq2.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "Allow C<setpgrp $$>" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzraigyshr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C<use vmsish qw(status exit time)>" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c + perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs + vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + win32/makedef.pl + + Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h + + Title: "Digital UNIX hints" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)" + From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com> + Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM> + Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh + + Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl + vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32 + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix core dump when embedding" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Re: Fragile signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST) + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pz7mkc1h0g.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500 + Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c + perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c + + Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix carriage-return message" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "In <=>, test for equality first" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure" + From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) + Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com> + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4" + From: Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu> + Msg-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoD + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:59:02 -0600 (CST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Update os2/diff.configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: os2/diff.configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Remove Fatal.pm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST lib/Fatal.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/roffitall t/lib/fatal.t + + Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.40" + From: Andy Dougherty, Andreas Koenig, Tim Bunce + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "Refresh CPAN.pm to 1.21" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + + Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Remove non-portable locale tests" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: <yfmzpxcimsa.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update To-Do list" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000 + Files: Todo + + Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_26 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "VMS patches post _25" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST) + Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl + vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c + + Title: "Hints for BSDOS" + From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com> + Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "On C<sysopen(..., O_APPEND)>, call C<fopen(..., "a")>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix value of C<foreach>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Regexp optimizations" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST) + Files: regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <hbu9uz1si.fsf@bergen.sn.no> + Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on C<print "a", last> in eval" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Catch C<use integer; $x % 0>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: configure.gnu + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Faster File::Compare" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100 + Files: lib/File/Compare.pm + + Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100 + Files: t/op/closure.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "perldoc -f <perlfunc>" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "return *FH pod patch" + From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) + Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com> + Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500 + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY" + From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perltie.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_25 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make $] read-only" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + + Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c + perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c + + Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches for _24" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs + lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t + t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "amigaos.sh" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Fix C<return @_> and associated stack bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C<select>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix /\G/g with patterns that match empty string" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in av_unshift" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: av.c + + Title: "Ignore refs to lexicals when making refs to lexicals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Don't create AV, HV, IO when assigning glob" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Configure updates for intsize and ssizetype" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: Configure MANIFEST config_H config_h.SH handy.h + + Title: "Ask about /usr/bin/perl iff STDIN and STDERR are terminals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.19" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702030406.XAA23029@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:06:34 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "In Symbol::gensym, don't make glob fake by copying it" + From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> + Files: lib/Symbol.pm + + Title: "Make POSIX::is*() eight-bit-clean" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "Make IO::Handle::gets() an alias of getline" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199701301103.MAA11291@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:03:15 +0100 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "More Amiga test patches" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724725@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:07:33 +0100 + Files: README.amiga t/lib/safe2.t t/op/closure.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "c2ph.PL fix" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199701301349.IAA16724@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:49:19 -0500 + Files: utils/c2ph.PL + + Title: "Make pod2man a little laxer for perltoc.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update to perl INSTALL file" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199701301338.IAA15878@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:38:23 -0500 + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Update to perl.pod suggested" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199701301345.IAA16514@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:59 -0500 + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Document how extension pms go in $archlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod tweaks" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <20526.854659255@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:20:55 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "new (Feb 1) perlembed.pod" + From: Jon Orwant <orwant@media.mit.edu> + Msg-ID: <9702012334.AA15747@fahrenheit-451.media.mit.edu> + Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:34:59 -0500 + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Error lines must not have trialing periods" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_24 +---------------- + +This release is the second candidate for a public beta test. +It's, well, bunches better than _23. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "glob defaults to $_" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500 + Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t + + Title: "Re: an overloading bug " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Don't warn on C<$\ = undef>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Win32 port" + From: Gary Ng <71564.1743@compuserve.com> + Files: MANIFEST win32/* + + Title: "Amiga files" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh + + Title: "New dec_osf hints" + From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi + Msg-ID: <199701271233.OAA21548@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:33:01 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Prevent premature death of @_ during leavesub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Deref old stash when re-blessing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't abort when RCHECK and DEBUGGING" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9701272339.AA16537@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:48 +0000 + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "Fix overloading macro conflict with Digital 'cc -fast'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701272216.AAA04557@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:16:49 +0200 (EET) + Files: perl.h + + Title: "global.sym: typo?" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701261937.VAA07556@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:37:59 +0200 (EET) + Files: global.sym + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Put all extensions' modules in $archlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Configure fixes: set $archlib, omit _NO_PROTO" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Make configure{,.gnu} ignore --cache-file option" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Files: configure configure.gnu + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Version checking in XS bootstrap is optional" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Update $VERSION of DynaLoader and POSIX" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm + + Title: "Refresh Text::Wrap to 97.011701" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Text/Wrap.pm + + Title: "Fcntl.xs: F_[GS]ETOWN were in wrong case branch" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701251510.RAA05142@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:10:20 +0200 (EET) + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + + Title: "Fix $Is_VMS typo in Test::Harness" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "Allow for really big keys in Tie::SubstrHash" + From: data-drift@so.uio.no + Msg-ID: <199701282014.VAA12645@selters.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:14:34 +0100 (MET) + Files: lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm + + Title: "Avoid newRV_noinc() in IO, for compiling with old Perls" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + TESTS + + Title: "New test op/closure.t" + From: Tom Phoenix, Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: MANIFEST t/op/closure.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "xsubpp handing of void funcs breaks extensions using XST_m*()" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9701271659.AA15137@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:59:06 +0000 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perldelta Fcntl enhancement" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s" + From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi + Msg-ID: <199701251541.RAA04120@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:41:53 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod: localtime" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlfunc diff: gmtime" + From: Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com> + Msg-ID: <32EE1298.7B90@edison.ioppublishing.com> + Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:52:08 +0000 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Updates to guts" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perltoot fixes" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <6807.854214205@jinete> + Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:43:25 -0800 + Files: pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "5.003_23: small typo in perlsyn.pod" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701270824.DAA01169@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:24:25 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_23 +---------------- + +This release is our first candidate for a public beta test. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c + + Title: "Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST) + 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 + + Title: "Nested here-docs" + From: larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) + Msg-ID: <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org> + Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800 + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c + + Title: "Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches for _22" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST) + 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 + + Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_21: OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701170446.XAA28939@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:46:40 -0500 (EST) + Files: os2/Changes os2/os2.c + + Title: "Plan9 update" + From: lutherh@stratcom.com (Luther Huffman) + Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile + + Title: "Bugfixes for AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724691@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:13:54 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh lib/File/Basename.pm + + Title: "New dec_osf.sh hints file" + From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Msg-ID: <9701241058.AA29550@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:58:24 +0100 + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "on NeXT: gdbm problem fixed" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199701210201.DAA17794@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 03:01:32 +0100 + Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_3_0.sh + + Title: "patch for hints/powerux.sh" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9701181833.AA02602@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Date: Sat, 18 Jan 97 13:33:26 -0500 + Files: hints/powerux.sh + + Title: "hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx" + From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com> + Msg-ID: <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com> + Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800 + Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh + + Title: "patch for hints/cxux.sh perl5.003_22" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9701192014.AA05722@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Date: Sun, 19 Jan 97 15:14:04 -0500 + Files: hints/cxux.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000 + Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c + + Title: "Fix /\G.a/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c + + Title: "Extend stack in pp_undef (!)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Allow for sub to be redefined while executing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c + + Title: "Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "When sorting, promote to PVNV only for built-in comparison" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Remove "suidperl security patch" message" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu + + Title: "Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Charles Bailey + 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 + + Title: "Compile with optimization when testing memory functions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Minor patch for Debian installation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701190455.XAA02579@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:54:59 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "DynaLoader enhancement: support RTLD_GLOBAL" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199701240937.JAA11443@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:37:18 GMT + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_dld.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs + + Title: "Fcntl: add more constants" + From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi + Msg-ID: <199701191811.UAA16346@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 20:11:22 +0200 (EET) + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + + Title: "Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + + Title: "Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.15" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Add E* and SA_* constants" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500 + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + TESTS + + Title: "Test nested here-docs" + From: hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk (Hugo van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <199701210053.AAA02139@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:53:44 +0000 (GMT) + Files: t/base/lex.t + + Title: "Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Patch tests for systems without fork()" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100 + 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 + + Title: "Test patches for OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST) + 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 + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Translate \200 to È in pod2html" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST) + 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 + + Title: "Allow MakeMaker 5.34 to use libraries containing '+' in name" + From: dennism@cyrix.com (Dennis Marsa) + Msg-ID: <9701172027.AA27861@orion.cyrix.com> + Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 14:27:32 CST + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "First cut at INSTALL edit" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Document #line directive" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "Perlguts version 30" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199701172117.AA116515863@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:17:43 -0800 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "delta for perldelta" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <804.854121463@jinete> + Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800 + Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "Updates to perldelta" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlnews.pod + + Title: "Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "Remove bad advice from perllocale.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perllocale.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_22 +---------------- + +This release is primarily made up of bug fixes, the foremost among +which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix parsing of C< ${ xyz } >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Don't parse method calls in strings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix overly picky carping about leading '{' in regex" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix memory corruption from formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix '_mopop' typo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Gut IO::Handle::DESTROY" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "RiscOS is case-insensitive" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix thinko in db-recno.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/db-recno.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Make perlbug more cautionary and more verbose" + From: Kenneth Albanowski and Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "NEW roffitall + INSTALL fix" + From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <6058.853410121@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 11:22:01 +0100 + Files: INSTALL pod/roffitall + + Title: "srand() doc update" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24195.853379065@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:44:25 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "documentation of configpm (perl5.003_20)" + From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig) + Msg-ID: <m0vkU40-0004WAC@incom.rhein-main.de> + Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:03:27 +0200 (EET) + Files: configpm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_21 +---------------- + +This release includes several important bug fixes, and a couple of +minor but valuable language tweaks. Please read on for a list of the +significant changes: + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t + + Title: "Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c pod/perlguts.pod + pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c sv.c + t/op/method.t + + Title: "Formats can be closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h + + Title: "Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C<strict refs>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs + + Title: "Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Andreas Koenig + Files: MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t + + Title: "Fail regex that starts with '{'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "VMS patches for _20" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST) + Files: configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t toke.c + unixish.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h + x2p/a2p.h x2p/str.c + + Title: "Irix 6.3 & 6.4 and perl5.003_20" + From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com> + Msg-ID: <199701132242.RAA14601@jfs.Fluent.COM> + Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:42:50 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6_3.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh + + Title: "Patch: MachTen hints, Configure" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d00af0123a93670@[194.51.248.75]> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:43:13 +0100 + Files: Configure hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values" + From: "John Q. Linux" <jql@accessone.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970110193330.11249D-100000@jql.accessone.com> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 19:47:16 -0800 (PST) + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Keep array from dying during foreach(@array)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Fix infinite loop for undef function in @SIG{__WARN__,__DIE__}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Patch for Object subroutines" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST) + Files: cop.h + + Title: "Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Undo change that freed large pad vars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: scope.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Make MachTen hints file warn about db-recno failures" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d00aef92fba6aca@[194.51.248.78]> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:07:18 +0100 + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "5.003_20, FreeBSD 3.0 and minor patch" + From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) + Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970108143747.roberto@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:47 +0100 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Make installperl quieter; only shared libraries need 0555" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + TESTS + + Title: "Advice on TEST failure" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d01aefbaefcf3bc@[194.51.248.78]> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:19:07 +0100 + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "UNIVERSAL tests" + From: Roderick Schertler + Files: MANIFEST t/op/universal.t + + Title: "Test deletion of array during foreach" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: t/op/misc.t + + Title: "patch for db-recno.t" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9701121509.AA11147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT) + Files: t/lib/db-recno.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm 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 + x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL + + Title: "Fix for fd leak in IO::File::new_tmpfile" + From: Graham Barr and Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.6" + From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.10" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9701141247.AA21242@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 12:47:40 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Re: FileCache::cacheout clobbers $_" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pz3ewb3189.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:45:58 -0500 + Files: lib/FileCache.pm lib/cacheout.pl + + Title: "PATCH: AutoSplit" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <9603111010.AA29935@tiuk.ti.com> + Date: 11 Mar 1996 06:01:58 -0500 + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "Re: Uninitialized value in Carp.pm ? " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701141815.NAA07960@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:15:25 -0500 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Avoid "uninitialized" warnings from POSIX::constant()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm + + Title: "Eliminate warning from C<use overload>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/overload.pm + + Title: "low priority patches" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9701081655.AA27349@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:55:02 GMT + Files: lib/Cwd.pm t/comp/redef.t t/lib/db-btree.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: xsubpp and Tk ==> segfault" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701080825.DAA15813@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 03:25:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Re: MakeMaker and 'make uninstall'" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199701101243.NAA26400@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:43:39 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Don't search for pod if path is already valid" + From: Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com> + Msg-ID: <199701082325.PAA04521@pdxlx008.intel.com> + Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:25:19 -0800 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Yet another perldoc option" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzwwtoom8p.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Full documentation generation patch" + From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <15309.853323388@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 11:16:28 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc + + Title: "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: <E0vilLh-0000M6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000 + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Document use of pos() and /\G/" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Fix example #4 in perlXStut" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199701050739.CAA11112@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 02:39:45 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document new closure warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Misc. doc patches missing in _20" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_20 +---------------- + +The only language change in this release is the recension of support +for named closures: Now, no subroutine declared "sub foo {}" can be +a closure. (This is a return to the behavior of 5.003.) In addition, +there are new warnings triggered by any apparent attempt to use named +functions as closures. + +And, as usual, there are the usual little fixes, documentation +updates, and expanded tests. This is good stuff. "I love you, man!" + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Rescind named closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <32CE30F0.7E8425A5@tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000 + Files: perly.c perly.y + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix $^X on systems that set it to Perl's basename" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c + + Title: "Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed + Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs"." + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: MANIFEST + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y + + Title: "plug for safe/opcode leaks" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org> + Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500 + Files: op.c + + Title: "Finish OP= warnings: none on ^=" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pp.c t/op/assignwarn.t + + Title: "Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500 + Files: pp_hot.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Start all helper scripts with $startsh" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Support libperl.so under FreeBSD" + From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) + Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970105224149.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> + Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 22:41:49 +0100 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH + + TESTS + + Title: "New test: comp/proto.t" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <32D0C21F.3FB28D51@tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000 + Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t + + Title: "More magic variable tests" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <7043.852565192@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:39:52 -0500 + Files: t/harness t/op/magic.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "File::Basename::dirname bugs" + From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk> + Msg-ID: <12393.9701071719@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 7 Jan 97 17:19:59 GMT + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t + + Title: "sigaction() problems" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500 + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod + + Title: "Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d00aef53ac4d18a@[194.51.248.68]> + Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 12:34:25 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST hints/aux.sh hints/broken-db.msg hints/freebsd.sh + + UTILITIES + + Title: "pod2html.PL patch (for 5.003-19)" + From: Fabien TASSIN <tassin@eerie.fr> + Msg-ID: <199701052347.AAA21297@solar5> + Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:47:01 +0100 + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "tiny doc patches" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500 + Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "doc patch: perldsc" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500 + Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "Re: constant function inlining" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzk9pp1b95.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 07 Jan 1997 15:27:50 -0500 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "scalar caller doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlpod.pod possible patches" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9701070756.AA1185@cas.org> + Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 07:56:30 -0500 + Files: pod/perlpod.pod + + Title: "Misc perlfunc updates" + From: Tom Christiansen + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_19 +---------------- + +Lots of internal cleanup in this patch, especially plugged memory +leaks when embedded Perl interpreters shut down and restart. The +method cache is now invisible to user code. And there is a new test +directory, "t/pragma". + +IMHO, this is Beta quality code. + +Here's a list of the more significant changes... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make method cache invisible to user code" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c perl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c + toke.c + + Title: "Never parse "{m,s,y,tr,q{,q,w,x}}:{,:}" as package or label" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix $^X under HP-UX" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c + + Title: "New hints/hpux.sh" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199612312309.AA283393772@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:09:32 -0800 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix segv when calling named closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t + + Title: "Arrange for all "_<file" entries to be in %main::" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199701012042.PAA25994@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 15:42:05 -0500 + Files: cv.h pp_hot.c + + Title: "Reword 'may be "0"' warning per Larry; fix its line number" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org> + Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500 + Files: perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t + + Title: "Fix lost value from READLINE after TIEHANDLE" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pp_hot.c sv.h + + Title: "Free memory of large lexical variables when leaving scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: scope.c + + TESTS + + Title: "Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH t/TEST t/comp/use.t t/lib/locale.t + t/op/overload.t t/op/use.t t/pragma/locale.t t/pragma/overload.t + t/pragma/strict-refs t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warn-global + t/pragma/warning.t + + Title: "New tests: comp/colon.t and op/assignwarn.t" + From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk> + Files: MANIFEST t/comp/colon.t t/op/assignwarn.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Make libs clean under '-w'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm lib/Env.pm + lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Pod/Functions.pm lib/Search/Dict.pm + lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/chat2.pl + lib/complete.pl lib/diagnostics.pm lib/ftp.pl lib/termcap.pl + lib/validate.pl + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Perlguts, version 28" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199701032110.AA102535846@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:10:46 -0800 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Re: perldelta, take 3" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9701031748.AA15335@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:48:46 +0000 + Files: pod/perlnews.pod + + Title: "Miscellaneous pod patches" + From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> + Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "expanded flock() docs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <4481.852337871@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Use Text::Wrap in buildtoc; run buildtoc" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "Remove obsolete perlovl.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile + vms/descrip.mms + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_18 +---------------- + +Yet further down the road to 5.004.... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Inherited overloading" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST) + Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t + + Title: "Hide lexicals from C<use>d or C<require>d module (!)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Closures at file scope must be anonymous" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or <FH>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn on 'undef $x; $x OP 1' where OP is *=, /=, %=, or **=" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Ultrix setlocale() workaround" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh util.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h gv.c op.c + + Title: "Don't forget $c in C<(($a,$b,$c)=(1,2))=(3,4,5)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on perl_construct()/perl_destruct() loop" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Add missing syms to global.sym; update magic doc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod + + TESTS + + Title: "Expanded locale.t and misc.t" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t + + Title: "Expanded my.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/my.t + + Title: "test harness for C<use x.xxxx>" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <32C76882.3F3C7999@tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:00:18 +0000 + Files: MANIFEST t/op/use.t + + Title: "More tests" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961229170736.15213M-100000@solaris.teleport.co + Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:46:21 -0800 (PST) + Files: t/op/each.t t/op/oct.t t/op/quotemeta.t t/op/rand.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Improving Config.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961230091244.13467L-100000@solaris.teleport.co + Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:24:16 -0800 (PST) + Files: configpm + + Title: "File::Copy under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612280347.WAA00293@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:47:24 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Updates to perllocale.pod" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Files: pod/perllocale.pod + + Title: "Locale-related pod patches, take 2" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03007800aeea9e488b36@[194.51.248.77]> + Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 10:56:41 +0100 + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlre.pod pod/perlsec.pod + + Title: "Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ..."" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_17 +---------------- + +The rate of patches is slowing down.... I see 5.004 at the end of the +tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?) + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support named closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "perl5.003_15 and Interactive Unix" + From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig) + Msg-ID: <m0vd254-0004oKC@incom.rhein-main.de> + Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:45:45 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/isc.sh pp_sys.c + + Title: "Suggest "usemymalloc='n'" for FreeBSD 2.*" + From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) + Files: hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "Minor OS/2 fixes" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612252105.QAA11890@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:05:42 -0500 (EST) + Files: os2/os2ish.h pod/perlxstut.pod + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix {,un}tainting of $1 etc. when C<use locale>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c sv.c + + Title: "Limit effects of "=pod" to a single file" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + TESTS + + Title: "New tests: op/method.t and op/locale.t" + From: Ilya Zakharevich and Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: MANIFEST t/lib/locale.t t/op/method.t + + Title: "Test C< ()=() >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/misc.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.39" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "Newer debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612261954.OAA12999@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:54:34 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Perlguts, version 27" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199612250144.AA059528263@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:44:23 -0800 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perlpod.pod patch for _16" + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961224225906.337B-100000@kjahds.com> + Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:00:10 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlpod.pod + + Title: "tiny perllocale.pod diff for _16" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199612261306.PAA21161@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:06:04 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perllocale.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_16 +---------------- + +This patch is all bug fixes, library updates, and documentation +updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-) + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix closures that are not in subroutines" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "_13: patches for unicos/unicosmk" + From: Dean Roehrich + Msg-ID: <199612202038.OAA22805@poplar.cray.com> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:38:50 -0600 + Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/unicos.sh hints/unicosmk.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix 'foreach(@ARGV) { while (<>) { push @p,$_ } }'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_hot.c scope.c + + Title: "Eliminate warnings from C< undef $x; $x OP= "foo" >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c + + Title: "Try again to improve method caching" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612240113.UAA09487@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:13:56 -0500 (EST) + Files: gv.c sv.c + + Title: "Be more careful about 'o' magic memory management" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c sv.c + + Title: "Fix bad pointer refs when localized object loses magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: scope.c + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.09" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Refresh Net::Ping to 2.02" + From: Russell Mosemann <mose@ccsn.edu> + Files: lib/Net/Ping.pm + + Title: "Refresh IO to 1.14" + From: Graham Barr + Files: MANIFEST ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/README 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/Select.pm + ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_pipe.t + t/lib/io_sel.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_tell.t + t/lib/io_udp.t t/lib/io_xs.t + + BUILD PROCESS AND UTILITIES + + Title: "Don't recurse into subdirs twice on 'make realclean'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Use root EXTERN.h when compiling x2p/malloc.c." + From: Paul Marquess + Files: x2p/Makefile.SH + + Title: "Fix compilation errors when malloc.c used for x2p" + From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk> + Files: malloc.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Edit INSTALL to describe new binary compat setup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Update to perllocale.pod" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: pod/perllocale.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_15 +---------------- + +As soon as I posted 5.003_14, I found a fatal error in it. :-( + +This release is strictly a bug fix -- it removes some function caching +changes that were supposed to be improvements, but weren't. + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_14 +---------------- + +We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Eliminate support for {if,unless,while,until} BLOCK BLOCK" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c + + Title: "Taint $x after $x =~ s/pat/xyz/ if pat or xyz is tainted by locale" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h mg.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Complete support for modifying undefined array members in foreach" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "patch for regex bug: (x|x){n}" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199612210259.VAA10170@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:59:22 -0500 + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "Bug in debugger with import manipulations" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612231037.FAA08617@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:37:48 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Import and dynamic methods" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612230645.BAA08378@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:45:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: gv.c hv.c sv.c + + Title: "malloc.c patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612220748.CAA07164@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0500 (EST) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "sv_gets patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612220824.DAA07235@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:24:04 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "pos $str patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612220831.DAA07247@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:31:21 -0500 (EST) + Files: mg.c pp_hot.c t/op/pat.t + + Title: "Prevent warnings when STDCHAR is unsigned" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c perlio.h + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bugs in bincompat3 usage" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h perl_exp.SH + + Title: "Support shared libperl on SunOS" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Configure on OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612202325.SAA05505@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:25:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Fixes for Interactive Unix" + From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig) + Msg-ID: <m0vbeNO-00003WC@incom.rhein-main.de> + Date: Sun, 22 Dec 96 05:14 EET + Files: hints/isc.sh op.c pp_sys.c universal.c + + Title: "Use "proto" instead of "_" in sdbm.h" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h + + Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_13" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IDBYYFYPIS002ASE@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:26:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: deb.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c lib/File/Copy.pm mg.c perl.c + perl.h proto.h sv.c t/lib/filecopy.t taint.c toke.c util.c + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/genopt.com + vms/perly_c.vms vms/perly_h.vms vms/test.com vms/vms.c + vms/vms_yfix.pl + + UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Remove libnet" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Refresh CPAN module to 1.08" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.28" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Title: "Update IO->VERSION() to 1.1201 for CPAN's sake" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Remodel File::Copy." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Copy.pm + + Title: "dumb bug in User::pwent.pm" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199612201145.EAA27860@mox.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:45:37 -0700 + Files: lib/User/pwent.pm + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Better support for =for" + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961220163747.298T-100000@kjahds.com> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:43:35 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "perllocale.pod -- second draft" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03007800aee1923e30a2@[194.51.248.68]> + Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:00:50 +0100 + Files: pod/perllocale.pod + + Title: "Perlguts, version 26" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199612201943.AA048111018@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:43:38 -0800 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Update pod/Makefile; s/perli18n/perllocale/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/I18N/Collate.pm pod/Makefile + pod/perl.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "obstruct pod2man doc tweaks" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <3923.851106237@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:23:57 -0500 + Files: lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_13 +---------------- + +The watchword here is "synchronization." There were a couple of +show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring +everyone up to a common working base. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix core dump bug with anoncode" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Add missing backslash in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP" + From: Graham Barr + Files: MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm + lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm + lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm + lib/Net/SNPP.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm lib/Net/Telnet.pm + lib/Net/Time.pm pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Use binmode when doing binary FTP" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: lib/Net/FTP.pm + + Title: "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzloavmd9h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl + lib/open3.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/open2.t + t/lib/open3.t + + Title: "Long-standing problem in Socket module" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500 + Files: Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH + ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + Title: "flock() constants" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500 + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzvi9yig3h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500 + Files: lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "small doc tweaks for _12" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500 + Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod + + Title: "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzwwueimak.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500 + Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_12 +---------------- + +This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially +CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated +docs... it's a long list. And speaking of lists, here's a list of +the more significant changes in 5.003_12: + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c + t/op/delete.t + + Title: "Autovivify scalars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c + + Title: "Fix nested closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c + + Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c + + Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c + + Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100 + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Re: Bug in formline " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hv.c + + Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h + + Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: av.c + + Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c + + Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm + lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units" + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + + Title: "Look for gettimeofday() in Configure" + From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> + Msg-ID: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM> + Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100 + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c + + Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack" + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + + Title: "LynxOS support" + From: seibert@Lynx.COM (Greg Seibert) + Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com> + Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST + Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t + + Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: <memo.453720@cix.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 18:34 GMT0 + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500 + Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h + + Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/* + + TESTING + + Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..." + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET) + Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t + + UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP" + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + + Title: "Please update Text::Wrap and Text::Tabs" + From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> + Msg-ID: <199612180659.WAA24957@idiom.com> + Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm + + Title: "Add File::Compare" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto> + Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT + Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Add Tie::RefHash" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Put "splain" in utils." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL + + Title: "Some h2ph fixes" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800 + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t + + Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale" + From: Tom Christiansen and Dominic Dunlop + Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod + pod/perlnews.pod + + Title: "perltoot.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "Perlguts, version 25" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pod/perlipc.pod patch" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199612090910.CAA20906@mox.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 3:10:02 CST + Files: pod/perlipc.pod + + Title: "pod patches for English errors" + From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com> + Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor> + Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "Misc doc updates" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700 + Files: pod/* + +---------------- +Version 5.003_11 +---------------- + +This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of +value. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y + + Title: "Don't reset $. on open()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c + + Title: "Don't let expression context force return context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c sv.c + + Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c toke.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c sv.h + + Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix line numbers near control structures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h + + Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c util.c + + Title: "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH doop.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h handy.h + hv.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Less malloc in magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611281150.GAA06884@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:50:58 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c + + PORTABILITY AND TESTING + + Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "hints/dgux.sh update" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500 + Files: hints/dgux.sh + + Title: "BUG in hints/hpux.sh" + From: Jeff McDougal <jmcdo@cris.com> + Msg-ID: <32A42C11.7FA2@cris.com> + Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 08:33:05 -0500 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "VMS patches for 5.003_10" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ICMALO8NMS001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:40:12 -0500 (EST) + Files: EXTERN.h INTERN.h old_perl_exp.SH perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH + pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h sv.c toke.c util.c + utils/perldoc.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "_10+ under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612011107.GAA10805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:07:19 -0500 (EST) + Files: malloc.c os2/diff.configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "{in,ob}structive pods" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199611301652.JAA24201@toy.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:52:57 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Template.pm lib/File/stat.pm + lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm lib/Net/protoent.pm + lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm + lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm + + Title: "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto> + Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT + Files: MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "10+ debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199612011137.GAA10864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:37:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199612031445.PAA19056@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:27 +0100 (MET) + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3 + + Title: "DB_File 1.07" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t + t/lib/db-recno.t + + Title: "DB_File 1.08" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_10 +---------------- + +This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and +valuable changes, but nothing dramatic. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions + From: John L. Allen <allen@gateway.grumman.com> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h + + Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Better support for UVs" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h + + Title: "Minor locale cleanups" + (Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to + 'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c + + Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c + + Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c + + Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Namespace cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h + + Title: "Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Reliable signal patch" + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com> + Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST) + Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c + + Title: "Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "3_09: minor patches for OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST) + 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 + + Title: "Re: 5.003_09 and QNX" + From: nort@bottesini.harvard.edu (Norton Allen) + Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu> + Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est + Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp + t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h + + Title: "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ICB648K2XG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:28:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: t/op/sysio.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Minor patch to debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611290533.AAA08053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD optimization" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199611231954.TAA09921@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:54:52 GMT + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Diagnostic cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_09 +---------------- + +This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from +many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable +scoping and locale handling. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Lexical locales" + (make effectiveness of locales depend on C<use locale>) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: too many to list + + Title: "Lexical scoping cleanup" + (tighten scoping of lexical variables, somewhat on the + new constructs and somewhat on the old) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: many... but mostly perly.y and toke.c + + Title: "Re: memory corruption / security bug in sysread,syswrite + pa + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199611251946.VAA30459@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:31 +0200 (EET) + Files: MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + t/op/sysio.t + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h + + Title: "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1, + From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> + Msg-ID: <01BBD6EE.E915C860@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM> + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:27:06 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto> + Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT + Files: universal.c + + Title: "die -> croak" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199611212111.QAA17070@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:11:21 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Patch for embed.pl when !EMBED && !MULTIPLICITY" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: embed.pl + + Title: "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym old_global.sym + + Title: "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Cleanups from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c malloc.c pod/perlguts.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix for unpack('w') on 64-bit systems." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611260308.WAA02677@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:08:27 -0500 (EST) + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Hash key sharing improvements from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hv.c hv.h proto.h + + Title: "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches post-5.003_08" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <1996Nov22.181631.1603238@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:16:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Path.pm mg.c pp_ctl.c + utils/h2xs.PL vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c + vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199611241147.GAA00490@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 06:47:25 -0500 (EST) + Files: README.os2 hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs + os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm os2/os2.c + + Title: "HP patches didn't make it into _08 (fwd)" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199611260215.AA100414526@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 18:15:26 PST + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Another HP "patch" that didn't make it (new hints file)" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/db-hash.t + + Title: "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Title: "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t + + Title: "minimal timelocal.pl for _09" + From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Msg-ID: <9611191854.AA19586@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:54:23 +0100 + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Socket test improvement from Ilya." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/io_sock.t + + Title: "Re: blib" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199611230917.JAA00471@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:17:40 GMT + Files: lib/blib.pm + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perldiag documentation patch." + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9611201607.AA12729@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 16:07:28 GMT + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "a missing perldiag entry" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199611212024.PAA15758@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:24:02 -0500 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc patch" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Patch for pod/perlpod.pod" + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961120235016.6666A-100000@hammer.chu.cam.ac.uk + Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:54:41 +0000 (GMT) + Files: pod/perlpod.pod + + Title: "Update locale documentation." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perli18n.pod + + BUNDLED UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/util.c + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_08 +---------------- + +This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from +many people. Here are some of the more significant changes. + + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make C<no FOO> fail if C<unimport FOO> fails" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Bitwise op sign rationalization" + (Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use + integer> is in effect. Includes initial support for UVs.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + + Title: "Defined scoping for C<my> in control structures" + (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.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c + + Title: "Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')" + (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.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c + + Title: "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.y + + Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fixes for pack('w')" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h + + Title: "Fix for formline()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c + t/op/write.t + + Title: "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym" + (New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by + avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.) + From: Chip Salzenberg + 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 + + Title: "Support old embedding for people who want it" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym + + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes" + From: Charles Bailey + 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 + + Title: "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 + + Title: "Plan 9 update" + From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@infinet.com> + Files: plan9/buildinfo plan9/config.plan9 plan9/exclude + plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc + + Title: "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "DB_File 1.05" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-hash.t + + Title: "Getopts::Std patch for hash support" + From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com> + Files: lib/Getopt/Std.pm + + Title: "Kludge for bareword handles" + (Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module" + From: hammen@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (David Hammen) + Files: Configure config_h.SH ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod + ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs t/lib/posix.t + + BUNDLED UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_07 +---------------- + +This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed +in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious +testing with an eye towards eventual release as 5.004. + +If it doesn't work for you, try + + LC_ALL=C; export LC_ALL + +for Bourne shell users, or + + setenv LC_ALL C + +for C-shell users. Some versions of IRIX are reported to have +problems with sort when the locale is other than C. This manifests +as an infinite loop in the ./miniperl configpm step. + +The details are described below. A very brief summary is: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + -Support for BER compressed integers. See perlfunc.pod for + documentation on the 'w' option. + + -untaint support added to IO extension. + +o Changes in Core Internals + + -Perl's realloc is once again called 'Myremalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC), + as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility + with 5.003. (5.003_06 erroneously called it Myrealloc.) + + -Getopt::Long updated to version 2.4. + +o Configure and build enhancements + + -improved SCO hints. Actually these are unconfirmed guesses, but + they may be right. + + -OS/2 and Plan9 updates. + +o Bug fixes + + -print sort (4,1,3,2); + + -group numbers are integers again. + + -other things. See the specific changes for details. + +o Specific Changes + +Here are the specific file-by-file changes. + +Index: Changes + + Updated for 5.003_07. + + Fixed a spelling error. + +Index: Configure + + Detect GNU libc (thanks, Skimo!) and avoid nm if we have GNU libc. + Since the GNU libc test requires compiling and linking a test + program, the dependencies have been altered and lots of pieces of + Configure have moved around unchanged. The patch is big but the + effect is little. + + Allow for both <sys/select.h> and <time.h> in fd_set tests. + Systems which don't allow both (e.g. SCO) have to turn off one + or the other in the hints file for now. + +Index: INSTALL + + Warn about re-using config.sh version-specific values. + +Index: MANIFEST + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + os2/Changes added. + +Index: Makefile.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with + shared library target, which is delegated to + $osname/Makefile.SHs if found. + config.h should depend on config_h.SH. + + Remove mkmanifest target, since it will generate incorrectly + sorted MANIFEST file, I would imagine (I haven't checked). + +Index: README.os2 + + New version. + +Index: config_H + + Update SH_PATH comment. + +Index: config_h.SH + + Update SH_PATH comment. + +Index: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Add method "untaint" into class IO::Handle + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Document IO::Handle::untaint and give warning about the bad + things it can do. + +Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h + + Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version. + I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc, + and we might need to hide it. + +Index: gv.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Better error message for overload. + +Index: hints/os2.sh + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some + memory present - 32M should be quite enough). + Test for revision of EMX, and setting fork()ing appropriately. + libc was in .../st/... instead of mt. + README.os2 is installed as pod/perlos2.pod. + +Index: hints/sco.sh + + Don't include <sys/select.h> along with <time.h>. + +Index: installperl + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install). + +Index: lib/Cwd.pm + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be + done outside of OS/2 too?). + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + `bool' entry added. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!). + +Index: lib/File/Copy.pm + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Subject: Cleanup after new test + + Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just + plain broken under OS/2 and VMS) + +Index: lib/FindBin.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module + +Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Update to version 2.4. + +Index: lib/lib.pm + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:22:05 -0400 + From: "Brent B. Powers" <powers@ml.com> + Subject: Re: patch for lib.pm + + Ignore undefined entries. + +Index: lib/newgetopt.pl + + Updated to version 2.4 to match Getopt::Long. + +Index: makedepend.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH + (They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH + with more than two '.' Such names are illegal on some systems.) + +Index: mg.c + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 () + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06 + + The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error + introduced in 5.003_06. This patch is required to fix the bug: + +Index: os2/Changes + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit. + updates for fork()ing. + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + added. + +Index: os2/Makefile.SHs + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Convoluted process to create chimera executables added. + aout_clean is done automatically on clean. + +Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Use `unlink' where appropriate. + +Index: os2/diff.configure + + Updated. + +Index: os2/os2.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + /bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe. + popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now). + builtins added for the sake of path manipulation. + +Index: os2/os2ish.h + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit. + updates for fork()ing. + +Index: patchlevel.h + + Change to subversion 7. + +Index: perl.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000 + From: Tim Bunce + Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} + + I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in + (the number of uninitialised memory reads in the Oracle libraries + is frightning!). + + If perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__} are set then I see a range + of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump: + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n. + Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted. + +Index: perl.h + + Change Myrealloc to Myremalloc to conform to 5.003's version. + I left in the Mycalloc since malloc.c now includes a calloc, + and we might need to hide it. + +Index: plan9/aperl + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/arpa/inet.h + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/buildinfo + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/config.plan9 + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/exclude + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/fndvers + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/genconfig.pl + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/mkfile + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/myconfig.plan9 + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/perlplan9.doc + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/perlplan9.pod + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/plan9.c + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/plan9ish.h + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/setup.rc + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: plan9/versnum + + Updated for 5.003_07 + +Index: pod/perldiag.pod + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE. + OS/2-specific messages added. + +Index: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack + +Index: pod/perli18n.pod + + Updated version with high bits intact. + +Index: pod/perlop.pod + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Crossrefs corrected. + +Index: pod/perltrap.pod + + Clarified that warn() _always_ printed to STDERR, both in perl4 + and perl5. + +Index: pod/perlvar.pod + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + $^E under OS/2. + +Index: pp.c + + Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack + +Index: pp_sys.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:24 GMT + From: Chris Faylor <cgf@bbc.com> + + The problem is that SCO apparently needs to have a file opened + with write privileges for chsize to work correctly. + +Index: sv.c + + Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work + + >> > print sort (4,1,2,3); + >> > + >> > actually prints "4123", i.e. doesn't actually sort. Bug? Feature? + + This broke between 5.001n and 5.002. There was a long winded thread + about sorting undefs in some order (rather than coredumping) around + the 5.002beta times (search for "bogorefs" in the subject-line on + p5p archive for details). Larry added in some code that presumes that + the private flags are set by the time qsort() is called: + + Unfortunately, sv_2pv() does not set the POKp flag, so the above + code breaks! Here's a patch against 5.00306. + +Index: t/lib/anydbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/db-btree.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/db-hash.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/db-recno.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/gdbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + Better error message on dying. + +Index: t/lib/io_taint.t + + Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 22:24:48 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: PATCH: untaint method for IO::Handle, 5.003_06 version + + This is a re-post of my patch to Graham's IO library to add a method in + IO::Handle called "untaint", that sets the IOf_UNTAINT flag on an object + that is of or inherits from IO::Handle. With this flag set, data read from + said handle is not tainted, whether running under -T, suid or sgid. + + This patch adds the method to IO.xs, adds documentation and warning to the + pod of IO/Handle.pm, creates a new test in t/lib called io_taint.t, and + adds mention of the new file to MANIFEST. + + Test suite for the untaint method of class IO::Handle. + +Index: t/lib/ndbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/odbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/sdbm.t + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has + nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test + for this in stat.t (which dutifully fails). There is + no point to consider this behaviour as a bug in + database code. + So OS/2 is special-cased in these tests. + +Index: t/lib/socket.t + + Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX) + + fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is + rather than expecting it behave rationally in all cases. + +Index: t/op/pack.t + + Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack + +Index: t/op/sort.t + + Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests + +Index: util.c + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + + uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined + as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does). + +Index: x2p/Makefile.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt + From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu> + Subject: Re: sh Configure? + + Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down + in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full + pathname of the file being extracted. + +Index: x2p/cflags.SH + + Date: Wed, 9 Oct 96 16:00:29 edt + From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu> + Subject: Re: sh Configure? + + Extract x2p/Makefile.SH and x2p/cflags.SH correctly down + in the x2p directory, even if $0 isn't set to the full + pathname of the file being extracted. + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_06 +---------------- + +This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation, +and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003. +The details are described below. A very brief summary is: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + -Significantly improved support _with documentation_ for + locales, including LC_COLLATE. See the new pod/perli18n.pod. + Thanks to Jarkko Hietaniemi. + + -new version of Math::Complex, with test suite. Ought to be + backwards compatible, but check it out if you use Math::Complex. + + -Pre-extending hashes now works. keys %hash = 5000 will pre-size + %hash. + + -__DATA__ filehandle is untainted. + +o Changes in Core Internals + + -gv_fullname and gv_efullname have reverted to their pre-5.003_03 + versions for binary compatibility. Actually, they are implemented + as stubs pointing to the new 3-argument forms gv_fullname3 and + gv_efullname3. + + -Perl's malloc is once again called 'Mymalloc' (with -DHIDEMYMALLOC), + as it was pre-5.003_01. Again, this is for binary compatibility + with 5.003. + +o Configure and build enhancements + + -many new tests for the standard library. + + -test suite now locale-friendly. + + -a2p.man and s2p.man now made into pods. + +o Bug fixes + + -whitespace lexer errors fixed. + + -many, many other things. See details below. + +o Specific Changes + +Here are the specific file-by-file changes. + +# This is my patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl5.003_05 +# The full description is below. +# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch. +# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.) +# -- Andy Dougherty + +# We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them +# executable. +for t in abbrev.t autoloader.t basename.t checktree.t complex.t \ + env.t fatal.t filecache.t filecopy.t filefind.t filepath.t \ + findbin.t getopt.t hostname.t parsewords.t searchdict.t \ + selectsaver.t symbol.t texttabs.t textwrap.t timelocal.t +do + touch t/lib/$t + chmod +x t/lib/$t +done + +# The a2p.man and s2p.man pages have been changed into pods. +rm -f x2p/a2p.man x2p/s2p.man + +exit 0 + + +This is patch perl5.003_06.pat to perl version 5.003_05. +This takes you from 5.003_05 to 5.003_06. + +To apply this patch, run the above commands, +cd to your perl source directory and then type + + patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_06.pat + +The changes are described after each /^Index:/ line below. This is +designed so you can examine each change with a command such as + + csplit -k perl5.003_06.pat '/^Index:/' '{999}' + +(Of course, since there are more than 100 Index entries, your +csplit may complain, since many csplit's have an arbitrary limit of 100 +files. Still, you can manually split the file or roll your own.) + +Index: Changes + + Updated for 5.003_06. + +Index: Configure + + Add -Wl,rpath option for irix* to find the installed shared + libperl.so + + Add /shlib to libpth. It is used by Digital Unix 4.0. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100 + From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + + Detect Cygnus Win32, or at least don't let Configure get fooled + into thinking it's OS/2. + +Index: INSTALL + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + added LC_COLLATE doc. + +Index: MANIFEST + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + + Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200 + From: Andreas Koenig + Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED) + + Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX. + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + added perli18n.pod. + +Index: README + + Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org. + +Index: configpm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: configure + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 14:01:05 +0100 + From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + + Warn the user of case-insensitive file systems that they may have + accidentally gotten 'configure' instead of 'Configure'. + +Index: doio.c + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: doop.c + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + +Index: dump.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + +Index: embed.h + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + +Index: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: ext/IO/IO.pm + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Updated to IO-1.12. + +Index: ext/NDBM_File/hints/dynixptx.pl + + Perl 5.003_05 compiles on DYNIX/ptx 4.0 (v4.1.3), and passes all tests. + The only change needed is in "ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL" - on this system, + ndbm is actually contained in the libc library, and must be linked against + -lc when compiling. (this is for dynamic ELF executables, I didn't compile + statically) + +Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup + + The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm: + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + enhanced setlocale() docs and introduced the one-argument variant doc. + +Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + setlocale() allowed one argument only, + call to perl_init_fold() (in util.c) if setlocale() succeeded. + +Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl + + Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200 + From: Andreas Koenig + Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED) + + Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX. + +Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h + + Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with + 5.003. + +Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: global.sym + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + added var lc_collate_active and func mem_collxfrm. + +Index: gv.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + +Index: handy.h + + Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05 + + This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues + since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be + applied, use this one instead. + + The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are + ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants. + +Index: hints/machten.sh + + Add notes about MachTen 4.0.3 SYSV IPC. + +Index: hints/next_3.sh + + Replace optimize="-g" by optimize="" since we're just trying to turn off + the optimizier. + + Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200 + From: Andreas Koenig + Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED) + + Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX. + +Index: hv.c + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch) + + I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used + to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over). + I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is + needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical + hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags. + + Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem. + The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private + flag. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + +Index: hv.h + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch) + + I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used + to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over). + I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is + needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical + hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags. + + Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem. + The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private + flag. + +Index: installman + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: installperl + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent + + > This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem: + This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice): + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional, + since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the + filename manipulations: + + Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix + + It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD() + function. With an exported AUTOLOAD() we would not have to inherit + from AutoLoader, and we would avoid these problems. + + This patch tries to explain the behavior of AutoLoader instead by + updating its documentation. + +Index: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST) + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: a really really tiny typo + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Cwd.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Env.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Exporter.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Remove unwantd space after the I in -I$Config[archlib} + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Change a reference from perlapi(1) to perlxs(1). + +Index: lib/File/Basename.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS + + The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when + fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect: + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: File::Basename documentation patch + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for + File::Basename was also wrong: + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: lib/File/Copy.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/File/Find.pm + + Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:37:44 +0200 + From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@it.com.pl> + Subject: File::Find assumes $_ remains unchanged; bug + + The File::Find perl module assumes that the $_ variable remains unchanged + through the user defined function which is callbacked from find. It carries + out a stat operation + + Simplest fix is merely to document this + +Index: lib/File/Path.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/FindBin.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + deprecated and trapped (will whine if called and tell to migrate away) + +Index: lib/IPC/Open2.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + ord() is a dangerous thing. + +Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200 + From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions + # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996 + # New version. Should be backwards compatible, but please + # check it out if you use it. + +Index: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm + + Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/ + + The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead + of tr/A-Z/a-z/. This will make folding of non-english letters work if + the locale is set up correctly. + +Index: lib/SelfLoader.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Symbol.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup + + perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)' + + I don't understand why the module want to initialize %global from + <DATA> in the first place. Perhaps we want to apply this patch + instead. + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm + + Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Patch for Term::Cap + + 'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The + patch below avoids the warning. + + [The $entry .= $_ usage is idiomatic enough that it ought to be + ok, I would think, but the patch certainly is ok too.] + +Index: lib/Term/Complete.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm + + Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts) + + This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle + and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both). + +Index: lib/Text/Tabs.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm + + Add in stub file. + +Index: lib/bigint.pl + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + ord() is a dangerous thing. + +Index: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/overload.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/perl5db.pl + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work + +Index: lib/splain + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: lib/strict.pm + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: makedepend.SH + + Add explicit $touch $firstmakefile for QNX which apparently + preserves modification times for a 'cp' command. + I worry, though, that touch might not be portable to OS/2. + If it is, then I'll remove the fancy case statement. + +Index: malloc.c + + Not all sbrks return zeroed memory. + +Index: mg.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $! + + This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related + to the numeric value of $!. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + + Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E + + This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, + related to the numeric values of $! and $^E. This patch *REPLACES* + the one I posted earlier, which was only effective for $!. + + [Some of this is superceded by similar stuff in the VMS patches.] + +Index: op.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + +Index: opcode.h + + Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700 + From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com> + Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program + + The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter + into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the + C++ compiler. + +Index: opcode.pl + + Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 16:37:48 -0700 + From: Jonathan Biggar <jon@sems.com> + Subject: Perl 5.003 bug when embedding in C++ program + + The following patch is necessary in order to embed the Perl5.003 interpreter + into a C++ program without getting prototype mismatch errors from the + C++ compiler. + +Index: patchlevel.h + + Change to subversion 6. + +Index: perl.c + + From: Roderick Schertler + Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC + + support C<perl -e'attached code'> + + Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch) + Message-Id: <199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + + The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv. Here's a patch. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: perl.h + + Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05 + + This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues + since 5.003_05. No patches issued between 5.003_05 and this one should be + applied, use this one instead. + + The effect is to remove the CHAR_* and I8_* constants (which are + ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + + Revert from Perl_malloc to Mymalloc for binary compatibility with + 5.003. + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + +Index: perl_exp.SH + + Add new function perl_init_fold. (I'm not sure it goes here.) + +Index: perlio.c + + Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 15:58 PDT + From: Hunter Kelly <retnuh@zule.pixar.com> + Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available. + + Fix PerlIO_reopen parameters. + +Index: perlsdio.h + + Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 17:24:01 -0400 + From: John Stoffel <jfs@jfs.fluent.com> + Subject: Re: 5.003_05 is available. + + Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: pod/Makefile + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + perli18n.pod (and perlapio.pod, btw) added. + +Index: pod/buildtoc + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perl.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org. + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + perli18n advertised. + +Index: pod/perlapio.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + +Index: pod/perlbook.pod + + Updated for Second Edition. + +Index: pod/perlcall.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perldata.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perldebug.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perldiag.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: pod/perldsc.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlembed.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlform.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlguts.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT + From: Jeff Okamoto + Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch + + Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This + incorporates and supersedes Dean's patch. + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perli18n.pod + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + written. + +Index: pod/perlipc.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perllol.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlmod.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400 + From: Roderick Schertler + Subject: documentation for $? in END + + Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines. + +Index: pod/perlobj.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlop.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page + + Add alternative names for various escape sequences. + +Index: pod/perlpod.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlre.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page + + Add alternative names for various escape sequences. + +Index: pod/perlref.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlrun.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlsec.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlstyle.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlsub.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perltie.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perltoc.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org. + +Index: pod/perltrap.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: a perl425 trap + + Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory. + [interpolation issues] + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/perlvar.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400 + From: Roderick Schertler + Subject: documentation for $? in END + + Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines. + +Index: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 11:55:18 -0500 + From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu> + Subject: POD spelling patches + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: pod/pod2man.PL + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + + Bugs found in pod2man + + The following bugs were noticed, and some fixed: + + 1. Where a L<> link extends over more than one line, pod2man does not + treat it as a link but displays it literally, and so these have been + rearranged to place the link on one line. This is the only bug worked + around. [Fixed; the rearrangements, which were done beforehand, + remain in some cases, but are no longer necessary, and pod paragraphs + can now be safely reformatted to whatever width is desired in the pod, + without breaking links.] + + 2. It seems to swallow spaces after certain links: for example, part + of the "open" entry in the perlfunc manpage comes out as "the + \f(CWbinmode\fR entry elsewhere in this documentfor tips", the source + having been "L</binmode> for tips". [Fixed.] + + 3. 'L</"Pass by Reference">', in perlsub.pod, comes out as '\fI/"Pass + by Reference\fR', that is, with an initial '/"'. + + 4. If a pod line begins with ".", nothing is done to prevent [tng]roff + from treating it as a [tng]roff instruction. + + 5. When the paragraph below =head1 NAME has more than one line, this + confuses pod2man: so in the case of Term::Readline, the manpage begins + with a stray line 'no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead + of basic functions."'. + + Of course, it would be better to fix pod2man; I hope that the new Pod + modules, when ready, will not have these defects. + +Index: pp_ctl.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + sortcmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch. + +Index: pp_hot.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles + + This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles + on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given + file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on. + There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag + before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same + reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on + on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA + pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so + this should not introduce any insecurity. + + This patch *does not*: + + * Add the "untaint" keyword. + +Index: pp_sys.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles + + This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles + on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given + file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on. + There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag + before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same + reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on + on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA + pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so + this should not introduce any insecurity. + + This patch *does not*: + + * Add the "untaint" keyword. + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:26:57 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: Patch to patch for untainting + + The following patch ensures that a glob used as a filehandle that + has had the UNTAINT flag set will not carry that flag over on a + re-open. In a nutshell, a re-open of the DATA filehandle would be + considered untainted, and an object of class IO::Handle (or one of + its sub-classes) that is marked untainted with the untaint method, + then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a + miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the + library and the creation of Makefiles for the extensions didn't + work. Worse, it didn't just fail to open files, it dumped core. + +Index: proto.h + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + mem_collxfrm() and perl_init_fold() added. + +Index: run.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + +Index: sv.c + + Restore the 5.003 gv_fullname() and gv_efullname() functions. + Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3(). + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + + I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the + fast I/O fiddling with stdio in sv_gets(). These were useful + to me in setting up the VMS fast I/O, and I left them in in + case they're useful to someone in the future. However, if you + think it overloads -DP too much, feel free to drop it. (-DP + already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.) + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + sv_cmp() sprouted a LC_COLLATE branch. + +Index: sv.h + + Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles + + This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles + on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given + file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on. + There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag + before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same + reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on + on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA + pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so + this should not introduce any insecurity. + + This patch *does not*: + + * Add the "untaint" keyword. + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch) + + I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used + to postpone the delete of a entry that may be getting iterated over). + I was using the HeKLEN slot to hold the hint, but the real HeKLEN is + needed later to call unsharepvn(). This means that only magical + hash entries can use the HeKLEN slot to hold flags. + + Here's a tested patch against 5.00305 that fixes the problem. + The patch simply moves the LAZYDEL hint to become a SV-level private + flag. + +Index: t/base/term.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + \n not necessarily lt ' '. + +Index: t/comp/package.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + XYZ not necessarily gt xyz. + +Index: t/lib/abbrev.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + + Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200 + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts) + + This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle + and my previous patch (i.e. replaces both). + +Index: t/lib/anydbm.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/autoloader.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional, + since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the + filename manipulations: + +Index: t/lib/basename.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + Fix the number of tests. + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + + A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends. + +Index: t/lib/checktree.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/complex.t + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 96 18:38:08 +0200 + From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + # Complex numbers and associated mathematical functions + # -- Raphael Manfredi, Sept 1996 + + Tests for new version. + +Index: t/lib/db-btree.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/db-hash.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/env.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/fatal.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/filecache.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/filecopy.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/filefind.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/filepath.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/findbin.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/gdbm.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/getopt.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/hostname.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/ndbm.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/odbm.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/parsewords.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/sdbm.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/lib/searchdict.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/symbol.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + + The various new lib/*.t tests didn't all work. For some, it was + only because the count of tests was wrong: + +Index: t/lib/texttabs.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/textwrap.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/lib/timelocal.t + + Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200 + From: Gisle Aas + Subject: More standard library test scripts + + This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules. + Some of the tests does not pass unless some of the patches I have sent + out are applied. + +Index: t/op/each.t + + Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400 + From: Spider Boardman + Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed + + The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements + "keys %hash = 50_000;" (or other integer-evaluable sizes) for + pre-sizing hashes. I've only moved the patch forward from + when I first did it. I'm sure the code in hv_ksplit could be + improved. + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/op/glob.t + + Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: Re: glob test 1 failing...bad test or bug + + Under AIX 4.1.4, with LOCALE set en_GB (British english) glob test one + fails because <op/*> sorts op/re_* before op/rea*, while + $otherway = `echo op/*` sorts op/re_* after op/re[a-z]*.t + + This version doesn't rely on the sorting order. + +Index: t/op/magic.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + +Index: t/op/readdir.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: t/op/sort.t + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + A not necessarily gt a. + +Index: toke.c + + Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch) + + I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately + overwrite oldbufptr and oldoldbufptr (which are used in making + expectation decisions in the lexer). + + Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: perl lexer won't accept C<my($a,$b);$a<=>$b;> + + Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400 + From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com> + Subject: Patch: Untaint FH flag and clean DATA handles + + This patch adds a IOf_UNTAINT flag in sv.h, as one of the possibles + on an xpvio->xio_flags struct member. It is used to mark the given + file handle as a clean source, even when tainting is turned on. + There are also patches to pp_sys.c in pp_sysread to check this flag + before tainting data, and in pp_hot.c in do_readline for the same + reason. Lastly, it patches toke.c to automatically set this flag on + on a __DATA__ filehandle. The creation of the $pack::DATA + pseudo-filehandle is already checked against running under eval, so + this should not introduce any insecurity. + + This patch *does not*: + + * Add the "untaint" keyword. + +Index: util.c + + Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Subject: LC_COLLATE. + + Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support. + + rewrote perl_init_i18n() completely. + - reworded to be much more friendly and clear. + - perl_init_fold() split to its own function. + wrote mem_collxfrm(). + +Index: utils/c2ph.PL + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: utils/h2ph.PL + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: utils/h2xs.PL + + Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 16:38:24 -0500 + From: Dean Roehrich + Subject: h2xs bug fix + + The h2xs that is in perl5.003_05 has a regexp bug which prevents it from + finding #define statements and filling the constant() function. This patch + fixes that. The h2xs_test program found this--maybe people who are + modifying h2xs should get a copy of the test program. + + This also adds a -d to enable debugging messages (there's just one for now). + I've also placed some of the doc-related things in alphabetical order. + + h2xs_test can be found in my directory on CPAN. Those of you modifying + xsubpp should know there's a test suite for that, too, called XSTEST which + can also be found in my directory on CPAN. + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + Here is a patch for various typos and other defects in the Perl + 5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules. + +Index: utils/perldoc.PL + + Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: perldoc patch + + Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2. + +Index: vms/config.vms + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/descrip.mms + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/genconfig.pl + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/perlvms.pod + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: vms/vms.c + + Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT) + From: Charles Bailey + Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05 + +Index: x2p/a2p.pod + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + This patch just changed the old a2p.man page into a pod page. + +Index: x2p/s2p.PL + + Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST) + From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> + Subject: Pod typos, pod2man bugs, and miscellaneous installation comments + + This patch just changed the old s2p.man page into a pod page. + I then embedded the pod into the s2p script. + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_05 +---------------- + +This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of +the remaining issues from in 5.003_04. The details are described below. +A very brief summary is: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + -Add support for a READLINE method to tied filehandles. + + -times function now uses CLK_TCK if HZ is not available, rather + than just defaulting to 60. times output might change on some + systems, but should be correct now. + + -AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected) + Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select + order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still + the same. + +o Configure and build enhancements + + -Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have + BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use + [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible. + + -You can now build a shared libperl.so without running through + the LD_RUN_PATH hoops, if your system supports appropriate + ld command-line options. Solaris, NetBSD, and Linux are currently + supported. Others are easy to add. (This makes like a lot easier + for embedders.) + + -VMS updates. + + -Fix installperl and installman so that the -n option really only + prints commands. (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.) + +o Bug fixes + + -debugger ought to work. + + -A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH is now quoted. This prevented + 5.003_04 from working most places. + + -numerous smaller ones, detailed below. + +o Specific Changes + +Here are the specific file-by-file changes. + +# This is my patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl5.003_04 +# The full description is below. +# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch. +# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.) +# -- Andy Dougherty + +# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it +# executable. +touch t/io/read.t +chmod +x t/io/read.t + +exit 0 + + +This is patch perl5.003_05.pat to perl version 5.003_04. +This takes you from 5.003_04 to 5.003_05. + +To apply this patch, run the above commands, +cd to your perl source directory and then type + + patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_05.pat + +The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is +designed so you can examine each change with a command such as + + csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}' + +Index: Changes + + Updated for 5.003_05. + +Index: Configure + + Allow command line or hint-file overrides of $afs. + + Allow trailing spaces in nm output for HPUX10. + + Check for newer BIND 'search' directives in /etc/resolv.conf as well + as older 'domain' directive. + + Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have + BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use + [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible. + + Include -s in the -h summary of available options. + + Allow command-line override of $afs. + + Handle trailing spaces in nm-output on HPUX10. + + Set shrpenv for handling LD_RUN_PATH, if needed. (This used to + be in Makefile.SH. Now it's available for other modules too.) + + When using shared libperl, avoid LD_RUN_PATH if possible by adding + correct ld flags. Currently, Solaris and NetBSD get the correct + -R $archlibexp/CORE, and Linux gets its + -Wl,-rpath,$archlibexp/CORE flag. Other contributions are + welcome. + +Index: INSTALL + + Correct libperl5 -> libperl typo. + + Describe MakeMaker's Warning (will try anyway) messages. + + More info on where and how to send reports. + + Add info on non-Unix ports. + + +Index: MANIFEST + + Add new test t/io/read.t. + + Add new hints files for ODBM_File for ultrix and hpux. + + Add new pod checker script. + +Index: Makefile.SH + + A new heredoc tag in Makefile.SH needs to be quoted. + + shrpenv stuff moved to Configure. + +Index: Porting/Glossary + + Updated to match Configure. + +Index: README.vms + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: av.h + + Subject: turbidity in av.[ch] + Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + + Some unclean code that I noticed today. + +Index: config_H + + Updated to match newest config_h.SH. + +Index: config_h.SH + + Updated to match Configure. + + Changed the DLSYM_NEEDS_UNDERSCORE comment to + /**/ to conform to metaconfig style. + +Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Subject: Newer CPerl-mode + +Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Update to DB_File 1.03. + +Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Update to DB_File 1.03. + +Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm + + Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl + + Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading. + +Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm + + From: Roderick Schertler + Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0 + + This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin. + +Index: ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs + + Attempt to correct for "Bad free" in Ultrix and HPUX versions of + odbm. + +Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/hpux.pl + + Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose(). + +Index: ext/ODBM_File/hints/ultrix.pl + + Try to work around "bad free" in dbmclose(). + +Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm + + Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200 + From: Andreas Koenig + Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm + + This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless + auto/Socket/autosplit.ix. + +Index: handy.h + + Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler. + +Index: hints/convexos.sh + + Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle + this now. + +Index: hints/hpux.sh + + Add note about possible gcc GR3 warning message. + + Remove [gs]etpgrp workaround. Configure & perl.h should handle + this now. + +Index: hints/sco.sh + + Turn off optimization for stock cc. This appears to + prevent miniperl core dumps. + +Index: hints/solaris_2.sh + + Catch GNU ld even though it doesn't identify itself as a GNU tool. + Thanks to Tim Pierce <twpierce@midway.uchicago.edu>. + +Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Describe solution for the __lib_version problem with acc on + SunOS. + +Index: hv.c + + Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: minor misc. cleanup + + This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change + in functionality whatsoever. + + Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:52:21 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + + Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04) + + I have tried to avoid copying of hash keys that are passed to + magical hashes, but it seems that copying may be unavoidable + since the hv_*_ent() functions could be PADTMPs (and other + SVs that may get reused) as keys. + + VMS dynamic %ENV fix + +Index: installman + + From: scotth@sgi.com + Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m) + + Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands. + (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.) + + an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check + to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I + *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above) + +Index: installperl + + From: scotth@sgi.com + Subject: Re: installperl feature request (was: Re: Upgrade 4.0x to 5.001m) + + Fix installperl so that the -n option really only prints commands. + (previously, it would still do the mkdirs.) + + an "ignore installed" option, so that it doesn't bother to check + to see if the target already exists (an optimization that I + *don't* want it to do when I do #1 above) + +Index: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm + + AnyDBM_File (modifying ISA does not work as expected) + Now behaves as documented: Modifying ISA works to select + order in which *DB* modules are tried. The default is still + the same. + + + Add helpful "die" message to end of AnyDBM_File. Previously + it would return a 0, and the failure would eventually show up + somewhere else in the script and be hard to track down. It is + a failure if perl can't open AnyDBM_File. The test regression + suite is supposed to indicate this as a failure too. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + + Fix for VMS utime. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.39 to allow CFLAGS in hint files. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mkbootstrap.pm + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Updated to MakeMaker-5.38. + +Index: lib/File/Find.pm + + From: Michael Mahan <mahanm@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu> + Subject: Cwd::fastcwd in File::Find + + Is there a good reason why File::Find uses Cwd::fastcwd instead of + Cwd:cwd when fastcwd isn't as portable? + [In particular, fastcwd() doesn't work on AFS.] + +Index: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + There was a mistake in the sqrt routine in lib/Math/Complex.pm that + gave wrong answers when the magnitude of the imaginary part of the + argument exceeded the magnitude of the real part. Line 69 had too + many sqrt($y)'s. Further, expressions were re-arranged so that + calls to the expensive real sqrt() routine were reduced from 4 to 2 + in this case. + +Index: lib/open3.pl + + The I/O directions on the dad_wtr and kid_rdr were backwards. + IO/Open3.pm didn't have this error. + +Index: lib/syslog.pl + + Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400 + From: Roderick Schertler + Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage + + syslog.pl tries but fails to use + Socket.pm, the problem is that use doesn't return a true value. This + module should be recast in terms of Sys::Syslog, of course. + +Index: makedepend.SH + + This patch eliminates "\|" in sed patterns in makedepend.SH, since + they're not really needed anyway in this one case. + +Index: mg.c + + Ok, here's a tested patch for the debugger problem. + I was missing the fact that DB::dbline magic is actually + uppercase (which means hv_store_ent() etc., will pass SV keys + to the vtbl_dbline handlers). + + Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with + the simple MgPVKEY macro. + + Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add + additional parens around the "mg". + + (lines near 584) Part of VMS changes. I don't know what this did. + + Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) > + + This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers + (C<sv_setiv>) instead of floats. It also eliminates a warning from + C< local($)) >, via a hack similar to $!. + +Index: mg.h + + Replace the oft-repeated mg_ptr incantation with + the simple MgPVKEY macro. + + Rename MgPVKEY to MgPV (to match with HePV elsewhere). Add + additional parens around the "mg". + +Index: nostdio.h + + Add _STDIO_LOADED (VMS) to list of guard symbols. + +Index: op.c + + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more) + +Index: patchlevel.h + + Change to subversion 5. + +Index: perl.c + + Make floating point constants Locale-friendly. + +Index: perl.h + + One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few + minor cleanups. Nothing crucial. + + Make a little more C++-friendly for IBM's CSET++ compiler. + + Enhance detection of [gs]etpgrp() variants. Some systems have + BSD-style behavior for one and POSIX for the other. Use + [gs]etpgid() instead, whenever possible. + +Index: perlio.c + + Eliminate potential "signed vs. unsigned" warning + + Add PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_cgetname functions. + +Index: perlsdio.h + + Don't supply redundant parameters for PerlIO_open and PerlIO_fdopen. + + Include PerlIO_reopen and PerlIO_getname. + + s/FILE_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE/STDIO_(CNT|PTR)_LVALUE to fix a typo. + This had prevented SV_FAST_FGETS from working anywhere. + + Include PerlIO_canset_cnt. I'm not sure how this is supposed to + differ from STDIO_CNT_LVALUE. + +Index: pod/Makefile + + Remove trailing spaces in pods. + Include a call to the checkpods script in the Makefile (though it's + not ordinarily used by users). + +Index: pod/checkpods.PL + + New script to check for common errors in pods. This is not + normally called during the perl build process, but you can + use it with B<make check>. + +Index: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage. + + Add notes about POSIX [gs]etpgrp. + +Index: pod/perlipc.pod + + Document correct C<use POSIX ":wait_h";> usage. + +Index: pod/perlref.pod + + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more) + +Index: pod/perltie.pod + + Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200 + From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + Subject: more TIEHANDLE + + This adds support for a READLINE method. + +Index: pod/perltrap.pod + + Here's documentation on the change in split's behavior between Perl 4 + and Perl 5. + + Subject: More (and less!) 425traps + + Large integer traps + + Precedence + + warn STDERR + + Change blank lines to empty lines. + +Index: pod/perlvar.pod + + Be explicit about $/="" matching empty lines, that is, lines + with no spaces or tabs. + + Change blank lines to empty lines. + +Index: pp.c + + Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics + + This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV + values when performing bitwise operations and modulus. + + Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right) + + (double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv(). + +Index: pp_hot.c + + Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: minor misc. cleanup + + This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change + in functionality whatsoever. + + Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200 + From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + Subject: more TIEHANDLE + + This adds support for a READLINE method. + +Index: pp_sys.c + + Clear any buffer space exposed by by read(). + This is almost certainly a bug-fix. + + Undef and then re-define my_chsize from Perl_my_chsize to + just plain chsize if this system HAS_CHSIZE. This probably only + applies to SCO. This shows the perils of having internal + functions with the same name as external library functions :-). + + Use CLK_TCK if HZ is not available. + +Index: sv.c + + Fix more spots where we had PerlIO_stderr() and should have had + Perl_debug_log instead. + + Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT) + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation + + I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it + would improve the safety of AV creation. + + Remove potentially incorrect casts on PerlIO_set_ptrcnt. + 'ptr' is already STDCHAR, which is supposed to be the type of + char used in stdio.h, so we shouldn't have to cast it. + +Index: t/io/read.t + + Clear any buffer space exposed by by read(). + This is almost certainly a bug-fix. + +Index: t/lib/db-btree.t + + Update to DB_File 1.03. + +Index: t/lib/db-hash.t + + Update to DB_File 1.03. + +Index: t/lib/db-recno.t + + Update to DB_File 1.03. + +Index: t/lib/io_sock.t + + From: Lupe Christoph <lupe@alanya.m.isar.de> + Subject: Perl 5.003.03: race condition in t/lib/io_sock.t + + io_sock.t works by forking a subprocess it can communicate with. + It has the subprocess wait for the main process by sleeping 10 + seconds or until an alarm arrives. + + With my setup, the alarm signal arrives *before* the child + has a chance to ignore the alarm signal. + + I fixed this by moving the "$SIG{ALRM} = sub {};" up before the + fork. It does not hurt to have the parent ignore alarms, too. + +Index: t/op/inc.t + + One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few + minor cleanups. Nothing crucial. + +Index: t/op/misc.t + + Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 15:14:51 +0200 + From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + Subject: more TIEHANDLE + + This adds support for a READLINE method. + +Index: t/op/pack.t + + Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT) + From: Kenneth Albanowski + Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right) + +Index: t/op/ref.t + + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more) + +Index: universal.c + + Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST + From: Graham Barr + Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted + + yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference + is an object, so the patch should be + +Index: unixish.h + + Change comment style so that IBM's picky xlc compiler doesn't + think we've mistakenly tried to nest comments. + +Index: util.c + + One last LONG & co. fix (yet another cut'n'paste error) and a few + minor cleanups. Nothing crucial. + +Index: utils/h2xs.PL + + Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT) + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Subject: updated h2xs + + Changes: + a) Docs and examples for -x updated; + b) Path to xxxx.h would not be changed to /usr/include/xxxx.h + unless this file exists (outside of VMS, I'm afraid to make an error + there). - Useful with -x option, when the file may be eaten via -I + inside -F. + c) .h file would be scanned only if needed. + d) typemap would be generated (with T_PTROBJ). + e) Documentation (=list) for autogenerated guys would be + included into POD. + f) duplicated XSUBs would not be generated; + g) arguments to XSUBs being arrays are recognized (note that + xsubpp would probably choke on such guys). + + -x option requires C-Scan-0.3 (releases a couple of minutes ago to + ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/perl + should propagate to CPAN soon). + +Index: utils/perlbug.PL + + Fix typo $Config{'has_sockets'} ought to be $Config{'d_socket'}; + +Index: utils/perldoc.PL + + More choices in the pager war. Unfortunately, we can't rely on + all users agreeing with the Sysadmin's choice, nor can we + assign a default preference order, since opinions vary. If the + user doesn't have $ENV{PAGER} set, we do want to pick up one that + at least works, so we'll try whatever Configure found. + +Index: vms/Makefile + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/config.vms + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/descrip.mms + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/ext/filespec.t + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/gen_shrfls.pl + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/perlvms.pod + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/vms.c + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + +Index: vms/vmsish.h + + VMS 5.003_05 Update. + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_04 +---------------- + +This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of +the changes made in 5.003_03. The details are described below. +A very brief summary is: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + -Allow and document permissions for FileHandle::new and + IO::File::new. + -glob in Safe compartment used to allow shell access; now + it's in the same category as `` and system(). + +o Configure and build enhancements + + -perl library name is again -lperl, not -lperl5 in some cases. + -Several hint files no longer set -g -DDEBUGGING by default. + Instead, they just turn off optimization, since that is + probably what was intended. + -Include OS/2 and Plan9 updates. + +o Bug fixes + + -SEGV with $_[0] and circular references fixed. + -Ilya's debugger patch. + -FAKE typeglobs fixed. + -truncate with file name now works. + -lval substr() no longer coredumps with refs + -lval substr now clears lexicals in re-entered scopes. + -core dump in caller() for signal handler for __DIE__. + +o Specific Changes + +Here are the specific file-by-file changes. + +# This is my patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl5.003_03 +# The full description is below. +# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch. +# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.) +# -- Andy Dougherty + +# Obsolete perl4 hint file. +rm -f hints/dnix.sh +# Obsolete +rm -f os2/notes + +# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it +# executable. +touch t/op/gv.t +chmod +x t/op/gv.t + +exit 0 + + +This is patch perl5.003_04.pat to perl version 5.003_03. +This takes you from 5.003_03 to 5.003_04. + +To apply this patch, run the above commands, +cd to your perl source directory and then type + + patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_04.pat + +The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is +designed so you can examine each change with a command such as + + csplit -k perl5.003_04.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}' + +Index: Changes + + Updated for 5.003_04. + +Index: Configure + + Change name of shared libperl library back to libperl.so.xxx, + so that a simple -lperl picks up either libperl.a or + libperl.so.xxx. + + Check if $sh='' in case we've reloaded an old config.sh + +Index: INSTALL + + Change name of shared perl library to libperl, instead of + libperl5. + + Add notes about fragility of shared libperl and the usefulness + of archlib to separate different binaries. + +Index: MANIFEST + + os2/notes removed + + obsolete hints/dnix.sh removed. + + New typeglob test. + +Index: Makefile.SH + + For building shared libperl, relocate whole rule to + inside the if test -f $osname/Makefile.SHs case. + +Index: Porting/Glossary + + Updated. + +Index: README.os2 + + Updated. + +Index: av.c + + Subject: Re: SEGV with $_[0] and circular references + + Subject: random cleanup + + This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source. + +Index: config_H + + Updated. Note new comments to make AIX happy. + +Index: config_h.SH + + Change /*#define../**/ into /*#define../ **/ + to make IBM's xlc compiler shut up about nested comments. + The /*#define FOO /**/ is a perfectly legal un-nested comment, and + I wish IBM would fix it's blasted compiler instead. In the meantime + we'll take mercy on the poor AIX user and get rid of the screenfulls + of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth for the fix. + +Index: dump.c + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm + + This patch documents the behavior of FileHandle::{new,open} with + regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl + constants. + + This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: FileHandle::new + didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + This patch fixes a bug observed by Tom Christiansen: IO::File::new + didn't allow for file permissions after the file mode. Here's a patch. + + This patch documents the behavior of IO::File::{new,open} with + regard to open modes. It also documents the exportation of Fcntl + constants. + +Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + + Subject: Re: glob in Safe compartment allows shell access + + I've moved the glob op into the same opcode tag as backticks and system + and added a comment. + +Index: gv.c + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: handy.h + + Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co. + + Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this + should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the + previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX + symbols the complete set of + /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to + those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard + Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN, + and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are + changed appropriately. + + The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad + limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all + works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on. + + Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV. + +Index: hints/hpux.sh + + Remove the d_bsdpgrp hint. The defaults should be ok. + +Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh + + Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING, + unless that's what the user really wants. + +Index: hints/mpeix.sh + + Change optimize=-g to optimize=none to avoid pulling in -DDEBUGGING, + unless that's what the user really wants. + +Index: hints/os2.sh + + Fixes for sh vs. bin_sh + cleanup. + +Index: hints/ultrix_4.sh + + Don't call optimize=-g, just call optimize=none. The -g + pulls in -DDEBUGGING, which might not be wanted. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + .C$(obj_ext) removed under OS/2 - conflicts with .c$(obj_ext). + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Fix SCOPE? (See pod/perlxs.pod). + Up version number to 1.938. + +Index: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Add a return value to runtests - non-zero if all tests ran ok, + zero otherwise. + +Index: lib/perl5db.pl + + Ilya's debugger patch. + Undefined subroutine &Carp::longmess called at + /opt/perl5.003_03/lib/perl5db.pl line 1423. + + + Make perl5db compatible with the recent 'strict refs' enforcement + in %SIG. + +Index: malloc.c + + A patch to perl5.003_02/malloc to give a sensible error abort() message + in ANSI C, and to give it to stderr instead of stdout. + + Use config_h's STRINGIFY macro instead of pre-ANSI "p". + +Index: mg.c + + Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch) + + Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs + in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't + so in 5.001n). + The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname() + which might coerce its first arg to a string. + + Sub-critical patch to conceivably fix some %SIG problems. (Shared hash key + weren't being properly detected by some of the sig magic, but as shared + hash keys wouldn't normally be used in %SIG it's unlikely this is a + significant problem.) + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: myconfig + + Update perlio-related variables. + +Index: op.c + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: opcode.h + + Updated. See opcode.pl. + +Index: opcode.pl + + Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch) + + The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die + with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle). + I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up. + + Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with + C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite. + +Index: os2/Makefile.SHs + + perllib vs. LIBPERL + +Index: os2/diff.configure + + Updated. + +Index: os2/os2.c + + SH_PATH_INI vs. BIN_SH + +Index: os2/os2ish.h + + SH_PATH_INI added (needed to redefine SH_PATH for binary + distribution). + SH_PATH is redefined. + +Index: patchlevel.h + + SUBVERSION 4. + +Index: perl.h + + Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co. + + Sorry about adding yet another #ifdef forest, but hopefully this + should resolve the *_MAX issues permanently. It adds to the + previously defined PERL_LONG_MAX, PERL_LONG_MIN, and PERL_ULONG_MAX + symbols the complete set of + /PERL_U?(CHAR|SHORT|INT|LONG)_(MAX|MIN)/, and installs aliases to + those from /(I|U)(8|16|32|V)_(MAX|MIN)/ so that for any standard + Perl typedef, like I32 or UV, you can reference I32_MAX or UV_MIN, + and get appropriate figures. All references to LONG_(MIN|MAX) are + changed appropriately. + + The .c changes have the side effect of making cast_uv properly use quad + limits if quads are in use, but longs aren't 64 bit. Hopefully this all + works, but I don't have any handy Crays to try it out on. + + Add notes on perl's internal types, specifically Quad_t and IV. + +Index: perlio.c + + Removes an incorrect prototype for setlinebuf from + perlio.c because it conflicts with the correct declaration in + MachTen's stdio.h (and possibly other stdio's as well). + + Secondly, the code in perlio.c is not handling the (!PERLIO_IS_STDIO & + HAS_F[GS]ETPOS) case. The patch fixes this omission (in a rather lumpen + manner). I don't think this should affect platforms which try to hack a + different path through the #ifdef forest, but this assertion would benefit + from testing... + + Dominic Dunlop + +Index: plan9/config.plan9 + + Updated. + +Index: plan9/fndvers + + Updated. + +Index: plan9/mkfile + + Updated. + +Index: plan9/setup.rc + + Updated. + +Index: pod/perldiag.pod + + Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch) + + substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in + an lvalue context. + The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference + first (and emitting a warning when appropriate). + +Index: pod/perlxs.pod + + document xsubpp SCOPE: + +Index: pp.c + + Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch) + + substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that + are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of + 1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off. + + Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch) + + substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in + an lvalue context. + The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference + first (and emitting a warning when appropriate). + + Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co. + +Index: pp_ctl.c + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: pp_hot.c + + Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co. + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: pp_sys.c + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: proto.h + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: run.c + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + +Index: sv.c + + Subject: random cleanup + + This patch removes a few obvious redundancies in the source. + + Subject: sv_setsv patch + + This patch changes neither behavior nor performance. However, it does + reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common + code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname(). + + From: Chip Salzenberg + Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY + + When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY". + Although that flag improves the leak checking, it also breaks + destruction of global objects, because SVs aren't kept in captive + arenas any more. + + This patch rectifies the problem by providing an alternative + method for keeping track of SVs when Perl is compiled for Purify. + It has no effect on normal operation. + + + Add comment about assert(len >=0) when len is unsigned anyway. + +Index: t/io/fs.t + + Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch) + + The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die + with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle). + I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up. + + Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with + C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite. + + The "not implemented" branch is missing a "\n". + +Index: t/op/gv.t + + Subject: FAKE typeglobs seriously busted (with patch) + + Handling of fake typeglobs (scalars that are really globs + in disguise) is seriously busted since 5.002 (it wasn't + so in 5.001n). + + The problem is that mg_get() on a glob calls gv_efullname() + which might coerce its first arg to a string. + +Index: t/op/substr.t + + + Subject: lval substr() fails to clear lexicals in re-entered scopes (with patch) + + substr() in lvalue context interacts in buggy fashion with SVs that + are !SvOK. This manifests itself with lexicals that have a REFCNT of + 1, since these are merely "cleared in place" by setting SvOK_off. + + Subject: lval substr() coredumps with refs (with patch) + + substr() coredumps with a target that is a ref, when it is used in + an lvalue context. + The patch below corrects the problem by stringifying the reference + first (and emitting a warning when appropriate). + +Index: toke.c + + Subject: Re: truncate with file name does not work (with patch) + + The prototype for truncate was changed so that perl won't die + with C<use strict;> when the first arg is a bareword (filehandle). + I think it was Tom (as in "tchrist") who brought this up. + + Here's a patch that undoes the damage, makes it work with + C<use strict;>, and adds to the testsuite. + +Index: util.c + + Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 dumps core executing caller() in signal handler for + __DIE__ (with patch) + + sv_2pv() might call croak() (which is not prepared to handle that + when it calls sv_2pv(), itself). Likewise for warn() (but under + slightly more esoteric circumstances--mg_get() in sv_2pv() might + trigger a call to warn()). + + + Subject: Patch for LONG_MAX & co. + + PERL_BADLANG is examined by default before issuing a warning during + internationalization. + +Index: utils/h2xs.PL + + Make leading =head NAME item a paragraph so pod2man finds it. + +Index: utils/perldoc.PL + + Use col -x to filter out half-line feeds (ESC-9) from + HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS + doesn't support the -x option.) + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_03 +---------------- + +Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation +process more robust. The details are described below. A very brief +summary is: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + -Support for tied filehandles. + +o Configure enhancements + + -How to build and install a shared libperl.so is now documented + and supported, though it's not the default for most platforms. + +o Bug fixes + + -Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes. + + -If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns + that can result in null matches, perl no longer coredumps. + + -Fix problems with each() on tied hashes. + + -Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time + rather than extraction time. + +o Specific Changes + +Here are the specific file-by-file changes. + +# This is my patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl5.003_02 +# The full description is below. +# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch. +# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.) +# -- Andy Dougherty + +# Absorbed into Changes5.002 +rm -f Changes.Conf + +# Not needed. +rm -f ext/POSIX/mkposixman.pl + +# Moved to README.os2. I'm not sure why the README files are +# here rather than in the appropriate subdirectories. +rm -f os2/README + +# Not needed. +rm -f pod/Makefile.PL + +# New test for bit ops. +touch t/op/bob.t + +# Patches that create new tests don't always make them executable. +chmod +x t/*/*.t + +# Create a new directory for Porting and Patching info. +mkdir Porting + +exit 0 + +This is patch perl5.003_03.pat to perl version 5.003_02. +This takes you from 5.003_02 to 5.003_03. + +To apply this patch, run the above commands, +cd to your perl source directory and then type + + patch -p1 -N < perl5.003_03.pat + +The changes are described after each /^Index/ line below. This is +designed so you can examine each change with a command such as + + csplit -k perl5.003_03.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}' + +Index: Changes + + Include 5.003_03 change notes. + + Move older change notes to separate files. + +Index: Changes5.000 + + New file. Changes from perl4.036 to 5.000. + +Index: Changes5.001 + + New file. Changes from 5.000 to 5.001 + +Index: Changes5.002 + + New file. Changes from 5.001 to 5.002 + +Index: Changes5.003 + + New file. Changes from 5.002 to 5.003 + +Index: Configure + + Relaxed warning about ksh on exotic machines. + + Changed usesafe to useopcode. + + Add search for gzip and zip. + + Look more carefully for $sh (the Bourne-ish shell). + Use that info to set $startsh correctly. + + Change prompts for PerlIO interface. See INSTALL + for how this is supposed to work. The default is + still the same as in 5.003_02, namely don't use + any fancy new PerlIO stuff. + + Don't look for sigvec() since we don't actually use it. + (Plus, it used to print an alarming misleading message about + race conditions.) + + Look for stdio's _filbuf under the possible names of + _filbuf, __filbuf, and _fill. + + New $useshrplib variable to control whether we build a shared + libperl.so. The name of the library is in $libperl. + Always install it in $installarchlib/CORE/$libperl. + + Check for <sys/resource.h> and <sys/wait.h> for NetBSD. + + Replace old $altmake stuff with newer autoconf-ish + $make_set_make, which checks if $make sets $(MAKE). Now you + choose an alternate make with sh Configure -Dmake=gmake (or + whatever). + + Remove 'ln' for the list of essential commands. Simulate + it with 'cp' if necessary. + + Change `logname` prompts to handle extra gratuitous spaces in + Ultrix output. + + Autodetect os2. + + Fix silly bug in checking for fully-qualified names in /etc/hosts. + + Generalize Gconvert tests. Give correct and more useful + error messages. + + Use $obj_ext instead of literal '.o' in the dynaloader test. + + Include appropriate header files in bcopy() and memcpy() + tests. Note whether memmove is available. + + Check whether struct sigaction works (needed for Solaris 2.5 + with -Xc). + + Include appropriate header files for randbits test. + +Index: INSTALL + + Add note about space requirements. + + Update to match Configure changes (Opcode vs. Safe, + useperlio, useshrplib, etc.) + + Reorganize the structure of some of the hints. + + Miscellaneous clarifications. + +Index: MANIFEST + + Updated. 5.003_02 introduced some massive patches, mostly + due to spacing changes. I didn't bother to sort them all out; + I just started with 5.003's MANIEFST. + +Index: Makefile.SH + + Support the new simplified shared libperl mechanism. + + Use new $make_set_make directive. + + Remove redundant libperl Make variable. + + Remove unnecessary MAB variable. + + Remove dependency of minitest on lib/Config.pm, since it could + well have been a failure of configpm that inspired testing + miniperl in the first place! + +Index: Porting/Glossary + + New file describing all the config.sh variables. + Eventually, I hope to fill this directory with other useful + stuff. + +Index: README.os2 + + Replace old README.os2 with more up-to-date os2/README. + +Index: config_H + + Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH. + Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new + dependencies in the metaconfig units. + +Index: config_h.SH + + Updated to match current Configure and config_h.SH. + Some rearrangement of parts has occurred due to new + dependencies in the metaconfig units. + + Include full descriptions of ARCHLIB, OLDARCHLIB, PRIVLIB, + SITEARCH, and SITELIB. Previous versions just included the + ~-expanded names (with unhelpful descriptions). No functionality + is changed, but maybe it's a little better documented now. + +Index: doio.c + + Possibly Include <signal.h> and <unistd.h> + +Index: doop.c + + No longer prefer bcmp over memcmp when order doesn't matter. + + Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes. + +Index: embed.h + + Auto-generated. + +Index: embed.pl + + Expand warning at the top. + +Index: ext/IO/IO.pm + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Add support for tied filehandles. + +Index: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h + + Change the Mymalloc to match Perl_malloc in perl.h. + +Index: ext/util/make_ext + + Typo change. + Get rid of unused altmake. + +Index: global.sym + + Fix problems with each() on tied hashes. + +Index: handy.h + + Change safe*alloc functions to have prototypes that + match the system's malloc and free types. That is, use + Malloc_t instead of char *, and Free_t instead of void. + This is necessary so . . . + + Safefree cast matches type of free() whether it's perl's + malloc/free or the system's malloc/free. + +Index: hints/README.hints + + Remove out-of-date info. + + Document a bit about how hint files work. + +Index: hints/aix.sh + + qmaxmem hint doesn't apply to gcc. + +Index: hints/dgux.sh + + Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff. + +Index: hints/dynixptx.sh + + Fix typo in comment. + + Configure will now automatically detect shared libperl stuff. + +Index: hints/epix.sh + + Use glibpth instead of libpth. This allows Configure to + add local directories, such as /opt/local/lib, etc. + +Index: hints/irix_6_2.sh + + Include some info on cc -n32 compile. + +Index: hints/linux.sh + + Configure now tests gcvt() more thoroughly. + +Index: hints/machten_2.sh + + Update where to find dld. + +Index: hints/mips.sh + + Use glibpth instead of libpth. + +Index: hints/next_3.sh + + Build up $mab dynamically. Since $mab isn't used anywhere + anymore, this is useless. However, $mab was never used for + next_3.sh anyway, so there's been no change in functionality. + +Index: hints/next_4.sh + + Get rid of extraneous isnext_4 variable. Configure and + Makefile.SH will use $osname and $osvers instead. + + Build up $mab dynamically based on available architectures. + + Absorb $mab into ccflags and ccdlflags. I hope that will + cover everything. (Configure should automatically remove + the -arch stuff from cppflags.) + + Configure now knows next4 needs to use a shared libperl.5.so. + + Allow users to use -Dprefix. + +Index: hints/os2.sh + + Try to update to reflect newer shared libperl stuff. + I probably goofed :-). + +Index: hints/sco.sh + + Additional notes on using icc. + + Additional flags for dynamic loading. + +Index: hints/solaris_2.sh + + Perl.h no longer prefers bcmp, so it's again ok if Configure + finds them, since perl will prefer the mem* versions anyway. + +Index: hints/sunos_4_0.sh + + Don't include <unistd.h> + +Index: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Add brief note about GNU as and ld. + + Don't include <unistd.h> + + Add notes about WHOA THERE messages. + +Index: hints/titanos.sh + + Include sfio in libswanted. + + Don't set libpth any more. + +Index: hints/umips.sh + + New hint file. + +Index: hv.c + + Use memcmp even in cases where ordering doesn't matter. + + Fix problems with each() on tied hashes. + +Index: installperl + + Simplify installation of shared libperl.so. + + Avoid reaching Command Failed!!! with /usr/bin/perl. + +Index: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Remove MAB references. + + Use 'useshrplib' instead of 'd_shrplib' + +Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Remove mab references. + +Index: lib/FindBin.pm + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: lib/Symbol.pm + + Put back in the BEGIN { require 5.002; }. The version in + 5.003_02 wouldn't work in 5.002 anyway. Further, the whole + point of the construct is to catch 5.001m, so we can't use + syntax introduced after 5.001m to do that. + +Index: lib/Text/Wrap.pm + + Remove double 'use strict'. + +Index: lib/perl5db.pl + + Add explicit '&' to avoid warnings under strict refs. + +Index: lib/sigtrap.pm + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: makedepend.SH + + Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make variables. + +Index: mg.c + + Include <unistd.h> + + Use Safefree() macro instead of safefree() function with + a (possibly) incorrect cast. The whole point of the + Safefree() macro is that it does the correct cast for you. + + +Index: patchlevel.h + + Change to SUBVERSION 3. + +Index: perl.c + + Include <unistd.h> + +Index: perl.h + + No longer prefer bcmp slightly for comparisons that don't care + about ordering. + + Rely on Configure setting SH_PATH. + + Change the function name to Pause() instead of pause() to + avoid potential prototype problems. (This naming convention + is similar to the Fwrite and Fflush macros.) + + Fix problems with each() on tied hashes. + + Work around crypt prototype problem on NeXT. + +Index: perlio.c + + Fixes to support non-std stdio. + +Index: perlio.h + + Try to document the various #defines a bit. This is far from + finished. + + Remove a lot of trailing whitespace. (It's of no consequence, but + but I'm not going to redo the patch just to put back in the trailing + whitespace either.) + +Index: perlsdio.h + + Fixes to support non-std stdio. + +Index: perly.c + + Restore use of Safefree() macro. + +Index: perly.c.diff + + Restore use of Safefree() macro. + +Index: perly.h + + Delete duplicate line. + +Index: plan9/buildinfo + + Update. + +Index: pod/perlapio.pod + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: pod/perlipc.pod + + Fix typo. + + Untaint port number. + +Index: pod/perlmod.pod + + Fix a minor nit regarding Exporter. + +Index: pod/perlre.pod + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: pod/perltie.pod + + Add support for tied filehandles. + +Index: pod/perltrap.pod + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: pod/pod2man.PL + + Clean up docmentation installation errors. + +Index: pp.c + + Add support for tied filehandles. + + If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns + that can result in null matches, perl coredumps. + +Index: pp_hot.c + + Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order. + + Add support for tied filehandles. + +Index: pp_sys.c + + Include <unistd.h>, <sys/wait.h>, and <sys/resource.h>. + (The latter two are especially for NetBSD.) + + Don't assume sys/time.h and sys/select.h can't coexist. + + Use Pause macro. + +Index: proto.h + + Fix safe*alloc and safefree prototypes. + +Index: regexec.c + + Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order. + +Index: sv.c + + Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order. + +Index: t/lib/opcode.t + + Add support for tied filehandles. + +Index: t/op/bop.t + + Support bit operations on strings longer than 15 bytes. + +Index: t/op/misc.t + + Add support for tied filehandles. + +Index: t/op/split.t + + If a regex supplied to split() contains paranthesized subpatterns + that can result in null matches, perl coredumps. + +Index: toke.c + + Include <unistd.h>. + + Use memcmp instead of bcmp even when we don't care about order. + +Index: util.c + + Include <unistd.h>. + + Use correct types for safe*alloc and safefree functions. + +Index: utils/h2ph.PL + + Make h2ph architecture-independent by using Config at run-time + rather than extraction time. + +Index: writemain.SH + + Remove unnecessary curlies. (They are a leftover from + an older auto_init mechanism.) + +Index: x2p/Makefile.SH + + Use Configure's $sh and $make_set_make. + + Remove MAB stuff, since it's now in ccflags. + + Keep 5.003's RCS info. + +Index: x2p/a2p.h + + Keep 5.003's RCS info. + +Index: x2p/str.c + + Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf. + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_02 +---------------- + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + - Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings. + - Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer + - Warning for un-qualified bareword as handler in $SIG{}. + - UNIVERSAL::isa can now be called as static method. + +o Changes in Core Internals + - PerlIO abstraction added. + Perl core and standard extensions no longer assume ANSI C's stdio is IO + mechanism, Default Configure mode is still to use stdio via set of C macros. + Alternate modes are to use stdio via one perlio.c module, or + to use sfio if available. + + - Several bug fixs from perl5-porters + - Make sources non-ANSI C correct again. + - SUPER in gv.c + - Last of shared-hash-key patches + - eval '(0,1..3)'; # --> SegFault + - coredumps after simple subsitutes. + - Correction to UNIVERSAL::VERSION docs. + - Fixed io_udp test. + - Fixed another abuse of malloc'ed memory. + - Enabled DEBUGING_MSTATS whenever perl's malloc() is used. + - Reverted to default of not hiding perl's malloc (if used). + +o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities + - Fixed MakeMaker for static SDBM and builing in a link tree. + - Upgraded to IO-1.09, and includes latest (still experimental) IO::Select. + - Documentation/test tweak to DB_File + - h2xs upgrade to allow use C::Scan module + +o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support + - Attempted to re-created 5.003_01's NeXT support with metaconfig units. + - Updated MANIFEST + - make minitest now depends on lib/Config.pm, as some of tests require it. + - Included latest plan9 sub-directory + - Applied OS/2 patches. + - Typo patch for VMS. + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_01 +---------------- + +Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since +version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately +kept simple. In addition to numerous small bugfixes in the core, +library files, and documentation, this patch contains several +significant revisions, summarized below: + +o Visible Changes to Core Functionality + + - A port to Plan9 has been started, and changes are integrated into + the standard distribution. As of this release, the Perl core + and several common extensions are working. + + - A set of basic methods in the UNIVERSAL class have been added to + the Perl core. Since UNIVERSAL is an implicit member of every + class's @ISA, the methods can be called via any object. + + - A mandatory warning has been added for 'declarations' of lexical + variables using the "my" operator which mask an existing lexical + variable declared in the same scope, making the previous variable + inaccessible by its name. + + - The "use" and "require" operators have been extended to allow + checking of the required module's version. The "use" operator + can now be used for an immediate version check of Perl itself. + + - A new "strict" pragma, "strict untie", has been added, which + produces an error if a tied value is untied when other references + exist to the internal object implementing the tie. + + - Barewords used as associative array keys (i.e. when specifying + an associative array element like $foo{__BAR} or on the left + side of the => operator) may now begin with an underscore as + well as an alphabetic character. + + - Some of the configuration information previously produced by the + -v switch has been moved to the -V switch, in order to keep -v + output concise. + +o Changes in Core Internals + + - Symbol table and method lookups have been made faster. + + - Perl subroutines which just return a constant value are now + optimized at compile time into inline constants. + + - Management of keys for associative arrays has been improved to + conserve space when the same keys are reused frequently, and + to pass true Perl values to tie functions, instead of stringified + representations. + + - Messages normally output to stderr may be directed to another + stream when Perl is built. This allows some platforms to + present diagnostic output in a separate window from normal + program results. + + - A bug which caused suiperl to fail silently, albeit securely, + in version 5.003 on some systems has been fixed. + + - Management of Unix-style signal handlers via the %SIG associative + array has been made safer. + + - Several global C symbols have been renamed to eliminate collisions + with system C header files or libraries on some platforms. + Unfortunately, this means that dynamic extensions compiled under + previous versions of Perl will need to be rebuilt for Perl + 5.003_01. We're in the process of cleaning up Perl's C + namespace to make it easier to link Perl with other binaries, + so this will probably happen again between now and version 5.004. + After that, we'll do our best to maintain binary compatibility + between versions. + + - An alternate allocation strategy has been added to Perl's + optional private memory management routines. This strategy, + which may be selected when Perl is built, is designed to + conserve memory in programs which allocate many small + chunks of memory with sizes near a power of 2, as is often + the case in Perl programs. + + - Several memory leaks in the creation and destruction of + multiple interpreters have been fixed. + +o Changes in the Standard Library and Utilities + + - The Opcode extension, which allows you to control a program's + access to Perl operations, has been added to the standard + distribution. This extends the work begun in the original + Safe extension, and subsumes it. The Safe interface is still + available. + + - The IO extension, which provides a set of classes for object- + oriented handling of common I/O tasks, has been added to the + standard distribution. The IO classes will form the basis + for future development of Perl's I/O interface, and will + subsume the FileHandle class in the near future. The default + class to which all Perl I/O handles belong is now IO::Handle, + rather than FileHandle. + + - The ExtUtils::Embed library module, which provides a set + of utility function to help in embedding Perl in other + applications, has been added to the standard distribution. + + - The Fatal library module, which provides a simple interface + for creating "do-or-die" equivalents of existing functions, + has been added to the standard distribution. + + - The FindBin library module, which determines the full path + to the currently executing program, has been added to the + standard distribution. + + - The DB_File extension, and the Getopt::Long, Test::Harness, + Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Time::Local and sigtrap library modules + have been updated to the authors' latest versions. + + - The Carp library module now considers the @ISA chain when + determining the caller's package for inclusion in error messages. + + - The h2xs, perlbug, and xsubpp utilities have been updated. + + - The standard Perl debugger has been updated, and the information + provided to the debugger when an XSUB is called has been improved, + making it possible for alternate debuggers (such as Devel::DProf) + to do a better job of tracking XSUB calls. + + - The pod documentation formatting tools in the standard distribution + can now handle characters in the input stream whose high bit is set. + + - The cperl-mode EMACS editing mode has been updated. + +o Changes in Documentation + + - Typographic and formatting errors have been corrected in the pod + documentation for the core and standard library files + + - Explanations of several core operators have been improved + + - The perldebug, perlembed, perlipc, perlsec, and perltrap documents + extensively revised. + +o Changes in OS-specific and Build-time Support + + - Support for the NeXT platform has been extended through + NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP 4.0, and now includes the ability to create MABs. + + - Support for OS/2 has been extended as well, and now includes + options for building a.out binaries. + + - Support for VMS has also been extended, incorporating improved + processing of file specification strings, optional suppression of + carriage control interpretation for record-structured files, + improved support for the -S command line switch, a number of + VMS-specific bugfixes, and significantly improved performance + in line-oriented reading of files. + + - Several hints files have been added or updated: aux.sh (updated), + convexos.sh (updated), irix_4.sh (updated), irix_5.sh (updated), + irix_6_2.sh (updated), next_3.sh (updated), next_3_2.sh (new), + next_3_3.sh (new), next_4.sh (new), os2/sh (updated), + sco.sh (updated), and solaris_2.sh (updated). + + - The test driver for the regression tests now reports when a set + of tests have been skipped (presumable because the operation + they're designed to test isn't supported on the current system). |