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@@ -8,6 +8,157 @@ or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version releases.) ---------------- +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 <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlop.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp.h + pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c t/op/bop.t + + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c + + Title: "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->"" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: perly.c perly.y + + Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'"" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fixes for pack('w')" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h + + Title: "Fix for formline()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c + t/op/write.t + + Title: "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: MANIFEST embed.pl ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h global.sym handy.h malloc.c + perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h regexec.c toke.c util.c + x2p/Makefile.SH x2p/a2p.h x2p/handy.h x2p/util.h + + Title: "Support old embedding for people who want it" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym + + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/timelocal.pl + perl.h perl_exp.SH proto.h t/TEST t/io/read.t + t/lib/findbin.t t/lib/getopt.t util.c utils/h2xs.PL + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs + vms/perlvms.pod vms/test.com vms/vms.c + + 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" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "DB_File 1.05" + From: Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk) + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y + + +---------------- Version 5.003_07 ---------------- |