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@@ -9,6 +9,139 @@ releases.) ---------------- +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 <chip@atlantic.net> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix $^X under HP-UX" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c + + Title: "New hints/hpux.sh" + From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t + + Title: "Arrange for all "_<file" entries to be in %main::" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: gv.c lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + 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 <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes" + From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org> + 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 <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp_hot.c sv.h + + Title: "Free memory of large lexical variables when leaving scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: scope.c + + TESTS + + Title: "Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (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 <jhi@cc.hut.fi> + 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 <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + 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 <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk> + 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 <roderick@gate.net> + 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 <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod + + Title: "Remove obsolete perlovl.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile + vms/descrip.mms + + +---------------- Version 5.003_18 ---------------- |