summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/MANIFEST
Commit message (Collapse)AuthorAgeFilesLines
* perl5.001 patch.1dAndy Dougherty1995-04-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is my patch patch.1d for perl5.001. A complete description is given below, but here are the basic changes. 1. Linux: more tweaks so dynamic loading works under ELF or (maybe) under dld. There are so many different dld versions and so many different tool sets, it's hard to be more specific. 2. perl -e '$v=1e19+0' no longer dumps core on Intel x86 processors. 3. pod stuff: a. Wrapped pod2* translators in a 'SH' wrapper so that they have the proper path to perl at the top. b. Fixed pod/ Makefile to call the pod2html translator correctly. (Why do pod2man and pod2html work differently?) c. Include latest (Feb 2, 1995) version of pod2html, fresh from ftp.metronet.com. 4. MakeMaker 4.093. 5. GIMME and installperl patches from Tim Bunce. 6. Miscellaneous hint file updates. Configure Allow ' ' to mean 'none' in a few more places. This provides a way for hint files to set something to an empty value and to ensure that the empty value will be maintained when config.sh is reused. Fix silly ld typo that prevented hint file from actually setting $ld. MANIFEST Now has pod/pod2*.SH. Makefile.SH Remove old libperl.a instead of blindly adding to it. Failure to do this causes a problem if you originally used perl's malloc but later changed your mind. The old malloc.o would still be in libperl.a ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs Use strerror(errno) instead of dlerror for NetBSD. handy.h Clarify & rework HAS_BOOL comments and code. No functionality is changed, but I hope this is easier to follow. hints/freebsd.sh hints/isc.sh hints/linux.sh hints/netbsd.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/next_3_2.sh hints/sco_3.sh Miscellaneous updates. See the individual comments in the patches. installperl Run ranlib on installed .a libraries. unlink() old versions of files before installing new ones, in case the old ones are are write-protected. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Updated to 4.092 by Andreas Koenig. This features better selection of shared library versions and shorter command lines for static linking of new extensions. It is also more robust against broken csh on Linux. (There's still a glob in the library selection loop, however.) I further updated it to 4.093 because I didn't like the distclean target :-). It's just a sloppy quick fix, but that's all I have time for now. I've also worked on the library version selection stuff and the $(CC) command stuff a little more. lib/TieHash.pm Overdue removal of ambiguous ${pack} construction. perl.h New U_V macro to cast to the UV type (usually unsigned long). pod/Makefile Updated. pod/pod2html.SH Updated. Converted to 'SH' wrapper so correct #!/path/to/perl gets used. pod/pod2latex.SH pod/pod2man.SH Converted to 'SH' wrapper so correct #!/path/to/perl gets used. pp_hot.c GIMME patch from Tim Bunce. pp_sys.c Allow use of F_FREESP fcntl() directive to truncate files. If HAS_MKDIR is not defined, the stat() call to check the result of the system "mkdir" call was failing because the filename pointer no longer pointed to the right location. sv.c Protect some (UV) casts by the new U_V() macro. util.c New cast_uv() function to support the U_V() macro, if needed. cast_iv() and cast_uv() no longer assume 32-bit longs. The various cast_() functions have also been simplified.
* Perl 5.001perl-5.001Larry Wall1995-03-121-4/+12
| | | | [See the Changes file for a list of changes]
* perl5.000 patch.0o: [address] a few more Configure and build nits.perl-5.000oAndy Dougherty1995-03-101-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses a few more Configure and build nits. Full details are given below, but the main hightligths are (slightly) better support for nested extensions and DLD and AIX MakeMaker fixes. Configure Detect MachTen. Thanks to Mark Pease <peasem@primenet.com>. Delete some tabs that caused a MachTen /bin/sh core dump! Detect extensions nested 1 level deep, e.g. Devel/DProf/DProf.xs MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Include new hints/machten.sh hint file. Makefile.SH Document why we use ./makedir instead of mkdir. U/Extensions.U Detect extensions nested 1 level deep, e.g. Devel/DProf/DProf.xs U/dist3_051.pat Include MachTen patches. configpm Convert nested extension names from filesytem-dependent Devel/DProf to perl5's internal naming scheme Devel::DProf. doio.c A dup-related buglet fix from Hallvard B. Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>. ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm Throw a qw() around @ISA elements to show "good style". hints/machten.sh new file. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Bump version number to 4.086. Fix AIX buglet -- needed to specify NAME. Linux/DLD/gcc-2.6.2: We no longer load .sa libraries (except libm.sa, which is apparently still o.k. util.c Another dup-related buglet fix.
* perl5.000 patch.0m: [various fixes, hint file updates and documentation]Andy Dougherty1995-02-271-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is my patch patch.0m for perl5.000. This patch fixes all remaining problems that I am aware of, and for which I have a solution. It also updates some hint files and documentation. Here's what's new: Configure Protect against spaces in uname -m output (unicos). Look in <stdlib.h> for malloctype and freetype. Check if user has void free() or int free(). Look in linux/signal.h for signal names. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Two new hint files: cxux.sh and PowerUNIX.sh. Sorted. README Indicate what gets installed and where it usually goes. Thanks to Hallvard B. Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for suggesting this. U/Myinit.U Update extliblist comment. U/dist3_051.pat This file contains patches to dist 3 (PL 51) that I used to generate Configure for perl. U/mallocsrc.U Look in <stdlib.h> for malloctype and freetype. Check if user has void free() or int free(). config_h.SH config.H Add Free_t to handle void free() vs. int free(). ext/DynaLoader/README Updated comment. ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm creat() has 2 arguments, not 3 (thanks, Paul). ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Fix return type of lseek. ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Add I_STDLIB guard on #include <stdlib.h> ext/util/extliblist Add note indicating this is obsolete. Don't remove it because people might be using it for their own private extensions. hints/PowerUNIX.sh hints/cxux.sh New files. Written by Tom.Horsley@mail.hcsc.com hints/linux.sh Simplified. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Typo fixed, only affected aix? malloc.c Allow for possible int free(). perl.h pp_sys.c util.c If the user is not using vfork, move the #define vfork fork util after various #include files. Since vfork() and fork() might have different prototypes, the #define could cause a conflict in system header files. (Reported for 386bsd.) Makefile.SH make realclean will remove h2xs and makeaperl (but leave behind the .SH versions, of course).
* perl5.000 patch.0l: MakeMaker 4.085 and upgrade Configure to dist3 PL 51.Andy Dougherty1995-02-211-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's what's new: Configure Generated by metaconfig PL 51. Correctly set ./mips on a MIPS system. Improved (we hope) handling of $archname. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Made .SH files out of h2xs and makeaperl so that they get the correct path-to-perl at the top. Makefile.SH Propagate $(perllib) to extensions. U/dist3_051.patches Two patches to apply on top of metaconfig PL 51. I've sent them off for inclusion in the next metaconfig update. config_h.SH config.H Regenerated. Only the order of elements has changed. ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL ext/GDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL Add -L/usr/local/lib to LIBS variable. ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs Place #ifdef around FD_CLOEXEC (needed for Apollo). ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL Simplified, thanks to MakeMaker enhancements. ext/util/make_ext Pass through $(perllib) argument for cflags. h2xs.SH Changed from h2xs to h2xs.SH. Now finds correct path to perl. hints/next_3_2.sh Updated for hppa. hints/solaris_2.sh Remove potentially problematic -lmalloc from $libswanted. hints/unicos.sh Look in /usr/include/rpcsvc for dbm.h. installperl Install h2xs. lib/Cwd.pm Use 'my' variable to avoid clobbering $_. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Upgraded from 4.06 to 4.085. Lots of documentation improvements. EXE_FILES to refer to an array of executable files to install. Reduce chatter during build process. Don't count a useful -L/path option as a successful search for a particular library. Cleanup handling of aix external symbols. Create/update perllocal.pod to indicate what we've done. makeaperl.SH Changed from makeaperl to makeaperl.SH. Now finds correct path to perl. x2p/util.c Delete unused setenv() and envix() functions. x2p/util.h Delete unused setenv() and envix() prototypes. vms/config.vms Define I_SYS_STAT and I_SYS_TYPES.
* perl5.000 patch.0k: MakeMaker 4.06 and to fix minor portability and build ↵Andy Dougherty1995-02-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | problems reported even after patches 0a through 0j MakeMaker 4.06 allows you to build extensions away from the source tree with either static or dynamic loading. In a rare act of prescience, I've also fixed some un-reported bugs. Specifically, there were several places where Configure said you could specify things using ~name notation, but, in fact, you couldn't. In detail, here's what's included: Configure Check I_SYS_TYPES for x2p/a2p.h Improve and generalize $osvers detection for DEC Alpha (now will work even for osvers > 3.) No longer override hint-file setting of $archname. Don't tell users ~name is ok for Dynamic loading file. It's not. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Updated. Makefile.SH Some trailing ' ' removed from lines. New target lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm built. This stashes away miniperlmain.c in the library so new static extensions can be built away from the source tree. Minor cleanup. U/Oldconfig.pat.2 This is a patch to be applied against dist-PL 50 to upgrade the DEC OSF/1 version detection. U/archlib.U Preserve previous value for $archname. Otherwise this is identical to the unit in dist-PL 50. U/dlsrc.U Users may not use ~name notation to find the dynamic loading module. (Back in early alpha days they could, but that hasn't worked since the DynaLoader module was introduced. config.H Updated. config_h.SH Updated. hints/dec_osf.sh Updated. Simplified. Don't use ld -no_archive (at least as the default). It only worked because some versions *ignored* it. hints/mpeix.sh Add a few comments. I should have added more. hints/next_3_0.sh New hint file from Kevin White <klwhite@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> hints/ultrix_4.sh Separate out flags not appropriate for gcc. installperl Install sperl.o. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Upgraded from 4.03 to 4.06. Many improvements. Now possible to build and install new extensions outside the source tree, for both static and dynamic loading. lib/File/Path.pm New. Creates or removes a series of directories makeaperl New utility to create a new perl binary from static extensions minimod.PL New. minimod.PL writes the contents of miniperlmain.c into the module ExtUtils::Miniperl for later perusal (when the perl source is deleted) perl.c ARCHLIB and PRIVLIB changed to ARCHLIB_EXP and PRIVLIB_EXP, since perl is not prepared to deal with ~name expansion. The _EXP variables are pre-expanded by Configure. proto.h NeXt 3.0 couldn't handle the #ifdef __attribute line. It said 'illegal #ifdef'. vms/config.vms s/ARCHLIB/ARCHLIB_EXP/; s/PRIVLIB/PRIVLIB_EXP/; Add in I_SYS_STAT and I_SYS_TYPES, since the source now looks for them. vms/ext/MM_VMS.pm New file. x2p/a2p.h Include <sys/types.h>
* perl5.000 patch.0j: fix minor portability and build problems remaining even ↵Andy Dougherty1995-02-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | after patches 0a through 0i Specifically, here's what's included: Configure Regenerated with metaconfig patchlevel 50. This changed a variety of things, mostly related to selecting and changing the installation prefix. Handle csh, sed, and byacc no matter what the setting of d_portable. (This was causing glob problems in patch.0i). Set d_portable to default to 'y'. It doesn't matter anyway, but gives people a warm fuzzy feeling. Remove useless d_group and d_passwd tests. Add check for <sys/stat.h>. Improve & generalize AIX version detection. Consider /opt/man/man1 as a possible place to install man pages. Be a little more robust about OS version changes when deciding if the output of uname -a has really changed. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Added hints/mpeix.sh. README Tell users the Configure defaults are probably right. Makefile.SH Better detection of whether user has byacc. Use $(MAKE) instead of make. U/Loc_sed.U Works again with d_portable='define'. U/Myinit.U Set d_portable=define as default. U/d_byacc.U Detect whether user has byacc even if d_portable=define. U/d_csh.U Works again with d_portable='define'. U/d_group.U Empty file to avoid useless metaconfig test. U/d_passwd.U Empty file to avoid useless metaconfig test. U/dist.patch This file contains two minor updates to dist3 PL50 that were used to generage Configure. U/i_sysstat.U New test. See if sys/stat.h is available. config.H Updated. config_h.SH Updated to metaconfig patchlevel 50. ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL ext/ODBM_File/Makefile.PL Add -lucb for SVR4 systems. handy.h Protect agains g++-2.6.3, which predefines bool. g++ can be used to compile an extension, but not perl itself. Still, the extension will #include "perl.h", which eventually gets "handy.h", which #define's bool. If this happens to you, add -DHAS_BOOL to your ccflags in your extension, or else ensure that _G_config.h is #include'd before perl.h. (_G_config.h will define _G_HAVE_BOOL, if indeed your version of g++ has bool.) hints/aix.sh Updated. Handles AIX 3.2.x and 4.1. Comments included! hints/hpux_9.sh Updated. hints/irix_4.sh Updated. Includes comments for IRIX 4.0.4 hints/linux.sh Updated. Beginnings of ELF support added, but completely untested. hints/mpeix.sh New hint file. hints/solaris_2.sh Useless ccflags="$ccflags" line removed. hints/svr4.sh Updated. installperl Doesn't use Config anymore (it already reads config.sh directly. That's probably backwards, but, oh well. Install perl.exp for AIX. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Upgraded from 4.01 to 4.03. makedepend.SH Use $MAKE instead of plain make. Index: op.c Remove overlapping strcpy(). perl.h Add test for <sys/stat.h>. Delete unused VOIDSIG stuff. Delete unused typedef struct lstring Lstring; perl_exp.SH Add safexxxx calls. pp_sys.c Delete wayward break in HAS_ALARM section. proto.h Change true and false (!) in function prototypes to please g++-2.6.3, which has true and false built in. (See notes for handy.h.) Index: unixish.h Long-overdue housekeeping. HAS_GROUP and HAS_PASSWD are always defined. util.c Yet another (char*) cast for bcmp. vms/config.vms Changed comments to match unixish.h. writemain.SH Now correctly handles nested static extensions. Recent MakeMakers have moved where they get built. x2p/a2p.h More definitions that will doubtless cause trouble somewhere else. x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c Remove unprotected char *strchr();
* perl5.000 patch.0g: [various portability fixes, and use latest metaconfig ↵Andy Dougherty1995-01-181-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for Configure] This patch incorporates various portability fixes and uses the latest metaconfig to generate Configure (and config_h.SH). It would take a long time to summarize all that I've changed. I haven't included many code changes because I'm trying *not* to duplicate bug fixes Larry may already have applied. Here's an older description I prepared that's still mostly accurate: I've also included a few portability fixes in the main source, but these are certainly not a complete set of everything that's been reported. Don't be put off by the size of the patch. Mostly, it's just rearrangement of the parts in Configure and some cosmetic changes. Since gcc often supports long long, I had started to add quad support to Configure. Since SunOS 4.1.3 defines a conflicting "quad" structure, I changed the name from 'quad' to Quad_t, consistent with other Configure "types." I also changed "QUAD" to "HAS_QUAD". However, it turns out it's pretty hard to actually *use* Quad_t. Neither system I have access to can sprintf() a "long long", nor can they carry one around in an IV, unless I make IV "long long", which I didn't want to force generally. Thus I wonder whether any but a precious few could actually use Quad_t, and dropped the tests from Configure. I left in the s/quad/Quad_t/ and s/QUAD/HAS_QUAD/ stuff in case someone else wants to pick it up, and also because I was too lazy to take it back out :-). Some highlights: Configure Several new options. Use Configure -h to learn more. Also, read the directions Configure prints. :-) Spaces now allowed in -D command line options. New -O option that overrides config.sh. You can start interactively and then change that to accepting all the defaults by specifying &-d at any Configure prompt. This is useful if you have to re-run Configure to only change a few settings. Signal type set correctly for the cast{i32,neg} tests. archname detection improved a bit guard against ksh users who have set -u Oldconfig.U cleaned up and regularized a bit more. Guard against hint files using (and over-writing) $tmp. Command line options now are processed after metaconfig INIT lines. Thus things like Configure -Uuseposix should work now. Various miscellaneous clean-ups. better use/detection of tr. i_db.U now checks for hash and prefix type (I think!) I can't test it here. i_?db*.U now all check for an associated function before deciding to include or not the header. MANIFEST MANIFEST.new Sorted & updated. Makefile.SH Some shells/makes bombed out on test -d lib/auto || mkdir lib/auto Use makedir instead. README Some additional notes that people won't read :-). cflags.SH Now calls $startsh. Weird things were happening on Intergraph, and this might be related. config.H Updated. config_h.SH Regenerated. deb.c Varargs dependencies on STANDARD_C replaced by I_STDARG. doop.c quad stuff. ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs Use the new DB_Hash_t and DB_Prefix_t symbols. ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h Fix #defines to be more robust. mg.c Replace VOIDSIG by metaconfig's Signal_t. opcode.h opcode.pl semop only takes 2 arguments, not 3. perl.c Better guard on getenv() prototype. A hint file can use this, if necessary. Me, I think some compilers are just too picky. perl.h The (very) beginnings of some Quad support. See above. Remove the very troublesome sprintf() prototype. Since we don't _use_ the return value anyway (since it's not portable) this should be o.k. The problem was that some systems CAN_PROTOTYPE but include char *sprintf(); in <stdio.h>. That's incompatible with the version we used to have in perl.h. Most people have a prototype for sprintf() in <stdio.h>. Those that don't probably can get by without it anyway. Protect the timesbuf by the specific HAS_TIMES test. Some older gcc-2.something/Solaris 2.something installations apparently don't have times. pp.c More quad stuff. pp_ctl.c s/STANDARD_C/I_STDARG/ for varargs stuff. pp_sys.c use Signal_t. proto.h Update to match new metaconfig names. util.c s/STANDARD_C/I_STDARG/ for varargs stuff. comment out <unistd.h>. A pause prototype was causing problems on some systems. vms/config.vms Changed to use Signal_t.
* MakeMaker 3.8Tim Bunce1995-01-171-4/+3
|
* This is my patch patch.0a for perl5.000.Tim Bunce1994-12-191-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [Actually, that's a lie. This is just MakeMaker 3.6. I've just usurped the letter 'a' to fit it into my patch sequence.] Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA this patch includes: - My recently posted 'Very small patches to AutoSplit.pm and Cwd.pm' (with no changes). - A previous small patch to DynaLoader .bs handling with one addition: ! if (-f $bs) { ! if (-s $bs) { # only read file if it's not empty - A recently posted patch to hints/aix.sh (with cosmetic changes). Hopefully no further changes to MakeMaker will be needed before perl5.001. If any changes are required I intend that they will be release as patches to be applied over this one. This is the last MakeMaker jumbo patch for perl5.000. Patch and enjoy. Regards, Tim Bunce. p.s. I'll be around until about 4pm GMT tomorrow (Tuesday), after that I'm off for Christmas. This has been a great year for me. I have very much enjoyed working with the perl5-porters and I wish you all a wonderful and merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.
* perl 5.000perl-5.000Larry Wall1994-10-171-281/+332
| | | | | | | | | | | [editor's note: this commit combines approximate 4 months of furious releases of Andy Dougherty and Larry Wall - see pod/perlhist.pod for details. Andy notes that; Alas neither my "Irwin AccuTrack" nor my DC 600A quarter-inch cartridge backup tapes from that era seem to be readable anymore. I guess 13 years exceeds the shelf life for that backup technology :-(. ]
* perl 5.0 alpha 9perl-5a9Larry Wall1994-05-041-19/+63
| | | | [editor's note: the sparc executables have not been included, and emacs backup files have been removed]
* perl 5.0 alpha 8Andy Dougherty1994-04-041-36/+89
| | | | | [the last one taken from the September '94 InfoMagic CD; a similar style of cleanup as the previous commits was performed]
* perl 5.0 alpha 4Larry Wall1993-11-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | [editor's note: the sparc executables have not been included, and emacs backup files have been removed. This was reconstructed from a tarball found on the September 1994 InfoMagic CD; the date of this is approximate]
* perl 5.0 alpha 2perl-5a2Larry Wall1993-10-071-0/+12
| | | | [editor's note: from history.perl.org. The sparc executables originally included in the distribution are not in this commit.]
* perl 4.0 patch 35: (combined patch)Larry Wall1992-06-221-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Subject: bad interaction between backslash and hyphen in tr/// Among other things, tr/\040-\126/ / was not doing a character range, due to a earlier botched fix to make \- work right. Subject: Configure test for presence of nroff was wrong If Loc doesn't find nroff, it sets $nroff to 'nroff'. The man page test was tesing against the null string. Subject: installperl error message printed file mode in decimal, not octal A real, honest-to-goodnes nit. Subject: fixed up some filenames in MANIFEST Erroneously contained "pstruct", omitted hints/isc_3_2_3.sh.
* perl 4.0 patch 20: (combined patch)Larry Wall1992-06-081-1/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ENHANCEMENTS Subject: relaxed requirement for semicolon at the end of a block Subject: scalar keys %array now counts keys for you Subject: added ... as variant on .. Subject: get*by* routines now return something useful in a scalar context Subject: form feed for formats is now specifiable via $^L Subject: PERLLIB now supports multiple directories Subject: paragraph mode now skips extra newlines automatically MANPAGE Subject: documented that numbers may contain underline Subject: clarified that DATA may only be read from main script Subject: documented need for 1; at the end of a required file Subject: extended bracket-style quotes to two-arg operators: s()() and tr()() Subject: documented PERLLIB and PERLDB Subject: documented limit on size of regexp CONFIGURATION Subject: bcopy() and memcpy() now tested for overlap safety Subject: isascii() may now be supplied by a library routine Subject: Configure now allows optional continuation with files missing Subject: many more hints files added Subject: many more hints added Subject: hints now auto selected on uname -s as well as uname -m Subject: OSF/1 support added Subject: Configure growing-library-list bug fixed Subject: seekdir(), telldir() and rewinddir() now checked for independently Subject: cray didn't give enough memory to /bin/sh Subject: perl -P now uses location of sed determined by Configure Subject: SH files didn't work well with symbolic links Subject: makefiles now display new shift/reduce expectations Subject: support added to installperl for cross-compilation Subject: a2p was installed unexecutable Subject: installperl didn't warn on failed manpage installation Subject: disabled cpp test if cppstdin not yet installed PORTABILITY Subject: O_PIPE conflicted with Atari Subject: config.H updated to reflect more recent config.h Subject: removed implicit int declarations on functions Subject: added Atari ST portability Subject: some machines don't define ENOTSOCK in errno.h Subject: added explicit time_t support Subject: alternate config.h files upgraded Subject: new OS/2 support COMPILER Subject: various error messages have been clarified Subject: the switch optimizer didn't do anything in subroutines Subject: clarified debugging output for literals and double-quoted strings Subject: new warning for use of x with non-numeric right operand Subject: illegal lvalue message could be followed by core dump Subject: new warning for ambiguous use of unary operators Subject: eval "1 #comment" didn't work Subject: semantic compilation errors didn't abort execution Subject: an expression may now start with a bareword Subject: if {block} {block} didn't work any more Subject: "$var{$foo'bar}" didn't scan subscript correctly Subject: an EXPR may now start with a bareword Subject: print $fh EXPR can now expect term rather than operator in EXPR Subject: new warning on spurious backslash Subject: new warning on missing $ for foreach variable Subject: "foo"x1024 now legal without space after x Subject: new warning on print accidentally used as function Subject: 2. now eats the dot Subject: <@ARGV> now notices @ARGV Subject: tr/// now lets you say \- RUNTIME Subject: an eval block containing a null block or statement could dump core Subject: modulus with highest bit in left operand set didn't always work Subject: join() now pre-extends target string to avoid excessive copying Subject: subroutines didn't localize $`, $&, $', $1 et al correctly Subject: usersub routines didn't reclaim temp values soon enough Subject: ($<,$>) = ... didn't work on some architectures Subject: fixed memory leak on system() for vfork() machines Subject: @ in unpack failed too often Subject: slice on null list in scalar context returned random value Subject: splice with negative offset didn't work with $[ = 1 Subject: fixed some memory leaks in splice Subject: dbmclose(%array) didn't work Subject: delete could cause %array to give too low a count of buckets filled Subject: hash tables now split only if the memory is available to do so Subject: realloc(0, size) now does malloc in case library routines call it Subject: running taintperl explicitly now does checks even if $< == $> Subject: fixed memory leak in doube-quote interpretation Subject: a splice on non-existent array elements could dump core Subject: tr/stuff// wasn't working right I/O Subject: new warnings for failed use of stat operators on filenames with \n Subject: wait failed when STDOUT or STDERR reopened to a pipe Subject: end of file latch not reset on reopen of STDIN Subject: seek(HANDLE, 0, 1) went to eof because of ancient Ultrix workaround Subject: h_errno now accessible via $? REGEXP Subject: pattern modifiers i and o didn't interact right Subject: g pattern modifer sometimes returned extra values Subject: m/$pattern/g didn't work Subject: /^stuff/ wrongly assumed an implicit $* == 1 Subject: /x{0}/ was wrongly interpreted as /x{0,}/ Subject: added \W, \S and \D inside /[...]/ Subject: pattern modifiers i and g didn't interact right Subject: in some cases $` and $' didn't get set by match Subject: made /\$$foo/ look for literal '$foo' LIBRARIES Subject: big*.pl library files upgraded Subject: better support in chat2 for multiple children Subject: &ctime didn't handle $[ != 0 Subject: find.pl got confused by unreadable directories Subject: new version of newgetopt.pl Subject: Tom's famous double-ended pipe opener, open2(), is now included Subject: support added to pwd.pl to strip automounter crud Subject: &shellwords looped on bad input, and used inefficient regular exprs Subject: termcap.pl didn't parse termcap terminal names right Subject: timelocal could loop on bad input Subject: timelocal now calculates DST itself Subject: &getcap eventually dumped core in bsdcurses DEBUGGER Subject: support for MSDOS folded into perldb.pl Subject: perldb couldn't debug file containing '-', such as STDIN designator Subject: the debugger now warns you on lines that can't set a breakpoint Subject: the debugger made perl forget the last pattern used by // Subject: fixed double debug break in foreach with implicit array assignment Subject: debugger sometimes displayed wrong source line INTERSTICES Subject: Perl now distinguishes overlapped copies from non-overlapped Subject: fixed confusion between a *var's real name and its effective name Subject: deleted some minor memory leaks Subject: couldn't require . files Subject: -e 'cmd' no longer fails silently if /tmp runs out of space Subject: function key support added to curses.mus TRANSLATORS Subject: find2perl assumed . in PATH Subject: find2perl didn't output portable startup code Subject: find2perl didn't always stat at the right time Subject: s2p didn't output portable startup code Subject: s2p didn't translate s/pat/\&/ or s/pat/\$/ or s/pat/\\1/ right Subject: in a2p, getline should allow variable to be array element Subject: in a2p, now warns about spurious backslashes Subject: in a2p, now allows [ to be backslashed in pattern Subject: in a2p, now allows numbers of the form 2. Subject: in a2p, simplified the filehandle model Subject: in a2p, made RS="" translate to $/ = "\n\n" Subject: in a2p, do {...} while ... was missing some reconstruction code
* perl 4.0 patch 19: (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-11-111-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ok, here's the cleanup patch I suggested you wait for. Have at it... Subject: added little-endian pack/unpack options This is the only enhancement in this patch, but it seemed unlikely to bust anything else, and added functionality that it was very difficult to do any other way. Compliments of David W. Sanderson. Subject: op/regexp.t failed from missing arg to bcmp() Subject: study was busted by 4.018 Subject: sort $subname was busted by changes in 4.018 Subject: default arg for shift was wrong after first subroutine definition Things that broke in 4.018. Shame on me. Subject: do {$foo ne "bar";} returned wrong value A bug of long standing. How come nobody saw this one? Or if you did, why didn't you report it before now? Or if you did, why did I ignore you? :-) Subject: some machines need -lsocket before -lnsl Subject: some earlier patches weren't propagated to alternate 286 code Subject: compile in the x2p directory couldn't find cppstdin Subject: more hints for aix, isc, hp, sco, uts Subject: installperl no longer updates unchanged library files Subject: uts wrongly defines S_ISDIR() et al Subject: too many preprocessors can't expand a macro right in #if The usual pastiche of portability kludges. Subject: deleted some unused functions from usersub.c And fixed the spelling of John Macdonald's name, and included his suggested workaround for a certain vendor's stdio bug... Subject: added readdir test Subject: made op/groups.t more reliable Subject: added test for sort $subname to op/sort.t Subject: added some hacks to op/stat.t for weird filesystem architectures Improvements (hopefully) to the regression tests.
* perl 4.0 patch 18: patch #11, continuedLarry Wall1991-11-051-6/+22
| | | | See patch #11.
* perl 4.0 patch 4: (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-06-061-0/+10
| | | | | | Random patches, mostly bugs and portability stuff. //g is the only major new feature. Additionally, there is now an alternate license you can distribute Perl under.
* perl 4.0 patch 1: (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-04-111-0/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Subject: Configure now handles defaults much better Subject: Configure now knows if config.sh was built on this machine Subject: Configure now checks file existence more efficiently Subject: Configure now handles stupid SCO csh Configure has been heavily revised. Many of the tests that used to simply force a decision now check that decision against the previous value of the variable, and offer to let you change it. The default now is to keep the old value, so that you don't lose information from your previous run. Because of this, it's now more important to know whether, in fact, config.sh was produced on this machine and on this version of the operating system. config.sh now contains a lastuname variable which contains the output of uname -a. If this matches the current output of uname -a, Configure defaults to including the old config.sh. Otherwise not. If there is no valid config.sh, then Configure looks defaults for the current architecture in the hints/ subdirectory instead. The guesswork I've done in this section of code is phenomenal, so you'll have to instruct me where I've misparsed the output of uname (a problem in portability all of its own). Subject: Configure now differentiates getgroups() type from getgid() type Subject: Configure now figures out malloc ptr type Subject: Configure now does better on sprintf() Configure was assuming that the array of values returned from getgroups was the same type as the gids returned by other system calls. Unfortunately, reality set in. Likewise for malloc() and sprintf(), which there is only one portable way to find out the return value of: try it one way or the other, and see if it blows up. Subject: C flags are now settable on a per-file basis Subject: reduced maximum branch distance in eval.c Certain compilers and/or optimizers get bozoed out by large compilation units, or by large structures within those units. Previously, you either had to change the compiler flags for all the files, or do hairy editing in Makefile.SH and remake the Makefile, necessitating a make depend. Now there is a script called cflags.SH whose duty it is to return the proper CFLAGS for any given C file. You can change the flags in just one spot now and they will be immediately reflected in the next make (or even in the current make, if one is running). Eventually I expect that any of the hints files could modify cflags.SH, but I haven't done that yet. The particular problem of long jump offsets in eval.c has been at least partially alleviated by locating some of the labels in the middle of the function instead of at the end. This still doesn't help the poor Vax when you compile with -g, since it puts a jump to the end of the function to allocate the stack frame and then jumps back to the beginning of the function to execute it. For now Vaxen will have to stick with -O or hand assemble eval.c and teval.c with a -J switch. Subject: fixed "Bad free" error Subject: fixed debugger coredump on subroutines Subject: regexec only allocated space for 9 subexpresssions These are problems that were reported on the net and had unofficial patches. Now they have official patches. Be sure to patch a copy of your files without the unofficial patches, or the patch program will get confused. Subject: you may now use "die" and "caller" in a signal handler Someone pointed out that using die to raise an exception out of a signal handler trashed the expression value stack if the exception was caught by eval. While fixing that, I also fixed the longstanding problem that signal handlers didn't have a normal call frame, which prevented the caller function from working. Subject: fixed undefined environ problem Subject: hopefully straightened out some of the Xenix mess Subject: random cleanup in cpp namespace Just keeping up with the current progress in non-standardization. Subject: fixed failed fork to return undef as documented The open function returns undef on failed implicit forks. The Book assumed that the same was true of an explicit fork. I've made the function behave like the Book says. It's a pity there's no way to have an undefined value that returns -1 in a numeric context but false in a boolean context... Subject: generalized the yaccpar fixer some Thanks to Andy Dougherty, perly.fixer now knows how to fix SVR3 2.2's yaccpar code to do dynamic parse stack allocation. He also made it easy for other people to insert their code there. Hooray! Subject: find2perl sometimes needs to stat on the 2nd leg of a -o Subject: find2perl didn't correctly handle switches with an argument of 0 In attempting to delay the lstat to the last moment, in case a filename could be rejected on the basis of its name, find2perl neglected to take into account the fact that control might pass to the 2nd half of a -o without executing all of the 1st half, in particular without executing the lstat. find2perl was wisely removing leading zeroes from numbers that would mistakenly be interpreted as octal numbers by Perl. Unfortunately, this caused it to delete the number 0 entirely. Subject: fixed dumpvar not to dump internal debugging info Subject: substr($ENV{"PATH"},0,0) = "/foo:" didn't modify environment Subject: $foo .= <BAR> could cause core dump for certain lengths of $foo Subject: perl -de "print" wouldn't stop at the first statement Random glitchy little things. Subject: I'm at NetLabs now I'm now working for NetLabs, Inc., and I hadn't changed my address everywhere.
* perl 4.0.00: (no release announcement available)perl-4.0.00Larry Wall1991-03-211-81/+94
| | | | So far, 4.0 is still a beta test version. For the last production version, look in pub/perl.3.0/kits@44.
* perl 3.0 patch #42 (combined patch)Larry Wall1991-01-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most of these patches are pretty self-explanatory. Much of this is random cleanup in preparation for version 4.0, so I won't talk about it here. A couple of things should be noted, however. First, there's a new -0 option that allows you to specify (in octal) the initial value of $/, the record separator. It's primarily intended for use with versions of find that support -print0 to delimit filenames with nulls, but it's more general than that: null ^A default CR paragraph mode file slurp mode This feature is so new that it didn't even make it into the book. The other major item is that different patchlevels of perl can now coexist in your bin directory. The names "perl" and "taintperl" are just links to "perl3.044" and "tperl3.044". This has several benefits. The perl3.044 invokes the corresponding tperl3.044 rather than taintperl, so it always runs the correct version. Second, you can "freeze" a script by putting a #! line referring to a version that it is known to work with. Third, you can put a new version out there to try out before making it the default perl. Lastly, it sells more disk drives. :-) Barring catastrophe, this will likely be the last patch before version 4.0 comes out.
* perl 3.0 patch #38 (combined patch)Larry Wall1990-11-091-0/+6
| | | | Forget the description, it's too late at night...
* perl 3.0 patch #31 patch #29, continuedLarry Wall1990-10-161-1/+19
| | | | See patch #29.
* perl 3.0 patch #19 (combined patch)Larry Wall1990-08-081-6/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | You now have the capability of linking C subroutines into a special version of perl. See the files in usub/ for an example. There is now an operator to include library modules with duplicate suppression and error checking, called "require". (makelib has been renamed to h2ph, and Tom Christiansen's h2pl stuff has been included too. Perl .h files are now called .ph files to avoid confusion.) It's now possible to truncate files if your machines supports any of ftruncate(fd, size), chsize(fd, size) or fcntl(fd, F_FREESP, size). Added -c switch to do compilation only, that is, to suppress execution. Useful in combination with -D1024. There's now a -x switch to extract a script from the input stream so you can pipe articles containing Perl scripts directly into perl. Previously, the only places you could use bare words in Perl were as filehandles or labels. You can now put bare words (identifiers) anywhere. If they have no interpretation as filehandles or labels, they will be treated as if they had single quotes around them. This works together nicely with the fact that you can use a symbol name indirectly as a filehandle or to assign to *name. It basically means you can write subroutines and pass filehandles without quoting or *-ing them. (It also means the grammar is even more ambiguous now--59 reduce/reduce conflicts!!! But it seems to do the Right Thing.) Added __LINE__ and __FILE__ tokens to let you interpolate the current line number or filename, such as in a call to an error routine, or to help you translate eval linenumbers to real linenumbers. Added __END__ token to let you mark the end of the program in the input stream. (^D and ^Z are allowed synonyms.) Program text and data can now both come from STDIN. `command` in array context now returns array of lines. Previously it would return a single element array holding all the lines. An empty %array now returns 0 in scalar context so that you can use it profitably in a conditional: &blurfl if %seen; The include search path (@INC) now includes . explicity at the end, so you can change it if you wish. Library routines now have precedence by default. Several pattern matching optimizations: I sped up /x+y/ patterns greatly by not retrying on every x, and disabled backoff on patterns anchored to the end like /\s+$/. This made /\s+$/ run 100 times faster on a string containing 70 spaces followed by an X. Actual improvements will generally be less than that. I also sped up {m,n} on simple items by making it a variant of *. And /.*whatever/ is now optimizaed to /^.*whatever/ to avoid retrying at every position in the event of failure. I fixed character classes to allow backslashing hyphen, by popular request. In the past, $ in a pattern would sometimes match in the middle of the string and sometimes not, if $* == 0. Now it will never match except at the end of the string, or just before a terminating newline. When $* == 1 behavior is as before. In the README file, I've expanded on just how I think the GNU General Public License applies to Perl and to things you might want to do with Perl. The interpreter used to set the global variable "line" to be the current line number. Instead, it now sets a global pointer to the current Perl statement, which is no more overhead, but now we will have access to the file name and package name associated with that statement, so that the debugger soon be upgraded to allow debugging of evals and packages. In the past, a conditional construct in an array context passed the array context on to the conditional expression, causing general consternation and confusion. Conditionals now always supply a scalar context to the expression, and if that expression turns out to be the one whose value is returned, the value is coerced to an array value of one element. The switch optimizer was confused by negative fractional values, and truncating them the wrong direction. Configure now checks for chsize, select and truncate functions, and now asks if you want to put scripts into some separate directory from your binaries. More and more people are establishing a common directory across architectures for scripts, so this is getting important. It used to be that a numeric literal ended up being stored both as a string and as a double. This could make for lots of wasted storage if you said things like "$seen{$key} = 1;". So now numeric literals are now stored only in floating point format, which saves space, and generates at most one extra conversion per literal over the life of the script. The % operator had an off-by-one error if the left argument was negative. The pack and unpack functions have been upgraded. You can now convert native float and double fields using f and d. You can specify negative relative positions with X<n>, and absolute positions in the record with @<n>. You can have a length of * on the final field to indicate that it is to gobble all the rest of the available fields. In unpack, if you precede a field spec with %<n>, it does an n-bit checksum on it instead of the value itself. (Thus "%16C*" will checksum just like the Sys V sum program.) One totally wacked out evening I hacked a u format in to pack and unpack uudecode-style strings. A couple bugs were fixed in unpack--it couldn't unpack an A or a format field in a scalar context, which is just supposed to return the first field. The c and C formats were also calling bcopy to copy each character. Yuck. Machines without the setreuid() system call couldn't manipulate $< and $> easily. Now, if you've got setuid(), you can say $< = $> or $> = $< or even ($<, $>) = ($uid, $uid), as long as it's something that can be done with setuid(). Similarly for setgid(). I've included various MSDOS and OS/2 patches that people have sent. There's still more in the hopper... An open on a pipe for output such as 'open(STDOUT,"|command")' left STDOUT attached to the wrong file descriptor. This didn't matter within Perl, but it made subprocesses expecting stdout to be on fd 1 rather irate. The print command could fail to detect errors such as running out room on the disk. Now it checks a little better. Saying "print @foo" might only print out some of the elements if there undefined elements in the middle of the array, due to a reversed bit of logic in the print routine. On machines with vfork the child process would allocate memory in the parent without the parent knowing about it, or having any way to free the memory so allocated. The parent now calls a cleanup routine that knows whether that's what happened. If the getsockname or getpeername functions returned a normal Unix error, perl -w would report that you tried I/O on an unopened socket, even though it was open. MACH doesn't have seekdir or telldir. Who ever uses them anyway? Under certain circumstances, an optimized pattern match could pass a hint into the standard pattern matching routine which the standard routine would then ignore. The next pattern match after that would then get a "panic: hint in do_match" because the hint didn't point into the current string of interest. The $' variable returned a short string if it contained an embedded null. Two common split cases are now special-cased to avoid the regular expression code. One is /\s+/ (and its cousin ' ', which also trims leading whitespace). The other is /^/, which is very useful for splitting a "here-is" quote into lines: @lines = split(/^/, <<END); Element 0 Element 1 Element 2 END You couldn't split on a single case-insensitive letter because the single character split optimization ignore the case folding flag. Sort now handles undefined strings right, and sorts lists a little more efficiently because it weeds them out before sorting so it doesn't have to check for them on every comparison. The each() and keys() functions were returning garbage on null keys in DBM files because the DBM iterator merely returns a pointer into the buffer to a string that's not necessarily null terminated. Internally, Perl keeps a null at the end of every string (though allowing embedded nulls) and some routines make use of this to avoid checking for the end of buffer on every comparison. So this just needed to be treated as a special case. The &, | and ^ operators will do bitwise operations on two strings, but for some reason I hadn't implemented ~ to do a complement. Using an associative array name with a % in dbmopen(%name...) didn't work right, not because it didn't parse, but because the dbm opening routine internally did the wrong thing with it. You can now say dbmopen(name, 'filename', undef) to prevent it from opening the dbm file if it doesn't exist. The die operator simply exited if you didn't give an argument, because that made sense before eval existed. But now it will be equivalent to "die 'Died';". Using the return function outside a subroutine returned a cryptic message about not being able to pop a magical label off the stack. It's now more informative. On systems without the rename() system call, it's emulated with unlink()/link()/unlink(), which could clobber a file if it happened to unlink it before it linked it. Perl now checks to make sure the source and destination filenames aren't in fact the same directory entry. The -s file test now returns size of file. Why not? If you tried to write a general subroutine to open files, passing in the filehandle as *filehandle, it didn't work because nobody took responsibility to allocate the filehandle structure internally. Now, passing *name to subroutine forces filehandle and array creation on that symbol if they're already not created. Reading input via <HANDLE> is now a little more efficient--it does one less string copy. The dumpvar.pl routine now fixes weird chars to be printable, and allows you to specify a list of varables to display. The debugger takes advantage of this. The debugger also now allows \ continuation lines, and has an = command to let you make aliases easily. Line numbers should now be correct even after lines containing only a semicolon. The action code for parsing split; with no arguments didn't pass correct a corrent value of bufend to the scanpat it was using to establish the /\s+/ pattern. The $] variable returned the rcsid string and patchlevel. It still returns that in a string context, but in a numeric context it returns the version number (as in 4.0) + patchlevel / 1000. So these patches are being applied to 3.018. The variables $0, %ENV, @ARGV were retaining incorrect information from the previous incarnation in dumped/undumped scripts. The %ENV array is suppose to be global even inside packages, but and off-by-one error kept it from being so. The $| variable couldn't be set on a filehandle before the file was opened. Now you can. If errno == 0, the $! variable returned "Error 0" in a string context, which is, unfortunately, a true string. It now returns "" in string context if errno == 0, so you can use it reasonable in a conditional without comparing it to 0: &cleanup if $!; On some machines, conversion of a number to a string caused a malloc string to be overrun by 1 character. More memory is now allocated for such a string. The tainting mechanism didn't work right on scripts that were setgid but not setuid. If you had reference to an array such as @name in a program, but didn't invoke any of the usual array operations, the array never got initialized. The FPS compiler doesn't do default in a switch very well if the value can be interpreted as a signed character. There's now a #ifdef BADSWITCH for such machines. Certain combinations of backslashed backslashes weren't correctly parsed inside double-quoted strings. "Here" strings caused warnings about uninitialized variables because the string used internally to accumulate the lines wasn't initialized according to the standards of the -w switch. The a2p translator couldn't parse {foo = (bar == 123)} due to a hangover from the old awk syntax. It also needed to put a chop into a program if the program referenced NF so that the field count would come out right when the split was done. There was a missing semicolon when local($_) was emitted. I also didn't realize that an explicity awk split on ' ' trims leading whitespace just like the implicit split at the beginning of the loop. The awk for..in loop has to be translated in one of two ways in a2p, depending on whether the array was produced by a split or by subscripting. If the array was a normal array, a2p put out code that iterated over the array values rather than the numeric indexes, which was wrong. The s2p didn't translate \n correctly, stripping the backslash.
* perl 3.0 patch #16 (combined patch)Larry Wall1990-03-271-6/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is now support for compiling perl under the Microsoft C compiler on MSDOS. Special thanks go to Diomidis Spinellis <dds@cc.ic.ac.uk> for this. To compile under MSDOS, look at the readme file in the msdos subdirectory. As a part of this, six files will be renamed when you run Configure. These are config.h.SH, perl.man.[1-4] and t/op.subst. Suns (and perhaps other machines) can't cast negative floating point numbers to unsigned ints reasonably. Configure now detects this and takes appropriate action. Configure looked for optional libraries but then didn't ever use them, even if there was no config.sh value to override. System V Release 4 provides us with yet another nm format for Configure to parse. No doubt it's "better". Sigh. MIPS CPUs running under Ultrix were getting configured for volatile support, but they don't like volatile when applied to a type generated by a typedef. Configure now tests for this. I've added two new perl library routines: ctime.pl from Waldemar Kebsch and Marion Hakanson, and syslog.pl from Tom Christiansen and me. In subroutines, non-terminal blocks should never have arrays requested of them, even if the subroutine call's context is looking for an array. Formats didn't work inside eval. Now they do. Any $foo++ that doesn't return a value is now optimized to ++$foo since the latter doesn't require generation of a temporary to hold the old value. A self-referential printf pattern such as sprintf($s,...,$s,...) would end up with a null as the first character of the next field. On machines that don't support executing scripts in the kernel, perl has to emulate that when an exec fails. In this case, the do_exec() routine can lose arguments passed to the script. A memory leakage in pattern matching triggered by use of $`, $& or $' has been fixed. A splice that pulls up the front of an array such as splice(@array,0,$n) can cause a duplicate free error. The grep operator blew up on undefined array values. It now handles them reasonably, setting $_ to undef. The .. operator in an array context is used to generate number ranges. This has been generalized to allow any string ranges that can be generated with the magical increment code of ++. So you can say 'a' .. 'f', '000'..'999', etc. The ioctl function didn't return non-zero values correctly. Associative array slices from dbm files like @dbmvalues{'foo','bar'} could use the same cache entry for multiple values, causing loss of some of the values of the slice. Cache values are now not flushed until the end of a statement. The do FILE operator blew up when used inside an eval, due to trying to free the eval code it was still executing. If you did s/^prefix// on a string, and subsequently assigned a value that didn't contain a string value to the string, you could get a bad free error. One of the taint checks blew up on undefined array elements, which showed up only when taintperl was run. The final semicolon in program is supposed to be optional now. Unfortunately this wasn't true when -p or -n added extra code around your code. Now it's true all the time. A tail anchored pattern such as /foo$/ could cause grief if you searched a string that was shorter than that.
* perl 3.0 patch #7 (combined patch)Larry Wall1989-12-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The select operator didn't interpret bit vectors correctly on non-little-endian machines such as Suns. Rather than bollux up the rather straightforward interpretation of bit vectors, I made the select operator rearrange the bytes as necessary. So it is still true that vec($foo,0,1) refers to the first bit of the first byte of string $foo, even on big-endian machines. The send() socket operator didn't correctly allow you to specify a TO argument even though this was documented. (The TO argument is desirable for sending datagram packets.) In ANSI standard C, they decided that longjmp() didn't have to guarantee anything about registers. Several people sent me some patches that declared certain variables as volatile rather than register for such compilers. Rather than go that route, however, I wanted to keep some of these variables in registers, so I just made sure that the important ones are restored from non-register locations after longjmp(). I think "volatile" encourages people to punt too easily. The foreach construct still had some difficulty with two nested foreach loops referring to the same array, and to a single foreach that called its enclosing subroutine recursively. I think I've got this straight now. You wouldn't think a little iterator would give some much trouble. A pattern like /b*/ wouldn't match a null string before the first character. And certain patterns didn't match correctly at end of string. The upshot was that $_ = 'aaa'; s/b*/x/g; produced 'axaxa' rather than the expected 'xaxaxax'. This has been fixed. Note however that the split operator will still not match a null string before the first character, so that split(/b*/,'aaa') produces ('a','a','a'), not ('','a','a','a',''). The saga continues, and hopefully concludes. I realized I was fighting a losing battle trying to grep out all the includes from <time.h> and <sys/time.h>. There are just too many funny includes, symbols, links and such on too many kinds of machines. Configure now compiles a test program several different ways to figure out which way to define the various symbols. Configure now lets you pick between yacc or bison for your compiler compiler. If you pick bison, be sure you have alloca somewhere on your system. The ANSI function strerror() is now supported where available. In addition, errno may now be a macro with an lvalue, so errno isn't declared extern if it's defined as a macro in <errno.h>. The memcpy() and memset() are now allowed to return void. There is now support for sys/ndir.h for systems such as Xenix. It's now also easier to cross compile on a 386 for a 286. DG/UX has functions setpgrp2() and getpgrp2() to keep the BSD sematics separate from the SystemV semantics. So now we have yet another wonderful non-standard way of doing things. There is also a utime.h file which lets them put time stamps on files to microsecond resolutions, though perl doesn't take advantage of this. The list of optional libraries to be searched for now includes -lnet_s, -lnsl_s, -lsocket and -lx. We can now find .h files down in /usr/include/lan. Microport systems have problems. I've added some CRIPPLED_CC support for them, but you still need to read the README.uport file for some extra rigamarole. In the README file, there are now hints for what to do if your compile doesn't work right, and specific hints for machines known to require certain switches. The grep operator with a simple first argument, such as grep(1,@array), didn't work right. That one seems silly, but grep($_,@array) didn't work either. Now it does. A /$pat/ followed by a // wrongly freed the runtime pattern twice, causing ill-will on the part of all concerned. The ord() function now always returns positive even on signed-char machines. This seems to be less surprising to people. If you still want a signed value on such machines, you can always use unpack. The lib/complete.pl file misused the @_ array. The array has been renamed. In the man page, I clarified that s`pat`repl` does command substitution on the replacement string, that $timeleft from select() is likely not implemented in many places, and that the qualified form package'filehandle works as well as $package'variable. It is also explicitly stated that certain identifiers (non-alpha, STDIN, etc.) are always resolved in package main's symbol table. Perl didn't grok setuid scripts that had a space on the first line between the shebang and the interpreter name. In stab.c, sighandler() may now return either void or int, depending on the value of VOIDSIG. You couldn't debug a script that used -p or -n because they would try to slap an extra } on the end of the perldb.pl file. This upset the parser. The interpration of strings like " ''$foo'' " caused problems because the tokener didn't realize that neither single quote following the variable was indicating a package qualifier. (It knew the last one wasn't, but was confused about the first one.) Merely changing an if to a while fixed it. Well, two if's. Another place we don't want ' to be interpreted as a package qualifier is if it's the delimiter for an m'pat' or s'pat'repl'. These have been grandfathered to look like a match and a substitution. There were a couple of problems in a2p. First, the ops array was dimensioned too big on 286's. Second, there was a problem involving passing a union where I should've passed a member of the union, which meant user-defined functions didn't work right on some machines.
* perl 3.0: (no announcement message available)perl-3.000Larry Wall1989-10-181-155/+193
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few of the new features: (18 Oct) * Perl can now handle binary data correctly and has functions to pack and unpack binary structures into arrays or lists. You can now do arbitrary ioctl functions. * You can now pass things to subroutines by reference. * Debugger enhancements. * An array or associative array may now appear in a local() list. * Array values may now be interpolated into strings. * Subroutine names are now distinguished by prefixing with &. You can call subroutines without using do, and without passing any argument list at all. * You can use the new -u switch to cause perl to dump core so that you can run undump and produce a binary executable image. Alternately you can use the "dump" operator after initializing any variables and such. * You can now chop lists. * Perl now uses /bin/csh to do filename globbing, if available. This means that filenames with spaces or other strangenesses work right. * New functions: mkdir and rmdir, getppid, getpgrp and setpgrp, getpriority and setpriority, chroot, ioctl and fcntl, flock, readlink, lstat, rindex, pack and unpack, read, warn, dbmopen and dbmclose, dump, reverse, defined, undef.
* perl 2.0 (no announcement message available)perl-2.0Larry Wall1988-06-051-108/+151
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of the enhancements from Perl1 included: * New regexp routines derived from Henry Spencer's. o Support for /(foo|bar)/. o Support for /(foo)*/ and /(foo)+/. o \s for whitespace, \S for non-, \d for digit, \D nondigit * Local variables in blocks, subroutines and evals. * Recursive subroutine calls are now supported. * Array values may now be interpolated into lists: unlink 'foo', 'bar', @trashcan, 'tmp'; * File globbing. * Use of <> in array contexts returns the whole file or glob list. * New iterator for normal arrays, foreach, that allows both read and write. * Ability to open pipe to a forked off script for secure pipes in setuid scripts. * File inclusion via do 'foo.pl'; * More file tests, including -t to see if, for instance, stdin is a terminal. File tests now behave in a more correct manner. You can do file tests on filehandles as well as filenames. The special filetests -T and -B test a file to see if it's text or binary. * An eof can now be used on each file of the <> input for such purposes as resetting the line numbers or appending to each file of an inplace edit. * Assignments can now function as lvalues, so you can say things like ($HOST = $host) =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; ($obj = $src) =~ s/\.c$/.o/; * You can now do certain file operations with a variable which holds the name of a filehandle, e.g. open(++$incl,$includefilename); $foo = <$incl>; * Warnings are now available (with -w) on use of uninitialized variables and on identifiers that are mentioned only once, and on reference to various undefined things. * There is now a wait operator. * There is now a sort operator. * The manual is now not lying when it says that perl is generally faster than sed. I hope.
* a "replacement" for awk and sedperl-1.0Larry Wall1987-12-181-0/+112
[ Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete. This posting will include the first 10 patches after the main source. The following description is lifted from Larry's manpage. --r$ ] Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C expression syntax. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then perl may be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk scripts into perl scripts.
View Lorry Controller Status