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BUILD PROCESS
Subject: Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu
Subject: Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
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
Subject: Compile with optimization when testing memory functions
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c
Subject: Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
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
Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit e7ea3e70155d0bea30720ba41eb6bb6742aac0d1)
Subject: Nested here-docs
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800
From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Files: toke.c
Msg-ID: <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit fd2d0953290ddd46f0820dbd6c87245486b7ab28)
Subject: Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
Subject: Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c
Subject: Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Subject: VMS patches for _22
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
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
private-msgid: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Subject: Plan9 update
From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@stratcom.com>
Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile
Subject: hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800
From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh
Msg-ID: <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 23f8769697279d7912be5943de9fdf93f6aa3013)
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod
Subject: Document #line directive
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod
private-msgid: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Subject: delta for perldelta
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
private-msgid: <804.854121463@jinete>
Subject: Updates to perldelta
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
private-msgid: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod
private-msgid: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Subject: Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
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
Subject: Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Subject: Add E* and SA_* constants
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
private-msgid: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000
From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c
private-msgid: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk>
Subject: Fix /\G.a/
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c
Subject: Extend stack in pp_undef (!)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c
Subject: Allow for sub to be redefined while executing
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
Subject: Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
Subject: Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c
Subject: Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c
Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 7e42bd57a6867e174bc3bc555c3268b485940a98)
Subject: Remove "suidperl security patch" message
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perl.c
TESTS
Subject: Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t
Subject: Patch tests for systems without fork()
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100
From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
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
private-msgid: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Test patches for OS/2
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
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
Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit bbad36071d5a6d4be3588f0f10c88247439076d8)
UTILITIES
Subject: Translate \200 to È in pod2html
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/pod2html.PL
Subject: VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
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
private-msgid: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
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a) Teaches tests in os2/OS2/*/* new format of $Config{extensions};
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
b) Closes all the files before unlinking - for DOSISH systems;
t/cmd/while.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
c) t/README mentions running `harness' to get better granularity;
t/README
d) New test op/lex_assign.t added - will check optimization of lexicals
when applied - 153 cases (some just ignored since hard to implement).
MANIFEST t/op/lex_assign.t
e) When a script is started via shell, $Config{exe_ext} may be appended.
t/op/magic.t
f) path/echo may print a warning if run without args
t/comp/colon.t
g) Error explanations more verbose
t/op/cmp.t t/op/magic.t
p5p-msgid: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Bitwise op sign rationalization
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
Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use
integer> is in effect. Includes initial support for UVs.
Subject: Defined scoping for C<my> in control structures
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c
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.
Subject: Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c
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.
Subject: Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: opcode.pl
Subject: Provide scalar context on left side of "->"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perly.c perly.y
Subject: Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: proto.h toke.c util.c
Subject: If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c
Subject: Fixes for pack('w')
From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t
Subject: More complete output from sv_dump()
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: sv.c
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: Fix stack botch in untie and binmode
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pp_sys.c
Subject: Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym
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
New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by
avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
Subject: 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
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[editor's note: no patch file was found for this release, so no
fine-grained changes]
I can't find the password for our ftp server, so I had to drop it into
ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/incoming/perl5.002b3.tar.gz, which is a drop
directory you can't ls.
The current plan is that Andy is gonna whack on this a little more, and
then release a gamma in a few days when he's happy with it. So don't get
carried away. This is now *late* beta.
In other words, have less than the appropriate amount of fun. :-)
Larry
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To apply, change to your perl directory, run the command above, then
apply with
patch -p1 -N < thispatch.
This is a consolidation patch. It contains many of the most commonly
applied or agreed-to patches that have been circulating since
patch.1m.
It also changes the 'unofficial patchlevel' in perl.c.
There are some problems (see items marked with '***').
I will attempt to address those in a patch.1o in a few days.
This patch contains the following packages:
My Jumbo Configure patch vs. 1m, with subsequent patches 1, 2, and 3.
Mainly, this provides easier use of local libraries, documents
the installation process in a new INSTALL file, moves important
questions towards the beginning, and improves detection of
signal names (mostly for Linux).
xsubpp-1.922.
Patches from Larry:
eval "1" memory leak patch (as modified by GSAR to apply to 5.001m).
NETaa14551 Infinite loop in formats,
NETaa13729 scope.c patch (fixed problems on AIX and others)
NETaa14138 "substr() & s///" (pp_hot.c)
Patches from ftp.perl.com:
ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/closure-bug.patch,
version of 20 Sep 1995
Includes fix for NETaa14347 (32k limit in regex), and other
fixes.
ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/debugger.patch,
version of 27 Aug 1995
ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/glob-undef.patch,
version of 4 Sep 1995
NETaa14421 $_ doesn't undef
ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/op-segfault.patch,
version of 21 Aug 1995
ftp://ftp.perl.com/pub/perl/src/patches/warn-ref-hash-key.patch,
version of 5 Jun 1995
Tim Bunce's Jumbo DynaLoader patch for Perl5.001m, which is
NETaa14636 Jumbo DynaLoader patch for Perl5.001m, and
Additional patch for NETaa14636 Jumbo DynaLoader patch for Perl5.001m
version of 09 Oct 1995.
***This needs some additional parentheses.***
MakeMaker-5.00. Supercedes NETaa13540 (VMS MakeMaker patches).
(Updates minimod.PL as well.)
***This has a couple of minor problems.
pod2man is run even if it isn't available.
LD_RUN_PATH gets set to some mysterious values.***
NETaa14657 Paul Marquess Net::Ping patch. I've included
Net-Ping-1.00.
NETaa14661 Dean Roehrich DProf. Installed as ext/Devel/DProf.
Configure should pick this up automatically. (5 Apr 1995
version.)
NETaa13742 Jack Shirazi Socket in 5.001. I've also included
his socket.t test in t/lib/socket.t.
c2ph-1.7.
Dean's perlapi patches of Oct 12, 1995, which superceded those
of Oct 8, 1995. This is the one that did
mv perlapi.pid perlxs.pod.
NETaa14310 Tim Bunce A trivial patch for configpm (handy for shell scripts)
DB_File-1.0 patch from Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk)
last modified 7th October 1995
version 1.0
Added or updated the following hints files:
hints/hpux.sh
hints/ncr_tower.sh
hints/netbsd.sh
hints/ultrix.sh
Patch and enjoy.
Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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[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 :-(.
]
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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 $foo
Subject: perl -de "print" wouldn't stop at the first statement
Random glitchy little things.
Subject: I'm at NetLabs now
I'm now working for NetLabs, Inc., and I hadn't changed my
address everywhere.
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[ Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete. This posting
will include the first 10 patches after the main source. The following
description is lifted from Larry's manpage. --r$ ]
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.
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