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* remove _() non-ansismGurusamy Sarathy1999-06-021-25/+25
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* The VM/ESA port essentials, based onJarkko Hietaniemi1998-10-171-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perl-mvs: From: Neale Ferguson <neale@VMA.TABNSW.COM.AU> Subject: Re: Can't find Data/Dumper.pm Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 07:40:49 +1300 Message-ID: <360E86B0.23847AF4@mailbox.tabnsw.com.au> private email: From: Neale Ferguson <neale@VMA.TABNSW.COM.AU> Subject: Re: Perl thread problems in VM/ESA Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 07:18:35 +1300 Message-ID: <3624EAFA.16163A2B@mailbox.tabnsw.com.au> and private email: From: Neale Ferguson <NEALE@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU> Subject: perl archive Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 19:28:54 EDT Message-Id: <19981011233112Z67215-26626+1513@outbound.Princeton.EDU> which gave a pointer to http://pucc.princeton.edu/~neale/perl.tar (based on Perl 5.005_51) p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2006
* support OE/MVSJarkko Hietaniemi1998-08-021-0/+4
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* [win32] fix mingw32 gcc 2.8.0 build (DLLs generated seem to be brokenGurusamy Sarathy1998-02-161-4/+4
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* [win32] various tweaks to build support (NOTE: meant for 5.004_57)Gurusamy Sarathy1998-01-131-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | - build and install x2p - fix installperl warnings on win32 - `make install` now does puts the archlibs in right places - makefiles don't default to USE_THREADS anymore - sync config.{b,g,v}c - sync makefile.mk -> Makefile p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@416
* Further ANSI changes now builds and passes (most) testsNick Ing-Simmons1997-10-311-2/+2
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* Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the defaultChip Salzenberg1997-04-091-0/+1
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* [inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_91 to perl-5.003_92]Perl 5 Porters1997-03-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Subject: Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: op.c Subject: Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod CORE PORTABILITY Subject: OS/2 patches Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t Msg-ID: 199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu (applied based on p5p patch as commit eda4d5189d403b15f244b4696a710fb91d15053e) Subject: VMS patches Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl private-msgid: 01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu DOCUMENTATION Subject: Add taint checks and srand to perldelta Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> Files: pod/perldelta.pod Msg-ID: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com (applied based on p5p patch as commit b28e0bc0aa3232e18d1bacb3efcbfb755ad100e0) Subject: Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated' From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: pod/perldelta.pod Subject: Improve sample module header Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com> Files: pod/perlmod.pod Msg-ID: 199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com (applied based on p5p patch as commit 3e1e15658152387f41e00ded4796cede4e1e10d3) Subject: Update list of CPAN sites Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> Files: pod/perlmod.pod Msg-ID: 199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi (applied based on p5p patch as commit 9423903e60e6c92c1893f5f4cab2476f403f8a4b) Subject: Enhance description of 'server error' Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET) From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi> Files: pod/perldiag.pod private-msgid: 199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi Subject: Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: pod/*.pod LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Subject: Use IV instead of double for tms structure members From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs OTHER CORE CHANGES Subject: Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: toke.c Subject: Clarify '-T too late' error From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod Subject: Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c Subject: Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod Subject: Clarify message re: @host in string From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c Subject: Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: pp_hot.c Subject: Fix typo in test of HvFILL() From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: op.c Subject: Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: op.c Subject: Eliminate format-string type warnings Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET) From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c private-msgid: 199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no Subject: Update copyright dates From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c TESTS Subject: Smarter t/op/taint.t Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com> Files: t/op/taint.t private-msgid: Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com Subject: Fix taint test for systems without csh From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: t/op/taint.t
* [inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_22 to perl5.003_23]perl-5.003_23Perl 5 Porters1997-01-251-3/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 &#200; 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>
* [inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_20 to perl5.003_21]Perl 5 Porters1997-01-161-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BUILD PROCESS Subject: Make MachTen hints file warn about db-recno failures Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:07:18 +0100 From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> Files: hints/machten.sh Msg-ID: <v03010d00aef92fba6aca@[194.51.248.78]> (applied based on p5p patch as commit a4c70ab8da3ec1d87c83e5c617f4550814ec1724) Subject: 5.003_20, FreeBSD 3.0 and minor patch Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:47 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr> Files: Configure Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970108143747.roberto@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 50e0d465254be88fb90ac23584812a529741b4b1) CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES Subject: Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t Msg-ID: <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit a9bc755754f0db5e848e65dfd2e63a96af50ffd4) Subject: Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: global.sym gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c pod/perlguts.pod pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c sv.c t/op/method.t Subject: Formats can be closures From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h Subject: Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}> From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: toke.c Subject: Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C<strict refs> From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs Subject: Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t CORE PORTABILITY Subject: Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c Msg-ID: <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 9a3e71f668bd84b1cf53dd3ea10f588d59ecfebb) Subject: VMS patches for _20 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> Files: configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t toke.c unixish.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.h x2p/str.c private-msgid: <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> Subject: Irix 6.3 & 6.4 and perl5.003_20 Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:42:50 -0500 (EST) From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com> Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6_3.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh Msg-ID: <199701132242.RAA14601@jfs.Fluent.COM> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 8a1e91d771b51ae31eed1ac5944c63934213fb07) Subject: Patch: MachTen hints, Configure Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:43:13 +0100 From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> Files: Configure hints/machten.sh private-msgid: <v03010d00af0123a93670@[194.51.248.75]> Subject: Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh DOCUMENTATION Subject: Full documentation generation patch Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 11:16:28 +0100 From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc Msg-ID: <15309.853323388@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> (applied based on p5p patch as commit a3270a1d7469cab9221ab0050a0e6695bd0047d8) Subject: Document use of pos() and /\G/ Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500 From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod Msg-ID: <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit b2a07c1c241ec86f010fc0ea3bfa54c8ec28be90) Subject: Document new closure warnings From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod Subject: Misc. doc patches missing in _20 Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500 From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod Msg-ID: <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com> (applied based on p5p patch as commit b88f04ff2985d0899964b90ae56789d88f6b353e) LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS Subject: Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: lib/File/Basename.pm pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL Subject: Eliminate warning from C<use overload> From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: lib/overload.pm OTHER CORE CHANGES Subject: Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } > From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c t/op/misc.t Subject: Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c Subject: Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c Subject: Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 19:47:16 -0800 (PST) From: "John Q. Linux" <jql@accessone.com> Files: pp.c pp_hot.c Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970110193330.11249D-100000@jql.accessone.com> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 74c80e585086695d5428ab316ca82fd6931aeabd) Subject: Keep array from dying during foreach(@array) From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c Subject: Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o > From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: pp.c t/op/misc.t Subject: Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500 From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> Files: pp.c Msg-ID: <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit d976ac8220f8890bb7663152c4870f60e8e018c8) Subject: Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: op.c Subject: Patch for Object subroutines Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST) From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> Files: cop.h Msg-ID: <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 174150afa5efdafc0e94a18211d3c9aa06b15cd9) Subject: Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: pp.c pp_hot.c Subject: Undo change that freed large pad vars From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> Files: scope.c TESTS Subject: UNIVERSAL tests From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> Files: MANIFEST t/op/universal.t Subject: Test deletion of array during foreach From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi> Files: t/op/misc.t UTILITIES Subject: Don't search for pod if path is already valid Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:25:19 -0800 From: Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Msg-ID: <199701082325.PAA04521@pdxlx008.intel.com> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 88f0eda82bb679b4e6445ccb17e18d0781c6a5da) Subject: Yet another perldoc option Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200 From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Msg-ID: <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no> (applied based on p5p patch as commit a2333f3625faa17fb193cfa25c3d598cb59f105f) Subject: Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers Date: 07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500 From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> Files: utils/perldoc.PL Msg-ID: <pzwwtoom8p.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> (applied based on p5p patch as commit 7c36043de26da560a0f7eb04f36d232762c0092c)
* [inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_07 to perl5.003_08]Perl 5 Porters1996-11-191-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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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* 5.002 beta 1Larry Wall1995-11-211-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If you're adventurous, have a look at ftp://ftp.sems.com/pub/outgoing/perl5.0/perl5.002beta1.tar.gz Many thanks to Andy for doing the integration. Obviously, if you consult the bugs database, you'll note there are still plenty of buglets that need fixing, and several enhancements that I've intended to put in still haven't made it in (Hi, Tim and Ilya). But I think it'll be pretty stable. And you can start to fiddle around with prototypes (which are, of course, still totally undocumented). Packrats, don't worry too much about readvertising this widely. Nowadays we're on a T1 here, so our bandwidth is okay. Have the appropriate amount of jollity. Larry
* This is my patch patch.1n for perl5.001.perl-5.001nAndy Dougherty1995-10-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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
* perl5.000 patch.0k: MakeMaker 4.06 and to fix minor portability and build ↵Andy Dougherty1995-02-111-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.0i: fix glaring mistakes in patches a-hAndy Dougherty1995-01-261-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch does the following things: 1. Fix various bonehead errors I introduced in patches a-g. 2. Incorporate MakeMaker changes to bring it up to version 4.01 (mostly). 3. Stick in things I forgot in patches a-g (e.g. AIX). 4. Some minor additional cleanup in x2p/ for even pickier compilers. 5. More hints updates (hpux and next). 6. Include newest dl_hpux.xs. I didn't have time to 1. Fix the overlapping strcpy() in op.c 2. Restore h2xs to Larry's original design to process <>. 3. take out unnecessary "use Config" in installperl. 4. Add in vms patches. I forgot to [If I remembered what i forgot, I wouldn't have forgotten it. :] I deliberately decided *not* to 1. Touch pod/* 2. deal with overloading Specifically, here's what's included: Configure Regenerated to be sure it's up-to-date. Makefile.SH Build extension libraries right into lib/auto/whatever. Don't set CCCDLFLAGS since we don't use it anyway. Take care to avoid modifying lib/Config.pm without reason Visit DynaLoader for `make clean'. (Previously only did so for `make realclean'.) @echo "Note that make realclean does not delete config.sh" Include config.h dependency. U/i_db.U config_h.SH config.H Remove unwanted quotes around db_hashtype and db_prefixtype. configpm Allow specification of alternate name for lib/Config.pm, so the makefile mv-if-diff trick saves needless re-making. ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm Updated warning messages and comments. ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs Updated to version 2.1. Now uses bootstrap files. ext/util/make_ext Explicitly use #!/bin/sh to start it up. This is useful for testing make_ext. Improve & simplify Nested::Extension::Processing. More robust handling of `make clean'. hints/hpux_9.sh Support both the bundled and unbundled compilers. hints/next_3_2.sh Back to using -posix rather than POSIX_SOURCE. And that only for ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs. installperl Special ranlib treatment for NeXT, which gets confused about timestamps in libraries, even when you just copy the library. Supply missing '$' in samepath() function. lib/AutoSplit.pm New parameters. lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm Upgraded from 3.8 to 4.01. lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp Documentation changed from man to pod. lib/Getopt/Long.pm Avoid typo warning. Drop unused $optx. lib/Text/Tabs.pm Fix package name. makedepend.SH Explicitly start with $startsh. Catch cpp that prints # <stdin> instead of line numbers. perl.h Fix bonehead mistake that ended up calling my_fmod even if not needed. perl_exp.SH also add symbols from interp.sym proto.h Delete 2 redundant prototypes (newBINOP and newUNOP). util.c Add (char *) casts to unsigned char args to bcmp. x2p/a2p.h Rearrange order of <string?.h> and bcopy & bzero stuff. Change a few function prototypes to void, to reflect actual usage. x2p/a2py.c Change a few function types to void, to reflect actual usage. x2p/handy.h Make *alloc declarations match those in x2p/util.c. x2p/util.c Make *alloc declarations match those in x2p/handy.h. x2p/walk.c Add a (Size_t) cast for comparison of 1 to the result of strlen(). Thanks to all who's work is included here. Little of it is mine.
* perl5.000 patch.0e: fix various non-broken things in the x2p/ directoryAndy Dougherty1995-01-181-9/+52
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes various non-broken things in the x2p/ directory. Mostly, I've supplied function prototypes to satisfy particularly picky compilers. I've also updated Makefile.SH to know that the byacc-generated a2p.c is now included with the distribution so that we no longer need to go looking for yacc/bison/byacc and deal with various library issues or command line options to support those various compiler compilers. I've included a2p.c generated by byacc-1.9. Larry, feel free to use your own from byacc-1.8 instead.
* perl 5.000perl-5.000Larry Wall1994-10-171-13/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | [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 2perl-5a2Larry Wall1993-10-071-1/+5
| | | | [editor's note: from history.perl.org. The sparc executables originally included in the distribution are not in this commit.]
* perl 4.0 patch 21: patch #20, continuedLarry Wall1992-06-081-1/+6
| | | | See patch #20.
* perl 4.0 patch 5: patch #4, continuedLarry Wall1991-06-061-4/+7
| | | | See patch #4.
* perl 4.0.00: (no release announcement available)perl-4.0.00Larry Wall1991-03-211-16/+7
| | | | 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 #9 (combined patch)Larry Wall1990-02-281-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Well, I didn't quite fix 100 things--only 94. There are still some other things to do, so don't think if I didn't fix your favorite bug that your bug report is in the bit bucket. (It may be, but don't think it. :-) There are very few enhancements here. One is the new pipe() function. There was just no way to emulate this using the current operations, unless you happened to have socketpair() on your system. Not even syscall() was useful in this respect. Configure now determines whether volatile is supported, since some compilers implement volatile but don't define __STDC__. Some compilers can put structure members and global variables into registers, so more variables had to be declared volatile to avoid clobbering during longjmp(). Some systems have wanted routines stashed away in libBSD.a and libPW.a. Configure can now find them. A number of Configure tests create a file called "try" and then execute it. Unfortunately, if there was a "try" elsewhere in PATH it got that one instead. All references are now to "./try". On Ultrix machines running the Mips cpu, some header files define things differently for assembly language than for the C language. To differentiate these, cc passes a -DLANGUAGE_C to the C preprocessor. Unfortunately, Configure, makedepend and perl want to use the preprocessor independently of cc. Configure now defaults to adding -DLANGUAGE_C on machines containing that symbol in signal.h. In Configure, some libraries were getting into the list more than once, causing extra extraction overhead. The names are now uniquified. Someone has invented yet another output format for nm. Sigh. Why do people assume that only people read the output of programs? Due to commentary between a declaration and its semicolon, some standard versions of stdio weren't being considered standard, and the type of char used by stdio was being misidentified. People trying to use bison instead of yacc ran into two problems. One, lack of alloca(), is solved on some machines by finding libPW.a. The other is that you have to supply a -y switch to bison to get it to emulate yacc naming conventions. Configure now prompts correctly for bison -y. The make clean had a rm -f $suidperl where it just wanted a rm -f suidperl In the README, documented more weirdities on various machines, including a pointer to the JMPCLOBBER symbol. In the construct OUTER: foreach (1,2,3) { INNER: foreach (4,5) { ... next OUTER; } } the inner loop was not getting reset to the first element. This was one of those bugs that arise because longjmp() doesn't execute exit handlers as it unwinds the stack. Perl reallocs many things as they grow, including the stack (its stack, not the C program's stack). This means that routines have to be careful to retreive the new stack when they call subroutines that can do such a realloc. In cmd.c there was such code but it was hidden inside an #ifdef JMPCLOBBER that it should have been outside of, so you could get bad return values of JMPCLOBBER wasn't defined. If you defined JMPCLOBBER to work around this problem, you should consider undefining it if your compiler guarantees that register variables get the value they had either at setjmp() or longjmp() time. Perl runs slightly faster without JMPCLOBBER defined. The longjmp()s that perl does return known values, but as a paranoid programming measure, it now checks that the values are one of the expected ones. If you say something like while (s/ /_/) {} the substitution almost always succeeds (on normal text). There is an optimization that quickly discovers and bypasses operations that are going to fail, but does nothing to help generally successful ones such as the one above. So there's a heuristic that disables the optimization if it isn't buying us anything. Unfortunately, in the above case, it's in the conditional of a while loop, which is duplicated by another optimization to be a last unless s/ /_/; at the end of the loop, to avoid unnecessary subroutine calls. Because the conditional was duplicated (not the expression itself, just the structure pointing to it), the heuristic mentioned above tried to disable the first optimization twice, resulting in the label stack getting corrupted. Some subroutines which mix both return mechanisms like this: sub foo { local($foo); return $foo if $whatever; $foo; } This clobbered the return value of $foo when the end of the scope of the local($foo) was reached. This was because such a routine turns into something like this internally: sub foo { _SUB_: { local($foo); if ($whatever) { $foo; last _SUB_; } $foo; } } Because the outer _SUB_ block was manufactured by non-standard means, it wasn't getting marked as an expression that could return a value, ie a terminal expression. So the return value wasn't getting properly saved off to the side before the local() exited. The internal label on subroutine blocks used to be SUB, but I changed it to _SUB_ to avoid possible confusion. Evals now have labels too, so they are labelled with _EVAL_. The reason evals now have a label is that nested evals need separate longjmp environments, or fatal errors end up getting a longjmp() botch. So eval now uses the same label stack as loops and subroutines. The eval routine used to always return undef on failure. In an array context, however, this makes a non-null array, which when assigned is TRUE, which is counter-intuitive. It now returns a null array upon failure in an array context. When a foreach operator works on a non-array, the compiler translates foreach (1,2,3) { into something like @_GEN_0 = (1,2,3); foreach (@_GEN_0) { Unfortunately, the line number was not correctly propagated to both command structures, so huge line numbers could appear in error messages and while debugging. The x operator was stupidly written, just calling the internal routine str_scat() multiple times, and not preextending the string to the known new length. It now preextends the string and calls a special routine to replicate the string quickly. On long strings like '\0' x 1024, the operator is more than 10 times faster. The split operator is supposed to split into @_ if called in a scalar context. Unfortunately, it was also splitting into @_ in an array context that wasn't a real array, such as assignment to a list: ($foo,$bar) = split; This has now been fixed. The split and substitute operators have a check to make sure that it isn't looping endlessly. Unfortunate, they had a hardwired limit of 10000 iterations. There are applications conceivable where you could work on longer values than that, so they now calculate a reasonable limit based on the length of the arguments. Pack and unpack called atoi all the time on the template fields. Since there are usually at most one or two digits of number, this wasted a lot of time on machines with slow subroutine calls. It now picks up the number itself. There were several places that casts could blow up. In particular, it appears that a sun3 can't cast a negative float to an unsigned integer. Appropriate measure have been taken--hopefully this won't blow someone else up. A local($.) didn't work right because the actual value of the current line number is derived from the last input filehandle. This has been fixed by causing the last input filehandle to be restored after the scope of a local($.) to what it was when the local was executed. Assignment is supposed to return the final value of the left hand side. In the case of array assignment (in an array context), it was actually returning the right hand side. This showed up in things that referred to the actual elements of an array value, such as grep(s/foo/bar/, @abc = @xyz), which modified @xyz rather than @abc. The syscall() function was returning a garbage value (the index of the top of the stack, actually) rather than value of system call. There was some discussion about how to open files with arbitrary characters in the filename. In particular, the open function strips trailing spaces. There was no way to suppress this. Now you can put an explicit null at the end of the string open(FOO,"$filename\0") and this will hide any spaces on the end of the filename. The Unix open() function will of course treat the null as the trailing delimiter. As a hangover from when Perl was not useful on binary files, there was a check to make sure that the file being opened was a normal file or character special file or socket. Now that Perl can handle binary data, this is useless, and has been removed. Some versions of utime.h have microseconds specified as acusec and modusec. Perl was referring to these in order to zero out the fields. But not everyone has these. Perl now just bzero's out the structure and refers only to fields that everyone has. You used to have to say ($foo) = unpack("L",$bar); Now you can say $foo = unpack("L",$bar); and it will just unpack the first thing specified by the template; The subscripts for slices were ignoring the value of $[. (This never made any difference for people who leave $[ set to 0.) It seems reasonable that grep in a scalar context should return the number of items matched so that it can be used in, say, a conditional. Formerly it returned an undef. Another problem with grep was that if you said something like grep(/$1/, @foo) then each iteration of grep was executing in the context of the previous iteration's regexp, so $1 might be wiped out after the first iteration. All iterations of grep now operate in the regexp context of the grep operator itself. The eg/README file now explicity states that the examples in the eg directory are to be considered in the Public Domain, and thus do not have the same restrictions as the Perl source. In a previous patch the shift operator was made to shift @_ inside of subroutines. This made some of the getopt code wrong. The sample rename command (and the new relink command) can either take a list of filenames from stdin, or if stdin is a terminal, default to a * in the current directory. A sample travesty program is now included. If you want to know what it does, feed it about 10 Usenet articles, or the perl manual, and see what it prints out. If a return operator was embedded in an expression that supplied a scalar context, but the subroutine containing the return was called in an array context, an array was not returned correctly. Now it is. The !~ operator used to ignore the negation in an array context and do the same thing as =~. It now always returns scalar even in array context, so if you say ($foo) = ($bar !~ /(pat)/) $foo will get a value of either 1 or ''. Opens on pipes were defined to return the child's pid in the parent, and FALSE in the child. Unfortunately, what the child actually got was an undef, making it indistinguishable from a failure to open the pipe successfully. The child now gets a 0, and undef means a failure to fork a child. Formerly, @array in a scalar context returned the last value of the array, by analogy to the comma operator. This makes for counter-intuitive results when you say if (@array) if 0 or '' is a legal array value. @array now returns the length of the array (not the subscript of the last element, which is @#array). To get the last element of the array you must either pop(@array) or refer to $array[$#array]. The chdir operator with no argument was supposed to change directory to your home directory, but it core dumped instead. The wait operator was ignoring SIGINT and SIGQUIT, by analogy to the system and pipe operations. But wait is a lower level operation, and it gives you more freedom if those signals aren't automatically ignored. If you want them ignored, you now have to explicitly ignore them by setting the proper %SIG entry. Different versions of /bin/mkdir and /bin/rmdir return different messages upon failure. Perl now knows about more of them. -l FILEHANDLE now disallowed The use of the -l file test makes no sense on a filehandle, since you can't open symbolic links. So -l FILEHANDLE now is a fatal error. This also means you can't say -l _, which is also a useless operation. The heavy wizardry involved in saying $#foo -= 2 didn't work quite right. In formats, you can say ... in a ^ field to have ... output when there is more for that field that is getting truncated. The next field was getting shifted over by three characters, however. The perl library routines abbrev.pl, complete.pl, getopt.pl and getopts.pl were assuming $[ == 0. The Getopt routine wasn't returning an error on unrecognized switches. The look.pl routine had never been tested, and didn't work at all. Now it does. There were several difficulties in termcap.pl. Togoto was documented backwards for $rows and $cols. The Tgetent routine could loop endlessly if there was a tc entry. And it didn't interpret the ^x form of specifying control characters right because of base treachery (031 instead of 31). There were also problems with using @_ as a temporary array. In perl.h, the unused VREG symbol was deleted because it conflicted with somebody's header files. If perl detects a #! line that specifies some other interpreter than perl, it will now start up that interpreter for you. This let's you specify a SHELL of perl to some programs. The $/ variable specifies the input record separator. It was possible to set it to a non-text character and read in an entire text file as one input, but it wasn't possible to do that for a binary file. Now you can undef $/, and there will be no record separator, so you are guaranteed to get the entire file with one <>. The example in the manual of an open() inside a ?: had the branches of the ?: backwards. I documented the fact that grep can modify arrays in place (with caveats about modifying literal values). I also put in how to deal with filenames that might have arbitrary characters, and mentioned about the problem of unflushed buffers on opens that cause forks. It's now documented how to force top of page before the next write. Formerly, $0 was guaranteed to contain the name of the perl script only till the first regular expression was executed. It now keeps that value permanently. $0 can no longer be used as a synonym for $&. The regular expression evaluator didn't handle character classes with the 8th bit set. None of /[\200-\377]/, \d, \w or \s worked right--the character class because signed characters were not interpreted right, and the builtins because the isdigit(), isalpha() and isspace() macros are only defined if isascii() is true. Patterns of the form /\bfoo/i didn't work right because the \b wants to compare the preceding character with the next one to look for word boundaries, and the i modifier forced a move of the string to a place where it couldn't do that without examining malloc garbage. The type glob syntax *foo produces the symbol table entry for all the various foo variables. Perl has to do certain bookkeeping when moving such values around. The symbol table entry was not adequately differentiated from normal data to prevent occasion confusion, however. On MICROPORTs, the CRIPPLED_CC option made the stab_array() and stab_hash() macros into function calls, but neglected to supply the function definitions. The string length allocated to turn a number into a string internally turned out to be too short on a Sun 4. Several constructs were not recognized properly inside double-quoted strings: underline in name required @foo to be defined rather than %foo threw off bracket matcher not identified with $1 The base.term test gives misleading results if /dev/null happens not to be a character special file. So it now checks for that. The op.stat could exceed the shell's maximum argument length when evaluating </usr/bin/*>. It now chdirs to /usr/bin and does <*>. return grandfathered to never be function call The construct return (1,2,3); did not do what was expected, since return was swallowing the parens in order to consider itself a function. The solution, since return never wants any trailing expression such as return (1,2,3) + 2; is to simply make return an exception to the paren-makes-a-function rule, and treat it the way it always was, so that it doesn't strip the parens. If perldb.pl doesn't exist, there was no reasonable error message given when you invoke perl -d. It now does a do-or-die internally. null hereis core dumped The hereis construct dumped core on a null string: print <<'FOO'; FOO Certain pattern matches weren't working on patterns with embedded nulls because the fbminstr() routine, when it decided it couldn't do a fancy search, degenerated to using instr(), rather than ninstr(), which is better about embedded nulls. The s2p sed-to-perl translator didn't translate \< and \> to \b. Now it does. The a2p awk-to-perl translator didn't put a $ on ExitValue when translating the awk exit construct. It also didn't allow logical expressions inside normal expressions: i = ($1 == 2 || $2 ~ /bar/) a2p.h had definition of a bzero() macro inside an ifdef of BCOPY. The two don't always go together, and since Configure is already looking for both separately...
* perl 3.0 patch #7 (combined patch)Larry Wall1989-12-211-4/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The select operator didn't interpret bit vectors correctly on non-little-endian machines such as Suns. Rather than bollux up the rather straightforward interpretation of bit vectors, I made the select operator rearrange the bytes as necessary. So it is still true that vec($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 patch #3 Patch #2 continuedLarry Wall1989-11-101-3/+4
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* perl 3.0: (no announcement message available)perl-3.000Larry Wall1989-10-181-9/+78
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 Wall1988-06-051-14/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* perl 1.0 patch 12: scripts made by a2p doen't handle leading white space ↵Kriton Kyrimis1988-02-011-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | right on input Awk ignores leading whitespace on split. Perl by default does not. The a2p translator couldn't handle this. The fix is partly to a2p and partly to perl. Perl now has a way to specify to split to ignore leading white space as awk does. A2p now takes advantage of that. I also threw in an optimization that let's runtime patterns compile just once if they are known to be constant, so that split(' ') doesn't compile the pattern every time.
* perl 1.0 patch 5: a2p didn't make use of the config.h generated by ConfigureArnold D. Robbins1988-01-251-1/+12
| | | | | | The a2p program used index() and bcopy(), both of do not exist everywhere. Since Configure was already figuring out about those functions, it is fairly trivial to get a2p to make use of the info.
* a "replacement" for awk and sedperl-1.0Larry Wall1987-12-181-0/+253
[ 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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