1 Revision history for Perl extension ExtUtils::ParseXS.
3 3.30 - Mon Aug 31 10:35:00 CET 2015
4 - Promote to stable CPAN release.
6 3.29_01 - Mon Aug 10 10:45:00 CET 2015
7 - Support added for XS handshake API introduced in 5.21.6.
8 - Backported S_croak_xs_usage optimized on threaded builds
9 - Fix INCLUDE_COMMAND $^X for Perl In Space
10 - Remove 'use lib' left over from refactoring
11 - Document + improve ancient optimization in ParseXS
12 - Improve RETVAL code gen
14 3.24 - Wed Mar 5 18:20:00 CET 2014
15 - Native Android build fixes
16 - More lenient syntax for embedded TYPEMAP blocks in XS:
17 a trailing semicolon will not be required for the block
21 3.22 - Thu Aug 29 19:30:00 CET 2013
22 - Fix parallel testing crashes.
23 - Explicitly require new-enough Exporter.
25 3.21 - Fri Aug 9 19:08:00 CET 2013
26 - stop "sv_2mortal(&PL_sv_yes)" and "(void)sv_newmortal()" for immortal
27 typemap entries [perl #116152]
28 - Deterministic C output (fix for hash randomization in 5.18).
30 3.18_04 - Fri Jun 20 17:47:00 CET 2013
31 - Fix targetable size detection (& better tests)
32 - Assorted cleanup and refactoring.
34 3.18_03 - Fri Apr 19 18:40:00 CET 2013
35 - Heuristic (and flawed) type canonicalization for templated
37 - More tests ported from core.
39 3.18_02 - Mon Apr 15 07:30:00 CET 2013
40 - ExtUtils::ParseXS no longer uses global state (if using OO
42 - New "real" OO interface.
44 3.18_01 - Thu Apr 11 19:17:00 CET 2013
45 - ExtUtils::Typemaps gains a clone method.
47 3.18 - Mon Nov 19 07:35:00 CET 2012
48 - Restore portability to Perl 5.6, which was lost at EU-PXS 3.00.
49 - [perl #112776] avoid warning on an initialized non-parameter
50 - Only increment PL_amagic_generation before 5.9
52 3.15 - Thu Feb 2 08:12:00 CET 2012
53 - Fix version for PAUSE indexer.
55 3.14 - Wed Feb 1 18:22:00 CET 2012
56 - Promote to stable release.
57 - Proper repository and bugtracker info in META.json.
59 3.13_01 - Sat Jan 29 12:45:00 CET 2012
61 => Embedded typemap dumping: A method which will produce the
62 verbatim string for inclusion in XS.
63 => Introducing ExtUtils::Typemaps::Cmd, a helper module which
64 can produce embedded typemap strings via simple one-liners.
65 Useful for including typemaps from other modules in XS code
66 with INCLUDE_COMMAND. See "perldoc ExtUtils::Typemaps::Cmd".
69 => Bugfix: Used to have parsing problems with embedded typemaps
71 => Better error messages on typemap-related issues. If a no
72 typemap was found for a given C type, list all mapped C types
73 so that the user hopefully spots his mistake easily.
75 3.11 - Thu Dec 29 17:55:00 CET 2011
76 - Version/distribution fixes.
78 3.09 - Wed Dec 28 18:48:00 CET 2011
79 - Escape double quotes of file names/commands in #line directives.
81 3.08 - Mon Dec 19 18:03:00 CET 2011
82 - Silence undefined-value-in-addition warning
83 (Nothing serious, just happened sometimes when reporting line numbers for
84 errors. But warning during build process.)
86 3.07 - Wed Dec 7 14:10:00 CET 2011
87 - Fix inconsistent versioning in 3.06.
89 3.06 - Fri Dec 2 08:10:00 CET 2011
91 - Fix Cygwin issues [Tony Cook]
92 avoid conflicting static / dllexport on legacy perls too
93 This probably fixes rt.cpan.org 72313 and 71964.
94 (3928a66ad4bd8aee704eda1942b7877c0ff1ab2c in core)
96 - Convert ` to ' [James Keenan]
97 55bee391aeff3c3b8d22fa4ce5491ee9440028aa and
98 6dfee1ec62c64d7afe8ced4650596dd9e7f71a63 in core
100 - Avoid some test-time warnings [Zefram]
101 97bae9c59cd181b3b54061213ec1fdce0ccb30d4 in core
103 3.05 - Wed Oct 5 08:14:00 CET 2011
105 - No functional changes, promoted to stable release.
107 3.04_04 - Mon Sep 12 08:12:00 CET 2011
109 - Simplify generated XS code by emitting a compatibility version
110 of dVAR. [Nicholas Clark]
112 - Fixed "INCLUDE: $cmd |", CPAN RT #70213
114 3.04_03 - Sun Sep 4 18:49:00 CET 2011
116 - By #defining PERL_EUPXS_ALWAYS_EXPORT or
117 PERL_EUPXS_NEVER_EXPORT early in your XS code, you can
118 force ExtUtils::ParseXS to always or never export
119 XSUB symbols. This has no effect on boot_* symbols since
120 those must be exported.
122 3.04_02 - Sat Sep 3 15:28:00 CET 2011
124 - Don't put null characters into the generated source
125 file when -except is used; write the '\0' escape sequence
126 properly instead. [Stephen Bennett]
128 3.04_01 - Sun Aug 28 17:50:00 CET 2011
130 - The XSUB.h changes to make XS(name) use XS_INTERNAL(name)
131 by default (which were in the 5.15.2 dev release of perl)
132 have been reverted since too many CPAN modules expect to
133 be able to refer to XSUBs declared with XS(name).
134 Instead, ExtUtils::ParseXS will define a copy of the
135 XS_INTERNAL/XS_EXTERNAL macros as necessary going back to
136 perl 5.10.0 (which is the oldest perl I had for testing).
137 By default, ExtUtils::ParseXS will use XS_INTERNAL(name)
140 3.04 - Thu Aug 25 08:20:00 CET 2011
142 - Stable release based on 3.03_03, no functional changes.
144 3.03_03 - Wed Aug 24 19:43:00 CET 2011
146 - Try to fix regression for input-typemap override in XS argument
147 list. (CPAN RT #70448)
149 - Explicit versions in submodules to fail early if something
152 3.03_02 - Sun Aug 21 13:19:00 CET 2011
154 - Properly strip trailing semicolons form inputmaps. These could
155 trigger warnings (errors in strict C89 compilers) due to
156 additional semicolons being interpreted as empty statements.
157 [Torsten Schoenfeld, Jan Dubois, Steffen Mueller]
159 - Now detects and throws a warning if there is a CODE section using
160 RETVAL, but no OUTPUT section. [CPAN RT #69536]
162 - Uses the explicit XS_EXTERNAL macro (from perl 5.15.2 and newer)
163 for XSUBs that need to be exported. Defines XS_EXTERNAL to fall
164 back to XS where that is not available.
166 - Introduces new EXPORT_XSUB_SYMBOLS XS keyword that forces exported
167 XSUB symbols. It's a no-op on perls before 5.15.2.
169 3.03 - Thu Aug 11 08:24:00 CET 2011
171 - Test fix: Try all @INC-derived typemap locations. (CPAN RT #70047)
174 3.02 - Thu Aug 4 18:19:00 CET 2011
176 - Test fix: Use File::Spec->catfile instead of catdir where appropriate.
178 3.01 - Thu Aug 4 17:51:00 CET 2011
180 - No significant changes from 3.00_05.
182 3.00_05 - Wed Jul 27 22:54:00 CET 2011
184 - Define PERL_UNUSED_ARG for pre-3.8.9 perls.
185 This should fix the tests on those perls.
187 3.00_04 - Wed Jul 27 22:22:00 CET 2011
189 - Require perl 5.8.1.
191 - Patches from CPAN RT #53938, #61908
192 Both of these are attempts to fix win32 problems:
193 Bug #61908 for ExtUtils-ParseXS: MSWin compilers and back-slashed paths
194 Bug #53938 for ExtUtils-ParseXS: MinGW Broken after 2.21
196 3.00_03 - Fri Jul 22 20:13:00 CET 2011
198 - Add some diagnostics when xsubpp fails to load a current-enough
199 version of ExtUtils::ParseXS. [Steffen Mueller]
201 - Add a check to Makefile.PL that scans @INC to determine whether
202 the new xsubpp will be shadowed by another, existing xsubpp
203 and warn the user vehemently. [Steffen Mueller]
205 3.00_02 - Thu Jul 14 18:00:00 CET 2011
207 - Move script/xsubpp back to lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
208 The original move caused old xsubpp's to be used.
210 3.00_01 - Tue Jul 12 22:00:00 CET 2011
212 - Major refactoring of the whole code base.
213 It finally runs under 'use strict' for the first time!
214 [James Keenan, Steffen Mueller]
216 - Typemaps can now be embedded into XS code using a here-doc
217 like syntax and the new "TYPEMAP:" XS keyword.
220 - Move typemap handling code to ExtUtils::Typemaps
221 with full object-oriented goodness. [Steffen Mueller]
223 - Check API compatibility when loading xs modules.
224 If on a new-enough perl, add the XS_APIVERSION_BOOTCHECK macro to
225 the _boot function of every XS module to compare it against the API
226 version the module has been compiled against. If the versions do
227 not match, an exception is thrown. [Florian Ragwitz]
229 - Fixed compiler warnings in XS. [Zefram]
231 - Spell-check [Peter J. Acklam]
233 2.2206 - Sun Jul 4 15:43:21 EDT 2010
237 - Make xsubpp accept the _ prototype (RT#57157) [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
239 - INCLUDE_COMMAND portability fixes for VMS (RT#58181) [Craig Berry]
241 - INCLUDE_COMMAND fixes to detect non-zero exit codes (RT#52873)
244 2.2205 - Wed Mar 10 18:15:36 EST 2010
248 - No longer ships with Build.PL to avoid creating a circular dependency
250 2.2204 - Wed Mar 10 14:23:52 EST 2010
254 - Downgraded warnings on using INCLUDE with a command from "deprecated"
255 to "discouraged" and limited it to the case where the command includes
256 "perl" [Steffen Mueller]
258 2.2203 - Thu Feb 11 14:00:51 EST 2010
262 - Build.PL was not including ExtUtils/xsubpp for installation. Fixed
263 by subclassing M::B::find_pm_files to include it [David Golden]
265 2.2202 - Wed Jan 27 15:04:59 EST 2010
269 - The fix to IN/OUT/OUTLIST was itself broken and is now fixed.
270 [Reported by Serdar Dalgic; fix suggested by Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
272 We apologize for the fault in the regex. Those responsible
275 2.2201 Mon Jan 25 16:12:05 EST 2010
279 - IN/OUT/OUTLIST, etc. were broken due to a bad regexp. [Simon Cozens]
281 2.22 - Mon Jan 11 15:00:07 EST 2010
283 No changes from 2.21_02
285 2.21_02 - Sat Dec 19 10:55:41 EST 2009
289 - fixed bugs and added tests for INCLUDE_COMMAND [Steffen Mueller]
291 2.21_01 - Sat Dec 19 07:22:44 EST 2009
295 - New 'INCLUDE_COMMAND' directive [Steffen Mueller]
299 - Workaround for empty newXS macro found in P5NCI [Goro Fuji]
301 2.21 - Mon Oct 5 11:17:53 EDT 2009
304 - Adds full path in INCLUDE #line directives (RT#50198) [patch by "spb"]
307 - Updated copyright and maintainer list
309 2.20_07 - Sat Oct 3 11:26:55 EDT 2009
312 - Use "char* file" for perl < 5.9, not "char[] file"; fixes mod_perl
313 breakage due to prior attempts to fix RT#48104 [David Golden]
315 2.20_06 - Fri Oct 2 23:45:45 EDT 2009
318 - Added t/typemap to fix broken test on perl 5.6.2 [David Golden]
319 - More prototype fixes for older perls [Goro Fuji]
320 - Avoid "const char *" in test files as it breaks on 5.6.2 [Goro Fuji]
323 - Merged changes from 2.2004 maintenance branch (see 2.200401 to 2.200403)
326 2.20_05 - Sat Aug 22 21:46:56 EDT 2009
329 - Fix prototype related bugs [Goro Fuji]
330 - Fix the SCOPE keyword [Goro Fuji]
332 2.200403 - Fri Oct 2 02:01:58 EDT 2009
335 - Removed PERL_CORE specific @INC manipulation (no longer needed)
337 - Changed hard-coded $^H manipulation in favor of "use re 'eval'"
340 2.200402 - Fri Oct 2 01:26:40 EDT 2009
343 - UNITCHECK subroutines were not being called (detected in ext/XS-APItest
344 in Perl blead) [reported by Jesse Vincent, patched by David Golden]
346 2.200401 - Mon Sep 14 22:26:03 EDT 2009
348 - No changes from 2.20_04.
351 2.20_04 - Mon Aug 10 11:18:47 EDT 2009
354 - Changed install_dirs to 'core' for 5.8.9 as well (RT#48474)
355 - Removed t/bugs.t until there is better C++ support in ExtUtils::CBuilder
358 - Updated repository URL in META file
360 2.20_03 - Thu Jul 23 23:14:50 EDT 2009
363 - Fixed "const char *" errors for 5.8.8 (and older) (RT#48104)
365 - Added newline before a preprocessor directive (RT#30673)
368 2.2002 - Sat Jul 18 17:22:27 EDT 2009
371 - Fix Makefile.PL installdirs for older perls
373 2.20_01 - Wed Jul 8 12:12:47 EDT 2009
375 - Fix XSUsage prototypes for testing [Jan Dubois]
377 2.20 - Wed Jul 1 13:42:11 EDT 2009
379 - No changes from 2.19_04
381 2.19_04 - Mon Jun 29 11:49:12 EDT 2009
383 - Changed tests to use Test::More and added it to prereqs
385 - Some tests skip if no compiler or if no dynamic loading
387 - INTERFACE keyword tests skipped for perl < 5.8
389 2.19_03 - Sat Jun 27 22:51:18 EDT 2009
391 - Released to see updated results from smoke testers
393 - Fix minor doc typo pulled from blead
395 2.19_02 - Wed Aug 6 22:18:33 2008
397 - Fix the usage reports to consistently report package name as well
398 as sub name across ALIAS, INTERFACE and regular XSUBS. [Robert May]
400 - Cleaned up a warning with -Wwrite-strings that gets passed into
401 every parsed XS file. [Steve Peters]
403 - Allow (pedantically correct) C pre-processor comments in the code
404 snippets of typemap files. [Nicholas Clark]
406 2.19 - Sun Feb 17 14:27:40 2008
408 - Fixed the treatment of the OVERLOAD: keyword, which was causing a C
409 compile error. [Toshiyuki Yamato]
411 2.18 - Mon Jan 29 20:56:36 2007
413 - Added some UNITCHECK stuff, which (I think) makes XS code able to
414 do UNITCHECK blocks. [Nicholas Clark]
416 - Changed 'use re "eval";' to 'BEGIN { $^H |= 0x00200000 };' so we
417 can compile re.xs in bleadperl. [Yves Orton]
419 - Fix an undefined-variable warning related to 'inout' parameter
422 2.17 - Mon Nov 20 17:07:27 2006
424 - Stacked $filepathname to make #line directives in #INCLUDEs work.
427 - Sprinked dVAR in with dXSARGS, for God-(Jarkko)-knows-what
428 reason. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
430 - Use printf-style formats in Perl_croak() for some significant
431 savings in number of distinct constant strings in the linked
432 binaries we create. [Alexey Tourbin]
434 - Don't use 'class' as a variable name in the t/XSTest.xs module,
435 since that's a keyword in C++. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
437 2.16 Fri Sep 15 22:33:24 CDT 2006
439 - Fix a problem with PREFIX not working inside INTERFACE
440 sections. [Salvador Fandin~o]
442 2.15 Mon Oct 10 11:02:13 EDT 2005
444 - I accidentally left out a README from the distribution. Now it's
445 auto-created from the main documentation in ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm.
447 2.14 Sat Oct 8 21:49:15 EDT 2005
449 - The filehandle for the .xs file was never being properly closed,
450 and now it is. This was causing some Win32 problems with
451 Module::Build's tests, which create a .xs file, process it with
452 ParseXS, and then try to remove it. [Spotted by Randy Sims]
454 2.13 Mon Oct 3 21:59:06 CDT 2005
456 - Integrate a cleanup-related change from bleadperl that somehow
457 never got into this copy. [Steve Hay]
459 2.12 Wed Aug 24 20:03:09 CDT 2005
461 - On Win32, there was a DLL file we create during testing that we
462 couldn't delete unless we closed it first, so testing failed when
463 the deletion was attempted. This should now work (provided the
464 version of perl is high enough to have DynaLoader::dl_unload_file()
465 - I'm not sure what will happen otherwise). [Steve Hay]
467 - Fix a spurious warning during testing about a variable that's used
468 before it's initialized. [Steve Hay]
470 2.11 Mon Jun 13 23:00:23 CDT 2005
472 - Make some variables global, to avoid some "will not stay shared"
473 warnings at compile time. [Rafael Garcia-Suarez]
475 2.10 Mon May 30 21:29:44 CDT 2005
477 - This module is being integrated into the perl core; the regression
478 tests will now work properly when run as part of the core build.
479 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]
481 - Added the ability to create output files with a suffix other than
482 ".c", via the new "csuffix" option. This gets the module working
483 on Symbian. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
485 - Added the ability to put 'extern "C"' declarations in front of
486 prototypes. [Jarkko Hietaniemi]
488 2.09 Sun Mar 27 11:11:49 CST 2005
490 - Integrated change #18270 from the perl core, which fixed a problem
491 in which xsubpp can make nested comments in C code (which is
492 bad). [Nicholas Clark]
494 - When no "MODULE ... PACKAGE ... PREFIX" line is found, it's now
495 still a fatal error for ParseXS, but we exit with status 0, which
496 is what the old xsubpp did and seems to work best with some modules
497 like Win32::NetAdmin. See RT ticket 11472. [Steve Hay]
499 2.08 Fri Feb 20 21:41:22 CST 2004
501 - Fixed a problem with backslashes in file paths (e.g. C:\Foo\Bar.xs)
502 disappearing in error messages. [Randy Sims, Steve Hay]
504 - Did a little minor internal code cleanup in the
505 ExtUtils::ParseXS::CountLines class, now other classes don't poke
506 around in its package variables.
508 2.07 Sun Jan 25 17:01:52 CST 2004
510 - We now use ExtUtils::CBuilder for testing the compile/build phase
511 in the regression tests. It's not necessary to have it for runtime
514 - Fixed a minor documentation error (look in 'Changes' for revision
515 history, not 'changes.pod'). [Scott R. Godin]
517 2.06 Fri Dec 26 09:00:47 CST 2003
519 - Some fixes in the regression tests for the AIX platform.
521 2.05 Mon Sep 29 10:33:39 CDT 2003
523 - We no longer trim the directory portions from the "#line " comments
524 in the generated C code. This helps cooperation with many editors'
525 auto-jump-to-error stuff. [Ross McFarland]
527 - In some cases the PERL_UNUSED_VAR macro is needed to get rid of C
528 compile-time warnings in generated code. Since this eliminates so
529 many warnings, turning on "-Wall -W" (or your platform's
530 equivalent) can once again be helpful. [Ross McFarland]
532 - Did a huge amount of variable-scoping cleanup, and it *still*
533 doesn't compile under 'use strict;'. Much progress was made
534 though, and many scoping issues were fixed.
536 2.04 Thu Sep 4 13:10:59 CDT 2003
538 - Added a COPYRIGHT section to the documentation. [Spotted by Ville
541 2.03 Sat Aug 16 17:49:03 CST 2003
543 - Fixed a warning that occurs if a regular expression (buried deep
544 within the bowels of the code here) fails. [Spotted by Michael
547 - Fixed a testing error on Cygwin. [Reini Urban]
549 2.02 Sun Mar 30 18:20:12 CST 2003
551 - Now that we know this module doesn't work (yet?) with perl 5.005,
552 put a couple 'use 5.006' statements in the module & Makefile.PL so
553 we're explicit about the dependency. [Richard Clamp]
555 2.01 Thu Mar 20 08:22:36 CST 2003
557 - Allow -C++ flag for backward compatibility. It's a no-op, and has
558 been since perl5.003_07. [PodMaster]
560 2.00 Sun Feb 23 16:40:17 CST 2003
562 - Tests now function under all three of the supported compilers on
563 Windows environments. [Randy W. Sims]
565 - Will now install to the 'core' perl module directory instead of to
566 'site_perl' or the like, because this is the only place MakeMaker
567 will look for the xsubpp script.
569 - Explicitly untie and close the output file handle because ParseXS was
570 holding the file handle open, preventing the compiler from opening
571 it on Win32. [Randy W. Sims]
573 - Added an '--output FILENAME' flag to xsubpp and changed ParseXS to use
574 the named file in the #line directives when the output file has an
575 extension other than '.c' (i.e. '.cpp'). [Randy W. Sims]
577 - Added conditional definition of the PERL_UNUSED_VAR macro to the
578 output file in case it's not already defined for backwards
579 compatibility with pre-5.8 versions of perl. (Not sure if this is the
580 best solution.) [Randy W. Sims]
583 1.99 Wed Feb 5 10:07:47 PST 2003
585 - Version bump to 1.99 so it doesn't look like a 'beta release' to
586 CPAN.pm. No code changes, since I haven't had any bug reports.
588 - Fixed a minor problem in the regression tests that was creating an
589 XSTest..o file instead of XSTest.o
592 1.98_01 Mon Dec 9 11:50:41 EST 2002
594 - Converted from ExtUtils::xsubpp in bleadperl
596 - Basic set of regression tests written