-Sat Dec 1 14:37:54 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Mon May 23 22:48:49 IST 2005 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
-. Description:
+ Version 2.15
- This is the LAST maintenance release of the Storable module.
- Indeed, Storable is now part of perl 5.8, and will be maintained
- as part of Perl. The CPAN module will remain available there
- for people running pre-5.8 perls.
+ Minor changes to address a couple of compile problems.
- Avoid requiring Fcntl upfront, useful to embedded runtimes.
- Use an eval {} for testing, instead of making Storable.pm
- simply fail its compilation in the BEGIN block.
+Mon Apr 25 07:29:14 IST 2005 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
- store_fd() will now correctly autoflush file if needed.
+ Version 2.14
-Tue Aug 28 23:53:20 MEST 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ 1. Store weak references
+ 2. Add STORABLE_attach hook.
-. Description:
+Thu Jun 17 12:26:43 BST 2004 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
- Fixed truncation race with lock_retrieve() in lock_store().
- The file has to be truncated only once the exclusive lock is held.
+ Version 2.13
- Removed spurious debugging messages in .xs file.
+ 1. Don't change the type of top level overloaded references to RV -
+ they are perfectly correct as PVMG
+ 2. Storable needs to cope with incoming frozen data that happens to be
+ utf8 encoded.
-Sun Jul 1 13:27:32 MEST 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Wed Mar 17 15:40:29 GMT 2004 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
-. Description:
+ Version 2.12
- Systematically use "=over 4" for POD linters.
- Apparently, POD linters are much stricter than would
- otherwise be needed, but that's OK.
+ 1. Add regression tests for the auto-require of STORABLE_thaw
+ 2. Add auto-require of modules to restore overloading (and tests)
+ 3. Change to no context (should give speedup with ithreads)
- Fixed memory corruption on croaks during thaw(). Thanks
- to Claudio Garcia for reproducing this bug and providing the
- code to exercise it. Added test cases for this bug, adapted
- from Claudio's code.
+Sat Mar 13 20:11:03 GMT 2004 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+
+ Version 2.11
- Made code compile cleanly with -Wall (from Jarkko Hietaniemi).
+ 1. Storing restricted hashes in canonical order would SEGV. Fixed.
+ 2. It was impossible to retrieve references to PL_sv_no and and
+ PL_sv_undef from STORABLE_thaw hooks.
+ 3. restrict.t was failing on 5.8.0, due to 5.8.0's unique
+ implementation of restricted hashes using PL_sv_undef
+ 4. These changes allow a space optimisation for restricted hashes.
- Changed tagnum and classnum from I32 to IV in context. Also
- from Jarkko.
+Sat Jan 24 16:22:32 IST 2004 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
-Thu Mar 15 01:22:32 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Version 2.10
-. Description:
+ 1. Thread safety: Storable::CLONE/init_perlinterp() now create
+ a new Perl context for each new ithread.
+ (From Stas Bekman and Jan Dubois.)
+ 2. Fix a tag count mismatch with $Storable::Deparse that caused
+ all back-references after a stored sub to be off-by-N (where
+ N was the number of code references in between).
+ (From Sam Vilain.)
+ 3. Prevent CODE references from turning into SCALAR references.
+ (From Slaven Rezic.)
- Last version was wrongly compiling with assertions on, due
- to an edit glitch. That did not cause any problem (apart from
- a slight performance loss) excepted on Win* platforms, where the
- assertion code does not compile.
+Sat Jan 3 18:49:18 GMT 2004 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
-Sat Feb 17 13:37:37 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Version 2.09
-. Description:
+ Fix minor problems with the CPAN release
+ 1: Make Storable.xs work on 5.8.2 and later (already in the core)
+ 2: Ship the linux hints file
+ 3: Ship Test::More for the benefit of Perls pre 5.6.2
+ 4: Correct Makefile.PL to only install in core for 5.8.0 and later
- Version 1.0.10.
+Sat Sep 6 01:08:20 IST 2003 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
- Forgot to increase version number at previous patch (there were
- two of them, which is why we jump from 1.0.8 to 1.0.10).
+ Version 2.08
-Sat Feb 17 13:35:00 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ This release works around a 5.8.0 bug which caused hashes to not
+ be marked as having key flags even though an HEK had HEK_WASUTF8
+ set. (Note that the only reasonable solution is to silently drop
+ the flag from the affected key.)
-. Description:
+ Users of RT 3 who were seeing assertion failures should upgrade.
+ (Perl 5.8.1 will have the bug fixed.)
- Version 1.0.8, binary format 2.4.
+Mon May 5 10:24:16 IST 2003 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
- Fixed incorrect error message.
+ Version 2.07
- Now bless objects ASAP at retrieve time, which is meant to fix
- two bugs:
+ Minor bugfixes (self-tied objects are now correctly stored, as
+ are the results of additions larger than INT_MAX).
- * Indirect references to overloaded object were not able to
- restore overloading if the object was not blessed yet,
- which was possible since blessing occurred only after the
- recursive retrieval.
+Mon Oct 7 21:56:38 BST 2002 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
- * Storable hooks asking for serialization of blessed ref could
- get un-blessed refs at retrieval time, for the very same
- reason.
+ Version 2.06
- The fix implemented here was suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons.
+ Remove qr// from t/downgrade.t so that it will run on 5.004
+ Mention $File::Spec::VERSION a second time in t/forgive.t so that it
+ runs without warnings in 5.004 (this may be a 5.00405 bug I'm working
+ round)
+ Fix t/integer.t initialisation to actually generate 64 bits of 9c
+ Fix comparison tests to use eval to get around 64 bit IV conversion
+ issues on 5.6.x, following my t/integer.t ^ precedence bug found by
+ Rafael Garcia-Suarez
+ Alter t/malice.t to work with Test/More.pm in t/, and skip individual
+ subtests that use $Config{ptrsize}, so that the rest of the test can
+ now be run with 5.004
+ Change t/malice.t and the error message in check_magic in Storable.xs
+ from "Pointer integer size" to "Pointer size"
+ Remove prerequisite of Test::More from Makefile.PL
+ Ship Test::Builder, Test::Simple and Test::More in t
- Added support for blessed ref to tied structures. This is the
- cause for the binary format change.
+Thu Oct 3 08:57:22 IST 2002 Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
- Added EBCDIC version of the compatibility test with 0.6.11,
- from Peter Prymmer
+ Version 2.05
- Added tests for the new features, and to make sure the bugs they
- are meant to fix are indeed fixed.
+ Adds support for CODE references from Slaven Rezic
+ <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>.
-Wed Jan 3 10:43:18 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Fri Jun 7 23:55:41 BST 2002 Nicholas Clark
-. Description:
+ Version 2.04
- Removed spurious 'clean' entry in Makefile.PL.
+ Bug fix from Radu Greab <radu@netsoft.ro> (plus regression test)
+ to fix a recently introduced bug detected by Dave Rolsky.
+ Bug was that for a non threaded build, the class information was
+ being lost at freeze time on the first object with a STORABLE_freeze
+ hook. Consequentially the object was not blessed at all when thawed.
+ (The presence (or lack) of STORABLE_thaw was irrelevant; this was
+ a store-time data lost bug, caused by failure to initialize internal
+ context)
+ The bug was introduced as development perl change 16442 (on
+ 2002/05/07), so has been present since 2.00.
+ Patches to introduce more regression tests to reduce the chance of
+ a reoccurance of this sort of goof are always welcome.
+
+Thu May 30 20:31:08 BST 2002 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+
+ Version 2.03 Header changes on 5.6.x on Unix where IV is long long
+
+ 5.6.x introduced the ability to have IVs as long long. However,
+ Configure still defined BYTEORDER based on the size of a long.
+ Storable uses the BYTEORDER value as part of the header, but
+ doesn't explicity store sizeof(IV) anywhere in the header.
+ Hence on 5.6.x built with IV as long long on a platform that
+ uses Configure (ie most things except VMS and Windows) headers
+ are identical for the different IV sizes, despite the files
+ containing some fields based on sizeof(IV)
+
+ 5.8.0 is consistent; all platforms have BYTEORDER in config.h
+ based on sizeof(IV) rather than sizeof(long). This means that
+ the value of BYTEORDER will change from (say) 4321 to 87654321
+ between 5.6.1 and 5.8.0 built with the same options to Configure
+ on the same machine. This means that the Storable header will
+ differ, and the two versions will wrongly thing that they are
+ incompatible.
+
+ For the benefit of long term consistency, Storable now
+ implements the 5.8.0 BYTEORDER policy on 5.6.x. This means that
+ 2.03 onwards default to be incompatible with 2.02 and earlier
+ (ie the large 1.0.x installed base) on the same 5.6.x perl.
+
+ To allow interworking, a new variable
+ $Storable::interwork_56_64bit is introduced. It defaults to
+ false. Set it to true to read and write old format files. Don't
+ use it unless you have existing stored data written with 5.6.x
+ that you couldn't otherwise read, or you need to interwork with
+ a machine running older Storable on a 5.6.x with long long IVs
+ (i.e., you probably don't need to use it).
+
+Sat May 25 22:38:39 BST 2002 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+
+ Version 2.02
+
+ Rewrite Storable.xs so that the file header structure for write_magic
+ is built at compile time, and check_magic attempts to the header in
+ blocks rather than byte per byte. These changes make the compiled
+ extension 2.25% smaller, but are not significant enough to give a
+ noticeable speed up.
+
+Thu May 23 22:50:41 BST 2002 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+
+ Version 2.01
+
+ - New regression tests integer.t
+ - Add code to safely store large unsigned integers.
+ - Change code not to attempt to store large integers (ie > 32 bits)
+ in network order as 32 bits.
+
+ *Never* underestimate the value of a pathological test suite carefully
+ crafted with maximum malice before writing a line of real code. It
+ prevents crafty bugs from stowing away in your released code.
+ It's much less embarrassing to find them before you ship.
+ (Well, never underestimate it if you ever want to work for me)
+
+Fri May 17 22:48:59 BST 2002 Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+
+ Version 2.0, binary format 2.5 (but writes format 2.4 on pre 5.7.3)
+
+ The perl5 porters have decided to make sure that Storable still
+ builds on pre-5.8 perls, and make the 5.8 version available on CPAN.
+ The VERSION is now 2.0, and it passes all tests on 5.005_03, 5.6.1
+ and 5.6.1 with threads. On 5.6.0 t/downgrade.t fails tests 34 and 37,
+ due to a bug in 5.6.0 - upgrade to 5.6.1.
+
+ Jarkko and I have collated the list of changes the perl5 porters have
+ from the perl5 Changes file:
+
+ - data features of upcoming perl 5.8.0 are supported: Unicode hash
+ keys (Unicode hash values have been supported since Storable 1.0.1)
+ and "restricted hashes" (readonly hashes and hash entries)
+ - a newer version of perl can now be used to serialize data which is
+ not supported in earlier perls: Storable will attempt to do the
+ right thing for as long as possible, croaking only when safe data
+ conversion simply isn't possible. Alternatively earlier perls can
+ opt to have a lossy downgrade data instead of croaking
+ - when built with perls pre 5.7.3 this Storable writes out files
+ with binary format 2.4, the same format as Storable 1.0.8 onwards.
+ This should mean that this Storable will inter-operate seamlessly
+ with any Storable 1.0.8 or newer on perls pre 5.7.3
+ - dclone() now works with empty string scalar objects
+ - retrieving of large hashes is now more efficient
+ - more routines autosplit out of the main module, so Storable should
+ load slightly more quickly
+ - better documentation
+ - the internal context objects are now freed explicitly, rather than
+ relying on thread or process exit
+ - bugs fixed in debugging trace code affecting builds made with 64 bit
+ IVs
+ - code tidy-ups to allow clean compiles with more warning options
+ turned on avoid problems with $@ getting corrupted on 5.005_03 if
+ Carp wasn't already loaded
+ - added &show_file_magic, so you can add to /etc/magic and teach
+ Unix's file command about Storable files
+
+ We plan to keep Storable on CPAN in sync with the Perl core, so
+ if you encounter bugs or other problems building or using Storable,
+ please let us know at perl5-porters@perl.org
+ Patches welcome!
+
+Sat Dec 1 14:37:54 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Added CAN_FLOCK to determine whether we can flock() or not,
- by inspecting Perl's configuration parameters, as determined
- by Configure.
+ This is the LAST maintenance release of the Storable module.
+ Indeed, Storable is now part of perl 5.8, and will be maintained
+ as part of Perl. The CPAN module will remain available there
+ for people running pre-5.8 perls.
- Trace offending package when overloading cannot be restored
- on a scalar.
+ Avoid requiring Fcntl upfront, useful to embedded runtimes.
+ Use an eval {} for testing, instead of making Storable.pm
+ simply fail its compilation in the BEGIN block.
- Made context cleanup safer to avoid dup freeing, mostly in the
- presence of repeated exceptions during store/retrieve (which can
- cause memory leaks anyway, so it's just additional safety, not a
- definite fix).
+ store_fd() will now correctly autoflush file if needed.
-Sun Nov 5 18:23:48 MET 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Tue Aug 28 23:53:20 MEST 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
+ Fixed truncation race with lock_retrieve() in lock_store().
+ The file has to be truncated only once the exclusive lock is held.
- Version 1.0.6.
+ Removed spurious debugging messages in .xs file.
- Fixed severe "object lost" bug for STORABLE_freeze returns,
- when refs to lexicals, taken within the hook, were to be
- serialized by Storable. Enhanced the t/recurse.t test to
- stress hook a little more with refs to lexicals.
+Sun Jul 1 13:27:32 MEST 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-Thu Oct 26 19:14:38 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Systematically use "=over 4" for POD linters.
+ Apparently, POD linters are much stricter than would
+ otherwise be needed, but that's OK.
-. Description:
+ Fixed memory corruption on croaks during thaw(). Thanks
+ to Claudio Garcia for reproducing this bug and providing the
+ code to exercise it. Added test cases for this bug, adapted
+ from Claudio's code.
- Version 1.0.5.
+ Made code compile cleanly with -Wall (from Jarkko Hietaniemi).
- Documented that store() and retrieve() can return undef.
- That is, the error reporting is not always made via exceptions,
- as the paragraph on error reporting was implying.
+ Changed tagnum and classnum from I32 to IV in context. Also
+ from Jarkko.
- Auto requires module of blessed ref when STORABLE_thaw misses.
- When the Storable engine looks for the STORABLE_thaw hook and
- does not find it, it now tries to require the package into which
- the blessed reference is.
+Thu Mar 15 01:22:32 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Just check $^O, in t/lock.t: there's no need to pull the whole
- Config module for that.
+ Last version was wrongly compiling with assertions on, due
+ to an edit glitch. That did not cause any problem (apart from
+ a slight performance loss) excepted on Win* platforms, where the
+ assertion code does not compile.
-Mon Oct 23 20:03:49 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Sat Feb 17 13:37:37 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
+ Version 1.0.10.
- Version 1.0.4.
+ Forgot to increase version number at previous patch (there were
+ two of them, which is why we jump from 1.0.8 to 1.0.10).
- Protected calls to flock() for DOS platform: apparently, the
- flock/fcnlt emulation is reported to be broken on that
- platform.
+Sat Feb 17 13:35:00 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Added logcarp emulation if they don't have Log::Agent, since
- we now use it to carp when lock_store/lock_retrieve is used
- on DOS.
+ Version 1.0.8, binary format 2.4.
-Fri Sep 29 21:52:29 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Fixed incorrect error message.
-. Description:
+ Now bless objects ASAP at retrieve time, which is meant to fix
+ two bugs:
- Version 1.0.3.
+ * Indirect references to overloaded object were not able to
+ restore overloading if the object was not blessed yet,
+ which was possible since blessing occurred only after the
+ recursive retrieval.
- Avoid using "tainted" and "dirty" since Perl remaps them via
- cpp (i.e. #define). This is deeply harmful when threading
- is enabled. This concerned both the context structure and
- local variable and argument names. Brrr..., scary!
+ * Storable hooks asking for serialization of blessed ref could
+ get un-blessed refs at retrieval time, for the very same
+ reason.
-Thu Sep 28 23:46:39 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ The fix implemented here was suggested by Nick Ing-Simmons.
+
+ Added support for blessed ref to tied structures. This is the
+ cause for the binary format change.
-. Description:
+ Added EBCDIC version of the compatibility test with 0.6.11,
+ from Peter Prymmer
- Version 1.0.2.
+ Added tests for the new features, and to make sure the bugs they
+ are meant to fix are indeed fixed.
- Fixed spelling in README.
+Wed Jan 3 10:43:18 MET 2001 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Added lock_store, lock_nstore, and lock_retrieve (advisory locking)
- after a proposal from Erik Haugan <erik@solbors.no>.
+ Removed spurious 'clean' entry in Makefile.PL.
- Perls before 5.004_04 lack newSVpvn, added remapping in XS.
+ Added CAN_FLOCK to determine whether we can flock() or not,
+ by inspecting Perl's configuration parameters, as determined
+ by Configure.
- Fixed stupid typo in the t/utf8.t test.
+ Trace offending package when overloading cannot be restored
+ on a scalar.
-Sun Sep 17 18:51:10 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Made context cleanup safer to avoid dup freeing, mostly in the
+ presence of repeated exceptions during store/retrieve (which can
+ cause memory leaks anyway, so it's just additional safety, not a
+ definite fix).
-. Description:
+Sun Nov 5 18:23:48 MET 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Version 1.0.1, binary format 2.3.
+ Version 1.0.6.
- Documented that doubles are stored stringified by nstore().
+ Fixed severe "object lost" bug for STORABLE_freeze returns,
+ when refs to lexicals, taken within the hook, were to be
+ serialized by Storable. Enhanced the t/recurse.t test to
+ stress hook a little more with refs to lexicals.
- Added Salvador Ortiz Garcia in CREDITS section, He identified
- a bug in the store hooks and proposed the right fix: the class
- id was allocated too soon. His bug case was also added to
- the regression test suite.
+Thu Oct 26 19:14:38 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Now only taint retrieved data when source was tainted. A bug
- discovered by Marc Lehmann.
+ Version 1.0.5.
- Added support for UTF-8 strings, a contribution of Marc Lehmann.
- This is normally only activated in post-5.6 perls.
+ Documented that store() and retrieve() can return undef.
+ That is, the error reporting is not always made via exceptions,
+ as the paragraph on error reporting was implying.
-Thu Aug 31 23:06:06 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Auto requires module of blessed ref when STORABLE_thaw misses.
+ When the Storable engine looks for the STORABLE_thaw hook and
+ does not find it, it now tries to require the package into which
+ the blessed reference is.
- First official release Storable 1.0, for inclusion in perl 5.7.0.
- The license scheme is now compatible with Perl's.
+ Just check $^O, in t/lock.t: there's no need to pull the whole
+ Config module for that.
-Thu Aug 24 01:02:02 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+Mon Oct 23 20:03:49 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
+ Version 1.0.4.
+ Protected calls to flock() for DOS platform: apparently, the
+ flock/fcnlt emulation is reported to be broken on that
+ platform.
- ANSI-fied most of the code, preparing for Perl core integration.
- The next version of Storable will be 0.8, and will be integrated
- into the Perl core (development branch).
+ Added logcarp emulation if they don't have Log::Agent, since
+ we now use it to carp when lock_store/lock_retrieve is used
+ on DOS.
- Dispatch tables were moved upfront to relieve some compilers,
- especially on AIX and Windows platforms.
+Fri Sep 29 21:52:29 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Merged 64-bit fixes from perl5-porters.
+ Version 1.0.3.
-Mon Aug 14 09:22:04 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Avoid using "tainted" and "dirty" since Perl remaps them via
+ cpp (i.e. #define). This is deeply harmful when threading
+ is enabled. This concerned both the context structure and
+ local variable and argument names. Brrr..., scary!
-. Description:
+Thu Sep 28 23:46:39 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Added a refcnt dec in retrieve_tied_key(): sv_magic() increases
- the refcnt on the mg_ptr as well.
+ Version 1.0.2.
- Removed spurious dependency to Devel::Peek, which was used for
- testing only in t/tied_items.t. Thanks to Conrad Heiney
- <conrad@fringehead.org> for spotting it first.
+ Fixed spelling in README.
-Sun Aug 13 22:12:59 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+ Added lock_store, lock_nstore, and lock_retrieve (advisory locking)
+ after a proposal from Erik Haugan <erik@solbors.no>.
+
+ Perls before 5.004_04 lack newSVpvn, added remapping in XS.
+
+ Fixed stupid typo in the t/utf8.t test.
+
+Sun Sep 17 18:51:10 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+
+ Version 1.0.1, binary format 2.3.
+
+ Documented that doubles are stored stringified by nstore().
+
+ Added Salvador Ortiz Garcia in CREDITS section, He identified
+ a bug in the store hooks and proposed the right fix: the class
+ id was allocated too soon. His bug case was also added to
+ the regression test suite.
+
+ Now only taint retrieved data when source was tainted. A bug
+ discovered by Marc Lehmann.
+
+ Added support for UTF-8 strings, a contribution of Marc Lehmann.
+ This is normally only activated in post-5.6 perls.
+
+Thu Aug 31 23:06:06 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+
+ First official release Storable 1.0, for inclusion in perl 5.7.0.
+ The license scheme is now compatible with Perl's.
+
+Thu Aug 24 01:02:02 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+
+ ANSI-fied most of the code, preparing for Perl core integration.
+ The next version of Storable will be 0.8, and will be integrated
+ into the Perl core (development branch).
+
+ Dispatch tables were moved upfront to relieve some compilers,
+ especially on AIX and Windows platforms.
-. Description:
+ Merged 64-bit fixes from perl5-porters.
- Marc Lehmann kindly contributed code to add overloading support
- and to handle references to tied variables.
+Mon Aug 14 09:22:04 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
+
+ Added a refcnt dec in retrieve_tied_key(): sv_magic() increases
+ the refcnt on the mg_ptr as well.
+
+ Removed spurious dependency to Devel::Peek, which was used for
+ testing only in t/tied_items.t. Thanks to Conrad Heiney
+ <conrad@fringehead.org> for spotting it first.
+
+Sun Aug 13 22:12:59 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- Rewrote leading blurb about compatibility to make it clearer what
- "backward compatibility" is about: when I say 0.7 is backward
- compatible with 0.6, it means the revision 0.7 can read files
- produced by 0.6.
+ Marc Lehmann kindly contributed code to add overloading support
+ and to handle references to tied variables.
- Mention new Clone(3) extension in SEE ALSO.
+ Rewrote leading blurb about compatibility to make it clearer what
+ "backward compatibility" is about: when I say 0.7 is backward
+ compatible with 0.6, it means the revision 0.7 can read files
+ produced by 0.6.
- Was wrongly optimizing for "undef" values in hashes by not
- fully recursing: as a result, tied "undef" values were incorrectly
- serialized.
+ Mention new Clone(3) extension in SEE ALSO.
+
+ Was wrongly optimizing for "undef" values in hashes by not
+ fully recursing: as a result, tied "undef" values were incorrectly
+ serialized.
Sun Jul 30 12:59:17 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
- First revision of Storable 0.7.
+ First revision of Storable 0.7.
- The serializing format is new, known as version 2.0. It is fully
- backward compatible with 0.6. Earlier formats are deprecated and
- have not even been tested: next version will drop pre-0.6 format.
+ The serializing format is new, known as version 2.0. It is fully
+ backward compatible with 0.6. Earlier formats are deprecated and
+ have not even been tested: next version will drop pre-0.6 format.
- Changes since 0.6@11:
+ Changes since 0.6@11:
- - Moved interface to the "beta" status. Some tiny parts are still
- subject to change, but nothing important enough to warrant an "alpha"
- status any longer.
+ - Moved interface to the "beta" status. Some tiny parts are still
+ subject to change, but nothing important enough to warrant an "alpha"
+ status any longer.
- - Slightly reduced the size of the Storable image by factorizing
- object class names and removing final object storage notification due
- to a redesign of the blessed object storing.
+ - Slightly reduced the size of the Storable image by factorizing
+ object class names and removing final object storage notification due
+ to a redesign of the blessed object storing.
- - Classes can now redefine how they wish their instances to be serialized
- and/or deep cloned. Serializing hooks are written in Perl code.
+ - Classes can now redefine how they wish their instances to be serialized
+ and/or deep cloned. Serializing hooks are written in Perl code.
- - The engine is now fully re-entrant.
+ - The engine is now fully re-entrant.
Sun Apr 2 23:47:50 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
-
- Added provision to detect more recent binary formats, since
- the new upcoming Storable-0.7 will use a different format.
- In order to prevent attempting the de-serialization of newer
- formats by older versions, I'm adding this now to the 0.6 series.
+ Added provision to detect more recent binary formats, since
+ the new upcoming Storable-0.7 will use a different format.
+ In order to prevent attempting the de-serialization of newer
+ formats by older versions, I'm adding this now to the 0.6 series.
- I'm expecting this revision to be the last of the 0.6 series.
- Unless it does not work with perl 5.6, which I don't use yet,
- and therefore against which I cannot test.
+ I'm expecting this revision to be the last of the 0.6 series.
+ Unless it does not work with perl 5.6, which I don't use yet,
+ and therefore against which I cannot test.
Wed Mar 29 19:55:21 MEST 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
-
- Added note about format incompatibilities with old versions
- (i.e. pre 0.5@9 formats, which cannot be understood as there
- was no versionning information in the file by then).
+ Added note about format incompatibilities with old versions
+ (i.e. pre 0.5@9 formats, which cannot be understood as there
+ was no versionning information in the file by then).
- Protect all $@ variables when eval {} used, to avoid corrupting
- it when store/retrieve is called within an exception handler.
+ Protect all $@ variables when eval {} used, to avoid corrupting
+ it when store/retrieve is called within an exception handler.
- Mistakenly included "patchlevel.h" instead of <patchlevel.h>,
- preventing Perl's patchlevel from being included, which is
- needed starting from 5.6.
+
Mistakenly included "patchlevel.h" instead of <patchlevel.h>,
+ preventing Perl's patchlevel from being included, which is
+ needed starting from 5.6.
Tue May 12 09:15:15 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Fixed shared "undef" bug in hashes, which did not remain shared
- through store/retrieve.
+ Fixed shared "undef" bug in hashes, which did not remain shared
+ through store/retrieve.
Thu Feb 10 19:48:16 MET 2000 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
-
- added last_op_in_netorder() predicate
- documented last_op_in_netorder()
- added tests for the new last_op_in_netorder() predicate
+ added last_op_in_netorder() predicate
+ documented last_op_in_netorder()
+ added tests for the new last_op_in_netorder() predicate
Wed Oct 20 19:07:36 MEST 1999 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
-
- Forgot to update VERSION
+ Forgot to update VERSION
Tue Oct 19 21:25:02 MEST 1999 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
-
- Added mention of japanese translation for the manual page.
+ Added mention of japanese translation for the manual page.
- Fixed typo in macro that made threaded code not compilable,
- especially on Win32 platforms.
+ Fixed typo in macro that made threaded code not compilable,
+ especially on Win32 platforms.
- Changed detection of older perls (pre-5.005) by testing PATCHLEVEL
- directly instead of relying on internal symbols.
+ Changed detection of older perls (pre-5.005) by testing PATCHLEVEL
+ directly instead of relying on internal symbols.
Tue Sep 14 22:13:28 MEST 1999 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
-
- Integrated "thread-safe" patch from Murray Nesbitt.
- Note that this may not be very efficient for threaded code,
- see comment in the code.
+ Integrated "thread-safe" patch from Murray Nesbitt.
+ Note that this may not be very efficient for threaded code,
+ see comment in the code.
- Try to avoid compilation warning on 64-bit CPUs. Can't test it,
- since I don't have access to such machines.
+ Try to avoid compilation warning on 64-bit CPUs. Can't test it,
+ since I don't have access to such machines.
Mon Jul 12 14:37:19 METDST 1999 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@pobox.com>
-. Description:
+ changed my e-mail to pobox.
- changed my e-mail to pobox.
+ mentionned it is not thread-safe.
- mentionned it is not thread-safe.
+ updated version number.
- updated version number.
-
- uses new internal PL_* naming convention.
+ uses new internal PL_* naming convention.
Fri Jul 3 13:38:16 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Updated benchmark figures due to recent optimizations done in
- store(): tagnums are now stored as-is in the hash table, so
- no surrounding SV is created. And the "shared keys" mode for
- hash table was turned off.
+ Updated benchmark figures due to recent optimizations done in
+ store(): tagnums are now stored as-is in the hash table, so
+ no surrounding SV is created. And the "shared keys" mode for
+ hash table was turned off.
- Fixed backward compatibility (wrt 0.5@9) for retrieval of
- blessed refs. That old version did something wrong, but the
- bugfix prevented correct retrieval of the old format.
+ Fixed backward compatibility (wrt 0.5@9) for retrieval of
+ blessed refs. That old version did something wrong, but the
+ bugfix prevented correct retrieval of the old format.
Mon Jun 22 11:00:48 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
+ Changed benchmark figures.
- Changed benchmark figures.
-
- Adjust refcnt of tied objects after calling sv_magic() to avoid
- memory leaks. Contributed by Jeff Gresham.
+ Adjust refcnt of tied objects after calling sv_magic() to avoid
+ memory leaks. Contributed by Jeff Gresham.
Fri Jun 12 11:50:04 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Added workaround for persistent LVALUE-ness in perl5.004. All
- scalars tagged as being an lvalue are handled as if they were
- not an lvalue at all. Added test for that LVALUE bug workaround.
+ Added workaround for persistent LVALUE-ness in perl5.004. All
+ scalars tagged as being an lvalue are handled as if they were
+ not an lvalue at all. Added test for that LVALUE bug workaround.
- Now handles Perl immortal scalars explicitely, by storing &sv_yes
- as such, explicitely.
+ Now handles Perl immortal scalars explicitely, by storing &sv_yes
+ as such, explicitely.
- Retrieval of non-immortal undef cannot be shared. Previous
- version was over-optimizing by not creating a separate SV for
- all undefined scalars seen.
+ Retrieval of non-immortal undef cannot be shared. Previous
+ version was over-optimizing by not creating a separate SV for
+ all undefined scalars seen.
Thu Jun 4 17:21:51 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Baseline for Storable-0.6@0.
+ Baseline for Storable-0.6@0.
- This version introduces a binary incompatibility in the generated
- binary image, which is more compact than older ones by approximatively
- 15%, depending on the exact degree of sharing in your structures.
+ This version introduces a binary incompatibility in the generated
+ binary image, which is more compact than older ones by approximatively
+ 15%, depending on the exact degree of sharing in your structures.
- The good news is that your older images can still be retrieved with
- this version, i.e. backward compatibility is preserved. This version
- of Storable can only generate new binaries however.
+ The good news is that your older images can still be retrieved with
+ this version, i.e. backward compatibility is preserved. This version
+ of Storable can only generate new binaries however.
- Another good news is that the retrieval of data structure is
- significantly quicker than before, because a Perl array is used
- instead of a hash table to keep track of retrieved objects, and
- also because the image being smaller, less I/O function calls are
- made.
+ Another good news is that the retrieval of data structure is
+ significantly quicker than before, because a Perl array is used
+ instead of a hash table to keep track of retrieved objects, and
+ also because the image being smaller, less I/O function calls are
+ made.
Tue May 12 09:15:15 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
+ Version number now got from Storable.pm directly.
- Version number now got from Storable.pm directly.
-
- Fixed overzealous sv_type() optimization, which would make
- Storable fail when faced with an "upgraded" SV to the PVIV
- or PVNV kind containing a reference.
+ Fixed overzealous sv_type() optimization, which would make
+ Storable fail when faced with an "upgraded" SV to the PVIV
+ or PVNV kind containing a reference.
Thu Apr 30 15:11:30 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Extended the SYNOPSIS section to give quick overview of the
- routines and their signature.
+ Extended the SYNOPSIS section to give quick overview of the
+ routines and their signature.
- Optimized sv_type() to avoid flags checking when not needed, i.e.
- when their type makes it impossible for them to be refs or tied.
- This slightly increases throughput by a few percents when refs
- and tied variables are marginal occurrences in your data.
+ Optimized sv_type() to avoid flags checking when not needed, i.e.
+ when their type makes it impossible for them to be refs or tied.
+ This slightly increases throughput by a few percents when refs
+ and tied variables are marginal occurrences in your data.
- Stubs for XS now use OutputStream and InputStream file types to
- make it work when the given file is actually a socket. Perl
- makes a distinction for sockets in its internal I/O structures
- by having both a read and a write structure, whereas plain files
- share the same one.
+ Stubs for XS now use OutputStream and InputStream file types to
+ make it work when the given file is actually a socket. Perl
+ makes a distinction for sockets in its internal I/O structures
+ by having both a read and a write structure, whereas plain files
+ share the same one.
Tue Jun 3 09:41:33 METDST 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Thanks to a contribution from Benjamin A. Holzman, Storable is now
- able to correctly serialize tied SVs, i.e. tied arrays, hashes
- and scalars.
+ Thanks to a contribution from Benjamin A. Holzman, Storable is now
+ able to correctly serialize tied SVs, i.e. tied arrays, hashes
+ and scalars.
Thu Apr 9 18:07:51 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- I said SvPOK() had changed to SvPOKp(), but that was a lie...
+ I said SvPOK() had changed to SvPOKp(), but that was a lie...
Wed Apr 8 13:14:29 METDST 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Wrote sizeof(SV *) instead of sizeof(I32) when portable, which
- in effect mangled the object tags and prevented portability
- accross 32/64 bit architectures!
+ Wrote sizeof(SV *) instead of sizeof(I32) when portable, which
+ in effect mangled the object tags and prevented portability
+ accross 32/64 bit architectures!
Wed Mar 25 14:57:02 MET 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Added code example for store_fd() and retrieve_fd() in the
- man page, to emphasize that file descriptors must be passed as
- globs, not as plain strings.
+ Added code example for store_fd() and retrieve_fd() in the
+ man page, to emphasize that file descriptors must be passed as
+ globs, not as plain strings.
- Cannot use SV addresses as tag when using nstore() on LP64. This
- was the cause of problems when creating a storable image on an
- LP64 machine and retrieving it on an ILP32 system, which is
- exactly what nstore() is meant for...
+ Cannot use SV addresses as tag when using nstore() on LP64. This
+ was the cause of problems when creating a storable image on an
+ LP64 machine and retrieving it on an ILP32 system, which is
+ exactly what nstore() is meant for...
- However, we continue to use SV addresses as tags for plain store(),
- because benchamarking shows that it saves up to 8% of the store
- time, and store() is meant to be fast at the expense of lack
- of portability.
+ However, we continue to use SV addresses as tags for plain store(),
+ because benchamarking shows that it saves up to 8% of the store
+ time, and store() is meant to be fast at the expense of lack
+ of portability.
- This means there will be approximately an 8% degradation of
- performance for nstore(), but it's now working as expected.
- That cost may vary on your machine of course, since it is
- solely caused by the memory allocation overhead used to create
- unique SV tags for each distinct stored SV.
+ This means there will be approximately an 8% degradation of
+ performance for nstore(), but it's now working as expected.
+ That cost may vary on your machine of course, since it is
+ solely caused by the memory allocation overhead used to create
+ unique SV tags for each distinct stored SV.
Tue Jan 20 09:21:53 MET 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Don't use any '_' in version number.
+ Don't use any '_' in version number.
Tue Jan 13 17:51:50 MET 1998 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Updated version number.
+ Updated version number.
- added binmode() calls for systems where it matters.
+ added binmode() calls for systems where it matters.
- Be sure to pass globs, not plain file strings, to C routines,
- so that Storable can be used under the Perl debugger.
+ Be sure to pass globs, not plain file strings, to C routines,
+ so that Storable can be used under the Perl debugger.
Wed Nov 5 10:53:22 MET 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
+ Fix memory leaks on seen hash table and returned SV refs.
- Fix memory leaks on seen hash table and returned SV refs.
+ Storable did not work properly when tainting enabled.
- Storable did not work properly when tainting enabled.
-
- Fixed "Allocation too large" messages in freeze/thaw and added.
- proper regression test in t/freeze.t.
+ Fixed "Allocation too large" messages in freeze/thaw and added.
+ proper regression test in t/freeze.t.
Tue Jun 3 09:41:33 METDST 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Updated version number
+ Updated version number
- Added freeze/thaw interface and dclone.
+ Added freeze/thaw interface and dclone.
Fri May 16 10:45:47 METDST 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
+ Forgot that AutoLoader does not export its own AUTOLOAD.
+ I could use
- Forgot that AutoLoader does not export its own AUTOLOAD.
- I could use
-
- use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';
-
- but that would not be backward compatible. So the export is
- done by hand...
+ use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';
+
+ but that would not be backward compatible. So the export is
+ done by hand...
Tue Mar 25 11:21:32 MET 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Empty scalar strings are now "defined" at retrieval time.
+ Empty scalar strings are now "defined" at retrieval time.
- New test to ensure an empty string is defined when retrieved.
+ New test to ensure an empty string is defined when retrieved.
Thu Feb 27 16:32:44 MET 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
+ Updated version number
- Updated version number
+ Declare VERSION as being used
- Declare VERSION as being used
-
- Fixed a typo in the PerlIO_putc remapping.
- PerlIO_read and perlIO_write inverted size/nb_items.
- (only relevant for pre-perl5.004 versions)
+ Fixed a typo in the PerlIO_putc remapping.
+ PerlIO_read and perlIO_write inverted size/nb_items.
+ (only relevant for pre-perl5.004 versions)
Thu Feb 27 15:58:31 MET 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Updated version number
+ Updated version number
- Added VERSION identification
+ Added VERSION identification
- Allow build with perl5.003, which is ante perlIO time
+ Allow build with perl5.003, which is ante perlIO time
Mon Jan 13 17:53:18 MET 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Random code fixes.
+ Random code fixes.
Wed Jan 22 15:19:56 MET 1997 Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
-. Description:
-
- Updated version number in Makefile.PL.
-
- Added "thanks to" section to README.
+ Updated version number in Makefile.PL.
- Documented new forgive_me variable.
+ Added "thanks to" section to README.
- Made 64-bit clean.
+ Documented new forgive_me variable.
- Added forgive_me support to allow store() of data structures
- containing non-storable items like CODE refs.
+ Made 64-bit clean.
+ Added forgive_me support to allow store() of data structures
+ containing non-storable items like CODE refs.
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