releases.)
-----------------
-Version 5.003_23
-----------------
+---------------
+ Cast and Crew
+---------------
+
+To save space, and to give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004
+what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes
+file, and their current addresses (as of March 1997):
+
+ Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
+ Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
+ Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Tom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>
+ Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ M. J. T. Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
+
+ Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+ Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
+
+
+-------------------
+ Version 5.003_97a
+-------------------
+
+This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm
+planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact"
+ From: John Cerney <j-cerney1@ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
+ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2
+ cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld
+ ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h
+ pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (six patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t
+ t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t
+ t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak
+ win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+ win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS update"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200
+ Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix const-sub-related panic on C<sub foo { my $x; 0 } foo>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Minor cleanups"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500
+ Files: mg.c mg.h perl.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix impossible test in vivification"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "runlevel is I32, not int"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c util.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970404124326.647K-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
+ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 13:02:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Math::Trig, based on (and from an author of) Math::Complex"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm
+ pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t
+
+ Title: "Update AutoLoader and docs; support C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD'>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce
+ Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm
+
+ Title: "CPAN & TRL-Gnu"
+ From: Achim Bohnet <ach@rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Msg-ID: <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
+ Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ Title: "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't use $4 when it might be undef"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/bigfloat.pl
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Make *dbm tests work with Win32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t
+ t/lib/sdbm.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update INSTALL"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Pod style"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_97
+------------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+ pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h
+
+ Title: "Improve definition of Sock_size_t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.h
+
+ Title: "Win32 update"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500
+ Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC-
+ 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c
+
+ Title: "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings"
+ From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.24"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+
+ Title: "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix POSIX::raise()"
+ From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" <jensthi@ifi.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970401153125.8053A-100000@holmenkollen.ifi.uio
+ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:34:47 +0200 (MET DST)
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warnings in File::Basename"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST
+ Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm
+
+ Title: "Tweaks to constant.pm"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331205519.16684I-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/constant.pm
+
+ Title: "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100
+ Files: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2ri9gto.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Clean up some poddities, and make C<make html> work again"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::""
+ From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera)
+ Msg-ID: <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com>
+ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Title: "Eliminate pod warnings in libs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_96
+------------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Implement void context, in which C<wantarray> is undef"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c
+ pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+ pp_sys.c proto.h
+
+ Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+ pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t
+
+ Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make C<scalar(reverse)> mean C<scalar(reverse $_)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C<my $x = $x> in sub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever"
+ From: Stephen Potter <spp@psa.pencom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600
+ Files: regcomp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "safefree() mismatch"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500
+ Files: util.c
+
+ Title: "FreeBSD update"
+ From: Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de>
+ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST)
+ Files: hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak
+ win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl
+ win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no>
+ Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C<my $x; ++$x->{KEY}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST)
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500
+ Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
+ sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Re: strict @F"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org
+ Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "New module constant.pm"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t
+
+ Title: "Remove chat2"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl
+
+ Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm
+ lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm
+ lib/CGI/Switch.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix C<print $_> in debugger"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Re: Pod problems & fixes"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pz4tdu7j57.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500
+ Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+
+ Title: "C<new SelectSaver $fh> doesn't always restore"
+ From: Spider Boardman
+ Msg-ID: <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500
+ Files: lib/SelectSaver.pm
+
+ Title: "Patch for Benchmark.pm"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> w/Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000
+ Files: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ Title: "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm"
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Msg-ID: <rjray-9702272117.AA001223633@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700
+ Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT
+ Files: installhtml
+
+ Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL-1.11"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970326140905.10178A-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 14:27:52 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Patch for perl.pod"
+ From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton)
+ Msg-ID: <199703262305.PAA13121@ducks>
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970331122546.14185C-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve documentation of C<return>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod patch"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per <gnat@frii.com>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat
+
+ Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t
+
+ Title: "Update docs on $]"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "perlvar.pod patch"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix example of C<or> vs. C<||>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
+
+ Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch"
+ From: Larry W. Virden
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "Pod updates"
+ From: "Cary D. Renzema" <caryr@mxim.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com>
+ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_95
+------------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "If C<perl -a>, do equivalent of C<use vars '@F'>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t
+ t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh"
+ From: Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
+ Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "Another MachTen Patch"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970324152150.20610P-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (five patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c
+ lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t
+ t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t
+ win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c
+ win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t
+
+ Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Fix C<require> in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text"
+ From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <qumend4qq08.fsf@cyclone.stanford.edu>
+ Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w9DwX-0000Zr-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000
+ Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
+
+ Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020902af5d8e03c5ab@[194.51.248.84]>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100
+ Files: t/lib/complex.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:52:53 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document possible problems with -Mdiagnostics after upgrade"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Mention perldelta in INSTALL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Describe pod format at top of INSTALL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document C</a *b/x> fix"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Missing item in perldiag"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlref.pod
+
+ Title: "Pod problems & fixes"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod
+ pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod
+ pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "DB_File documentation fix"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+ Title: "FAQ update"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_94
+------------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h
+ sv.c
+
+ Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: regcomp.c
+
+ Title: "Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t
+
+ Title: "allow C<substr 'hello', -10>"
+ From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c sv.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints"
+ From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Msg-ID: <w47mjakw5t.fsf@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "More MachTen hints"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970316133852.27997A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:40:35 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "HP/UX hint comments"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t
+ utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms
+
+ Title: "vmsish.t and related patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (four patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm
+ lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness
+ t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t
+ t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t
+ t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t
+ t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t
+ t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t
+ t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c
+ win32/*
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h
+
+ Title: "Fix C<print> on tied default handle"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500
+ Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c
+ x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it"
+ From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT
+ Files: installman installperl
+
+ Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods"
+ From: Spider Boardman
+ Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh
+ hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh
+ hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh
+ hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh
+ hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "New module: autouse.pm"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::Complex update"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzlo7ut03b.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500
+ Files: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perlfaq.pod"
+ From: Tom Christiansen
+ Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
+ pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ"
+ From: gnat@frii.com
+ Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST)
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321112326.1414A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:25:32 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document that $. is not reset on implicit open"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Embedding success with _93 "
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Update site list"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch to document illegal characters"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Document trap with //o and closures"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Inline PI function"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310143125.22489V-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:33:20 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Illegal character in input"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "XSUB's doc fix"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Title: "Document return from do FILE"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document $^M in perlvar"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93"
+ From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com>
+ Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod
+ pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "clarify example in perlfunc"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_93
+------------------
+
+Me, last time:
+ "This release will be the public beta of 5.004,
+ or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger."
+Me, now:
+ "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500
+ Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+ vms/sockadapt.h
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS hint patch"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C<shift>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C<BEGIN{die}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c perl.c proto.h
+
+ Title: "perl -P path patch"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308120242.23766D-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:45:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: config_H config_h.SH perl.c plan9/config.plan9 t/comp/cpp.t
+ vms/config.vms win32/config.H
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix for Unisys UNIX and libperl.so"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.147328@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970306110532.11070A-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:15:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use 'test -f', not 'test -x'"
+ From: Spider Boardman
+ Msg-ID: <199703080053.TAA13943@web.zk3.dec.com>
+ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.147326@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
+ Files: perl_exp.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Carp with multiple arguments"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w3STZ-0007RW-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500
+ Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308131806.23766F-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 13:21:22 -0500 (EST)
+
+ Title: "Fix more E-Mail addresses in pods"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+ lib/diagnostics.pm pod/buildtoc
+
+ Title: "Warn about '.' terminating E-Mail"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlform.pod
+
+ Title: "OS/2 doc update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703080537.AAA25157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: README.os2
+
+ Title: "PODs corrections"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+ lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+ lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm
+ lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm
+ lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_92
+------------------
+
+This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't
+Larson T. Pettifogger.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "HP-UX hint update"
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970305091611.3572E-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "VMS patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST)
+ 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
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET)
+ 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
+
+ Title: "Update copyright dates"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzg1yfuiza.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Newer ReadLine"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9"
+ From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Benchmark: using code refs"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000
+ Files: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix quotewords"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000
+ Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+
+ Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w"
+ From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com>
+ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Fix taint test for systems without csh"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Don't test locales if there is no setlocale()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Update pod2html"
+ From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton)
+ Msg-ID: <199703030025.QAA08106@ducks>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph"
+ From: (name lost)
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve sample module header"
+ From: Tom Christiansen and Graham Barr
+ Msg-ID: <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify C<crypt> documentation"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970228131112.12357D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:18:25 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Update list of CPAN sites"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_91
+------------------
+
+This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c
+ t/op/runlevel.t
+
+ Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _90"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c
+ vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t"
+ From: Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>
+ Files: perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500
+ Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500
+ Files: op.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm"
+ From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
+ Msg-ID: <E0w0Sqc-00046E-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test op/taint.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Patch to t/op/rand.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc"
+ From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>, Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970228112136.24038G-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:35:49 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Updates to perlfunc.pod"
+ From: Tom Phoenix (with help from M.J.T. Guy and Tom C.)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod"
+ From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix references to perlbug"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+ pod/perltoc.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_90
+------------------
+
+At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Ultrix hints"
+ From: Spider Boardman
+ Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500
+ Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl
+ ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100
+ Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t
+ t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t
+ t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
+ t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Hints for DC/OSx"
+ From: Stephen Zander <srz@loopback>
+ Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800
+ Files: hints/dcosx.sh
+
+ Title: "Update VMS version"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "'installperl -v' doesn't do enough"
+ From: Spider Boardman
+ Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)"
+ From: Spider Boardman
+ Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sv722y.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+
+ Title: "Pod::Text fixes"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "C<use vars> didn't work until 5.002"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/vars.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/magic.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224170713.5700H-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:09:09 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Re: Hash key created by subroutine call? (fwd) "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman
+ utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224155702.5700D-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:06:02 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in 'Tolkien quotation typo' fix"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: Changes
+
+ Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line"
+ From: Tom Phoenix
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970223182745.15989A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:41:02 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_28
+------------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #6. If this isn't good enough to go beta,
+I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't let C<sub foo;> undefine &foo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: run.c
+
+ Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doop.c op.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()"
+ From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld)
+ Files: hints/aix.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _27"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile
+ vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl
+ vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes
+ os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
+ os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness
+ t/op/magic.t
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix a typo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Minor update to malloc.c"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perly.y
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Debugger patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
+ os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+
+ Title: "prototype error in File::stat"
+ From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com
+ Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT
+ Files: lib/File/stat.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/regexp.t
+
+ Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000
+ Files: t/op/misc.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL updates since _26"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970218155815.2014F-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document "$$0" change"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't recommend impossible //o for C<$x =~ $y>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Correct doc that claimed that <FH> was never false"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Add pumpkin.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl
+ pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_27
+------------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <hwwsbpeq2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c
+
+ Title: "Allow C<setpgrp $$>"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzraigyshr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C<use vmsish qw(status exit time)>"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c
+ perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
+ vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+ win32/makedef.pl
+
+ Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h
+
+ Title: "Digital UNIX hints"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)"
+ From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl
+ vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump when embedding"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Re: Fragile signals"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pz7mkc1h0g.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500
+ Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c
+ perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix carriage-return message"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "In <=>, test for equality first"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure"
+ From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4"
+ From: Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoD
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:59:02 -0600 (CST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Update os2/diff.configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Remove Fatal.pm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Fatal.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/roffitall t/lib/fatal.t
+
+ Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.40"
+ From: Andy Dougherty, Andreas Koenig, Tim Bunce
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN.pm to 1.21"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Remove non-portable locale tests"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Msg-ID: <yfmzpxcimsa.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update To-Do list"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000
+ Files: Todo
+
+ Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_26
+------------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _25"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl
+ vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c
+
+ Title: "Hints for BSDOS"
+ From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "On C<sysopen(..., O_APPEND)>, call C<fopen(..., "a")>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix value of C<foreach>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Regexp optimizations"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: regcomp.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <hbu9uz1si.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on C<print "a", last> in eval"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Catch C<use integer; $x % 0>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: configure.gnu
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Faster File::Compare"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100
+ Files: lib/File/Compare.pm
+
+ Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "perldoc -f <perlfunc>"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "return *FH pod patch"
+ From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY"
+ From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perltie.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_25
+------------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make $] read-only"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c
+ perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches for _24"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs
+ lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t
+ t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "amigaos.sh"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix C<return @_> and associated stack bugs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C<select>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix /\G/g with patterns that match empty string"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix scalar leak in av_unshift"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Ignore refs to lexicals when making refs to lexicals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Don't create AV, HV, IO when assigning glob"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Configure updates for intsize and ssizetype"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST config_H config_h.SH handy.h
+
+ Title: "Ask about /usr/bin/perl iff STDIN and STDERR are terminals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.19"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199702030406.XAA23029@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:06:34 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "In Symbol::gensym, don't make glob fake by copying it"
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Files: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Title: "Make POSIX::is*() eight-bit-clean"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "Make IO::Handle::gets() an alias of getline"
+ From: Gisle Aas
+ Msg-ID: <199701301103.MAA11291@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:03:15 +0100
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More Amiga test patches"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724725@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:07:33 +0100
+ Files: README.amiga t/lib/safe2.t t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "c2ph.PL fix"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301349.IAA16724@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:49:19 -0500
+ Files: utils/c2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "Make pod2man a little laxer for perltoc.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update to perl INSTALL file"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301338.IAA15878@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:38:23 -0500
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Update to perl.pod suggested"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301345.IAA16514@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:59 -0500
+ Files: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Title: "Document how extension pms go in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod tweaks"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <20526.854659255@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:20:55 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "new (Feb 1) perlembed.pod"
+ From: Jon Orwant <orwant@media.mit.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <9702012334.AA15747@fahrenheit-451.media.mit.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:34:59 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "Error lines must not have trialing periods"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_24
+------------------
+
+This release is the second candidate for a public beta test.
+It's, well, bunches better than _23.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "glob defaults to $_"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t
+
+ Title: "Re: an overloading bug "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<$\ = undef>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Win32 port"
+ From: Gary Ng <71564.1743@compuserve.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST win32/*
+
+ Title: "Amiga files"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Msg-ID: <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ Title: "New dec_osf hints"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701271233.OAA21548@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:33:01 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Prevent premature death of @_ during leavesub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Deref old stash when re-blessing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't abort when RCHECK and DEBUGGING"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <9701272339.AA16537@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:48 +0000
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "Fix overloading macro conflict with Digital 'cc -fast'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199701272216.AAA04557@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:16:49 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: perl.h
+
+ Title: "global.sym: typo?"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199701261937.VAA07556@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:37:59 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: global.sym
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Put all extensions' modules in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Configure fixes: set $archlib, omit _NO_PROTO"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Make configure{,.gnu} ignore --cache-file option"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
+ Files: configure configure.gnu
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Version checking in XS bootstrap is optional"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: XSUB.h
+
+ Title: "Update $VERSION of DynaLoader and POSIX"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Text::Wrap to 97.011701"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Title: "Fcntl.xs: F_[GS]ETOWN were in wrong case branch"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199701251510.RAA05142@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:10:20 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+
+ Title: "Fix $Is_VMS typo in Test::Harness"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow for really big keys in Tie::SubstrHash"
+ From: data-drift@so.uio.no
+ Msg-ID: <199701282014.VAA12645@selters.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:14:34 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
+
+ Title: "Avoid newRV_noinc() in IO, for compiling with old Perls"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test op/closure.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix, Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "xsubpp handing of void funcs breaks extensions using XST_m*()"
+ From: Tim Bunce
+ Msg-ID: <9701271659.AA15137@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:59:06 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perldelta Fcntl enhancement"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701251541.RAA04120@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:41:53 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod: localtime"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc diff: gmtime"
+ From: Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32EE1298.7B90@edison.ioppublishing.com>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:52:08 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to guts"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perltoot fixes"
+ From: Tom Christiansen
+ Msg-ID: <6807.854214205@jinete>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:43:25 -0800
+ Files: pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "5.003_23: small typo in perlsyn.pod"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199701270824.DAA01169@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:24:25 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
+
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_23
+------------------
This release is our first candidate for a public beta test.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c
Title: "Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
Files: gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod
Files: toke.c
Title: "Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
Title: "Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "VMS patches for _22"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST)
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms
Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_21: OS/2 patches"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701170446.XAA28939@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:46:40 -0500 (EST)
Files: os2/Changes os2/os2.c
Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile
Title: "Bugfixes for AmigaOS"
- From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
Msg-ID: <77724691@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:13:54 +0100
Files: hints/amigaos.sh lib/File/Basename.pm
Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
Title: "on NeXT: gdbm problem fixed"
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Msg-ID: <199701210201.DAA17794@anna.in-berlin.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 03:01:32 +0100
Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_3_0.sh
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>"
- From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ From: Tim Bunce
Msg-ID: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000
Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c
Title: "Fix /\G.a/"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c
Title: "Extend stack in pp_undef (!)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Allow for sub to be redefined while executing"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
Title: "Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
Title: "Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST)
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "When sorting, promote to PVNV only for built-in comparison"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c
Title: "Remove "suidperl security patch" message"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu
Title: "Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf"
utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com
Title: "Compile with optimization when testing memory functions"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
Title: "Minor patch for Debian installation"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: installperl
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Debugger update"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701190455.XAA02579@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:54:59 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl
Title: "DynaLoader enhancement: support RTLD_GLOBAL"
- From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199701240937.JAA11443@pluto.tiuk.ti.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 09:37:18 GMT
Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs
Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
Title: "Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
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
Title: "Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.15"
- From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
Title: "Add E* and SA_* constants"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
Files: t/base/lex.t
Title: "Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t
Title: "Patch tests for systems without fork()"
- From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
Msg-ID: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100
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
Title: "Test patches for OS/2"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST)
Files: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t
UTILITIES
Title: "Translate \200 to È in pod2html"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/pod2html.PL
Title: "VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST)
Files: pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "First cut at INSTALL edit"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: INSTALL
Title: "Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod
Title: "Document #line directive"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Title: "Perlguts version 30"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199701172117.AA116515863@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:17:43 -0800
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "delta for perldelta"
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <804.854121463@jinete>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Title: "Updates to perldelta"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Title: "perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl"
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET)
Files: pod/perlnews.pod
Title: "Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
Title: "Remove bad advice from perllocale.pod"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_22
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_22
+------------------
This release is primarily made up of bug fixes, the foremost among
which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Fix parsing of C< ${ xyz } >"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Don't parse method calls in strings"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Fix overly picky carping about leading '{' in regex"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: regcomp.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix memory corruption from formats"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c perl.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Fix '_mopop' typo"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Makefile.SH
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Gut IO::Handle::DESTROY"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Title: "RiscOS is case-insensitive"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/File/Basename.pm
TESTS
Title: "Fix thinko in db-recno.t"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/db-recno.t
UTILITIES
Files: INSTALL pod/roffitall
Title: "srand() doc update"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <24195.853379065@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 20:44:25 -0500
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Files: configpm
-----------------
-Version 5.003_21
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_21
+------------------
This release includes several important bug fixes, and a couple of
minor but valuable language tweaks. Please read on for a list of the
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST)
Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t
Title: "Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
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
Title: "Formats can be closures"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h
Title: "Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C<strict refs>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs
Title: "Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered"
Files: MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t
Title: "Fail regex that starts with '{'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: regcomp.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST)
Files: hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c
Title: "VMS patches for _20"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST)
Files: configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h
Files: Configure hints/machten.sh
Title: "Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } >"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c t/op/misc.t
Title: "Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c
Title: "Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values"
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
Title: "Keep array from dying during foreach(@array)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c
Title: "Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o >"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c t/op/misc.t
Title: "Fix infinite loop for undef function in @SIG{__WARN__,__DIE__}"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: util.c
Title: "Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500
Files: pp.c
Title: "Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Patch for Object subroutines"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST)
Files: cop.h
Title: "Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
Title: "Undo change that freed large pad vars"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: scope.c
BUILD PROCESS
Files: Configure
Title: "Make installperl quieter; only shared libraries need 0555"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: installperl
TESTS
Files: t/TEST
Title: "UNIVERSAL tests"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Files: MANIFEST t/op/universal.t
Title: "Test deletion of array during foreach"
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Files: t/op/misc.t
Title: "patch for db-recno.t"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9701121509.AA11147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT)
Files: t/lib/db-recno.t
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
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
Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.10"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9701141247.AA21242@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 12:47:40 GMT
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
Title: "Re: FileCache::cacheout clobbers $_"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pz3ewb3189.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:45:58 -0500
Files: lib/FileCache.pm lib/cacheout.pl
Title: "PATCH: AutoSplit"
- From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Graham Barr
Msg-ID: <9603111010.AA29935@tiuk.ti.com>
Date: 11 Mar 1996 06:01:58 -0500
Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm
Title: "Re: Uninitialized value in Carp.pm ? "
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199701141815.NAA07960@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:15:25 -0500
Files: lib/Carp.pm
Title: "Avoid "uninitialized" warnings from POSIX::constant()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
Title: "Eliminate warning from C<use overload>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/overload.pm
Title: "low priority patches"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9701081655.AA27349@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:55:02 GMT
Files: lib/Cwd.pm t/comp/redef.t t/lib/db-btree.t
UTILITIES
Title: "Re: xsubpp and Tk ==> segfault"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701080825.DAA15813@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 03:25:47 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Title: "Re: MakeMaker and 'make uninstall'"
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Msg-ID: <199701101243.NAA26400@anna.in-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:43:39 +0100
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Files: utils/perldoc.PL
Title: "Yet another perldoc option"
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Msg-ID: <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200
Files: utils/perldoc.PL
Title: "Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzwwtoom8p.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500
Files: utils/perldoc.PL
Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc
Title: "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod"
- From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy"
Msg-ID: <E0vilLh-0000M6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
Title: "Document use of pos() and /\G/"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod
pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod
Title: "Fix example #4 in perlXStut"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199701050739.CAA11112@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 02:39:45 -0500 (EST)
Files: pod/perlxstut.pod
Title: "Document new closure warnings"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
Title: "Misc. doc patches missing in _20"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500
Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_20
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_20
+------------------
The only language change in this release is the recension of support
for named closures: Now, no subroutine declared "sub foo {}" can be
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Rescind named closures"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Makefile.SH op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_hot.c
Title: "Fix: empty @_ when calling empty-proto subs without parens"
- From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Graham Barr
Msg-ID: <32CE30F0.7E8425A5@tiuk.ti.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 10:29:04 +0000
Files: perly.c perly.y
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Fix $^X on systems that set it to Perl's basename"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
Title: "Configure/perl5/Compartmented Mode Workstation (fwd)"
- From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ From: Andy Dougherty
Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970106131505.1662C-100000@fractal.lafayette.ed
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 13:15:38 -0500 (EST)
Files: Configure hints/dec_osf.sh
Title: "Remove obsolete file "dl_os2.xs"."
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Files: MANIFEST
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix C< sub foo (&@); sub bar (&); foo {}, bar {}, bar {} >"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y
Title: "plug for safe/opcode leaks"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199701072220.RAA02117@postman.osf.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:20:46 -0500
Files: op.c
Title: "Finish OP= warnings: none on ^="
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doop.c pp.c t/op/assignwarn.t
Title: "Fix Dynaloader failures with DProf"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199701061718.MAA26909@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:18:46 -0500
Files: pp_hot.c
BUILD PROCESS
Title: "Make Configure default to the first domain in /etc/resolv.conf"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
Title: "Start all helper scripts with $startsh"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
Title: "Support libperl.so under FreeBSD"
TESTS
Title: "New test: comp/proto.t"
- From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Graham Barr
Msg-ID: <32D0C21F.3FB28D51@tiuk.ti.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 09:13:03 +0000
Files: MANIFEST t/comp/proto.t
Title: "More magic variable tests"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <7043.852565192@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 10:39:52 -0500
Files: t/harness t/op/magic.t
Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t
Title: "sigaction() problems"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <12808.852583324@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
Title: "Fix importation of FileHandle methods; fix POSIX docs"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/FileHandle.pm
Title: "Patch: make hints files warn about db-recno failures"
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "tiny doc patches"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <23338.852394333@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:12:13 -0500
Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Title: "doc patch for defined on perlfunc.pod"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pz91686ek1.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:28:30 -0500
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Title: "doc patch: perldsc"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzafqo6eo9.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 04 Jan 1997 21:25:58 -0500
Files: pod/perldsc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
Title: "Re: constant function inlining"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzk9pp1b95.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 07 Jan 1997 15:27:50 -0500
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsub.pod
Title: "scalar caller doc fix"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <18245.852608060@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:34:20 -0500
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Files: pod/perlpod.pod
Title: "Misc perlfunc updates"
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ From: Tom Christiansen
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_19
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_19
+------------------
Lots of internal cleanup in this patch, especially plugged memory
leaks when embedded Perl interpreters shut down and restart. The
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Make method cache invisible to user code"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: dump.c gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c perl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c
toke.c
Title: "Never parse "{m,s,y,tr,q{,q,w,x}}:{,:}" as package or label"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Fix $^X under HP-UX"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
Title: "New hints/hpux.sh"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199612312309.AA283393772@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 15:09:32 -0800
Files: hints/hpux.sh
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix segv when calling named closures"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Finish rationalizing "undef value" warnings"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doop.c pp.c sv.c t/op/assignwarn.t
Title: "Arrange for all "_<file" entries to be in %main::"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: gv.c lib/perl5db.pl
Title: "Introduce CVf_NODEBUG flag"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199701012042.PAA25994@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 15:42:05 -0500
Files: cv.h pp_hot.c
Title: "Reword 'may be "0"' warning per Larry; fix its line number"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
Title: "5.003_18: perl_{con,des}truct fixes"
- From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@osf.org>
+ From: Doug MacEachern
Msg-ID: <199701032042.PAA06766@postman.osf.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 15:42:04 -0500
Files: perl.c perl.h pod/perlembed.pod pod/perltoc.pod t/op/sysio.t
Title: "Fix lost value from READLINE after TIEHANDLE"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: pp_hot.c sv.h
Title: "Free memory of large lexical variables when leaving scope"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: scope.c
TESTS
Title: "Create t/pragma directory; populate with new and old"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH t/TEST t/comp/use.t t/lib/locale.t
t/op/overload.t t/op/use.t t/pragma/locale.t t/pragma/overload.t
t/pragma/strict-refs t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Make libs clean under '-w'"
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm lib/Env.pm
lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Pod/Functions.pm lib/Search/Dict.pm
lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/chat2.pl
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Perlguts, version 28"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199701032110.AA102535846@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:10:46 -0800
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "Re: perldelta, take 3"
- From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ From: Tim Bunce
Msg-ID: <9701031748.AA15335@toad.ig.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 17:48:46 +0000
Files: pod/perlnews.pod
pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "expanded flock() docs"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <4481.852337871@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:31:11 -0500
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Title: "Use Text::Wrap in buildtoc; run buildtoc"
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Files: pod/buildtoc pod/perltoc.pod
Title: "Remove obsolete perlovl.pod"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST plan9/mkfile pod/perlovl.pod vms/Makefile
vms/descrip.mms
-----------------
-Version 5.003_18
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_18
+------------------
Yet further down the road to 5.004....
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Inherited overloading"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612291312.IAA02134@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 08:12:54 -0500 (EST)
Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm perl.h sv.c sv.h t/op/overload.t
Title: "Hide lexicals from C<use>d or C<require>d module (!)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c
Title: "Closures at file scope must be anonymous"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Warn on '{if,while} ($x = X)' where X is glob, readdir, or <FH>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
Title: "Warn on 'undef $x; $x OP 1' where OP is *=, /=, %=, or **="
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Title: "Ultrix setlocale() workaround"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh util.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Get rid of 'Leaked scalars'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h gv.c op.c
Title: "Don't forget $c in C<(($a,$b,$c)=(1,2))=(3,4,5)>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Fix core dump on perl_construct()/perl_destruct() loop"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.c
Title: "Add missing syms to global.sym; update magic doc"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod
TESTS
Title: "Expanded locale.t and misc.t"
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Files: t/lib/locale.t t/lib/misc.t
Title: "Expanded my.t"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/my.t
Title: "test harness for C<use x.xxxx>"
- From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Graham Barr
Msg-ID: <32C76882.3F3C7999@tiuk.ti.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 07:00:18 +0000
Files: MANIFEST t/op/use.t
Title: "More tests"
- From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ From: Tom Phoenix
Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961229170736.15213M-100000@solaris.teleport.co
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:46:21 -0800 (PST)
Files: t/op/each.t t/op/oct.t t/op/quotemeta.t t/op/rand.t
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Improving Config.pm"
- From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ From: Tom Phoenix
Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961230091244.13467L-100000@solaris.teleport.co
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 09:24:16 -0800 (PST)
Files: configpm
Title: "File::Copy under OS/2"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612280347.WAA00293@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 22:47:24 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t
pod/perlre.pod pod/perlsec.pod
Title: "Re: perldiag.pod entry for "Scalar value @%s{%s} ...""
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <2043.852051019@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 11:50:19 -0500
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_17
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_17
+------------------
The rate of patches is slowing down.... I see 5.004 at the end of the
tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?)
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Support named closures"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Files: hints/freebsd.sh
Title: "Minor OS/2 fixes"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612252105.QAA11890@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:05:42 -0500 (EST)
Files: os2/os2ish.h pod/perlxstut.pod
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix {,un}tainting of $1 etc. when C<use locale>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: mg.c sv.c
Title: "Limit effects of "=pod" to a single file"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
TESTS
Files: MANIFEST t/lib/locale.t t/op/method.t
Title: "Test C< ()=() >"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/op/misc.t
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.39"
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
Title: "Newer debugger"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612261954.OAA12999@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:54:34 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Perlguts, version 27"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199612250144.AA059528263@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:44:23 -0800
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "perlpod.pod patch for _16"
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961224225906.337B-100000@kjahds.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:00:10 -0500 (EST)
Files: pod/perlpod.pod
Title: "tiny perllocale.pod diff for _16"
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199612261306.PAA21161@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:06:04 +0200 (EET)
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_16
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_16
+------------------
This patch is all bug fixes, library updates, and documentation
updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-)
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Fix closures that are not in subroutines"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
CORE PORTABILITY
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix 'foreach(@ARGV) { while (<>) { push @p,$_ } }'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h pp_hot.c scope.c
Title: "Eliminate warnings from C< undef $x; $x OP= "foo" >"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doop.c pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c
Title: "Try again to improve method caching"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612240113.UAA09487@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:13:56 -0500 (EST)
Files: gv.c sv.c
Title: "Be more careful about 'o' magic memory management"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: mg.c sv.c
Title: "Fix bad pointer refs when localized object loses magic"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: scope.c
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
BUILD PROCESS AND UTILITIES
Title: "Don't recurse into subdirs twice on 'make realclean'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Makefile.SH
Title: "Use root EXTERN.h when compiling x2p/malloc.c."
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Edit INSTALL to describe new binary compat setup"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: INSTALL
Title: "Update to perllocale.pod"
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_15
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_15
+------------------
As soon as I posted 5.003_14, I found a fatal error in it. :-(
changes that were supposed to be improvements, but weren't.
-----------------
-Version 5.003_14
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_14
+------------------
We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Eliminate support for {if,unless,while,until} BLOCK BLOCK"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c
Title: "Taint $x after $x =~ s/pat/xyz/ if pat or xyz is tainted by locale"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h mg.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
Title: "Complete support for modifying undefined array members in foreach"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "patch for regex bug: (x|x){n}"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199612210259.VAA10170@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:59:22 -0500
Files: regexec.c
Title: "Bug in debugger with import manipulations"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612231037.FAA08617@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:37:48 -0500 (EST)
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Import and dynamic methods"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612230645.BAA08378@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:45:37 -0500 (EST)
Files: gv.c hv.c sv.c
Title: "malloc.c patch"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612220748.CAA07164@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0500 (EST)
Files: malloc.c
Title: "sv_gets patch"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612220824.DAA07235@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:24:04 -0500 (EST)
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "pos $str patch"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612220831.DAA07247@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:31:21 -0500 (EST)
Files: mg.c pp_hot.c t/op/pat.t
Title: "Prevent warnings when STDCHAR is unsigned"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perlio.c perlio.h
PORTABILITY
Title: "Fix bugs in bincompat3 usage"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.h perl_exp.SH
Title: "Support shared libperl on SunOS"
Files: Makefile.SH
Title: "Configure on OS/2"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612202325.SAA05505@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:25:30 -0500 (EST)
Files: Configure
Files: hints/isc.sh op.c pp_sys.c universal.c
Title: "Use "proto" instead of "_" in sdbm.h"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_13"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01IDBYYFYPIS002ASE@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:26:47 -0500 (EST)
Files: deb.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c lib/File/Copy.pm mg.c perl.c
UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Remove libnet"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST pod/perlmod.pod
Title: "Refresh CPAN module to 1.08"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.28"
Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
Title: "Update IO->VERSION() to 1.1201 for CPAN's sake"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm
Title: "Remodel File::Copy."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/File/Copy.pm
Title: "dumb bug in User::pwent.pm"
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <199612201145.EAA27860@mox.perl.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:45:37 -0700
Files: lib/User/pwent.pm
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Better support for =for"
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961220163747.298T-100000@kjahds.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:43:35 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
Title: "Perlguts, version 26"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199612201943.AA048111018@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:43:38 -0800
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "Update pod/Makefile; s/perli18n/perllocale/"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/I18N/Collate.pm pod/Makefile
pod/perl.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/roffitall
Title: "obstruct pod2man doc tweaks"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <3923.851106237@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:23:57 -0500
Files: lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm
-----------------
-Version 5.003_13
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_13
+------------------
The watchword here is "synchronization." There were a couple of
show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix core dump bug with anoncode"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: sv.c
PORTABILITY
Title: "Add missing backslash in Configure"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP"
- From: Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Graham Barr
Files: MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm
lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm
lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm
Files: lib/Net/FTP.pm
Title: "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzloavmd9h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500
Files: MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl
t/lib/open3.t
Title: "Long-standing problem in Socket module"
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Msg-ID: <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500
Files: Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH
ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs
Title: "flock() constants"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500
Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod
Title: "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzvi9yig3h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500
Files: lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "small doc tweaks for _12"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500
Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod
Title: "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzwwueimak.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500
Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
-----------------
-Version 5.003_12
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_12
+------------------
This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially
CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
t/op/delete.t
Title: "Autovivify scalars"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c
Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
Title: "Fix nested closures"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: regexec.c
Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c
Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c
Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation"
- From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100
Files: doio.c
Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.c
Title: "Re: Bug in formline "
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
Files: pp_ctl.c
Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_hot.c
Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hv.c
Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h
Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: av.c
Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
PORTABILITY
Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perlio.c
Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm
lib/Test/Harness.pm
Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym
old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c
Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg
eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm
makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hints/linux.sh
Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet"
Files: hints/svr4.sh
Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*
TESTING
Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..."
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t
UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm
pod/perlmod.pod
Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm
Title: "Add File::Compare"
- From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Title: "Add Tie::RefHash"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
Title: "Put "splain" in utils."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL
Title: "Some h2ph fixes"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
Files: utils/h2ph.PL
Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line"
- From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT
Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t
Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
Title: "Debugger update"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl
pod/perlnews.pod
Title: "perltoot.pod"
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
Title: "Perlguts, version 25"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Files: pod/*.pod
Title: "Misc doc updates"
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
Files: pod/*
-----------------
-Version 5.003_11
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_11
+------------------
This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of
value.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Fix precedence problems with subs as uniops or listops"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y
Title: "Don't reset $. on open()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "Support *glob{IO} (eventually deprecate *glob{FILEHANDLE})"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlref.pod pp_hot.c sv.c
Title: "Don't let expression context force return context"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Properly convert "1E2" et al to IV/UV"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doio.c sv.c
Title: "Fix modulo operator in UV realm"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Fix stat(_) after stat(HANDLE)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "Fix: s/// and "$x =~ $y" under 'use locale'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c toke.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Eliminate spurious warning when splicing undefs"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c sv.h
Title: "Eliminate spurious warning from "x=" operator"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c
Title: "Fix line numbers near control structures"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y proto.h
Title: "Don't let scalar unpack() underflow stack"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Fix core dump from precedence bug in "@foo" warning"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Move die() to utils.c; add varargs hack to croak()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c util.c
Title: "Avoid memcmp() for magnitude test if it thinks char is signed"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH doop.c
ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.c ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h handy.h
hv.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c
Title: "Less malloc in magic"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: mg.c
Title: "Re: 5.003_09: PADTMP fix"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199611281150.GAA06884@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 06:50:58 -0500 (EST)
Files: pod/perlguts.pod
Title: "Fully paramaterize locales; disable all if NO_LOCALE"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs op.c perl.h pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c util.c
PORTABILITY AND TESTING
Title: "Bitwise op fix for Alpha"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "hints/dgux.sh update"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <24178.849309616@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:20:16 -0500
Files: hints/dgux.sh
Files: hints/hpux.sh
Title: "VMS patches for 5.003_10"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01ICMALO8NMS001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 16:40:12 -0500 (EST)
Files: EXTERN.h INTERN.h old_perl_exp.SH perl.c perl.h perl_exp.SH
vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/vmsish.h
Title: "_10+ under OS/2"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612011107.GAA10805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:07:19 -0500 (EST)
Files: malloc.c os2/diff.configure
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "{in,ob}structive pods"
- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ From: Tom Christiansen
Msg-ID: <199611301652.JAA24201@toy.perl.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:52:57 -0700
Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Template.pm lib/File/stat.pm
lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm lib/User/pwent.pm
Title: "FileHandle that 'ISA' IO::File"
- From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199612021718.RAA04416@pluto>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 17:18:02 GMT
Files: MANIFEST lib/FileHandle.pm
Title: "Make IO::File::import use its parameters"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
Title: "10+ debugger patch"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199612011137.GAA10864@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 06:37:31 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldebug.pod
Title: "Don't call CORE::close in file handle DESTROY method"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Title: "Re: Namespace cleanup: Does SDBM need binary compatibility?"
- From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
Msg-ID: <199612031445.PAA19056@bombur2.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 15:45:27 +0100 (MET)
Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/pair.h ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.3
Title: "DB_File 1.07"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t
t/lib/db-recno.t
Title: "DB_File 1.08"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
-----------------
-Version 5.003_10
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_10
+------------------
This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and
valuable changes, but nothing dramatic.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Allow &{sub {...}} without warning"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} functions
Files: toke.c
Title: "Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}""
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Fix regex matching of chars with high bit set"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: regexec.c
Title: "Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h
Title: "Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: sv.c
Title: "Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: sv.c
Title: "Better support for UVs"
Title: "Minor locale cleanups"
(Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c
Title: "Always taint result of sprintf() on float"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doop.c
Title: "Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doop.c
Title: "Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: doop.c pp_sys.c
Title: "Don't call fcntl(fileno(rsfp)) if !rsfp"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perl.c
Title: "Save message when calling __DIE__ hook"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_ctl.c
Title: "Namespace cleanup"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h
Title: "Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
PORTABILITY
Title: "Reliable signal patch"
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
Title: "Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "3_09: minor patches for OS/2"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs
t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h
Title: "Re: updated patch on the sysread, syswrite for VMS"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <01ICB648K2XG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 17:28:23 -0500 (EST)
Files: t/op/sysio.t
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Minor patch to debugger"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199611290533.AAA08053@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 00:33:49 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/perl5db.pl
Title: "AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD optimization"
- From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199611231954.TAA09921@ni-s.u-net.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 19:54:52 GMT
Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm
Title: "Diagnostic cleanup"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Title: "Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()"
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@ibcinc.com>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
-----------------
-Version 5.003_09
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_09
+------------------
This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable
Title: "Lexical locales"
(make effectiveness of locales depend on C<use locale>)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: too many to list
Title: "Lexical scoping cleanup"
(tighten scoping of lexical variables, somewhat on the
new constructs and somewhat on the old)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: many... but mostly perly.y and toke.c
Title: "Re: memory corruption / security bug in sysread,syswrite + pa
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Msg-ID: <199611251946.VAA30459@alpha.hut.fi>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:46:31 +0200 (EET)
Files: MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Configure fix for handling DynaLoader"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: Configure
Title: "Properly prototype safe{malloc,calloc,realloc,free}."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: proto.h
Title: "UnixWare 2.1 fix for perl5.003_08 - cope with fp->_cnt < -1,
Files: sv.c
Title: ""static" call to UNIVERSAL::can"
- From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199611211547.PAA15878@pluto>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:47:46 GMT
Files: universal.c
Title: "die -> croak"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199611212111.QAA17070@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:11:21 -0500
Files: pp_ctl.c
Title: "Patch for embed.pl when !EMBED && !MULTIPLICITY"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: embed.pl
Title: "Add new symbols to old_global.sym, too."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: global.sym old_global.sym
Title: "Cleanup of {,un}pack('w')."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Cleanups from Ilya."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: gv.c malloc.c pod/perlguts.pod pp_ctl.c
Title: "Fix for unpack('w') on 64-bit systems."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c
Title: "Re: LC_NUMERIC support is ready + performance"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199611260308.WAA02677@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:08:27 -0500 (EST)
Files: sv.c
Title: "Hash key sharing improvements from Ilya."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: hv.c hv.h proto.h
Title: "Mortal stack pre-allocation from Ilya."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c pp.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c
PORTABILITY
Title: "VMS patches post-5.003_08"
- From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey)
+ From: Charles Bailey
Msg-ID: <1996Nov22.181631.1603238@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 18:16:31 -0500 (EST)
Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
vms/vmsish.h
Title: "5.003_08: OS/2-specific bugs/enhancements"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Msg-ID: <199611241147.GAA00490@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 06:47:25 -0500 (EST)
Files: README.os2 hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs
os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm os2/os2.c
Title: "HP patches didn't make it into _08 (fwd)"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199611260215.AA100414526@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 96 18:15:26 PST
Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs
Title: "Another HP "patch" that didn't make it (new hints file)"
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Msg-ID: <199611252116.AA245766577@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:16:17 -0800
Files: hints/hpux.sh
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "Elide spurious space in db-hash.t"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/db-hash.t
Title: "Update documentation and warning in I18N::Collate."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
Title: "Fix bitwise op test; clean up a couple of others"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/bigintpm.t t/op/bop.t t/op/overload.t
Title: "minimal timelocal.pl for _09"
Files: lib/Time/Local.pm
Title: "Socket test improvement from Ilya."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: t/lib/io_sock.t
Title: "Re: blib"
- From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
Msg-ID: <199611230917.JAA00471@ni-s.u-net.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:17:40 GMT
Files: lib/blib.pm
DOCUMENTATION
Title: "perldiag documentation patch."
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9611201607.AA12729@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 16:07:28 GMT
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
Title: "a missing perldiag entry"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Msg-ID: <199611212024.PAA15758@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:24:02 -0500
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
Title: "perlfunc patch"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Msg-ID: <9611201404.AA12477@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 96 14:04:08 GMT
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Files: pod/perlpod.pod
Title: "Update locale documentation."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pod/perli18n.pod
BUNDLED UTILITIES
Title: "Fix type mismatches in x2p's safe{alloc,realloc,free}."
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: x2p/util.c
-----------------
-Version 5.003_08
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_08
+------------------
This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
many people. Here are some of the more significant changes.
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Title: "Make C<no FOO> fail if C<unimport FOO> fails"
- From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ From: Tim Bunce
Files: gv.c
Title: "Bitwise op sign rationalization"
(Make bitwise ops result in unsigned values, unless C<use
integer> is in effect. Includes initial support for UVs.)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
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
structure. Also adds new construct "for my", which
automatically declares the control variable "my" and limits
its scope to the loop.)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.h perly.y proto.h toke.c
Title: "Fix ++/-- after int conversion (e.g. 'printf "%d"')"
(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.)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: pp.c pp_hot.c sv.c
Title: "Make code match Camel II re: functions that use $_"
- From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Files: opcode.pl
Title: "Provide scalar context on left side of "->""
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perly.c perly.y
Title: "Quote bearword package/handle FOO in "funcname FOO => 'bar'""
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Title: "Warn on overflow of octal and hex integers"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: proto.h toke.c util.c
Title: "If -w active, warn for commas and hashes ('#') in qw()"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: toke.c
Title: "Fixes for pack('w')"
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t
Title: "More complete output from sv_dump()"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: sv.c
Title: "Major '..' and debugger patches"
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Files: lib/perl5db.pl op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c scope.h
Title: "Fix for formline()"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.c
t/op/write.t
Title: "Fix stack botch in untie and binmode"
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Files: pp_sys.c
Title: "Complete EMBED, including symbols from interp.sym"
(New define EMBEDMYMALLOC makes embedding total by
avoiding "Mymalloc" etc.)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
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
Title: "Support old embedding for people who want it"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: MANIFEST Makefile.SH old_embed.pl old_global.sym
PORTABILITY
Title: "Miscellaneous VMS fixes"
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
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
plan9/genconfig.pl plan9/mkfile plan9/setup.rc
Title: "Patch to make Perl work under AmigaOS"
- From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ From: Norbert Pueschel
Files: MANIFEST hints/amigaos.sh installman lib/File/Basename.pm
lib/File/Find.pm pod/pod2man.PL pp_sys.c util.c
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Title: "DB_File 1.05"
- From: Paul Marquess (pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk)
+ From: Paul Marquess
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-hash.t
Title: "Getopts::Std patch for hash support"
Title: "Kludge for bareword handles"
(Add 'require IO::Handle' at beginning of FileHandle.pm)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
Title: "Re: strtod / strtol patch for POSIX module"
BUNDLED UTILITIES
Title: "Fix a2p translation of '{print "a" "b" "c"}'"
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y
-----------------
-Version 5.003_07
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_07
+------------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
Add mention of t/lib/io_taint.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
os2/Changes added.
Index: Makefile.SH
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
All the executable targets are moved into the same chunk with
shared library target, which is delegated to
Index: gv.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Better error message for overload.
Index: hints/os2.sh
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Some optimization (speedup in loading GNU utilities with some
memory present - 32M should be quite enough).
Index: installperl
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Restore timestamps under OS/2 (needed for binary install).
Index: lib/Cwd.pm
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Use builtin methods if present under OS/2 (maybe should be
done outside of OS/2 too?).
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Made `use strict'-clean even in parts shadowed by Autoloading.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/typemap
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
`bool' entry added.
Index: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Logic for processing RETVAL documented (at last!).
Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 00:42:29 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Subject: Cleanup after new test
Below are patches for File::Copy (copying to filehandles was just
Index: lib/FindBin.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:04:04 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: Documentation patch to the FindBin module
Index: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
Index: makedepend.SH
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
weed out perl_exp.SH, config_h.SH
(They have these funny names to avoid names like perl.exp.SH
Index: mg.c
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 14:33:08 +0000 ()
- From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: Re: Group fix for 5.003_06
The group problems recently experienced are due to a small error
Index: os2/Changes
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
updates for fork()ing.
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
added.
Index: os2/Makefile.SHs
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Convoluted process to create chimera executables added.
aout_clean is done automatically on clean.
Index: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Use `unlink' where appropriate.
Index: os2/os2.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
/bin/sh is translated to the configured value of location of sh.exe.
popen() used even if we can fork (as we do now).
Index: os2/os2ish.h
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:29:44 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
sys/un.h is not very useful without Merlin toolkit.
updates for fork()ing.
Index: perl.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:03:41 +0000
- From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ From: Tim Bunce
Subject: Infinte loop with perl_destruct_level and $SIG{__WARN__}
I've just started using purify on a perl with DBD::Oracle linked in
of problems typified by this example and folowed by a core dump:
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Copywrite of OS/2 port now has \n\n.
Now deletes -e file (again!) if compilation is interrupted.
Index: pod/perldiag.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
mention that malloc in berkeley DB is broken, and PERL_BADFREE.
OS/2-specific messages added.
Index: pod/perlfunc.pod
Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
Index: pod/perli18n.pod
Index: pod/perlop.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Crossrefs corrected.
Index: pod/perlvar.pod
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
$^E under OS/2.
Index: pp.c
Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
Index: pp_sys.c
Index: sv.c
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:54:47 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: Sorting lists of integers doesn't always work
>> > print sort (4,1,2,3);
Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/db-recno.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/io_pipe.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Better error message on dying.
Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/odbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:30:38 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
File mode under OS/2 is not what you expect. However, this has
nothing to do with databases, _and_ there is a test
Index: t/lib/socket.t
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 01:09:59 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: 5.003_06 is available (results on ULTRIX)
fix t/lib/socket.t to treat TCP like the stream protocol it is
Index: t/op/pack.t
Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:17:14 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Subject: Re: Patch for ASN.1 compressed integer in pack/unpack
Index: t/op/sort.t
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:41:27 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: more t/op/sort.t tests
Index: util.c
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:32:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
uses my_syspopen, my_syspclose ifdef OS2. my_pclose is defined
as my_syspclose ifdef OS2 and can FORK (as OS2 does).
pathname of the file being extracted.
-----------------
-Version 5.003_06
-----------------
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_06
+------------------
+
This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003.
The details are described below. A very brief summary is:
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+# -- Andy Dougherty
# We'll create some new tests, but patch won't automatically make them
# executable.
csplit may complain, since many csplit's have an arbitrary limit of 100
files. Still, you can manually split the file or roll your own.)
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_06.
Index: INSTALL
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: MANIFEST
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
out are applied.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: doio.c
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: doop.c
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
Index: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:59:21 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: Re: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
The same kind of problem seem to be present in Opcode.pm:
Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: ext/POSIX/hints/next_3.pl
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: handy.h
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
the optimizier.
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 15:11:06 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Subject: Dale's posting as patch (Was: Perl 5.003_5 make fails on NS3.2 - CURED)
Handle NeXT, POSIX, and setpgid in pp_sys.c and POSIX.
Index: hv.c
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
flag.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
Index: hv.h
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
Index: lib/AutoLoader.pm
Date: Mon Sep 9 09:29:44 1996
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: Re: problem with 'die' and UserAgent
> This is a patch to the AutoLoader.pm (from 5.003) that fixes the problem:
This is a better patch (no need to test for /::DESTROY$/ twice):
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
filename manipulations:
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1996 16:15:07 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: Re: Can't locate auto/U/autosplit.ix
It would IMHO be much better if the AutoLoader exported the AUTOLOAD()
Index: lib/Benchmark.pm
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:01:22 +0300 (EET DST)
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: a really really tiny typo
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:08:33 +0100 (BST)
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
Index: lib/File/Basename.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 14:11:05 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: File::BaseName: "/" is legal path separator for MSDOS
The File::BaseName module should allow "/" as path separator when
fileparse_set_fstype("MSDOS") is in effect:
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 13:58:52 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: File::Basename documentation patch
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
For t/lib/basename.t, though, the associated patch for
File::Basename was also wrong:
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/File/Copy.pm
Index: lib/I18N/Collate.pm
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: lib/Math/BigInt.pm
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: lib/Search/Dict.pm
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:02:42 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: look() in Search::Dict should use lc() istead of tr/A-Z/a-z/
The Search::Dict look() function should use the lc() function instead
Index: lib/Symbol.pm
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:14 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: Symbol.pm clobbers $_ at startup
perl -le 'BEGIN {$_="foo";} use Symbol; print qualify($_)'
Index: lib/Term/Cap.pm
Date: 23 Sep 1996 14:11:38 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Subject: Patch for Term::Cap
'use Term::Cap' produces a warning when diagnosics are active. The
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
Index: lib/bigint.pl
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: lib/perl5db.pl
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:34:58 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Subject: Re: dereferencing a hash from the debugger won't work
Index: lib/splain
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:18:19 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric value of $!
This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c, related
to the numeric value of $!.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
improved.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 12:38:31 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: 5.003_05: Fix numeric $! and $^E
This patch undoes a bit of over-zealous integerization in mg.c,
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
Index: perl.c
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Subject: Re: -T flag and removal of `.' from @INC
support C<perl -e'attached code'>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 19:02:17 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: 2 core dumps (patch)
Message-Id: <199610012302.TAA08395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
The problem is an uninitialized SV slot in errgv. Here's a patch.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: perl.h
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: Full LONG_MAX & co. patch over 5.003_05
This patch contains the changes I've collected for the various _MAX issues
ambiguous) and to explicitly cast all of the constants.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
5.003.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Undef Irix getc_unlocked and putc_unlocked #defines.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: pod/Makefile
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Changed Larry's address to larry@wall.org.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: pod/perldsc.pod
From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <lewart@vadds.cvm.uiuc.edu>
Subject: POD spelling patches
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 96 13:18:01 PDT
- From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ From: Jeff Okamoto
Subject: Re: perlguts API Listing patch
Here's the lastest complete version for inclusion into _06 or .004. This
Index: pod/perli18n.pod
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Subject: documentation for $? in END
Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 10:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving man page
Add alternative names for various escape sequences.
Index: pod/perltrap.pod
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:26:18 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: a perl425 trap
Here's an addition that should be self-explanatory.
5.003_05 pods, including the pods embedded in library modules.
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 16:52:08 -0400
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Subject: documentation for $? in END
Document the behavior with $? WRT END subroutines.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
then closed and re-opened, retained the untaintedness.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
First, with IO::untaint, the patches as posted resulted in a
miniperl which couldn't open files, so the autosplitting of the
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Provide new 3-arg forms gv_fullname3() and gv_efullname3().
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
improved.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
I've added some DEBUG_Ps to sv.c which give a trace of the
already adds a profile of op usage to its advertised output.)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
* Add the "untaint" keyword.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: "Attempt to free non-existent shared string"? (with patch)
I found a subtle problem with the lazydelete mechanism (which is used
Index: t/base/term.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/comp/package.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/abbrev.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
out are applied.
Date: 23 Sep 1996 11:33:01 +0200
- From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
Subject: Text::Abbrev (Re: More standard library test scripts)
This patch merges the Text::Abbrev related patches/tests from Gisle
Index: t/lib/anydbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/autoloader.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
out are applied.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
The test and patches for AutoLoader were also non-functional,
since the regexp context (curpm) was still being clobbered by the
Index: t/lib/basename.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
out are applied.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Fix the number of tests.
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
A different set of tests for File::Basename and friends.
Index: t/lib/checktree.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/db-btree.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/db-hash.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/env.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/fatal.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/filecache.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/filecopy.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/filefind.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/filepath.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/findbin.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/gdbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/getopt.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/hostname.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/ndbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/odbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/parsewords.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/sdbm.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/lib/searchdict.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/selectsaver.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/symbol.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
out are applied.
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:37 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
The various new lib/*.t tests didn't all work. For some, it was
only because the count of tests was wrong:
Index: t/lib/texttabs.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/textwrap.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/lib/timelocal.t
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:59:56 +0200
- From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no>
+ From: Gisle Aas
Subject: More standard library test scripts
This is a collection of test scripts for the standard library modules.
Index: t/op/each.t
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 01:13:28 -0400
- From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ From: Spider Boardman
Subject: Re: pre extending hash? - need speed
The patch below (which is relative to perl5.001l) implements
improved.
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/op/glob.t
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 16:37:03 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: Re: glob test 1 failing...bad test or bug
Under AIX 4.1.4, with LOCALE set en_GB (British english) glob test one
Index: t/op/magic.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/op/readdir.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: t/op/sort.t
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: toke.c
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:08:16 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: whitespace induced lexer errors (with patch)
I finally got around to fixing skipspace() to not indiscriminately
expectation decisions in the lexer).
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 18:55:16 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: perl lexer won't accept C<my($a,$b);$a<=>$b;>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:58:22 -0400
Index: util.c
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 22:03:00 +0300
- From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi>
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: LC_COLLATE.
Big patch to add, document, and test LC_COLLATE support.
Index: utils/perldoc.PL
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 22:00:09 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: perldoc patch
Ilya has found that this change makes perldoc much more useful under OS/2.
Index: vms/config.vms
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/descrip.mms
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/genconfig.pl
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/perlvms.pod
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: vms/vms.c
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 16:31:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ From: Charles Bailey
Subject: VMS patches to 5.003_05
Index: x2p/a2p.pod
This patch just changed the old s2p.man page into a pod page.
I then embedded the pod into the s2p script.
-----------------
-Version 5.003_05
-----------------
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_05
+------------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the remaining issues from in 5.003_04. The details are described below.
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+# -- Andy Dougherty
# We'll create a new test, but patch won't automatically make it
# executable.
csplit -k perl5.003_05.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_05.
Subject: turbidity in av.[ch]
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 00:21:31 -0500
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Some unclean code that I noticed today.
Index: emacs/cperl-mode.el
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Subject: Newer CPerl-mode
Index: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
Index: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:19:14 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: No AutoLoader for Fcntl
Just like Socket, Fcntl doesn't need splitting and AutoLoading.
Index: ext/FileHandle/FileHandle.pm
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Subject: FileHandle::DESTROY for fd 0
This fixes FileHandle::DESTROY when called on stdin.
Index: ext/Socket/Socket.pm
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:58:08 +0200
- From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ From: Andreas Koenig
Subject: Patch to inhibit autosplit on Socket.pm
This patch inhibits production and use of a completely useless
Index: hv.c
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: minor misc. cleanup
This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
in functionality whatsoever.
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 02:52:21 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: debugger problems--another patch (was Re: 5.003_04)
Index: lib/syslog.pl
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 20:33:54 -0400
- From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ From: Roderick Schertler
Subject: syslog.pl `use Socket' lossage
syslog.pl tries but fails to use
(lines near 584) Part of VMS changes. I don't know what this did.
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:20:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: Integerize mg.c; eliminate warning on C< local($)) >
This patch converts magic variables ($!, $^E, etc.) to use integers
Index: op.c
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
Index: patchlevel.h
Index: pod/perlref.pod
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
Index: pod/perltie.pod
Index: pp.c
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:22:40 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: Minor integer speedups in mathematics
This patch provides minor speedups by using integer math and SVt_IV
values when performing bitwise operations and modulus.
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
(double)auint cast added for call to sv_setnv().
Index: pp_hot.c
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:25:28 -0400
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: minor misc. cleanup
This patch makes some minor cleanups to the sources. No change
Perl_debug_log instead.
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: Minor potential bug in AV creation
I wasn't the one who originated this patch. But it looks like it
Index: t/op/pack.t
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski
Subject: Pack Patch (was Re: 5.002 - pack/unpack does not do "I" right)
Index: t/op/ref.t
- From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
Subject: Re: \ ( @array ) busted for lexical @array (once more)
Index: universal.c
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 07:05:10 BST
- From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com>
+ From: Graham Barr
Subject: Re: UNIVERSAL::class busted
yes, but I also noticed that this does not check that the reference
Index: utils/h2xs.PL
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 06:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
Subject: updated h2xs
Changes:
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
-----------------
-Version 5.003_04
-----------------
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_04
+------------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the changes made in 5.003_03. The details are described below.
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+# -- Andy Dougherty
# Obsolete perl4 hint file.
rm -f hints/dnix.sh
csplit -k perl5.003_04.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
-
Index: Changes
Updated for 5.003_04.
The /*#define FOO /**/ is a perfectly legal un-nested comment, and
I wish IBM would fix it's blasted compiler instead. In the meantime
we'll take mercy on the poor AIX user and get rid of the screenfulls
- of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth
- <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> for the fix.
+ of stupid warning messages. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth for the fix.
Index: dump.c
reduce code size and improve maintainability by combining some common
code in gv_fullname() and gv_efullname().
- From: Chip Salzenberg <salzench@nielsenmedia.com>
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
Subject: Track SVs for destruction when -DPURIFY
When checking for memory leaks, I compiled Perl with "-DPURIFY".
HP-UX nroff -man output. (col -x isn't portable -- SunOS
doesn't support the -x option.)
-----------------
-Version 5.003_03
-----------------
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_03
+------------------
Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation
process more robust. The details are described below. A very brief
# The full description is below.
# Please execute the following commands before applying this patch.
# (You can feed this patch to 'sh' to do so.)
-# Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+# -- Andy Dougherty
# Absorbed into Changes5.002
rm -f Changes.Conf
csplit -k perl5.003_03.pat '/^Index:/' '{99}'
-Patch and enjoy,
-
- Andy Dougherty doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu
- Dept. of Physics
- Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
-
Index: Changes
Include 5.003_03 change notes.
Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.
-----------------
-Version 5.003_02
-----------------
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_02
+------------------
+
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
- Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
- Fixes for ++/-- of values close to max/min size of an integer
- Applied OS/2 patches.
- Typo patch for VMS.
-----------------
-Version 5.003_01
-----------------
+
+------------------
+ Version 5.003_01
+------------------
Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since
version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff