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@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes
-between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete
-list of each modification.  If you'd like more detailed information,
-please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant
-release of Perl is based.  (Patches can be found on any CPAN
-site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases,
-or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
-releases.)
+Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
+changes that went into every version of Perl.  If you'd like more
+detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
+patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list.  Patches for each
+individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
+perlhack.pod for the details.
 
 
                           ---------------
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ current addresses (as of February 2000):
     Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk>
     Michael G Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>
     Roderick Schertler  <roderick@argon.org>
-    Kurt D. Starsinic   <kstar@isinet.com>
+    Kurt D. Starsinic   <kstar@chapin.edu>
     Benjamin Stuhl      <sho_pi@hotmail.com>
     Dan Sugalski        <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
     Nathan Torkington   <gnat@frii.com>
@@ -90,11 +88,6422 @@ indicator:
            !>      merged changes (from elsewhere)
 
 
+--------------
+Version v5.6.1 Trial release 1
+--------------
+
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7899] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/28  06:32:55
+        Log: reintegrate files missed by change#7895
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> ext/ByteLoader/bytecode.h utils/Makefile
+          - utils/perlbc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7897] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  18:22:47
+        Log: can't integrate these two files, for some reason
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          - ext/ByteLoader/bytecode.h utils/Makefile
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7895] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  18:11:21
+        Log: integrate changes#6763..6766,6770,6773,6775..6776,6778,6780,
+             6782..6791,6793..6814,6816,6818..6822,6824..6830,6838..6849,
+             6757..6890,6892..6901 from mainline
+             
+             Bytecompiler patches from Benjamin Stuhl.
+             
+             More bytecompiler.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH blead] B:: missing dependency
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6757] configure.com updates and syslog build
+             
+             Long double Gconvert fixes from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
+             and Spider Boardman.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH blead] nextchar() abuse misses an optimisation
+             
+             Long double fixes from Spider Boardman.
+             
+             Make the selection of NVff et al stricter.
+             
+             cSVOPo_*v things index into the current PL_curpad
+             under ithreads, which is different from the curpad
+             used by the XSUB.  (In other words, the code as-is
+             before this patch wouldn't work under ithreads.)
+             
+             Be portable.
+             
+             VMS MMS (make) wants null action.
+             
+             Mac and other portability updates from Chris Nandor.
+             
+             Storable support, v-version fixes.
+             Subject: CPAN.pm beta for testing available
+             
+             Portability fix from Hugo van der Sanden.
+             
+             Bad makefile.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000823.004] [PATCH 5.6.0+] Pod::Html is too self-contained
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] (Mac OS X): Don't #define environ unless PERL_CORE
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20000821.008] Negitive numbers with vec dumps core
+             
+             Replace #6705 with a minimal doc patch.
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] replace change #6705
+             
+             Drop the separate perlbc, perlcc -b should be enough.
+             
+             installperl couldn't tell whether it had run tests or not.
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: installperl and t/TEST
+             
+             Add silencer flags to installperl.
+             Subject: [PATCH] Making installperl silent.
+             
+             Make "make install" by default silent.  A new "install-verbose"
+             target is verbose.
+             
+             More liberal parsing of version numbers.
+             Subject: Re: CPAN.pm beta for testing available
+             
+             Create directories in silence.
+             Subject: [PATCH] Another silencer for MakeMaker
+             
+             DOS patches and portability/porting notes, from Tim Jenness.
+             
+             Make installman to recognize the silence flag -S.
+             
+             Actually do something with the silencer option.
+             
+             Continue silencing.
+             
+             Show the doc file, not the temp file.
+             
+             Regen perltoc.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] More silencing of installman.
+             
+             Better wording for the vec lvalue diagnostic.
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20000821.008] Negitive numbers with vec dumps core
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6805] several more tweaks to configure.com
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl@6805, 5.6.0, 5.005_03] prevent rare Perl hang on VMS
+             
+             Missing parts of 
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6789] some endl fixes for VMS wackiness
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000824.029] MakeMaker manifypods fails on DJGPP systems
+             (applied slightly modified)
+             
+             installperl --verbose and --silent.
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] More silencing of installman.
+             
+             Add install-silent target.
+             
+             AIX 4.3.3 has SOCKS in libc with a differently named init routine,
+             the problem reported in
+             Subject: [ID 20000825.007] Building stable 5.6.0 on AIX 4.3.3 using SOCKS
+             
+             Tweak the sfio/useperlio logic, hopefully as wished in
+             Subject: [ID 20000825.004] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6804 on i586-linux 2.2.12 (UNINSTALLED)
+             
+             One forgotten file from #6816.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH @6820] installman under -w and strict (was Re: [PATCH] More silencing of installman.)
+             
+             Remove duplicately applied patch shards.
+             Subject: [ID 20000825.012] [PATCH@6822] t/lib/cgi-html.t produces ugly cruft during 'make test'
+             
+             Support preserving extremely big/small angles.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000825.019] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6820 on alpha-dec_osf 5.1 (UNINSTALLED) 
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] installation not quite silent yet.
+             
+             Update the test count.
+             
+             Use UVxf, PTR2UV, NVff.
+             
+             Document PTR2XX and INT2PTR.
+             
+             no-install target a la make -n.
+             Subject: [PATCH] make no-install (was Re: [PATCH] installation not quite silent yet.)
+             
+             grep -e isn't portable.
+             Subject: [ID 20000825.027] let me (perlbug@perl.com) know how I blew it
+             
+             Can't get the test to reliably work thanks to the
+             inaccurateness of floating point.  "Resolves" bug ids
+             20000826.003, 20000826.009, 20000826.010,
+             
+             Subject: installman buglet
+             
+             DJGPP update from Laszlo Molnar.
+             
+             Subject: MM_Unix.pm LD_RUN_PATH niggles on Solaris
+             
+             Passing -R in ldflags makes now it to appear in the default
+             for lddlflags, just like with -L.
+             Subject: Re: MM_Unix.pm LD_RUN_PATH niggles on Solaris
+             
+             Test nit.
+             
+             Use the actual thread type, not the pointer-to-struct.
+             
+             Provice virtual $Config{ccflags_nolargefiles} etc. 
+             
+             display_format used as a class method without arguments was broken,
+             reported in
+             Subject: Math::Complex->display_format() sets style to 'Math::Complex'
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000828.006] dir name "0" not safe with Cwd.pm
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000828.009] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6855 on i586-linux 2.2.12 (UNINSTALLED)
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH@6855] _Minor_ change to overload.pm pod
+             
+             opmini.o may be left around if a build is interrupted.
+             
+             Typo in #6858.
+             
+             Fix for ID 20000828.001, long doubles were not formatted
+             correctly (showed up in $], which stopped installing perl).
+             
+             An attempt to fix the problem reported in
+             Subject: Building perl@6856 using gcc/AIX 4.3.3 
+             I can't test this properly since the gcc installation I have
+             access to seems to be botched (gcc is calling the AIX cpp,
+             a losing proposition...)
+             
+             Add -ld to archname on long tr...double platforms.
+             
+             Subject: hv.h Doc Patch
+             
+             Potential cruft.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleedperl@6856] warnings fixes
+             
+             -S is the silent flag, -s is the strip flag.
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] make no-install          
+             
+             Take out the SUIDMAIL thing, that will not be
+             a problem in 5.7.*.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleedperl@6866] spellings
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: files not cleaned even by veryclean
+             
+             Use minimal @INC in tests, most of the time just '../lib',
+             so that we simply can't pick up stuff from other Perls than
+             the one we are testing.  Pointed out by
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH: 6757] make new Storable tests forgiving of places where not built   
+             
+             Update to Getopt::Long 2.24, from Johan Vromans.
+             
+             Fix for thinko in #6848.
+             Subject: Compiler error in ext/Thread/Thread.c (bleadperl@6866)
+             
+             Patches all over for people and the files they (hopefully) care about.
+             
+             Subject: Net::protoent does not export 'getproto'
+             
+             Missed a change in #6869.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Warnings in B::Deparse
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Glob dumping
+             
+             Disable one of the tests for now.
+             
+             Disabling the one test is a bit tricky.
+             
+             Don't forget to tidy up.
+             
+             The #6881 removed one dump line.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000525.003] perldoc fails when Makefile.PL is in cwd
+             
+             Under usethreads the dumped variable is IN_PAD.
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] Glob dumping
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000829.026] [PATCH 6868] File::Temp
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000829.022] [PATCH 6868] Minor nit in installhtml
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000829.023] [PATCH 6868] perlbug@perl.com --> perlbug@perl.org
+             
+             Regen Configure for #6894.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6889] updates to perlebcdic.pod
+             
+             Undo namespace pollution of #6878.
+             Subject: Re: Net::protoent does not export 'getproto'
+             
+             Admit that we are leaking scalars.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] [ID 20000608.006] panic: magic_killbackrefs with blessed global weakrefs
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 271 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7894] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  16:00:34
+        Log: a couple of nits
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          ! MANIFEST pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7893] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  15:10:56
+        Log: integrate changes#6666..6678,6680..6682,6684..6691,6699..6733,
+             6740..6745,6747..6757,6760
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000816.006] [PATCH @6655] Shell.pm, bug fix, strict and OO Interface
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH(2) @6655] Re: perldebut.pod - spelling
+             
+             Doc nits spotted by Richard Soderberg.
+             
+             move WNOHANG definition to where other such things are
+             
+             Make $Config{byteorder} more magical so that it is
+             dynamically computed: nice for 'fat binaries'.
+             Subject: [PATCH]: default byteorder
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Cwd.pm now uses strict
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH]Re: Questions about Math::BigFloat
+             
+             Get -DLEAKTEST to compile (not necessarily to work, mind)
+             Subject: [ID 20000724.006] -DLEAKTEST problem
+             
+             perldebtut 1.10 from Richard Foley, plus Celsius and Fahrenheit.
+             
+             Add perlebcdic from Peter Prymmer, regen toc.
+             
+             Don't propose using modules built for 5.005 if no binary
+             compatibility with 5.005 is attempted.
+             
+             Do not use prototyping here.
+             Subject: [ID 20000817.016] [PATCH] Peek.xs
+             
+             Document what the backtick returns if the command fails.
+             
+             Add byteorder to the myconfig output.
+             
+             Introduce NVef, NVff, and NVgf, use the middle one.
+             (helps for lib/peek + Linux + long doubles)  Reported in
+             Subject: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13       
+             Use NVs in POSIX math, not doubles.
+             Subject: [ID 20000817.014] POSIX & modfl
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0+] newSVrv() memory leak
+             
+             The byteorder code in #6671 was wrong.
+             
+             Fix the lib/complex failure of
+             Subject: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13       
+             Linux long double accuracy issue: something that
+             when printed with %g looks like "2" but int() of it is 1.
+             
+             Propagate new Configure vars.
+             
+             Unbuffer the output.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] perltrap.pod spring cleaning
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod -- clarifying sprintf array argument issues
+             Subject: [ID 20000817.018] behaviour change 5.5.3 -> 5.6.0 re "Modification of a read-only value"
+             
+             Tiny Getopt::Long patch from Johan Vromans.
+             
+             Document code point which makes if (defined %stash::) to work
+             (noted by Spider Boardman).
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl@6698] cygwin port
+             
+             Document the NDBM_File and ODBM_File as SDBM_File
+             was documented in #6417.
+             
+             The new tests were missing from #6415.
+             
+             Add [[:blank:]] as suggested in
+             Subject: [ID 20000716.024] [=cc=] / [:blank:]
+             (the [=cc=] has already been taken care of by #6439
+             so the whole bug report can be closed)
+             and make [[:space:]] to be equivalent to isspace(3)
+             (as opposed to \s, which is isSPACE()).  The difference
+             is that now [[:space:]] matches the mythical vertical tab,
+             while \s doesn't.
+             
+             Don't eat leading os from index entries.
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000810.006] Pod::Man Ate My 'O'!
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0+] fix for Win32::DomainName
+             
+             Typo in pp_complement().
+             Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Deparse
+             
+             Add warnif(), check warnings further up the stack,
+             all the warnings functions now can take an optional object reference.
+             Subject: [PATCH bleedperl@6691] warnings pragma update
+             
+             Fix a core dump in lib/selfloader under -DDEBUGGING.
+             Subject: PATCH @6698 for [ID 20000817.007] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6676 on alpha-dec_osf 4.0f (UNINSTALLED) 
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0+] fix for Win32::GetFullPathName and Win32::GetShortPathName
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6698] tidy up the temp files left by peek tests on VMS
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6698] was Re: [PATCH: 6640] VMS Makefile.SH update (fwd)
+             Put back the long double avoidance code to POSIX.xs
+             because VMS seems to need it still.
+             
+             Introduce a 'veryclean' target that is like 'distclean'
+             but also removes *~ and *.orig.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000817.023] endianness description in perlfunc.pod
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl@6698] File::Temp fix-ups for OpenVMS
+             
+             Let's try #6717 again.
+             
+             UTF8 concat fixes.
+             Subject: [PATCH @6713] Re: [ID 20000815.006] latest patched perl core dumps
+             
+             pp_open() could pass an uninitialized filename down to do_open9().
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000819.002] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL6707 on i686-linux 2.2.5-16 (UNINSTALLED)
+             
+             Update to CGI 2.72, from Lincoln Stein.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Silence MakeMaker (Was: installman)
+             
+             Use temporary directory instead of current directory.
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000816.011] Test failure in lib/ftmp-security.t
+             
+             Document odd vs even subreleases and -Dusedevel.
+             
+             The veryclean target needs to clobber.
+             
+             Use File::Spec->tmpdir().
+             
+             Document the number of exponent digits.
+             
+             Mention perlebcdic and perlposix-bc.
+             
+             s/this one/the 5.6.0 release/
+             
+             The #6724 is here.
+             
+             The correct cleaning order is an art.
+             
+             small tweaks for change#6705: avoid C++ style comments in C code;
+             use Perl's malloc API rather than the low level system one
+             
+             Array context keeps slithering in.
+             
+             Subject: Re: 5.7.0 getting really close, new snapshot: perldelta, Storable
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] os2.c fix for use64bitint
+             
+             Update to Pod::LaTeX 0.53.
+             Subject: [PATCH] lib/Pod/LaTeX.pm updates
+             
+             Document the endianness of Alpha more precisely.
+             
+             Subject: RE: [PATCH perl@6736] t/pragma/warn/9enabled assumes stdout buffered
+             
+             Rename the macro argument because some preprocessors
+             can't tell the difference and expand arguments also inside
+             double quoted strings.
+             
+             free TLS slot properly on Windows
+             
+             use Cwd 'chdir' didn't set $ENV{PWD} correctly on Windows
+             
+             Unicos/mk requires elaborate paranoia.
+             
+             Tweak the floating point output routine preferences.
+             
+             Also under djgpp the timestamps are funky.
+             
+             Apply some PodParser 1.18 patches; the Pod/Find.pm
+             patches cannot be applied since #6712 conflicts.
+             
+             Use PodParser 1.18 new test.
+             
+             A pod nit.
+             Subject: [PATCH] pod/perlre.pod (was Re: [ID 20000821.007] $&, $1, etc. disappear when sub returns)
+             
+             Be verydeepclean.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> pod/perlebcdic.pod
+         !> (integrate 106 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7887] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  14:13:05
+        Log: integrate changes#6613..6616,6620..6665 from mainline
+             
+             VMS configure.com update continues.
+             
+             Subject: Test fails / warnings with perl-current #6612
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] @+, @- readonly (was Re: @<punct> interpolating in "")
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000807.003] [PATCH] Debugger treatment of condition "0"
+             
+             For now remove the mail code.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] @+, @- readonly
+             
+             Subject: warning: storage class after type is obsolescent
+             
+             Subject: sfio2000
+             
+             Subject: Re: File::Temp problems on VMS in bleedperl
+             
+             README.os2 update.
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH perl-current] Make op/sprintf.t more comprehensive,
+             
+             Make the user to give up his firstborn, err, to knowingly
+             verify installing an unstable developer release.  Also bump
+             the release to 5.7.0, but leave a patch tag in the local
+             patches saying that this is not yet the real thing.
+             
+             Update (kinda) to Test 1.14, from Joshua Pritikin.
+             
+             make ok etc also for win32.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000815.005] [PATCH] perldoc not looking in the right place for script pod
+             
+             Don't blow limited stacks, a lower number is enough to
+             tickle the lookbehind limit.
+             
+             Use -Dusedevel; regen Configure and the respective Porting stuff.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] debugger exit code should reflect user exit code
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl@6620] cygwin port
+             
+             Missed a file from #6638.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] for t/lib/peek.t (was Re: [ID 20000814.005] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on i686-linux-64int 2.2.13)
+             
+             magic callbacks all need to have same type signature
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000815.014] [PATCH] INSTALL doesn't mention 64 bit support.
+             
+             Fix a dependency problem.
+             Subject: [PATCH: 6640] VMS Makefile.SH update
+             
+             The numeric locale was reset to "C" by s?printf and never restored.
+             Subject: [ID 20000809.003] setlocale(LC_NUMERIC...) produces different results in 5.005 and 5.6
+             No test since adding the failing example to locale.t
+             does not fail -- probably because the locale settings are so
+             thoroughly tweaked by that time.  Running the example standalone
+             does fail, though.  UPDATE: test case added at change #7540.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000324.040] minor fix to perlhpux.pod
+             
+             Update to CPAN 1.57.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Cwd::_backtick_pwd does not check return value
+             
+             Change the perlbug address to perl.org since it's more forgiving.
+             
+             Change the regx compilation error markers to use = instead of <
+             since pod makes using the latter quite messy.  Reported in
+             ID 20000814.006 by Abigail and in
+             Subject: Unknown escape E<> ?
+             
+             Update to perldebtut 1.9, from Richard Foley.
+             
+             check that the number pseudo children doesn't exceed
+             MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS, which is currently 64 (avoids overflowing
+             the WaitForMultipleObjects() limit that would cause wait()
+             to crash)
+             wait() and waitpid() could potentially be rewritten to use
+             more than one thread to do the waiting to eliminate this
+             limitation
+             
+             change#6328 could make close(SOCKET) return false on windows
+             when it shouldn't
+             
+             pod nit seen in passing
+             
+             on windows, the return values from wait() and waitpid() don't
+             match those of pseudo-pids
+             
+             waitpid() now handles externally spawned pids correctly;
+             fixes for backtick/wait/waitpid failures on Windows 9x
+             these changes make the pid returned by process functions on
+             Windows 9x always positive by clearing the high bit (which
+             is always set on Win9x); pseudo-process PIDs are likewise
+             always negative now on Win9x (just as on NT/2000)
+             
+             trailing new %ENV entries weren't being pushed into the real
+             environment of subprocesses on Windows
+             
+             Tweak the regex compilation errors once more.
+             
+             avoid warnings from dense compiler
+             
+             add "ok" targets from change#6632 in makefile.mk
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          - lib/Pod/PlainText.pm vms/configure.com
+         !> (integrate 66 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7885] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  13:53:18
+        Log: integrate changes#6540..6541,6546..6549,6552..6554,6557..6606,
+             6610..6611 from mainline
+             
+             Make regular expression parse error messages easier to understand.
+             Subject: Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages
+             
+             Tiny tidying on report_evil_fh().
+             
+             Subject: Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages 
+             plus Capitalize the error messages, plus perldiag them.
+             
+             Subject: Patch against 5.6.0 to allow "-d:Module=arg,arg,arg"
+             
+             Document here-doc better.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000807.003] [PATCH] Debugger treatment of condition "0"
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20000807.008] Double reads considered evil? (deja vu)
+             Do away with array context, from Daniel Chetlin <daniel@chetlin.com>
+             (either perlbug or p5p ate the original), plus regen
+             perlapi and perltoc. 
+             
+             Regen global.sym.
+             
+             Double check that we have a dirhandle.
+             
+             Subject: Re: enhanced(?) regex error messages
+             (plus two small patches sent privately)
+             (this still seems to leave few test failures)
+             
+             warn is a macro, avoid using at a variable to avoid warnings
+             in some configurations; readdir.t is too conservative in
+             estimating number of *.t's
+             
+             Get back into sync with Jeffrey on the enhanced regex warnings.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] cygwin port
+             
+             Zero entries were skipped, fix from Adrian Goalby
+             <argoalby@yahoo.co.uk>
+             
+             Subject: Remove dead entry in perldiag
+             
+             Amend the description of Perl6.
+             Subject: [PATCH Perl-5.6.0] perlfaq1.pod
+             
+             detypo
+             
+             It's the 2ndO'ROSSC.
+             
+             Revert the sv.c part of #6559, a better fix is needed.
+             
+             Iterating perl6 description.
+             
+             Update to Term::ANSIColor 1.03, from Russ Allbery.
+             
+             Update to Getopt::Long 2.23_05, from Johan Vromans.
+             
+             Small AUTHORS and MAINTAIN updates.  Could do with big updates.
+             
+             Update to Pod::Parser 1.17, from Brad Appleton.
+             
+             Update to CPAN 1.56, from Andreas König.
+             
+             Update to CGI 2.70, from Lincoln Stein.
+             
+             Put back the std @INC thing.
+             
+             Fixes to looking-like-number to keep behaviour as it was in 5.005_03.
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000810.002] $a["1foo"] same as $a[0]
+             
+             Document the IO::Select timeout.
+             
+             sleep(1) does not necessarily return 1.
+             Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] op/lex_assign.t  
+             
+             Subject: debugger "d" command doesnt check line number
+             
+             B::Deparse didn't do sub attributes.
+             Subject: B::Deparse was Re: [ID 20000808.005] refs to returned lvalues are lvalues??
+             
+             Preprocessing and postprocessing for File::Find.
+             Subject: Patch to Find::File.pm to allow alphabetical results
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000809.005] trouble with long string and /m modifier - uninitialized value 
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000809.006] Debugger lost the ability to see $1 et al
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000730.003] utf8::length() bad
+             
+             Subject: Getting perlio and threads to compile
+             (the Solaris version changes in Configure skipped)
+             
+             Tests for #6589.
+             Subject: Re: B::Deparse was Re: [ID 20000808.005] refs to returned lvalues are lvalues??
+             
+             Add Perl debugging tutorial, regen toc. 
+             Subject: perldebtut.pod
+             
+             Add a few missing files, update MANIFEST.
+             
+             Rewrite of vms/subconfigure.com as configure.com,
+             from Peter Prymmer and the vmsperl crew.
+             
+             Should have deleted this in #6603.
+             
+             Fix the test for 5005threads.
+             
+             Fix-n-skip the tests under 5005threads.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] t/op/regmesg.t fails if REG_INFTY set
+             
+             Upgrade to CGI 2.71, from Lincoln Stein.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> lib/CGI/eg/make_links.pl lib/CGI/eg/wilogo.gif
+         +> lib/Pod/PlainText.pm pod/perldebtut.pod t/lib/gol-oo.t
+         +> t/op/regmesg.t t/pod/find.t vms/configure.com
+          - vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! lib/lib.pm
+         !> (integrate 115 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7883] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  11:50:46
+        Log: integrate changes#6469..6484,6486..6501,6504..6505,6507..6509,
+             6511..6513,6515..6523,6525..6536
+             
+             The swallow_bom() saga continues.  The #23 of require.t
+             (UTF16-LE) still fails (silently, no output) but the #22
+             (UTF16-BE) seems to be working now.  The root of the
+             failure may be in sv_gets(): is it UTF-16LE-aware,
+             especially when it comes to line endings? 
+             
+             Document the problem with -P in HP-UX and its workaround.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] allow non-variable as lhs of non-updating tr///
+             (aka ID 20000730.002)
+             
+             Subject: fix and question re: waitpid() under win32
+             
+             Make the safety catch for buggy gccs work with triple version
+             numbers like 2.95.2.  Reported in
+             Subject: [ID 20000731.005] Perl 5.6.0 "Configure" fails to recognize gcc 2.95.2
+             
+             In Digital UNIX warn if gcc explicitly chosen because even
+             2.95.2 is known to cause problems.
+             
+             Make chr() for values >127 to create utf8 when under utf8.
+             
+             various syntax errors and such (not fixed: comp/require.t#22 coredump
+             on Windows)
+             
+             Stash away the largefiles flags and libswanted.
+             
+             BOM patching from Simon Cozens.
+             
+             If gccosandvers is equal to osname, clear gccosandvers.
+             
+             Make p4desc to skip non-mainperl branches by default.
+             
+             Subject: [Proposed PATCH] Let Perl define QUAD_MIN and _MAX itself
+             
+             The test from this
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000411.002] qw() gives different results in 5.6 to previous versions
+             
+             In new BSDs changes to argv[] do not show up in ps(1) output,
+             instead one must use setproctitle().  This was already addressed
+             by change #6457, but the below has a new variant for FreeBSD 4.0
+             or later, and the matter is also documented more.
+             
+             FreeBSD 3.* updates from
+             Subject: [ID 20000801.007] setting $0 on FreeBSD 4.x does not get reflected in /bin/ps
+             
+             regen_headers, regen perltoc.
+             
+             Document in one place the memory abstractions used in Perl core.
+             
+             memcpy has n o in it, as pinted ut by Sarathy.
+             
+             Remove the extraneous "main::" prefix from all the
+             "opened only for", "on closed", and "never opened" warnings.
+             
+             The name of a filehandle does not have <these>.
+             
+             The tr utf8 patching continues.
+             
+             The new setproctitle() feature is available only in 
+             bleeding edge FreeBSD.  From Paul Saab.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] [ID 20000731.010] regex error 
+             
+             Dump UVs as UVs in Data::Dumper.
+             
+             detypo #6494
+             
+             Document the IVdf UVuf UVof UVxf.
+             
+             require.t needs binmode() to work on windows
+             
+             Generate OP_IS_SOCKET() and OP_IS_FILETEST() macros
+             that are hopefully soon put into use.
+             
+             Allow "no Module;" even if there is no 'unimport'.
+             
+             Better skip message for the test; one of the two problems in
+             Subject: [ID 20000224.003] Not OK: perl v5.5.660 on i86pc-solaris 2.7
+             
+             The subtest 4 may fail also on VOBS, as pointed out
+             by Nick Ing-Simmons in November 1999, bug id 19991124.003
+             (but the failure in that bug report isn't the subtest 4).
+             
+             Be more informative on what is skipped and why,
+             also repeat the list at the end.
+             
+             Add a URL for FSF.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] sv.h documentation - SvLEN
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] [ID 20000803.001] further regexp counting problems
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Comings and goings in op/sprintf.t
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] bad cppsymbols on os2 + Configure question
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000802.002] [PATCH] memory pseudo-leak in sv_dump
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000802.004] Tests op/grent.t and op/pwent.t fail unnecessarily
+             mention the idea of @( and @)
+             
+             This is 6512.  Really.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 19990721.004] Documentation bug in perlfunc
+             
+             Subject: Minor tweak to perlvar.pod
+             
+             In the warnings call filehandles consistently so;
+             add "unopened" warning for stat().
+             
+             After the #6519 a warning about stat() is just that,
+             not about a filetest, which now have their own warning.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000804.002] configure.gnu and arguments with whitespace characters
+             
+             Subject: Re: Array vs. List context
+             
+             Subject: New perlcc, take 2
+             
+             Weed buglets pointed out by
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000803.005] miniperl aborts during Perl make
+             
+             gcc versions might have (parentheses) in them.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000724.004] Perl interpreter segfault when using built-in flock
+             
+             Essential prototype changes were missing from #6527.
+             Also make report_evil_fh() more bomb-proof.
+             
+             Zap lib/Sys directory when cleaning up.
+             
+             Change the Policy policy: now -Dprefix= with an existing
+             Policy.sh and prefix == siteprefix == vendorprefix, then all
+             of them follow along the new prefix.
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000508.002] -Dprefix completely broken [PATCH]
+             
+             Continue fixing the io warnings.  This also
+             sort of fixes bug ID 20000802.003: the core dump
+             is no more.  Whether the current behaviour is correct
+             (giving a warning: "Not a format reference"), is another matter.
+             
+             Have symbols for the IoTYPEs.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] perlfunc.pod use documentation (5.6.0)
+             
+             Document a bit that UDP is not what you might think.
+             Subject: Re: IO::Socket::INET bug sending large UDP packets/fragmentation
+             tr memory corruption fix from Simon Cozens.
+             
+             Plug the security hole described in the Aug 05 2000 bugtraq message
+             "sperl 5.00503 (and newer ;) exploit" by Michal Zalewski.
+             The security hole exists only in suidperls, which isn't
+             installed or even built by default.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 71 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7882] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/27  10:25:36
+        Log: integrate changes#6439..6444,6446..6453,6455..6457,6460..6465,6467..6468
+             from mainline
+             
+             Make the unimplemented POSIX regex features [[.cc.]] and [[=c=]]
+             to be fatal errors (instead of by default ignoring them, and
+             ignoring with a bug: even though -w gave an error, the opening [
+             was left in)  Reported in:
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH: perl@6409] bug fix for munchconfig (turned up by CXX)
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] split /^/
+             
+             MacOS nits from Matthias Neeracher.
+             
+             More split() doc and test patches from Mike Guy.
+             
+             Allow "sub AUTOLOAD;" to stop AUTOLOAD inheritance,
+             from Graham Barr in the module list.
+             
+             docfix from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>.
+             
+             File::Temp patches for VMS and OS/2 from Tim Jenness.
+             
+             open() wariness in perlbug.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] minor doc change - perlguts
+             
+             Subject: Minor doc patch: handy.h
+             
+             Be wary of close()s, too.
+             
+             Further File::Temp patches from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
+             and Craig A. Berry.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] fixes bug 20000508.004
+             
+             Subject: [ID 19990709.002] [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] perldiag
+             
+             Allow "no AutoLoader;", based on change #6444,
+             suggested by Graham Barr.
+             
+             Use setproctitle() if available to modify $0.
+             
+             Warn if the version of the operating system used to compile gcc
+             differs from the current version of the operating system.
+             Also display the gcc compilation os and version in myconfig.
+             Inspiration from
+             
+             Tiny fixes for #6460.
+             
+             The problem described in this
+             Subject: [ID 20000322.018] named chars aren't magical enough
+             has been fixed in perl 5.6.0 but just in case added a test
+             to keep it away.  (The report from Joseph Hall.)
+             
+             Tune the comments and hopefully stop a memory leak.
+             
+             Subject: UTF8 concat
+             (with a memory leak fixed, plus a few casts added)
+             This also seems to help for
+             Subject: [ID 20000716.015] join UTF8 weirdness
+             
+             Do not upgrade SVs into utf8 just because they participate
+             in eq or cmp.  Reported and fix suggested in
+             Subject: [ID 20000720.009] sv_eq UTF8 bug
+             
+             Fix the HALF_UPGRADE() macro introduced in #6263.
+             
+             Find green threads before native threads.
+             Subject: Re: Patch to jpl/JNI/Makefile.PL
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 30 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7846] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/24  00:55:57
+        Log: integrate changes#6415..6418,6420..6438 from mainline
+             
+             Fix the bitvector ops for utf8 (tricky since past 7 bits
+             the utf8 'characters' can be more than one octet).
+             
+             MPE/ix updates for perl 5.6.0 from Mark Bixby.
+             
+             Subject: SDBM_File documentation
+             
+             Detypo.
+             
+             Decutandpasto.
+             
+             Send all installperl messages to STDERR and be -w clean.
+             
+             Out-of-date note removed.
+             
+             Protect against "wild next"s, that is, callbacks doing "next"
+             instead of "return".
+             
+             Use STDOUT consistently.
+             
+             The output might have been produced in the wrong order.
+             
+             A missing 'break' after the [[:space:]] switch case.
+             
+             Add tests for
+             [ID 19991110.003] another matching finding by pcre author
+             which has already been fixed by some patch, as verified in
+             
+             Documentation to explain the behaviour of map().
+             
+             Add an optimization for map-maps-a-list-element-to-more-list-elements
+             case, but add also notes explaining the relationship of this
+             patch and the earlier notes by Sarathy.
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000716.023] syslog test fails without sockets
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ID 20000716.011] strangeness with split($_ =~ m/.../)
+             Test cases for #6431.
+             
+             File::Spec::VMS fixup for tmpdir from Craig Berry.
+             
+             Make the "uninit variable" warning to say "concat or string"
+             or "join or string" when in concat or join .
+             
+             Get UTF16 BOMs working.  Patch from
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000719.001] Problem with bleadperl of 7/18/00
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Make large file tests deal with SIGXFSZ
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000724.003] Documentation changes for perllocale.pod
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] av.c apidoc
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 43 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7845] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/24  00:20:45
+        Log: integrate changes#6406..6414 from mainline
+             
+             Merge perlhacktut into perlhack, update perlguts.
+             
+             Fix AutoSplit to use File::Spec the right way in VMS,
+             from Peter Prymmer.
+             
+             The bug report
+             [ID 19991110.002] minimal matching discrepancy found by pcre author
+             seems to have been fixed (though differently from what was suggested
+             in the report) in 5.6.0.  Add tests to keep the bug from reappearing.
+             
+             thinko fix in vms/descrip_mms.template, the win32.pod in lib,
+             not in pod, from Peter Prymmer
+             
+             Subject: [docpatch] Re: [ID 19991002.011] perldoc -f shift
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:05:20 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200007142205.XAA17882@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             
+             Didn't anymore apply, but that point still could use another fix.
+             
+             lib/b test fixes from Peter Prymmer.
+             
+             More docs for sv functions.
+             
+             perlvms.pod whitespace cleanup to keep pod utils happy.
+             
+             another VMS build tweak from Peter Prymmer
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> embed.pl lib/AutoSplit.pm pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+         !> pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlhack.pod sv.c t/lib/b.t t/op/re_tests
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7799] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/22  01:02:56
+        Log: some lib_pm.PL changes snuck in via change#7772
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7781] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  19:02:55
+        Log: type mismatch due to faulty integration
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          ! toke.c win32/Makefile
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7780] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  17:31:55
+        Log: integrate changes#6392,6394..6399,6401..6404
+             
+             The {multiplier} of a fixed substring was overlooked which
+             caused a wrong initial search offset for that substring.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] Re: [ID 20000613.001] Regex works in v5.005_03 but fails in v5.06
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Message-Id: <200007131827.TAA14487@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:27:13 +0100
+             
+             Fix the BOM bug: not a byteorder bug, a signedness bug.
+             
+             Replace change #6337 with a better one.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ID 20000701.002] Regular Expressions Not Unsetting $1 Vars When Backtracking
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:16:20 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200007140316.EAA15857@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             
+             MakeMaker should not remove editor backups (*~) on `make clean`
+             by default (completes change#6383)
+             
+             move new variables to the end of the interpreter structure (for
+             bincompat in code that doesn't #include XSUB.h)
+             
+             rename totally bletcherous SvLOCK() thingy (doesn't do what the
+             name suggests anyway)
+             
+             various cleanups (typos, misformatted code, and small bugs)
+             
+             typecasts needed for change#6394
+             
+             typos in change#6399, regen headers
+             
+             inconsistent types needs casts
+             
+             PERL_OBJECT build tweaks
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> MANIFEST doop.c embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h
+         !> ext/IPC/SysV/Makefile.PL global.sym intrpvar.h
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm mg.c op.c perlapi.h pod/perlapi.pod
+         !> pp.c proto.h regcomp.c regexec.c sv.h t/op/re_tests thread.h
+         !> toke.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7779] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  17:06:29
+        Log: integrate changes#6376..6378,6380,6383,6385..6388,6391
+             
+             Cosmetics and perldelta.
+             
+             Fix nits noticed by Boston.pm.
+             
+             Do the cc sanity check both before the hints and
+             after the cc selction.
+             
+             get sprintf.t to adjust properly for 3-digit exponents
+             
+             don't clobber *.orig files on *clean targets
+             
+             fix bugs in processing %v-*d and similar format specs (from
+             Avi Finkel <avi@finkel.org>)
+             
+             sprintf test tweaks (from Dominic Dunlop)
+             
+             new selfloader.t in change#6183 doesn't close DATA handles,
+             and thus fails to clean up tmp files on dosish platforms
+             
+             typos (spotted by Peter Prymmer)
+             
+             typo fix from Craig Berry
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure Makefile.SH config_h.SH ext/IPC/SysV/Makefile.PL
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlre.pod sv.c t/lib/english.t
+         !> t/lib/selfloader.t t/op/sprintf.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> x2p/Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7778] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  16:46:51
+        Log: integrate changes#6340..6342,6348,6354,6356,6357,6371,6372,6375
+             
+             Subject: Re: format bug report  [Patch]
+             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
+             Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:12:52 +0200
+             Message-Id: <20000705130745.67BF.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
+             
+             Subject: Re: format bug report  [Patch]
+             From: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@hccnet.nl>
+             Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:10:01 +0200
+             Message-Id: <20000705140837.73C2.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl>
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000704.002] [PATCH] memory leak with debug / anon subs
+             From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             Message-Id: <E13AbRE-00009T-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:57:16 +0100
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000710.002] fatal error or memory loss when deleting symbols in evaled code with syntax errors
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             From: Karsten Sperling <spiff@phreax.net>
+             Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:12:52 +0200
+             Message-Id: <200007101315.e6ADFrg21041@chthon.perl.com>
+             
+             README.posix-bc podified from Thomas Dorner.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Make op/sprintf.t more comprehensive, take2
+             From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>
+             Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:27:33 +0200
+             Message-Id: <p04320405b590a14d4650@[192.168.1.4]>
+             
+             Typo in #6341.
+             
+             Fix for
+             Subject: [ID 20000711.005] spurious uninit warning with msgrcv()
+             From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+             Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:55:05 -0400
+             Message-Id: <200007111755.NAA05077@jones.argon.org>
+             
+             Minor cleanups on the booklist.
+             
+             Reintroduce perlbook (updated for Mk III), introduce perlposix-bc,
+             regen perltoc.
+             
+             windows build tweaks (op/sprintf.t still fails tests 120-121, 149)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> pod/perlbook.pod
+         !> MANIFEST README.posix-bc doio.c lib/Symbol.pm pod/Makefile.SH
+         !> pod/buildtoc.PL pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+         !> pp_hot.c t/op/sprintf.t t/op/write.t toke.c win32/win32sck.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7772] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  13:06:23
+        Log: integrate changes#6315..6319,6321..6331,6333..6338
+             
+             Integrate with Sarathy, preliminary fix for unicos
+             alignment problems in [ID 20000612.002] Perl problem on Cray system.
+             
+             some debugger output does not go to the socket when RemotePort is set
+             
+             winsock cleanup never done on Windows (leads to handle leaks)
+             
+             fix UNC path handling on Windows under ithreads, and chdir()
+             return value when given a non-existent directory
+             
+             Autogenerate pod/Makefile and pod/buildtoc.
+             buildtoc also checks whether the existin pods are
+             mentioned in MANIFEST and perl.pod, and vice versa.
+             (None of the thusly found discrepancies fixed yet.)
+             roffitall also needs to be autogenerated similarly but it
+             seems so badly out of date that I didn't touch it yet.
+             
+             Config is being used.
+             
+             Add =head1 NAMEs so that buildtoc is happy.
+             (The CGI::Util nit reported to Lincoln.)
+             
+             Fix complaints of buildtoc.
+             
+             Fix the alignment problem in Crays ([ID 20000612.002]).
+             
+             Remove perlbook, update perlfaq book listing,
+             rearrange perl.pod, regenerate perltoc.
+             
+             Fix a nit spotted by 64bit IRIX compilation: a (64-bit) pointer
+             was cast to an unsigned (32-bit) integer with wild abandon.
+             
+             winsock options weren't being set in all threads under ithreads
+             (caused send()s from second and subsequent threads to fail)
+             
+             accept() leaks memory on windows due to incorrect ordering of
+             closesocket() and fclose() calls
+             
+             Reorder perl.pod once more.
+             
+             More POSIX.pod tweaks.
+             
+             Sprinkle ldlibpath.
+             
+             Precedence goof, fix based on
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] op/taint.t continues on failed shmget()
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:52:38 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200007111152.MAA05488@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             
+             Subject: PATCH perlguts.pod: Document D and d magic types
+             From: mjd@plover.com
+             Date: 5 Jul 2000 18:01:51 -0000
+             Message-ID: <20000705180151.29413.qmail@plover.com>
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000705.002] problem with perl 5.6.0 on NetBSD/sparc
+             From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
+             Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 14:56:43 +0200 (MET DST)
+             Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10007051452330.29215-100000@rfhpc8320.fh-regensburg.de>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH cfgperl] $& segfaults if you trick it
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 7 Jul 2000 11:26:09 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8mbfif.ead.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] [ID 20000701.002] Regular Expressions Not Unsetting $1 Vars When Backtracking
+             From: Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:44:50 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200007111144.MAA04446@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: "%#p" format specifier: document and test or not?
+             From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 13:50:51 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E13BzUx-00033c-00@libra.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> ext/DynaLoader/hints/netbsd.pl lib/Win32.pod pod/Makefile.SH
+         +> pod/buildtoc.PL
+          - pod/Makefile pod/Win32.pod pod/buildtoc pod/perlbook.pod
+         !> (integrate 26 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7771] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  12:31:42
+        Log: integrate changes#6283..6285,6291,6294..6300,6302..6304,6306..6307,
+             6310,6311,6314
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH bleedperl] File::Spec 0.82 beta
+             From: Barrie Slaymaker <barries@jester.slaysys.com>
+             Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:35:29 -0400
+             Message-Id: <200006281535.LAA21095@jester.slaysys.com>
+             
+             tweak perlembed for multiplicity/usethreads sanity; correct notes
+             about Windows
+             
+             localize %INC in a Safe compartment so that use/require work
+             (many other magic globals probably need similar treatment)
+             
+             dounwind() may cause POPSUB() to diddle the wrong PL_curpad
+             when @_ is modified, causing coredumps
+             
+             slurp mode fix in change#4736 still not quite right
+             
+             Point to perlipc for more SysV IPC examples.
+             
+             Elaborate POSIX.pod.  Still needs work.
+             
+             fix ~320 byte memory leak (psig_{ptr,name} tables were never freed)
+             
+             fix large memory leak that has been around for ever, masked by
+             -DPURIFY (most of the arenas were never freed!)
+             
+             fix memory leak on Windows (PL_sys_intern contents were never
+             freed)
+             
+             PERL_OBJECT build tweak
+             
+             adjust change#6299
+             
+             remove rel2abs prototypes (from Barrie Slaymaker)
+             
+             missing perldiag entry for unpack("w",...) diagnostic (from
+             Andreas Koenig)
+             
+             better diagnostic on Frob->stuff() when Frob:: doesn't exist
+             (from Richard Soderberg <rs@oregonnet.com>)
+             
+             Win32 patches for cfgperl from Sarathy.
+             
+             b.t fails under OS/2 (from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+             
+             More POSIX.pod embellishment.
+             
+             tyop in change#6306
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 44 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7770] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  11:51:00
+        Log: integrate changes#6268..6282 from cfgperl branch
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Make op/sprintf.t more comprehensive
+             From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:32:39 +0200
+             Message-Id: <p04320403b580cc1338db@[192.168.1.4]>
+             
+             Regen headers for #6261 (and update embed.pl for this) and #6267,
+             silence few compiler warnings.
+             
+             Subject: PATCH (Re: [ID 20000612.004] Should regression tests fail if user doesn't build XS extensions?)
+             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@talking.bollo.cx>
+             Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:21:15 +0100
+             Message-ID: <20000623162115.A19894@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+             
+             Subject: PATCH pod/perltie.pod
+             From: Ian Phillipps <Ian.Phillipps@iname.com>
+             Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:17:19 +0100
+             Message-ID: <20000616001719.A17108@homer.diplex.co.uk>
+             (only the first hunk, the second hunk had already been done
+             by some other patch)
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000614.005] [patch] Tweak to Net::Ping docs
+             From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@redcat.com>
+             Received: (qmail 6398 invoked by uid 508); 15 Jun 2000 00:30:54 -0000
+             Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:30:37 -0700 (PDT)
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] xsub attributes
+             From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>
+             Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:09:22 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006141456050.340-100000@mojo.covalent.net>
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000614.003] 5.6.0 File/Glob.pm incompatibility
+             From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
+             Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:33:32 -0400 (EDT)
+             Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10006141332220.3643-100000@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] 5.6.0 lib/Pod/{Html,Man,Text}.pm
+             From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <d-lewart@uiuc.edu>
+             Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:43:48 -0500
+             Message-ID: <20000613024347.A28388@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: eval documentation: context
+             From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:07:29 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E131UsD-0002ke-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20000612.001] map {chop; $_} (Literals problem)
+             From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:55:59 +0100
+             Message-Id: <E131Uh5-0002cj-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000609.002] Text::Wrap::wrap does not handle multiline strings properly
+             From: "Milton L. Hankins" <mlh@swl.msd.ray.com>
+             Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:39:27 -0400
+             Message-Id: <39411DBF.A04BB1A@swl.msd.ray.com>
+             (plus update the version "number" of Text::Wrap)
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000602.002] [PATCH] perlsub.pod: ambiguous usage of "closure"
+             From: Tim Ayers <tayers@bridge.com>
+             Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 08:11:06 +0200
+             Message-id: <393F38FA.9B5F4C7D@m.dasa.de>
+             [resent by Richard Foley, Message-Id probably wrong]
+             
+             Subject: Re: backwards compatibility in h2xs and makemaker  [PATCH]
+             From: rspier@pobox.com (Robert Spier)
+             Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:47:37 -0400 (EDT)
+             Message-ID: <14654.31913.845602.610277@rls.cx>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] utils/h2xs.PL
+             From: "Daniel S. Lewart" <d-lewart@uiuc.edu>
+             Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 04:02:04 -0500
+             Message-ID: <20000607040201.A22568@staff1.cso.uiuc.edu>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0]ITHREADs for VMS
+             From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+             Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 11:59:50 -0400
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000606115752.01c82220@24.8.96.48>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 31 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7769] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  11:29:06
+        Log: integrate changes#6261..6266 from cfgperl
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH cfgperl] BOMs away!
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 17 Jun 2000 11:49:57 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8kmpf5.8pl.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             Subject: 5.6.0 Patch for EPOC
+             From: Olaf Flebbe <o.flebbe@gmx.de>
+             Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 22:59:29 +0200 (MEST)
+             Message-ID: <23449.960929969@www11.gmx.net>
+             
+             tr fixes from Simon Cozens
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000628.004] Re: Problem compiling perl? [BSDI-Support-Request #71232]
+             From: Marty Lucich <marty@netcom.com>
+             Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-Id: <200006282116.OAA11148@netcom.com>
+             ccdlflags update (the BSD/OS 4.1 part had already been taken
+             care of by #6141).
+             
+             Subject: Re: [ID 20000628.006] POSIX::STRERR_FILENO typo
+             From: sthoenna@efn.org (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+             Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:50:12 -0700
+             Message-ID: <E1pW5gzkg2kV092yn@efn.org>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] cygwin port
+             Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D997917173C@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
+             From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
+             Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:58:29 +0100
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> README.epoc cygwin/Makefile.SHs doop.c epoc/config.sh
+         !> epoc/createpkg.pl epoc/epocish.c epoc/epocish.h
+         !> ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+         !> hints/bsdos.sh pod/perldiag.pod t/comp/require.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7768] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  11:13:44
+        Log: integrate changes#6252..6256,6259..6260
+             
+             Paranoia tweak on #6249.
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.6.0 IPC/Open3.pm] Allow the use of numeric fd's
+             From: Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
+             Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:43:12 -0400
+             Message-ID: <20000625234312.B74147@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
+             
+             Subject: tr///, help wanted.
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 28 Jun 2000 11:29:04 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8ljoc0.fbd.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             small thinko tweaks
+             
+             tweaks from Simon Conzes to further fix tr/// under utf8
+             
+             perlnewmod was missing from MANIFEST.
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack('U',$foo) doesn't UTF8
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 17 Jun 2000 11:56:44 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8kmprs.8pl.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             pack U0, pack C0
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> MANIFEST doop.c embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h global.sym
+         !> lib/Exporter.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm objXSUB.h op.c
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c pp_proto.h proto.h sv.c t/op/my_stash.t
+         !> t/op/pack.t t/op/tr.t t/pragma/constant.t t/pragma/warn/op
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7767] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  10:51:38
+        Log: integrate change#6250 from cfgperl
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH] support 'my __PACKAGE__ $obj = ...'
+             From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>
+             Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:17:28 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006271412340.7587-100000@mojo.covalent.net>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> t/op/my_stash.t
+         !> MANIFEST embed.pl global.sym proto.h toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7766] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  10:48:34
+        Log: integrate changes#6240,6242..6246,6248,6249 from cfgperl
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000626.007] h2xs man page contains trailing garbage
+             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+             Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:40:14 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200006261740.SAA02740@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] bytes<->utf8 fixes
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 26 Jun 2000 04:55:45 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8ldoih.fbd.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] is_utf8_string
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 26 Jun 2000 02:25:59 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8ldfpn.h5k.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH] avoid mg_ptr in '*' magic
+             From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@covalent.net>
+             Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006251045190.461-100000@mojo.covalent.net>
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000624.001] PERL_DL_DEBUG=1 DynaLoader message appears to be wrong
+             From: Nicholas Clark <nick@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+             Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:06:20 +0100
+             Message-Id: <200006241206.NAA03771@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
+             
+             Allow for standalone testing.
+             
+             Subject: DOC PATCH 5.6.0: perlfunc/sprintf does not contain an example
+             From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
+             Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:36:42 -0400
+             Message-ID: <20000628023642.12166.qmail@plover.com>
+             
+             Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.6.0 IPC/Open3.pm] Allow the use of numeric fd's
+             From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu>
+             Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:00:58 -0500 (CDT)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006251855340.20487-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL
+         !> global.sym gv.c lib/IPC/Open3.pm objXSUB.h perlapi.c perlapi.h
+         !> pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlintern.pod pp_proto.h
+         !> proto.h sv.c t/lib/filefunc.t t/lib/filespec.t t/lib/peek.t
+         !> utf8.c utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7765] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  10:29:13
+        Log: integrate change#6239 from cfgperl
+             
+             Configure maintenance.  Sever some dependency cycles,
+             separate gccversion from the cc unit,
+             address [ID 20000623.006] Configure script patch for using gcc on AIX
+             (but solve it a little bit differently),
+             unduplex some accidentally duplicated units,
+             suggest using gcc if no cc available
+             (p5p thread: "Solaris configure: counterproposal", 1999-09)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure Todo-5.6 config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7764] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  10:25:55
+        Log: integrate changes#6233..6238 from cfgperl
+             
+             Subject: PATCH 5.6.0: Document OPf_SPECIAL flag in regcomp op nodes
+             From: Mark-Jason Dominus <mjd@plover.com>
+             Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:53:04 -0400
+             Message-ID: <20000617005304.8008.qmail@plover.com>
+             
+             Prefer C:/temp in Win32 as File::Spec->tmpdir to /tmp
+             because when run as services (Win32ese for daemons)
+             no environment variables are set and tmpdir ends up as /tmp,
+             which is ambiguous.
+             Subject:[ID 20000616.002] File::Spec->tmpdir broken when running as service
+             From: matt@sergeant.org
+             Date: 16 Jun 2000 16:30:43 -0000
+             Message-Id: <20000616163043.26398.qmail@mail.sergeant.org>
+             
+             The thread begun by
+             Subject: [ID 20000616.001] Typo on line 390 of .../hints/solaris_2.sh
+             From: Kevin.Ruscoe@ubsw.com
+             Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:38:51 +0100
+             Message-Id: <H000019b03c300d6@MHS>
+             
+             Tweak embed.pl, regen headers.
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] XS module loading fixup for VMS
+             From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+             Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:00:00 -0400
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000623165934.00c93d10@24.8.96.48>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 27 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7763] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  10:08:08
+        Log: s/perl56delta/perldelta/g
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+          ! pod/Makefile
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7762] By: gsar                                  on 2000/11/20  10:04:00
+        Log: integrate changes#6225,6229,6231,6232 from cfgperl
+             
+             Add source code filenames to apidoc.
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Subject: [PATCH embed.pl] Source X-ref
+             Date: 22 Jun 2000 02:18:49 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8l2ts8.h5k.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             Subject: README.hpux version 0.6.1
+             Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:25:51 -0700 (PDT)
+             From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@xfiles.intercon.hp.com>
+             Message-Id: <200006202225.PAA26205@xfiles.intercon.hp.com>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] cygwin port
+             From: "Fifer, Eric" <EFifer@sanwaint.com>
+             Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:30:58 +0100
+             Message-ID: <779F20BCCE5AD31186A50008C75D9979171734@silldn_mail1.sanwaint.com>
+             
+             Subject: PATCH: pod/perlutil.pod - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Date: 19 Jun 2000 15:18:27 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8ksee3.cp9.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             plus update pod/Makefile and regenerate perltoc
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> pod/perlutil.pod
+         !> MANIFEST README.cygwin README.hpux Todo-5.6 embed.pl
+         !> lib/File/Find.pm pod/Makefile pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7344] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  09:30:21
+        Log: integrate change#6220 from cfgperl
+             
+             Win32 patches from Benjamin Stuhl.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> makedef.pl win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7343] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:32:19
+        Log: integrate changes#6221,6222 from cfgperl
+             
+             Remove tr///CU (the feature is to be obsoleted by better interfaces).
+             From: simon@brecon.co.uk (Simon Cozens)
+             Subject: [PATCH] Eliminate tr///[CU][CU]
+             Date: 23 Jun 2000 11:05:40 GMT
+             Message-ID: <slrn8l6h44.h5k.simon@justanother.perlhacker.org>
+             
+             doc typo fix
+             Subject: [PATCH] documentation typo in lib/Pod/Usage.pm
+             From: Ian Phillipps <Ian.Phillipps@iname.com>
+             Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:40:58 +0100
+             Message-ID: <20000623104058.A22791@homer.diplex.co.uk>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> doop.c embed.pl lib/Pod/Usage.pm pod/perlop.pod toke.c utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7342] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:28:08
+        Log: integrate change#6217 from cfgperl (in part)
+             
+             Rename the fdpid locking and integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH doio.c embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h
+         !> global.sym gv.c intrpvar.h objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.h pp.c
+         !> pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.h util.c util.h vmesa/vmesa.c
+         !> win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7341] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:23:39
+        Log: integrate changes#6214..6216 from mainline
+             
+             @_ can't have junk in it even in the non-USE_ITHREADS case because
+             caller() wants to populate @DB::args with it (causes a coredump
+             in Carp::confess())
+             
+             tweak comment about @DB::args
+             
+             be more optimal about clearing @_
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> av.h cop.h pp_ctl.c t/op/runlevel.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7340] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:20:37
+        Log: integrate changes#6207..6210 from cfgperl
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0] Threadsafe patches
+             From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 18:08:13 -0400
+             Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000508180729.02182de0@24.8.96.48>
+             
+             Regen headers for #6207.
+             
+             Lock PL_fdpid against race conditions, based on:
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0]subprocess fixup for threads
+             From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:02:32 -0400
+             Message-Id: <4.3.0.20000411170218.01d2f580@24.8.96.48>
+             
+             Mopup for #6207 and #6209.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> doio.c embed.h embed.pl global.sym gv.c intrpvar.h objXSUB.h
+         !> perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c proto.h sv.h util.c vmesa/vmesa.c
+         !> win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7339] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:14:34
+        Log: integrate change#6203 from cfgperl
+             
+             perldiag should refer to perlos2.pod not README.os2
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7338] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:11:42
+        Log: integrate change#6201 from mainline
+             
+             Perl_eval_pv() leaks 4 bytes every time it is called because it
+             does a PUSHMARK that's never ever POPMARKed; in general, only
+             Perl_call_[sp]v() need a PUSHMARK for incoming arguments;
+             Perl_eval_[sp]v() don't because they don't take any incoming
+             arguments (this leak has been around since the original version
+             of perl_eval_pv() in 5.003_97e)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7337] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:08:47
+        Log: integrate changes#6197..6200 from cfgperl
+             
+             Subject: [ID 20000602.005] [PATCH]5.6.0 (DOC) tiny change to perlsyn.pod
+             From: John Borwick <jhborwic@unity.ncsu.edu>
+             Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:35:03 -0400 (EDT)
+             Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006021420290.11432-100000@eos00du.eos.ncsu.edu>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0]VMS fixups so we can build with MULTIPLICITY
+             From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+             To: vmsperl@perl.org, perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:00:41 -0400
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000602155951.01f02b20@24.8.96.48>
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000602164011.01ec8c30@24.8.96.48>
+             
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.6.0]Make perl's malloc work on VMS
+             From: Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org, vmsperl@perl.org
+             Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 17:30:51 -0400
+             Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000602173021.01f03570@24.8.96.48>
+             
+             Update to cperl-mode.el 4.31 from
+             ftp://ftp.math.ohio-state.edu/pub/users/ilya/cperl-mode.el
+             Subject: A couple of notes
+             From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+             To: Mailing list Perl5 <perl5-porters@perl.org>
+             Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:33:32 -0400
+             Message-ID: <20000603233332.A6790@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> emacs/cperl-mode.el embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h
+         !> ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c perlapi.h
+         !> pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlsyn.pod proto.h
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/vms.c
+         !> vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7336] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:03:46
+        Log: integrate changes#6194,6195 from mainline
+             
+             fix small eval"" memory leaks under USE_ITHREADS
+             
+             fix yet another eval"" leak under USE_ITHREADS
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> cop.h embed.h embed.pl objXSUB.h op.c perl.c perlapi.c perly.c
+         !> perly_c.diff pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c scope.h sv.c toke.c
+         !> vms/perly_c.vms
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7335] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:02:15
+        Log: integrate changes#6190,6191 from mainline
+             
+             submit missing embed.pl change
+             
+             vec() loses numericalness (modified version of patch suggested
+             by Robin Barker)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> doop.c embed.pl t/op/vec.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7334] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  08:01:03
+        Log: integrate change#6189 from mainline
+             
+             counting tr/// corrupts later operation (from M.J.T Guy)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> doop.c t/op/tr.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7333] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:59:07
+        Log: integrate changes#6183..6188 from mainline
+             
+             SelfLoader can lose $@ in AUTOLOAD() (from Nicholas Clark
+             <nick@ccl4.org>)
+             
+             tweak for change#6127
+             
+             remove incorrect documentation about implicit split to @_ in
+             list context, which never really worked in perl 5 (from
+             M.J.T. Guy)
+             
+             further qualify references to "alphanumeric" (from Wolfgang Laun
+             <wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
+             
+             replace pod2latex with the one in Pod-LaTeX v0.52 from CPAN
+             (from Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>)
+             
+             h2xs tweaks
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> lib/Pod/LaTeX.pm t/lib/selfloader.t
+         !> AUTHORS MAINTAIN MANIFEST ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm handy.h
+         !> lib/SelfLoader.pm perl.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perldata.pod
+         !> pod/perlfaq6.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+         !> pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+         !> pod/pod2latex.PL utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7332] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:53:52
+        Log: integrate change#6179 from mainline
+             
+             buggy modulus on UVs introduced by change#3378 (resulted in
+             4063328477 % 65535 amounting to 27406, instead of 27407)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp.c t/op/arith.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7331] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:52:49
+        Log: integrate changes#6176,6177,6178,6182 from cfgperl
+             
+             Single-quoted utf8 patch from Simon Cozens.
+             
+             Substitution utf8 patch from Simon Cozens.
+             
+             Be cleaner.
+             
+             Be Cleaner Part Deux.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Makefile.SH pp_hot.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7330] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:41:36
+        Log: integrate change#6172 from mainline
+             
+             fix buggy multiline matching of C<"a\nxb\n" =~ /(?!\A)x/m>
+             (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> regexec.c t/op/re_tests
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7329] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:40:25
+        Log: integrate change#6171 from mainline
+             
+             scalar() doesn't force scalar context when used in void context
+             (from Simon Cozens)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c t/op/wantarray.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7328] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:39:33
+        Log: integrate change#6170 from mainline
+             
+             change#6142 needs tweaks to tests to work where there's no
+             symlink() (from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> t/lib/filefind.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7327] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:35:34
+        Log: integrate changes#6166..6168 from cfgperl
+             
+             Introduce HAS_GETESPWNAM, HAS_GETPRPWNAM, and I_PROT
+             in case somebody wants to write an extension for more
+             shadow database interfaces.
+             
+             tweak todo
+             
+             Tweak NV_PRESERVES_UV*, vms/subconfigure.com left untouched.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> Todo-5.6 config_h.SH epoc/config.sh perl.h pp_sys.c toke.c
+         !> vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config.pl
+         !> vos/config_h.SH_orig win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+         !> win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+         !> win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7326] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:29:05
+        Log: integrate changes#6157,6159..6161,6164 from cfgperl
+             
+             Regen Configure to jive with #6149.
+             
+             Upgrade to File::Temp 0.08 from Tim Jenness via CPAN.
+             
+             Changes for the File::Temp 0.08 (change #6159) test suite
+             to fit better into the Perl distribution test framework.
+             
+             Add autogeneration of perlmodlib.pod and the new perlnewmod.pod,
+             both from Simon Cozens.
+             
+             detypo
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> pod/perlmodlib.PL pod/perlnewmod.pod
+         !> AUTHORS Configure MAINTAIN MANIFEST config_h.SH
+         !> lib/File/Temp.pm pod/Makefile pod/perl.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+         !> pod/perltoc.pod t/lib/ftmp-mktemp.t t/lib/ftmp-posix.t
+         !> t/lib/ftmp-security.t t/lib/ftmp-tempfile.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7325] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:25:13
+        Log: integrate change#6158 from vmsperl
+             
+             Add fallback to tmpfile for use in cases where user's relying on
+             ACLs on SYS$SCRATCH to permit file creation. (based on Charles
+             Lane's patch)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7324] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:20:50
+        Log: integrate changes#6153..6155 from mainline
+             
+             prettier Test::Harness output on failed tests (from Nicholas Clark
+             <nick@Bagpuss.uk.boo.com>)
+             
+             avoid type mismatch warning
+             
+             small bug in change#6144; remove random \xA0 character that snuck
+             in via change#6145
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/Test/Harness.pm
+         !> perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7323] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:18:47
+        Log: integrate changes#6151,6152 from mainline
+             
+             fix accidental pessimization in RE optimizer (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+             
+             cosmetic fixups of RE debug output (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> regexec.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7322] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:17:25
+        Log: integrate changes#6146..6150 from mainline
+             
+             doc typo
+             
+             add a make entry to Config.pm so "perl -V:make" works on VMS
+             (from Peter Prymmer)
+             
+             close open file before chmod() (from Rocco Caputo <troc@netrus.net>)
+             
+             OS/2 tweaks for usethreads build (from Rocco Caputo
+             <troc@netrus.net>)
+             
+             perlrequick.pod updates (from Mark Kvale <kvale@phy.ucsf.edu>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/warnings.pm
+         !> makedef.pl os2/Makefile.SHs os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_dllld.t
+         !> os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_objcall.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tievar.t
+         !> os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tieydb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.c
+         !> pod/perlrequick.pod util.c vms/subconfigure.com warnings.h
+         !> warnings.pl x2p/a2p.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7321] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:14:02
+        Log: integrate changes#6143..6145 from mainline
+             
+             MacOS support, part 1 (from Matthias Neeracher
+             <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>)
+             
+             MacOS support, part 2: make AutoSplit use File::Spec instead
+             of assuming Unixisms; *UNTESTED on Unix* (from Matthias Neeracher
+             <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>)
+             
+             make xsubpp skip embedded pod (from Matthias Neeracher
+             <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> ext/DynaLoader/dl_mac.xs
+         !> MANIFEST ext/DB_File/Makefile.PL ext/NDBM_File/Makefile.PL
+         !> ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c perl.c perlsfio.h pod/perlfaq4.pod
+         !> pp_ctl.c proto.h toke.c util.c util.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7320] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:12:13
+        Log: integrate changes#6141,6142 from mainline
+             
+             BSD/OS (bsdi) hints update by Timur I. Bakeyev and Todd C. Miller,
+             forwarded by Peter Seebach from the bsdi-users mailing list.
+             p5p Message-Id: <200005280543.AAA24519@guild.plethora.net>
+             
+             File::Find fails to chdir when chasing symlinks (from
+             Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> hints/bsdos.sh lib/File/Find.pm t/lib/filefind.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7319] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:04:30
+        Log: integrate change#6139 from mainline
+             
+             revise mktables.PL for bugs and newness in Unicode 3.0
+             (from James Bence <jbence@amgen.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> (branch 30 files)
+         !> (integrate 49 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7318] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  07:01:01
+        Log: integrate changes#6137,6138 from mainline
+             
+             fix bogus redeclaration warning for "our" variables in different
+             scopes
+             
+             add note about the handling of negative indices to tied arrays
+             (from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c pod/perltie.pod t/pragma/strict-vars
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7317] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:58:46
+        Log: integrate changes#6127..6136 from mainline
+             
+             call_method(...,G_EVAL) can longjmp() out if the method probing
+             failed (from Gisle Aas)
+             
+             new perlxstut example for passing/returning refs to arrays
+             (from David Lowe <dlowe@pootpoot.com>)
+             
+             VMS test harness tweak (from Jesper Naur <jesper.naur@post.tele.dk>)
+             
+             fix places that mean C<"word" character> but say C<alphanumeric
+             character>
+             
+             avoid warnings in POSIX.pm (from Barrie Slaymaker)
+             
+             warnings::enabled() doesn't fall back to looking at $^W if
+             caller isn't using lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)
+             
+             elide bogus test in change#6132
+             
+             make Test::Harness use wait.h/WCOREDUMP if available
+             (from Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com>)
+             
+             enable Test::Harness to dynamically determine column width etc.
+             (from Rob Napier <rnapier@employees.org>)
+             
+             random pod typos (from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> cop.h ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+         !> lib/Test/Harness.pm perl.c pod/perldebguts.pod
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlretut.pod
+         !> pod/perlxstut.pod pp_ctl.c t/pragma/warn/9enabled vms/test.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7316] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:53:23
+        Log: integrate change#6126 from mainline
+             
+             change#2879 broke rvalue autovivification of magicals such as
+             ${$num} (reworked variant of patch suggested by Simon Cozens)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> embed.h embed.pl gv.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pp.c
+         !> pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/gv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7315] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:51:38
+        Log: integrate changes#6123,6125 from mainline
+             
+             clarify gotcha with #line directives (from Rocco Caputo
+             <troc@netrus.net>)
+             
+             enable propagating exception objects via Perl_croak() in XS code
+             (from Gisle Aas)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlsyn.pod util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7314] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:49:28
+        Log: integrate change#6122 from mainline
+             
+             downgrade fatal error on C<"foo@nosucharray.com"> to optional
+             warning (from Mark-Jason Dominus)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/typemap pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+         !> pod/perltrap.pod t/base/lex.t t/pragma/strict-vars
+         !> t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warn/toke t/pragma/warnings.t
+         !> toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7313] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:46:54
+        Log: integrate changes#6112..6121 from vmsperl
+             
+             Check for existence of file before trying to delete
+             
+             Ugly workaround for version-specific RTL error
+             
+             Urk -- undo previous removal of vmsish 'exit' change
+             
+             Add bounds checking for several strings (Charles Lane)
+             
+             Miscellaneous cosmetic fixes (Charles Lane)
+             
+             Treat sockets as special in sys(read|write) (Charles Lane et al.)
+             
+             Regularize distinction between RMS$_DNF and RMS$_DIR (Craig Berry)
+             Flatten case labels in switch statements uniformly (Charles Bailey)
+             
+             Quiet error messages in vmsish.t (Charles Lane)
+             
+             Add missing escape (Charles Lane)
+             
+             Allow eliminate_macros() and fixpath() to handle space-delimited
+             lists (based on fixes by Craig Berry)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/op/lex_assign.t
+         !> vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+         !> vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7312] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:41:18
+        Log: integrate changes#6107,6110 from cfgperl
+             
+             Tweak the todo list.
+             
+             todo tweak
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7311] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:38:38
+        Log: integrate changes#6104,6108 from mainline
+             
+             PL_sys_intern was being initialized too late on windows
+             
+             reenable fake signal handling on Windows, bugs and all
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> embed.h embed.pl global.sym makedef.pl mg.c objXSUB.h perl.c
+         !> perl.h perlapi.c pod/perlapi.pod proto.h win32/perlhost.h
+         !> win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7310] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:36:03
+        Log: integrate changes#6095,6097..6103 from cfgperl
+             
+             Introduce NV_PRESERVED_BITS.  Not yet used anywhere but
+             might be useful in future.
+             
+             Add a note about possible compilation problems from Allen Smith.
+             
+             Add a note about other, yet unsupported, shadow password APIs.
+             
+             Tweaks for the cc bugs from Allen Smith.
+             
+             More compilation tweakery from Allen Smith.
+             
+             Hints and test tweaks for Unicos.
+             
+             The test suite tweak in #6101 wasn't quite right.
+             
+             Test tweaking for Unicos continues.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH hints/irix_6.sh hints/unicos.sh pp_sys.c t/lib/b.t
+         !> t/lib/complex.t t/op/64bitint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7309] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:29:41
+        Log: integrate changes#6093,6094 from mainline
+             
+             fork() failure to create pseudo process sets errno=EAGAIN and returns
+             undef on windows (from Clinton Pierce <clintp@geeksalad.org>)
+             
+             cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <efifer@sanwaint.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> README.cygwin cygwin/Makefile.SHs cygwin/cygwin.c
+         !> hints/cygwin.sh pp_sys.c sv.c win32/perlhost.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7308] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:27:29
+        Log: integrate change#6092 from cfgperl
+             
+             Regen perltoc with the fixed buildtoc.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7307] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:26:40
+        Log: integrate changes#6089,6090 from mainline
+             
+             buildtoc tweak to fix newline lossage
+             
+             concat doesn't preserve utf8-ness, and doesn't invalidate
+             [NI]OK; added tests for both
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> perl.c pod/buildtoc pp_hot.c sv.c t/op/substr.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7306] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:24:05
+        Log: integrate change#6088 from cfgperl
+             
+             Remove HAS_SETSPENT, HAS_GETSPENT, HAS_ENDSPENT,
+             because we do not use those.  The HAS_GETSPNAM remains,
+             though, because we still do use that.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH epoc/config.sh hints/machten.sh pod/perltoc.pod
+         !> pp_sys.c vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def vos/config.h
+         !> vos/config_h.SH_orig win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+         !> win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+         !> win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7305] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:15:52
+        Log: integrate changes#6084,6085,6087 from mainline
+             
+             substr() does not preserve utf8-ness (from Stefan Eissing
+             <Eissing@medicaldataservice.de>); added tests
+             
+             repeat operator (x) doesn't preserve utf8-ness
+             
+             reverse() and quotemeta() weren't preserving utf8-ness; add tests
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp.c sv.c t/op/quotemeta.t t/op/substr.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7304] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:13:10
+        Log: integrate changes#6077..6083 from mainline
+             
+             avoid warnings in diagnostics.pm; pod tweaks (from Peter Prymmer
+             and Tom Phoenix)
+             
+             workaround for CRT bug in chdir() (from Charles Lane, via
+             Peter Prymmer)
+             
+             remove outdated kludge in Carp (NULLs are permitted in diagnostics
+             now)
+             
+             add File::Temp v0.08 from CPAN, with small tweaks to testsuite
+             (from Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>)
+             
+             better default perlbug categories for ok reports (from Richard Foley)
+             
+             peek.t non-portable to ithreads
+             
+             note about undocumented caller() return value (from M.J.T. Guy);
+             yet another peek.t tweak
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> lib/File/Temp.pm t/lib/ftmp-mktemp.t t/lib/ftmp-posix.t
+         +> t/lib/ftmp-security.t t/lib/ftmp-tempfile.t
+         !> AUTHORS MAINTAIN MANIFEST iperlsys.h lib/Carp/Heavy.pm
+         !> lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+         !> pod/perltie.pod t/lib/peek.t utils/perlbug.PL vms/vms.c
+         !> vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7303] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  06:03:18
+        Log: integrate changes#6011,6016,6033,6035..6039,6047..6052,6054..6059,
+             6073..6075 from cfgperl (pp_sys.c manually merged due to conflicts)
+             
+             &HUGE_VAL is not defined, it exists.
+             
+             Do not warn that an infinity does not look like a number.
+             
+             Rewrite the pwent/spent logic to be a little bit more clearer.
+             
+             Continue on the pwent/spent case.
+             
+             Correct Freudian slip.
+             
+             Use HUGE_VALL if applicable.
+             
+             pwent/spent #ifdef imbalance.
+             
+             Infinite problems.
+             
+             Call getspnam() only iff needd.
+             
+             Test both the scalar and list contexts.
+             
+             Use setxxent()/endxxent().
+             
+             Complex tweakery.
+             
+             Unicos hint tweak.
+             
+             Be more forgiving in POSIX about HUGE_VALL.
+             
+             Detypo.
+             
+             The search of infinity continues, this time simplified.
+             
+             The logic of choosing strtol/strtoul/strtoll/strtoull was wrong
+             in natively 64-bit platforms where a long is a quad (no need
+             for long longs).  Also added bias for IVs.
+             
+             Complex tweaks.
+             
+             Introduce t/lib/peek.t.
+             
+             Make the test more portable.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> t/lib/peek.t
+          ! pp_sys.c
+         !> MANIFEST ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs hints/unicos.sh
+         !> lib/Math/Complex.pm sv.c t/lib/complex.t t/op/grent.t
+         !> t/op/pwent.t toke.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7302] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  05:03:37
+        Log: integrate changes#6066..6071 from mainline
+             
+             s/END/CHECK/
+             
+             replace direct call to sighandler() with (*PL_sighandlerp)()
+             
+             note about values()
+             
+             File::Spec compatibility update (from Barrie Slaymaker
+             <barries@slaysys.com>)
+             
+             remove misleading comment (from M.J.T. Guy)
+             
+             misformatted perllocal.pod (from Tim Jenness
+             <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
+         !> lib/File/Spec.pm lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm
+         !> lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm perl.c
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/anydbm.t win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7301] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  05:00:08
+        Log: integrate changes#6061..6063 from mainline
+             
+             change#5921 neglected to make eq honor "use bytes"
+             
+             additional tests for utf8.t
+             
+             tokeq() could read unallocated field in argument
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> sv.c t/pragma/utf8.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7300] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:56:54
+        Log: integrate changes#6046,6048,6057,6058 from mainline
+             
+             libscheck has insufficient checks for n32 libs (from
+             Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>)
+             
+             add note about how $( doesn't interpolate in REs (from
+             Philip Newton <newton@ficus.frogspace.net>)
+             
+             fix broken parsing of /\x{ab}/
+             
+             printf(...) should be PerlIO_printf(PerlIO_stdout(), ...)
+             (spotted by Donald Kinzer <dkinzer@premia.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> hints/irix_6.sh perl.c pod/perlop.pod regcomp.c
+         !> t/pragma/utf8.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7299] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:52:50
+        Log: integrate change#6044 from mainline
+             
+             change#3798 broke the meaning of "\0_7_7", tr/\0_// etc.; fix it
+             such that underscores are only ignored in literal numbers,
+             "\x{...}", and hex/oct argument
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> perl.c pp.c regcomp.c t/op/oct.t toke.c util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7298] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:50:53
+        Log: integrate changes#6027..6043 from mainline
+             
+             podlators-1.02 update (from Russ Allbery)
+             
+             Pod::Man generates groff-incompatible macro definition (from
+             Tom Christiansen)
+             
+             add CGI.pm v2.66 (from Lincoln Stein)
+             
+             introduce @LAST_MATCH_START and @LAST_MATCH_END, English aliases
+             for @- and @+ (from Johan Vromans)
+             
+             small nits in diagnostics.pm (from Robin Barker)
+             
+             whitespace adjustments
+             
+             missing files in MANIFEST
+             
+             cpio 2.4.2 on Linux creates directories in 0700 mode, adjust makerel
+             to compensate
+             
+             remove outdated perltrap entry (from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>)
+             
+             perlretut revisions (from Mark Kvale <kvale@phy.ucsf.edu>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> lib/CGI/Util.pm t/lib/cgi-pretty.t
+         !> MANIFEST Porting/makerel lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Carp.pm
+         !> lib/CGI/Cookie.pm lib/CGI/Pretty.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm
+         !> lib/English.pm lib/Pod/Man.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm
+         !> lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlretut.pod
+         !> pod/perltrap.pod pod/perlvar.pod pp_sys.c t/lib/cgi-function.t
+         !> t/lib/cgi-html.t t/lib/cgi-request.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7297] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:44:30
+        Log: integrate change#6025 from mainline
+             
+             Is{Alnum,Alpha,Word} don't match titlecase
+             TODO: IsSpace is defined recursively!
+             (both spotted by Larry)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/unicode/Is/Alnum.pl lib/unicode/Is/Alpha.pl
+         !> lib/unicode/Is/Word.pl lib/unicode/mktables.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7296] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:39:30
+        Log: integrate change#6023 from mainline
+             
+             debugger stomps on $. (from M.J.T. Guy)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7295] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:38:02
+        Log: integrate change#6022 from mainline
+             
+             unbalanced LEAVE after perl_clone(...,0) (from Doug MacEachern)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7294] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:37:05
+        Log: integrate changes#6018..6021 from mainline
+             
+             make lib/syslog.t portable to systems that don't have _PATH_LOG,
+             make _PATH_LOG() return "" if unavailable
+             
+             windows portability tweaks
+             
+             test tweak
+             
+             remove Win2K issue in pod (fixed by change#6020)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> README.win32 ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+         !> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/b.t
+         !> t/lib/open3.t t/lib/syslog.t win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7293] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:20:00
+        Log: integrate changes#6013..6015 from mainline
+             
+             tweak change#5945 to display correct switch name in diagnostic
+             
+             glob() loading File::Glob behind the scenes may cause syntax errors
+             
+             tweak test for portability
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod t/lib/b.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7292] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:18:11
+        Log: integrate changes#6005..6010 from mainline, cfgperl
+             
+             perldoc might fail via "use blib" (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+             
+             Regen Configure.
+             
+             note about compile failures and END blocks (from M.J.T. Guy)
+             
+             VMS config tweak (from Craig A. Berry <craig.berry@metamorgs.com>)
+             
+             (change#6009 integrated earlier in change#7255)
+             
+             clarify note about shadow password support (from
+             gellyfish@gellyfish.com)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH installperl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+         !> pod/perlmod.pod utils/perldoc.PL vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7291] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:12:03
+        Log: integrate changes#6002,6003 from mainline
+             
+             destructive sv_setsv() can lose UV-ness from source, causing
+             numeric promotions/comparisons to fail to do the right thing
+             
+             allow REG_EXPAND_SZ keys in Windows registry (from
+             John Clayton <John.Clayton@barclayscapital.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> sv.c win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7290] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:10:19
+        Log: integrate change#6001 from mainline
+             
+             support additional library locations via $Config{otherlibdirs}
+             (from Andy Dougherty)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> Configure INSTALL Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh
+         !> Porting/config_H config_h.SH epoc/config.sh perl.c
+         !> vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def vos/config_h.SH_orig
+         !> win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7289] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:08:28
+        Log: integrate change#5999 from mainline
+             
+             fix line renumbering bug in C<eval qq[#line 10 "X"\nwarn]>
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> t/pragma/warn/toke toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7288] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:07:01
+        Log: integrate changes#5997,5998 from cfgperl
+             
+             Preserve $!.
+             
+             Try to get "Inf" by using &POSIX::HUGE_VAL in sprintf.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/Math/Complex.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7287] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:04:37
+        Log: integrate change#5995 from mainline
+             
+             fixes for bugs in C<use warnings qw(FATAL all)> (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> mg.c t/pragma/warn/7fatal warnings.h warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7286] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:03:21
+        Log: integrate change#5994 from mainline
+             
+             fix for missed accounting for null byte in pack("Z",...) (from
+             M.J.T. Guy)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp.c t/op/pack.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7285] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  04:02:11
+        Log: integrate changes#5989..5993 from mainline
+             
+             qw(a\\b) must be parsed like 'a\\b', i.e., backslash escapes
+             itself and no other (from Tom Hughes)
+             
+             use $ENV{LIB} to search for libs under Visual C compiler
+             on Windows (from Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>)
+             
+             posix-bc patches (from Dorner Thomas <Thomas.Dorner@start.de>)
+             
+             pod nit (from Simon Cozens)
+             
+             various minor tweaks seen on p5p
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> README.posix-bc hints/posix-bc.sh lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+         !> lib/perl5db.pl pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+         !> t/op/array.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7284] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:59:00
+        Log: integrate changes#5978..5988 from mainline
+             
+             sync version numbers in File::Spec with the ones on CPAN
+             (from Barrie Slaymaker)
+             
+             under useithreads, constant pad entries could inadvertantly be
+             shared across threads (from Eric Blood <eblood@xmission.com>);
+             added Eric's test case to testsuite
+             
+             allow Configure -S to run non-interactively (spotted by Greg Hudson
+             <ghudson@mit.edu>)
+             
+             rename File::Glob::glob() to File::Glob::bsd_glob() to avoid
+             prototype mismatch with CORE::glob(); update pod and tests to
+             suit (File::Glob::glob() is still available for backward
+             compatibility, but should be considered deprecated)
+             
+             avoid error in IO::Socket::INET when given an unknown service name
+             with a port number (from Brian Raven <brianr@ssprdmh01.liffe.com>)
+             
+             numeric conversion of non-number in change#3378 tramples on
+             OOK offset, causing segfaults
+             
+             attributes::reftype() doesn't work on tied argument
+             
+             forked child may not exit correctly if it failed to open
+             /dev/console (from Graham Barr)
+             
+             add regular expressions tutorial and quick-start guide (from
+             Mark Kvale <kvale@phy.ucsf.edu>)
+             
+             B::Bytecode tweaks (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
+             
+             s/HTMLSCRIPTPOD/HTMLSCRIPTPODS/ (from Paul Sharpe
+             <paul@miraclefish.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> pod/perlrequick.pod pod/perlretut.pod
+         !> AUTHORS Configure MAINTAIN MANIFEST ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm
+         !> ext/B/B/Disassembler.pm ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm
+         !> ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/File/Spec/Functions.pm
+         !> lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/OS2.pm
+         !> lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+         !> lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm op.c sv.c t/lib/glob-basic.t
+         !> t/lib/glob-case.t t/lib/glob-taint.t t/op/misc.t xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7283] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:52:14
+        Log: integrate change#5977 from mainline
+             
+             autoquote barewords followed by newline and arrow properly
+             (variant of fix suggested by Rick Delaney and M.J.T. Guy)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> t/pragma/warn/toke toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7282] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:50:48
+        Log: integrate change#5976 from mainline
+             
+             DB_File v1.73 update (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> ext/DB_File/Changes ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+         !> ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/version.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7281] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:49:14
+        Log: integrate change#5975 from mainline
+             
+             allow sort() reentrancy (variant of patch suggested by
+             Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_ctl.c t/op/sort.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7280] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:48:22
+        Log: integrate change#5974 from mainline
+             
+             change#4197 somehow missed initializing PL_errors, meaning
+             syntax error queueing wasn't working outside eval"" at all;
+             also fixed eval"" to localize PL_error_count, so that compile-time
+             eval's don't clobber the error state of the outer context
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/Math/Complex.pm perl.c pp_ctl.c t/pragma/warn/op
+         !> t/pragma/warn/toke
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7279] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:46:21
+        Log: integrate change#5973 from mainline
+             
+             fix for failure to match $foo =~ /(?i)/ (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> regcomp.c regexec.c t/op/re_tests
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7278] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:44:54
+        Log: integrate change#5971 from cfgperl
+             
+             Unicos tweaks from Mark P. Lutz.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> hints/unicos.sh lib/Math/Complex.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7277] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:42:59
+        Log: integrate changes#5966..5970 from mainline
+             
+             add testsuite for B backends, fix bug in B::Deparse (from
+             Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
+             
+             improved docs on the warn_uninit diagnostic (from David Glasser
+             and Simon Cozens)
+             
+             tolerate spaces in group names in test on solaris (from David Boyce
+             <dsb@boyski.com>)
+             
+             fix Sys::Syslog breakage on domain sockets (from Tom Hughes)
+             
+             Data::Dumper fumbles negative numbers on 32-bit platforms where
+             IV is >32bits
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> t/lib/b.t t/lib/syslog.t
+         !> MANIFEST ext/B/B/Deparse.pm ext/B/B/Stash.pm
+         !> ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.xs ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+         !> pod/perldiag.pod t/lib/dumper.t t/op/groups.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7276] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:39:30
+        Log: integrate change#5965 from mainline
+             
+             avoid "will not stay shared" warnings for our variables (from
+             Robin Barker)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c t/pragma/warn/op
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7275] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:38:18
+        Log: integrate change#5964 from mainline
+             
+             reformat to 72 columns (again)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7274] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:36:58
+        Log: integrate change#5963 from mainline
+             
+             patch from Larry to make (\&) prototype work; added tests for
+             the same
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c t/comp/proto.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7273] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:35:51
+        Log: integrate changes#5956..5962 from mainline
+             
+             better diagnostics on failed tests (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+             
+             pod nits (from A. C. Yardley <yardley@tanet.net>)
+             
+             change#3569 deleted some essential code, revert; avoid use of
+             atexit() to make DynaLoader work properly on AIX under mod_perl
+             (from Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>)
+             
+             doubled words in pods (from Simon Cozens
+             <simon.p.cozens@jp.pwcglobal.com>)
+             
+             better INSTALL notes on Solaris issues (from Dominic Dunlop)
+             
+             recognize our, CHECK and INIT in cperl-mode (from Doug MacEachern)
+             
+             updated README.hpux (from Jeff Okamoto)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> INSTALL README.hpux emacs/cperl-mode.el
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs pod/perldebguts.pod pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> pod/perlfaq5.pod pod/perlfork.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+         !> pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllexwarn.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+         !> pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlnumber.pod
+         !> pod/perlopentut.pod pod/perltodo.pod pod/perltootc.pod
+         !> t/op/lex_assign.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7272] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:31:22
+        Log: integrate change#5955 from mainline
+             
+             longstanding bug exposed by change#3307: sort arguments weren't
+             compiled with the right wantarray context (ensuing runtime lookup
+             via block_gimme() was getting the incidental context of the
+             sort() itself)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c t/op/sort.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7271] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:29:11
+        Log: integrate changes#5933,5935,5940..5944,5946,5951,5952 from cfgperl
+             branch
+             
+             Flatten the cpp jungle doing the nosuid checking.
+             
+             Do not assume sign propagation. (from M.J.T. Guy)
+             
+             Various Unicos 10.0.0.6 fixes. (from Mark Lutz)
+             
+             Add HAS_FREXPL, HAS_ISNAN, HAS_ISNANL, and HAS_MODFL.
+             Now pp_ncmp() returns undef is either operand is a NaN.
+             
+             On second thoughts frexp() does have two arguments.
+             
+             Document that tr() is not tr(1).
+             
+             Be more robust on "extreme" (large absolute value)
+             arguments.  Originally reported by Daniel Connelly
+             as a problem with asinh() on large negative arguments,
+             asinh() used to bail out because an argument to log()
+             ended up being zero.  Ilya Zakharevich proposed using
+             Taylor's series in such cases, which for such large
+             arguments is a very good approximation.
+             
+             Undo "use integer" addition from 64bitint as it seems
+             to break most of the subtests in Digital UNIX;
+             Unicos needs to find another way.
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 29 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7270] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:09:44
+        Log: integrate changes#5948,5949,5950 from mainline
+             
+             typo in vars.pm that leads to cryptic message (from Piotr
+             Piatkowski <kompas@kompas.usr.onet.pl>)
+             
+             make perldoc use the pod2man from the same version (from
+             M.J.T. Guy)
+             
+             reformat perldiag to avoid long lines
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> lib/vars.pm pod/perldiag.pod utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7269] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:05:54
+        Log: integrate change#5947 from mainline
+             
+             use &dl_error rather than &dl_load_file as the guard for calling
+             boot_DynaLoader() (meant to fix dl_error() redefined warnings in
+             statically built perl)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL ext/DynaLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7268] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:04:48
+        Log: integrate change#5945 from mainline
+             
+             make module name mandatory after -M switch; reorder perldiag
+             alphabetically (from Mark-Jason Dominus)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7267] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:03:01
+        Log: integrate change#5939 from mainline
+             
+             more pod nits (from Larry Virden)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> README.win32 pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod
+         !> pod/perlthrtut.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltodo.pod
+         !> pod/perlxs.pod pod/perlxstut.pod vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7266] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:01:39
+        Log: integrate change#5938 from mainline
+             
+             Consolidated B::Deparse fixes (from Stephen McCamant)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7265] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  03:00:43
+        Log: integrate change#5936 from mainline
+             
+             additional tests for change#7263 (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> t/pragma/warn/2use t/pragma/warn/3both t/pragma/warn/4lint
+         !> t/pragma/warn/5nolint t/pragma/warn/6default
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7264] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:58:34
+        Log: integrate change#5934 from mainline
+             
+             propagate lexical warnings from surrounding scope correctly
+             within string eval() (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_ctl.c t/pragma/warn/pp_ctl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7263] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:56:53
+        Log: integrate change#5932 from mainline
+             
+             add rsignal(), whichsig() and do_join() to public API list
+             (mod_perl uses them to good advantage)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c proto.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7262] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:55:53
+        Log: integrate change#5931 from mainline
+             
+             fix RE brokenness on refs/overloaded things (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_hot.c regexec.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7261] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:55:01
+        Log: integrate change#5930 from mainline
+             
+             small os390 tweaks (from Peter Prymmer)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> config_h.SH makedepend.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7260] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:54:10
+        Log: integrate change#5929 from mainline
+             
+             pod nits
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pod/perlguts.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7259] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:52:55
+        Log: integrate change#5927 from mainline
+             
+             arrange for next() to resume at the unstack op rather than the
+             loop conditional, so that scope cleanup happens correctly
+             (from Stephen McCamant)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> op.c pp_ctl.c t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7258] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:51:38
+        Log: integrate change#5926 from mainline
+             
+             on windows, reserve 16M of stack rather than 128M (allows more
+             threads to run concurrently)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7257] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:50:37
+        Log: integrate change#5925 from mainline
+             
+             POSIX-BC tweak (from Ignasi Roca <ignasi.roca@fujitsu.siemens.es>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7256] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:49:36
+        Log: integrate change#5924 from mainline
+             
+             avoid using uninitialized memory in require version check
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_ctl.c universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7255] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:48:03
+        Log: integrate changes#5923,5928,6009 from mainline
+             
+             IO::Poll bugs fixed (from Lincoln Stein <lstein@cshl.org>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> ext/IO/lib/IO/Poll.pm t/lib/io_poll.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7254] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:44:46
+        Log: integrate change#5922 from mainline
+             
+             commentary about IoTYPE() (from Nathan Torkington)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> sv.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7253] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:43:49
+        Log: integrate change#5921 from mainline
+             
+             make eq unicode-aware (from Gisle Aas); fix bogus tests revealed
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> sv.c t/lib/charnames.t t/pragma/utf8.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7252] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:42:31
+        Log: integrate change#5920 from mainline
+             
+             Larry's fix for buggy propagation of utf8-ness in join(); add test
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> doop.c t/op/ver.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7251] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:41:14
+        Log: integrate changes#5915..5919 from mainline
+             
+             various (pod tweaks &c)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> (integrate 33 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7250] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:38:16
+        Log: integrate change#5914 from mainline
+             
+             caller() wasn't returning the right number of elements for
+             eval {...}
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_ctl.c t/pragma/warn/9enabled
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7249] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:37:02
+        Log: integrate change#5913 from mainline
+             
+             pod nit: $yday range for localtime/gmtime is 0..364 not 1..365
+             (from Mark-Jason Dominus)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7248] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:35:58
+        Log: integrate change#5912 from mainline
+             
+             fix totally broken caching in UNIVERSAL::isa() (from
+             Nick Ing-Simmons)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> t/op/universal.t universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7247] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:34:27
+        Log: integrate changes#5910,5911 from mainline
+             
+             typo in pod
+             
+             add linebreak properties from unicode/LineBrk.txt (from
+             Dave Hartnoll <Dave_Hartnoll@3b2.com>)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> (branch 29 files)
+         !> ext/Thread/Thread.pm lib/unicode/mktables.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7246] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:33:29
+        Log: integrate change#5909 from mainline
+             
+             mode argument to do_binmode() should be file mode, not boolean
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7245] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:31:04
+        Log: integrate change#5908 from mainline
+             
+             introduce illegal symbols into null package so that
+             gv_fetchpv(...,TRUE) always returns a valid GV even when the
+             symbol is trapped by strictures (avoids coredumps)
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> embedvar.h gv.c intrpvar.h perl.c perlapi.h
+         !> t/pragma/strict-vars
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  7242] By: gsar                                  on 2000/10/16  02:26:51
+        Log: integrate changes#5905,5906,5907,6064 from mainline
+             
+             printf/sprintf didn't get quad types right under use64bitint
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         !> pp_sys.c sv.c t/op/64bitint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5902] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/28  01:59:14
+        Log: create maint-5.6 branch
+     Branch: maint-5.6/perl
+         +> (branch 1611 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5900] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:42:43
+        Log: three guesses on what this is :-)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+
+--------------
+Version v5.6.0
+--------------
+
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5899] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:39:11
+        Log: update patchlevel.h, Changes; regen perltoc.pod
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5898] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/23  05:36:47
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> README.machten Todo Todo-5.6 pod/perldebug.pod
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlport.pod sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5897] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:31:12
+        Log: revise perldelta for more optimal ordering, minor Todo
+             rearrangments
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.machten Todo Todo-5.6 pod/perldelta.pod
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5896] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  05:30:15
+        Log: pod updates (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5895] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/23  02:33:33
+        Log: fix misplaced OP refcount for eval root
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5894] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  21:37:03
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> README.machten
+         !> MAINTAIN MANIFEST README.win32 ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+         !> ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm hints/machten.sh pod/perl.pod
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsyn.pod t/io/fs.t win32/Makefile
+         !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5893] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  21:08:34
+        Log: unretract change#5871 (Dominic Dunlop reports machten is better
+             with it than without)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/machten.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5892] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  20:37:44
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/machten.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+         !> hints/unicosmk.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5891] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  20:04:01
+        Log: perlsyn.pod nit (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlsyn.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5890] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:43:22
+        Log: typo in comment
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5889] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:41:46
+        Log: add README.machten (from Dominic Dunlop)
+     Branch: perl
+          + README.machten
+          ! MAINTAIN MANIFEST pod/perl.pod win32/Makefile
+          ! win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5888] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:29:47
+        Log: makefile nits
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5887] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:26:03
+        Log: add note about lib/open3.t#22 failure on Win2K
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32 pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5886] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  19:14:20
+        Log: io/fs.t tweaks for Windows 2000
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/io/fs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5885] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  18:41:50
+        Log: make unloading of extension shared objects (change#5381) a build
+             option (use "Configure -Accflags=-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT" to enable)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5884] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  18:16:45
+        Log: avoid loading both XSLoader and DynaLoader (avoids dl_error()
+             redefinition warnings when statically linked)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5883] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  17:45:01
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> t/lib/thr5005.t t/op/64bitint.t t/op/nothr5005.t
+          - t/lib/thread.t t/op/64bit.t t/op/nothread.t
+         !> Configure MAINTAIN MANIFEST Todo-5.6 ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+         !> lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perldelta.pod universal.c util.c
+         !> utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL win32/Makefile
+         !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5882] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  17:16:27
+        Log: Metaconfigify #5881.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/installdirs/inc_version_list.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5881] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  17:04:01
+        Log: avoid including things that aren't directories in inc_version_list
+             (from Robin Barker)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5880] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  16:55:42
+        Log: avoid File::Compare warning when passed handles (from Nick
+             Ing-Simmons)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Compare.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5879] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  16:48:33
+        Log: Retract #5871.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/machten.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5878] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  16:29:37
+        Log: RM600-svr4 tweaks (from Frank Ridderbusch
+             <frank.ridderbusch@pdb.siemens.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/POSIX/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5877] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  15:38:49
+        Log: save RE context when calling __WARN__ and __DIE__ hooks;
+             add missing stack-of-stacks logic for new code that came
+             in with lexical warnings (this fixes coredumps from
+             -Mdiagnostics when the warnings happens to come from within
+             the RE engine)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5876] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  15:02:59
+        Log: missing pieces in perldelta
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5875] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:46:24
+        Log: rename tests to more appropriate names
+     Branch: perl
+         +> t/lib/thr5005.t t/op/64bitint.t t/op/nothr5005.t
+          - t/lib/thread.t t/op/64bit.t t/op/nothread.t
+          ! MAINTAIN MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5874] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  14:32:57
+        Log: Make the no-luck-on-uselongdouble warning more visible.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5873] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:28:56
+        Log: backout change#5708; fixups for behavior of recently added -a switch;
+             support -k and -m switches in h2xs (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5872] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:21:20
+        Log: remove outdated notes in makefiles
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5871] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  14:17:40
+        Log: Disable SysV shm and msg even more.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/machten.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5870] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  14:16:54
+        Log: Augment #5865.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/unicosmk.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5869] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  14:07:27
+        Log: perlbug -ok shouldn't prompt (from Paul Moore
+             <Paul.Moore@uk.origin-it.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5868] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  13:54:27
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH hints/dec_osf.sh hints/openbsd.sh
+         !> hints/solaris_2.sh hints/unicosmk.sh pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> pod/perlport.pod win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+         !> win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5867] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/22  05:25:40
+        Log: OpenBSD pthreadness fixes from Tom Christiansen.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/openbsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5866] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/22  04:18:39
+        Log: UMRs in universal.c (SvCUR() may not be there unless SvPOK())
+     Branch: perl
+          ! universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5865] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  21:38:20
+        Log: The SysV shm*() are in libc but unimplemented.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/unicosmk.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5864] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  21:30:02
+        Log: s/setgropus/setgroups/; # detypo in a comment
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Getfile.U U/modified/d_flexfnam.U
+          ! U/modified/groupstype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5863] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  20:25:40
+        Log: Add supported platforms.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5862] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  19:19:04
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5861] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  19:07:13
+        Log: add missing bincompat symbols to export list
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5860] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  18:59:39
+        Log: Disallow using too old gcc in {Tru64,Digital UNIX,DEC OSF/1}.
+             (Even gcc 2.95 doesn't seem to be working 100%.)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/dec_osf.sh pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5859] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  16:36:27
+        Log: Nit for #5802 from Robin Barker.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Getfile.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5858] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  14:34:25
+        Log: Be more lenient in the case libsunmath cannot be found.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5857] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/21  14:14:38
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 27 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5856] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  10:44:10
+        Log: here lies RC3
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5855] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  10:05:42
+        Log: clone awareness for change#5847
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5854] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  09:30:50
+        Log: regen win32/config*
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5853] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  08:56:58
+        Log: integrate cfgperl and vmsperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Todo Todo-5.6 config_h.SH lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5852] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  06:08:20
+        Log: README.mint tweaks (from Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes README.mint
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5851] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  06:06:44
+        Log: make parenthetic warnings look consistent; make diagnostic on
+             "use 5.6" et al mention the alternate form; pod fixups
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c
+          ! t/comp/use.t t/pragma/strict-vars t/pragma/warn/op
+          ! t/pragma/warn/pp_hot t/pragma/warn/pp_sys toke.c universal.c
+          ! util.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5850] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  04:05:00
+        Log: disable unused Windows code that won't run on Windows 95
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/vmem.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5849] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  03:34:39
+        Log: $File::Find::name doesn't reflect top level files
+             correctly (from Simon Cozens <simon@brecon.co.uk>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5848] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  02:46:01
+        Log: test fails when sockets not available (from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/io_unix.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5847] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/21  00:09:09
+        Log: under useithreads, PUSHLOOP must save PL_curpad for looking up
+             iterdata, since dounwind() may defer LEAVEs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5846] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/20  23:54:37
+        Log: Document the lib/io_multihomedt hang in 64-bit HP-Ux.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5845] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/20  23:45:24
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5844] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/20  23:17:18
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> lib/Dumpvalue.pm lib/User/pwent.pm lib/dumpvar.pl
+         !> lib/strict.pm op.c pod/perldata.pod pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/io/pipe.t t/lib/charnames.t toke.c
+         !> utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5843] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  22:14:35
+        Log: add note about symbolic filehandles (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/strict.pm pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5842] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:59:51
+        Log: perlbugtron flags in perlbug (from Richard Foley); eliminate duplicate
+             code
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5841] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:06:01
+        Log: more sleep needed from slow systems (from Peter Haworth)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/io/pipe.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5840] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:04:42
+        Log: typo in change#5839
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Dumpvalue.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5839] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  21:03:14
+        Log: make dumpvar.pl recognize emptyness in arrays (from Matthias Urlichs
+             <smurf@noris.de>); fix up duplicate code in Dumpvalue.pm
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Dumpvalue.pm lib/dumpvar.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5838] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  20:53:25
+        Log: mention handle autovivification in perldata (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perldata.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5837] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  20:37:42
+        Log: change#5797 didn't do the right thing for "\xff\N{WHITE SMILING FACE}"
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/charnames.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5836] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/20  16:27:13
+        Log: autovivify open($fh[0],...) properly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5835] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  18:51:24
+        Log: add @x->[2] bug to known issues (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5834] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  18:42:35
+        Log: Fix the socklen default type (from Laszlo Molnar;
+             though I prefer signed, not unsigned); move the cross-compialtion
+             wish item to Todo; drop excess permissions in taint.t.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Todo Todo-5.6 config_h.SH t/op/taint.t
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/protos/socksizetype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5833] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  18:20:42
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 42 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5832] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  18:01:28
+        Log: pwent.pm doc tweak (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/User/pwent.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5831] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  17:57:31
+        Log: unsigned is a more reasonable socksizetype default (from
+             Laszlo <ml1050@freemail.hu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5830] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  17:40:20
+        Log: taint.t shouldn't fail where IPC::SysV unavailable
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5829] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  17:19:46
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes embed.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5828] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  16:47:14
+        Log: squelch known scalar leak due to compile failure
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/strict-vars
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5827] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  09:20:22
+        Log: mention how to look up perllocal.pod (from Michael G Schwern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlmodinstall.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5826] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  08:49:27
+        Log: mention need to wait for children (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5825] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  08:47:52
+        Log: Pod::Man should strip leading lib/ for module manpages (from
+             Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5824] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  08:17:49
+        Log: User::pwent fixups for additional fields (from Tom Christiansen);
+             fix bug in pw_has(); tolerate absense of pw{change,age,quota}
+             and pw{comment,class} (Debian 2.1 doesn't have either of these)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/User/pwent.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5823] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:41:46
+        Log: pod typo fixes (from Marcel Grunauer <marcel.grunauer@lovely.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl embedvar.h hints/linux.sh pod/perlhack.pod
+          ! pod/perlnumber.pod pod/perlthrtut.pod vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5822] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:34:29
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread.pm pod/perlthrtut.pod
+         !> (integrate 41 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5821] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:14:38
+        Log: remove dead code
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/charnames.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5820] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:13:01
+        Log: fix typo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldiag.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5819] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  07:09:32
+        Log: produce better error message when \N{...} is used without
+             "use charnames ..."
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5818] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  06:30:11
+        Log: default warnLevel and dieLevel to 0 in debugger (from Tom
+             Christiansen); make dumpvar.pl safe against non-glob entries
+             in stashes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Dumpvalue.pm lib/dumpvar.pl lib/perl5db.pl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5817] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  06:18:24
+        Log: better notes on s///ee (from Simon Cozens <simon@cozens.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5816] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  05:55:52
+        Log: support for C<use vmsish 'hushed'>; move VMSISH_EXIT out of
+             op_private (from Charles Lane <lane@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl op.c op.h opcode.h opcode.pl perl.h pp.sym pp_ctl.c
+          ! pp_proto.h vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5815] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  05:27:31
+        Log: fix sort optimizer to not hang inside loops
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c t/op/sort.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5814] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  03:59:29
+        Log: fixes for alias handling in debugger (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5813] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/19  03:38:10
+        Log: warn about CHECK and INIT blocks encountered at run time
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/warn/op
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5812] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  03:15:58
+        Log: Taint msgrcv() messages; general SysV IPC cleanup.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! doio.c ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+          ! pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/lib/ipc_sysv.t t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5811] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  01:48:47
+        Log: Taint shmread().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! doio.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5810] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/19  01:22:47
+        Log: Taint also the passwd field of the getpw*().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5809] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  21:44:34
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> t/pragma/strict-vars toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5808] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  21:40:55
+        Log: (Re-)introduce $uidsign and $gidsign.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh pp_sys.c vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+          ! win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/groupstype.U U/typedefs/gidtype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5807] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  20:38:12
+        Log: The #5805 requires a test change, too.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5806] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  20:10:29
+        Log: queued errors may not be displayed after the PL_error_count limit
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/strict-vars toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5805] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  19:56:12
+        Log: Taint the shell from the getpw*. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5804] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  19:37:01
+        Log: Use the newSVuv().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! embed.h op.c pp_sys.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5803] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  19:08:40
+        Log: Add newSVuv().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c perlapi.h
+          ! pod/perlapi.pod proto.h sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5802] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  17:11:07
+        Log: Configure nits: rewording from Sarathy (aka #5796),
+             and installation directories patch from Robin Barker.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Getfile.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! bincompat5005.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5801] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  16:41:31
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes Configure hints/dos_djgpp.sh lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+         !> lib/Getopt/Long.pm mg.c pod/perlpod.pod pp_hot.c
+         !> t/lib/charnames.t t/pragma/utf8.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5800] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  05:16:32
+        Log: force i_ieeefp=undef on dos_djgpp (it reportedly causes failures
+             in system includes)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/dos_djgpp.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5799] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  05:12:00
+        Log: Getopt::Long 2.23 update (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5798] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  05:03:20
+        Log: recognize single-line declarations in xsubpp; add switches to
+             disable newfangled features (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5797] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  04:21:43
+        Log: make "\N{...}" enable utf8-ness correctly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/charnames.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5796] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  04:03:08
+        Log: avoid mentioning Perl version in Configure question
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5795] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  03:32:31
+        Log: better explanation of C<> tags (from Wolfgang Laun)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlpod.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5794] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  03:26:57
+        Log: make return values from match in a list context, as well as $& et
+             al propagate utf8-ness (from Graham Barr)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! mg.c pp_hot.c t/pragma/utf8.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5793] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/18  01:45:30
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> hints/powerux.sh xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5792] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/18  01:08:25
+        Log: hints fixups for PowerMAX (from Tom Horsley)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/powerux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5791] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  23:53:21
+        Log: make reftype() consistently croak on non-refs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5790] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  23:41:36
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> configpm ext/Thread/Thread/Queue.pm
+         !> ext/Thread/Thread/Semaphore.pm ext/Thread/Thread/Specific.pm
+         !> lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perldata.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5789] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  22:37:21
+        Log: fix coredump when upgrading PL_sv_yes in a second call to
+             perl_construct() (from Doug MacEachern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5788] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  22:32:25
+        Log: make noTTY debugger option work again (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5787] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  17:00:05
+        Log: make Config.pm report sane errors with older perls
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configpm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5786] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  16:48:20
+        Log: syntax errors in Thread::* (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread/Queue.pm ext/Thread/Thread/Semaphore.pm
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread/Specific.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5785] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  16:45:34
+        Log: tweak perldata section on v-strings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldata.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5784] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  16:24:28
+        Log: missing file in change#5781
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5783] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  14:38:29
+        Log: Add the NEXTSTEP strftime %j bug to Known Problems.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5782] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  14:29:46
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.pl ext/B/B/Bblock.pm global.sym lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm
+         !> lib/open.pm objXSUB.h op.c perlapi.c pod/perlcompile.pod
+         !> pod/perldebug.pod sv.c t/comp/cpp.aux t/pod/testpchk.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5781] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  06:19:17
+        Log: PodParser v1.13 update (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pod/testpchk.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5780] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  05:42:45
+        Log: propagate CvFLAGS() into clones
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5779] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  04:58:39
+        Log: documentation fixes from p5p
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Bblock.pm lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm pod/perlcompile.pod
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5778] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/17  04:23:35
+        Log: Quick pre-release fixes: clean up results in File::Spec::VMS and
+             switch dir test order in taint.t to accomodate DECCRTL extension.
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/op/taint.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5777] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  04:13:27
+        Log: make attributes::reftype(*FOO{IO}) return "IO" instead of "UNKNOWN"
+             (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5776] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  03:40:18
+        Log: More Todo.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5775] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:40:14
+        Log: s/:def/:DEFAULT/
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/open.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5774] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:39:07
+        Log: export cv_undef() and cv_const_sv() (mod_perl uses them to
+             good advantage)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5773] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:12:34
+        Log: remove non-ANSI parts in comp/cpp.t
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/comp/cpp.aux
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5772] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  03:11:49
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> configure.com embed.h embed.pl lib/CGI.pm
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/Pod/Man.pm perl.h
+         !> pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL pp_sys.c vms/ext/vmsish.pm
+         !> vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/subconfigure.com vms/test.com
+         !> vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5771] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  03:10:34
+        Log: Make the test easier to use.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/sysio.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5770] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  03:04:33
+        Log: pod{man,text} updates from podlators-1.00 (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5769] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  02:53:39
+        Log: integrate vmsperl contents into mainline (no actual changes, since
+             cfgperl already had them all)
+     Branch: perl
+         !> configure.com lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm perl.h
+         !> vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5768] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  02:48:14
+        Log: fix signedness in test for syswrite() length argument
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5767] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  02:38:51
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> (integrate 28 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5766] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/17  02:29:24
+        Log: Add "Known Problems" section.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5765] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/17  00:31:19
+        Log: add missing bincompat5005 #defines
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5764] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  15:32:52
+        Log: pp_send() type tuning continues.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5763] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  04:09:37
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.c
+         !> win32/perlhost.h win32/perllib.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5762] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  04:06:36
+        Log: VMS patches from Dan Sugalski and Charles Bailey
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! configure.com ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm lib/CGI.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5761] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/16  03:18:41
+        Log: due to an oversight during PERL_OBJECT migration, hosts created
+             by pseudo-fork were never being deleted, leading to a sizeable
+             memory leak; std FDs in pseudo-children are now closed
+             automatically to avoid resource leaks; basic infinite looping
+             fork() test works without leaking again in non-PERL_OBJECT
+             build
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perl.c perlapi.c
+          ! win32/perlhost.h win32/perllib.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5760] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/16  01:50:13
+        Log: Fix pp_send() sizes (pass a Size_t, not an Off_t, and
+             return a SSize_t, not an Off_t); add a note about a slightly
+             similar situation in pp_truncate(); introduce $sizesize
+             for Configure; update EPOC, VOS, Win32, and VMS for the
+             sizesize; minor updates on the EPOC config file; reword
+             socklen_t message slightly; fix fpossize (though unused   currently)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh pp_sys.c vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+          ! win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! d_socklen_t.U fpossize.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5759] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  23:47:11
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5758] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  23:46:17
+        Log: Retract #5767; replace it with a tested patch
+             from Anton Berezin.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/freebsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5757] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  23:36:53
+        Log: Configure nits: do not use /tmp to avoid potential security
+             problems (Andy Dougherty: this does not fix the rampant
+             use of /tmp by the various utilities like C compilers, though.
+             Just don't run Configure as root if you care about security.),
+             fix man3dir bug (both from Andy Dougherty); fix hints files
+             not to use /tmp; retract #4993 (the description of the *symbols
+             variables is okay, after all); regen Configure.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH hints/dec_osf.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/newsos4.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          + U/modified/d_flexfnam.U
+          ! U/installdirs/man3dir.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5756] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  22:20:06
+        Log: cater for FreeBSD 5.*
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/freebsd.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5755] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  22:00:57
+        Log: Add missing Windows O_ constants.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5754] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/15  19:56:37
+        Log: add PL_thr_key to export list under useithreads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5753] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/15  04:19:19
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 37 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5752] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  03:45:28
+        Log: Make DEBUGGING a configurable option
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5751] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  03:38:57
+        Log: Remove obsolete DCL symbol from subconfigure.com
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5750] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  03:29:17
+        Log: Add VMS' default to the CGI.pm temp list (should update to File::Spec)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm
+         !> ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5749] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/15  02:05:28
+        Log: Change test using obsolete %COnfig element
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5748] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  23:39:42
+        Log: update local_patches entry for RC2
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5747] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  22:44:27
+        Log: more warnings tidy-ups (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod
+          ! t/lib/attrs.t utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5746] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  22:30:43
+        Log: Sys::Syslog fix for accidental arguments to autoloaded constants
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5745] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  22:20:27
+        Log: tweak to use SIZE_ONLY
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5744] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:56:48
+        Log: regen win32/config*
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5743] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:46:25
+        Log: change#5729 had syntax errors
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5742] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:26:33
+        Log: integrate vmsperl changes into mainline (change#5693 denied)
+     Branch: perl
+         !> configure.com lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/complex.t
+         !> t/lib/filespec.t vms/ext/filespec.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5741] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  21:17:34
+        Log: update Changes; integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+         !> ext/Socket/Socket.xs patchlevel.h perl.h t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5740] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:57:12
+        Log: perlfaq4 tweak (from Damian Conway <damian@cs.monash.edu.au>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq4.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5739] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:53:07
+        Log: allow alternates to negate correctly (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5738] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:34:19
+        Log: kludge our way around warnings on C<use POSIX; use IO::File;>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5737] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  20:06:23
+        Log: protect special characters better against interpretation by *roff
+             (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5736] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  19:47:00
+        Log: provide an explicit base address for perl56.dll to avoid relocations;
+             increase the default stack size (RE engine can use a lot more stack
+             than the 1MB default limit); default to using the regular version of
+             the MSVCRT even for DEBUGGING builds (this allows extensions to be
+             selectively built with debugging)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5735] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  19:31:53
+        Log: regen perltoc, other pod nits
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/IO/poll.c pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perlnumber.pod
+          ! pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5734] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  19:08:22
+        Log: avoid dup warning (from Simon Cozens)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5733] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  18:46:50
+        Log: allow usemymalloc to be overridden via -Uusemymalloc
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5732] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  17:23:47
+        Log: test case for change#5700 (from M. J. T. Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/universal.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5731] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  17:15:44
+        Log: revise README.win32 for currentness, point to function
+             list in perlport.pod (from a patch suggested by Dominic Dunlop)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32 pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5730] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  17:14:21
+        Log: tweak sort() notes (from Nathan Torkington)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5729] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  15:13:13
+        Log: Make the tests 1018 and 1019 more robust.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5728] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  15:07:48
+        Log: Fix for one of the problems in RC1 reported by M. E. O'Neill
+             in NEXTSTEP 3.3p2.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5727] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  14:57:04
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy; unapply the #5539 that snekt in
+             with #5539.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> pod/perldebguts.pod
+          ! patchlevel.h perl.h
+         !> MANIFEST lib/Text/Abbrev.pm lib/perl5db.pl pod/perl.pod
+         !> pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlnumber.pod
+         !> t/lib/io_sock.t utils/perlcc.PL utils/perldoc.PL
+         !> win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5726] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  07:43:37
+        Log: fixes for Borland compiler (from Vadim Konovalov
+             <vkonovalov@lucent.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlcc.PL win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5725] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  07:38:00
+        Log: more efficient Text::Abbrev (from M.E. O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5724] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  05:59:02
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline, ignoring the
+             __attribute__((unused)) stuff that seems to have snuck
+             back in
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Todo-5.6 patchlevel.h perl.h pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod
+         !> vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5723] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  05:49:08
+        Log: patches for many bugs in the debugger; documentation updates for
+             perldelta; split perldebug.pod into perldeb{ug,guts}.pod (from
+             Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perldebguts.pod
+          ! MANIFEST lib/perl5db.pl pod/perl.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlnumber.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5722] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  05:37:29
+        Log: add sleep() to avoid race on NeXT (from M.E. O'Neill
+             <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/io_sock.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5721] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  03:53:50
+        Log: support a -U option when run as root to drop privileges (from
+             Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5720] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  03:43:51
+        Log: move the big AVAILABILITY list to perlport as Supported Platforms
+             (Tom Christiansen); add few more platforms
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5719] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  02:44:55
+        Log: more todo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5718] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  02:17:16
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5717] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/14  02:00:24
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! patchlevel.h perl.h
+         !> (integrate 60 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5716] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/14  00:01:39
+        Log: reference miscount in Devel::Peek that causes debugger to
+             crash unceremoniously when doing "V DB" etc., repeatedly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5715] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:40:23
+        Log: fixes for broken L<> links (from Wolfgang Laun
+             <wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/Win32.pod pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlcompile.pod
+          ! pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+          ! pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlnumber.pod
+          ! pod/perlop.pod pod/perlxstut.pod vms/perlvms.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5714] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:37:48
+        Log: typos in perlboot.pod (from Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlboot.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5713] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:36:24
+        Log: avoid infinite loop in h2xs (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5712] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:29:15
+        Log: lexical warnings update for docs and tests (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm lib/fields.pm pod/perl.pod
+          ! pod/perldata.pod pod/perldbmfilter.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfilter.pod
+          ! pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+          ! pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlref.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+          ! pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltie.pod
+          ! pod/perltrap.pod pod/perlunicode.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
+          ! t/io/open.t t/lib/fields.t t/lib/parsewords.t
+          ! t/op/assignwarn.t t/op/gv.t t/op/hashwarn.t t/op/magic.t
+          ! t/op/pack.t t/op/pat.t t/op/sort.t t/op/sprintf.t
+          ! t/pragma/constant.t t/pragma/locale.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5711] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  21:08:29
+        Log: updates from PodParser v1.12 on CPAN (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm lib/Pod/Select.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/Usage.pm t/pod/poderrs.xr t/pod/testp2pt.pl
+          ! t/pod/testpchk.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5710] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:46:37
+        Log: cleaner logic in op.c, also avoids QNX optimizer bug (from Norton
+             Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5709] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:43:30
+        Log: mention changes to diagnostics
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5708] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:34:38
+        Log: ignore const for the purposes of typemaps (from Hugo van der Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5707] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  20:23:24
+        Log: don't check for errno after Atof() (atof() doesn't set errno, and
+             where Atof() is actually strto[l]d(), some platforms seem to want
+             to set errno randomly)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5706] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  18:14:18
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh hints/solaris_2.sh mg.c
+         !> perl.h pod/perl.pod pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5705] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  14:44:11
+        Log: STRLEN != int.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5704] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  13:18:07
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> lib/warnings/register.pm
+         !> (integrate 42 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5703] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  12:40:51
+        Log: mention autoflush portability caveat
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlport.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5702] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  11:09:05
+        Log: final touches for lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/warnings/register.pm
+          ! MANIFEST ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+          ! lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/I18N/Collate.pm lib/Tie/Handle.pm
+          ! lib/Tie/Hash.pm lib/Tie/Scalar.pm lib/constant.pm
+          ! lib/syslog.pl lib/vars.pm lib/warnings.pm mg.c perl.c
+          ! pod/perllexwarn.pod pp_ctl.c t/lib/filepath.t t/lib/io_sel.t
+          ! t/lib/socket.t t/lib/tie-stdhandle.t t/op/tie.t
+          ! t/pragma/constant.t t/pragma/diagnostics.t t/pragma/warn/2use
+          ! t/pragma/warn/9enabled warnings.h warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5701] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  11:00:00
+        Log: avoid compiler warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5700] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  09:57:59
+        Log: make the is_utf8_*() safe for use on invalid utf8 (they now
+             return false on such input instead of emitting warnings)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl global.sym gv.c objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+          ! pod/perlapi.pod proto.h universal.c utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5699] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/13  06:59:57
+        Log: the premature FREETMPS calls in change#1187 weren't defensive enough
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/recurse.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5698] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  05:03:37
+        Log: hints nibbling continues
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5697] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  04:45:57
+        Log: there's no end to tweaking
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5696] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  04:26:15
+        Log: hints tweak
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5695] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  03:54:09
+        Log: Trim out leftover hunk from prior resolve conflict
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5694] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  03:20:20
+        Log: Assorted configuration cleanups (Peter Prymmer, and a
+             bit from Charles Bailey and Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5693] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  03:00:16
+        Log: Add vmsish 'hushed' option to suppress error messages at exit
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! perl.h vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/test.com
+          ! vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5692] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:50:10
+        Log: Fix inverted test conditions for secure lnm translation
+             and default file types.  (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5691] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:41:36
+        Log: Insulate tests of default display_format from different precision
+             on different machines by truncating at 1 digit less than the most
+             common choice (.15g)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5690] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:31:44
+        Log: Resync with mainline post RC1
+     Branch: vmsperl
+         +> lib/Pod/Plainer.pm
+         !> (integrate 137 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5689] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:22:24
+        Log: Update File::Spec::VMS and tests
+             Since reduce_ricochet has been removed from File::Spec,
+             revert changes to VMS::Filespec::vmsify made to accomodate it.
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/filespec.t vms/ext/filespec.t
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5688] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/13  02:12:11
+        Log: Basic 5.6.0 RC1 build patches for VMS
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com t/pragma/warn/doio t/pragma/warn/util
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5687] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  00:41:51
+        Log: Solaris long double fixes from Alan Burlison.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh perl.h pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5686] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  00:17:13
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> dump.c hints/hpux.sh op.c pod/perldelta.pod t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5685] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/13  00:13:17
+        Log: Retract #5680, it broke more than it helped.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5684] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  21:48:44
+        Log: set optimize=-O only if not already set
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5683] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  20:11:45
+        Log: another optimized-OP_SASSIGN bug: ops that were not OA_TARGLEX
+             were being mistakenly subverted anyway
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dump.c op.c pod/perldelta.pod t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5682] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  18:11:52
+        Log: update AVAILABILITY for LynxOS
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5681] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  18:03:46
+        Log: 64-bitness hints tweaks
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5680] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  17:49:25
+        Log: 64-bitness tweak: separate 64bitint and 64bitall.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5679] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  17:43:09
+        Log: metaconfig-ify #5676.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! fflushall.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5678] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  17:37:14
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes Configure Todo lib/File/DosGlob.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5677] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  11:35:10
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes Todo
+         !> Todo-5.6 perl.h pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5676] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  11:27:38
+        Log: don't bother testing if we can flush all handles when fflush(stdin)
+             shows the pipe bug
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5675] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  05:08:29
+        Log: continue flogging the string->int conversion ifdefs
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5674] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  05:01:30
+        Log: fix File::DosGlob for patterns with drive names like c:*.bat
+             (suggested by Jason Mathews <mathews@computer.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/DosGlob.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5673] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/12  04:48:14
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> doop.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+         !> pod/perlpod.pod toke.c utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5672] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  03:57:23
+        Log: security fixes for perldoc (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5671] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  03:45:27
+        Log: Larry's patch to disallow CORE::Snark, with perldiag entry
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5670] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  03:36:17
+        Log: insufficient buffer in change#5317
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doop.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5669] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  03:15:29
+        Log: avoid L<foo|bar> for now, not all the pod2foo support it
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlpod.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5668] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/12  02:35:55
+        Log: rework change#5664
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5667] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  21:35:29
+        Log: todo and perldelta updates
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo Todo-5.6 pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5666] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  21:00:34
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5665] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  20:58:58
+        Log: Fixes for #5661.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5664] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  19:50:06
+        Log: fix Strtoul() misdefinition is change#5661
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5663] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  19:21:18
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/solaris_2.sh perl.h
+         !> t/pragma/warn/pp_hot toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5662] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  19:06:20
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> cop.h perl.c pp_ctl.c t/op/eval.t t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5661] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  19:03:32
+        Log: Use Atof() instead of bare strtod(); ditto for Atol()/Atoul()
+             (introduce the latter) instead of bare strtoll()/strtoll().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5660] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  18:40:49
+        Log: another long-standing eval bug: return doesn't reset $@ correctly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c t/op/eval.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5659] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  18:27:54
+        Log: metaconfig-ify the test for broken fflush(NULL)
+             (which ails e.g. Solaris), from Ulrich Pfeifer.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/solaris_2.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! d_unorderedl.U fflushall.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5658] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  18:11:22
+        Log: change#3511 was not defensive enough about try blocks, causing
+             bogus attempts to free closures, and thence, segfaults
+     Branch: perl
+          ! cop.h perl.c pp_ctl.c t/op/misc.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5657] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  18:04:44
+        Log: Rewording.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/pp_hot
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5656] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  17:41:29
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 27 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5655] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  17:06:03
+        Log: reword comment
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/pp_hot
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5654] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  17:01:47
+        Log: off-by-one in os2.c (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! os2/os2.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5653] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:59:48
+        Log: File::Spec::VMS fixups, *not tested* on VMS (from Barrie Slaymaker)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/filespec.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5652] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:52:03
+        Log: missing export list entry in change#5619
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5651] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:50:05
+        Log: avoid using context pointer in MUTEX_INIT() et al; remove the
+             *_NOCONTEXT variants to keep it simple
+     Branch: perl
+          ! malloc.c thread.h win32/win32thread.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5650] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:07:35
+        Log: remove =for section (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5649] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:05:50
+        Log: add nokfile target in Makefile (from Andy Dougherty)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5648] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:02:53
+        Log: mention podchecker (from Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlpod.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5647] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  16:01:03
+        Log: VMS build tweaks (from Charles Bailey)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configure.com perl.c t/pragma/warn/doio t/pragma/warn/util
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5646] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  10:13:27
+        Log: remove outdated ftp.cis.ufl.edu reference
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfaq2.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5645] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  10:10:39
+        Log: failed hunk in change#5644
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5644] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  10:08:47
+        Log: fix optimizer bug in /^(?p{"a"})b/ (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c t/op/pat.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5643] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  09:48:30
+        Log: better {local,gm}time documentation (from Mark-Jason Dominus)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5642] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  09:45:10
+        Log: tweaks for lynxos build (from Ed Mooring <mooring@lynx.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c hints/lynxos.sh perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5641] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  09:42:56
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Todo-5.6 config_h.SH hints/irix_6.sh
+         !> lib/Math/Complex.pm regcomp.c t/op/64bit.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5640] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/11  09:24:30
+        Log: perldelta update, typos and whitespace adjustments
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/open.pm miniperlmain.c pod/perldelta.pod win32/perllib.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5639] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  00:51:48
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 44 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5638] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/11  00:45:46
+        Log: Cpp out deadcode that IRIX compiler noticed. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5637] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/10  14:22:24
+        Log: Do not use Perl's malloc in IRIX.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5636] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/10  05:27:03
+        Log: More/modified unused floating point units.
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          + d_fp_class_l.U d_unordered.U d_unorderedl.U
+          ! d_fpclass.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5635] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/10  01:54:07
+        Log: Add various yet-unused units.
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          + d_class.U d_fchdir.U d_finite.U d_fp_class.U d_fp_classl.U
+          + d_fpclass.U d_fpclassify.U d_frexpl.U d_futimes.U
+          + d_getitimer.U d_getrlimit.U d_iconv.U d_isfinite.U d_isinf.U
+          + d_isnan.U d_isnanl.U d_lchmod.U d_lutimes.U d_setitimer.U
+          + d_setrlimit.U d_ualarm.U d_utimes.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5634] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/10  01:07:54
+        Log: Fix goofups noticed by Mark Bixby and Jeff Okamoto.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/compline/nblock_io.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5633] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/09  23:22:33
+        Log: Remove an obsolete note.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/64bit.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5632] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  18:50:43
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5631] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  18:49:12
+        Log: track more of the child state on Windows
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5630] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  18:48:05
+        Log: UNIVERSAL::isa() and UNIVERSAL::can() fail for magic values
+     Branch: perl
+          ! universal.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5629] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  18:37:35
+        Log: tweak Unicode notes, other cleanups
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes lib/bytes.pm lib/utf8.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+          ! pod/perlhist.pod pod/perlunicode.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5628] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  17:39:58
+        Log: support binmode(F,":crlf") and use open IN => ":raw", OUT => ":crlf"
+             semantics; the pragma sets defaults for both open() and qx//
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c dosish.h embed.h embed.pl epoc/epocish.h lib/open.pm
+          ! mpeix/mpeixish.h op.c op.h opcode.h opcode.pl os2/os2ish.h
+          ! perl.h perlapi.c plan9/plan9ish.h pod/perlfunc.pod pp.sym
+          ! pp_proto.h pp_sys.c proto.h sv.h vms/vmsish.h vos/vosish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5627] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  12:54:08
+        Log: avoid autoflushing behavior of fork/system/exec on Solaris (thanks
+             to fflush(NULL) bug)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5626] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  11:34:51
+        Log: abort build on HP-UX if bundled non-ANSI compiler is detected
+             (from Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5625] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  11:17:07
+        Log: patch from Larry to make -T filetest algorithm recognize utf8 as
+             "text"
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5624] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  11:11:59
+        Log: provide support for deleting actions etc. (from Ronald J Kimball
+             <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5623] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  06:39:21
+        Log: new xsubpp keywords should be in all caps
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5622] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/09  06:26:04
+        Log: demand-load utf8.pm in swash routines
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c utf8.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5621] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  19:27:02
+        Log: make Dump() call the XSUB implementation transparently (modified
+             version of patch suggested by David Boyce <dsb@world.std.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.pm ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.xs
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5620] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  18:35:48
+        Log: do FILE should not see outside lexicals (from Rick Delaney
+             <rick@consumercontact.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c pp_ctl.c t/comp/require.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5619] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  18:04:45
+        Log: abstract code for C<use Foo 1.23 @ary;> into a Perl_load_module()
+             API function
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c embed.h embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h op.c op.h
+          ! perlapi.c pp_sys.c proto.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5618] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  18:03:30
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> lib/Pod/Plainer.pm
+         !> Changes MANIFEST dosish.h embedvar.h lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
+         !> lib/Pod/Parser.pm makedef.pl op.c op.h perl.c perlapi.h
+         !> perlvars.h pod/perlop.pod pod/pod2latex.PL sv.c unixish.h
+         !> vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5617] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  15:44:05
+        Log: ICU todo fixes.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5616] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  14:30:40
+        Log: Even more Todo.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5615] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  14:13:45
+        Log: More Todo.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5614] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  13:50:53
+        Log: wording changes
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! lib/Math/Complex.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5613] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  12:51:35
+        Log: clarify docs on return value from binding operators
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5612] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  12:41:38
+        Log: shore up pod2latex shortcomings, and a Pod::Parser fix (from
+             Robin Barker)
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/Pod/Plainer.pm
+          ! MANIFEST lib/Pod/Parser.pm pod/pod2latex.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5611] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  12:22:59
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+         !> installperl lib/Math/Complex.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> t/lib/complex.t vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5610] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  12:08:17
+        Log: add missing locks for op refcounts
+     Branch: perl
+          ! dosish.h embedvar.h makedef.pl op.c op.h perl.c perlapi.h
+          ! perlvars.h sv.c unixish.h vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5609] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/08  11:30:32
+        Log: Pod::InputObjects tweak (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5608] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  05:08:59
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 27 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5607] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  05:07:06
+        Log: Make the stringification more customizable.
+             A potentially backward incompatible change.
+             Based on a suggestion by Roman Kosenko <ra@amk.al.lg.ua>.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! lib/Math/Complex.pm pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/complex.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5606] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/08  00:49:14
+        Log: s/lfs/largefiles/
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/mksample
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5605] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  23:37:48
+        Log: VMS build patch (from Peter Prymmer)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configure.com installhtml lib/lib.pm vms/descrip_mms.template
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5604] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  23:25:46
+        Log: CopFILEGV(&PL_compiling) must be reset properly (from Doug MacEachern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5603] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  23:05:16
+        Log: type mismatch
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5602] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  22:40:55
+        Log: add note to INSTALL about C++ compilers (from M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! INSTALL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5601] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  22:30:35
+        Log: separate options to incpush() for adding version directories and
+             architecture directories (from Andy Dougherty)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl perl.c proto.h t/lib/fatal.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5600] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  20:18:54
+        Log: support :void to enable croaking only in void context (from
+             Simon Cozens <simon@othersideofthe.earth.li>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Fatal.pm t/lib/fatal.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5599] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  18:35:21
+        Log: Pod::Html tweak to avoid false falses
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5598] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  18:21:58
+        Log: skip null siblings encountered by goto out of loopish block
+             (from Doug Lankshear)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_ctl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5597] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  16:33:29
+        Log: omit XSLoader from bytecode dumps
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm ext/B/B/Stash.pm ext/B/B/Xref.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5596] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  10:58:17
+        Log: avoid coredump on C<printf "%vd">
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5595] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  10:26:03
+        Log: add missing HTML escapes that can be displayed in xterm (from
+             Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Text.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5594] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  10:24:55
+        Log: Fatal.pm pod tweak (from Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Fatal.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5593] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  09:57:24
+        Log: get ByteLoader working again
+     Branch: perl
+          ! bytecode.pl ext/B/B/Asmdata.pm ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm
+          ! ext/B/B/C.pm ext/ByteLoader/bytecode.h
+          ! ext/ByteLoader/byterun.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5592] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/07  05:14:49
+        Log: typo in makedef.pl
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Path.pm makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5591] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  22:56:24
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes ext/File/Glob/Glob.xs lib/Pod/Html.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5590] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  22:32:44
+        Log: fix incorrect prototypes in File::Glob
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/File/Glob/Glob.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5589] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  22:07:38
+        Log: update Changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5588] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  21:46:18
+        Log: From: "Craig A. Berry" <craig.berry@metamorgs.com>
+             To: vmsperl@perl.org, perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Cc: jhi@iki.fi, Charles Bailey <BAILEY@newman.upenn.edu>, gsar@activestate.com
+             Subject: [PATCH 5.5.670] circumvent VMS fileno bug in old DEC C version
+             Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 15:36:13 -0600
+             Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000306153539.00ca6420@exchi01.midwest.metamorgs.com>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5587] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  21:23:27
+        Log: Use $^O.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! installperl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5586] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  21:19:15
+        Log: Undo drift from the mainline.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 1607 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5585] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  20:23:37
+        Log: change#5513 accidentally undid change#5373, put it back
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5584] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  17:30:48
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> lib/File/Path.pm lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm
+         !> lib/Pod/Man.pm makedef.pl toke.c vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5583] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  17:02:52
+        Log: makedef.pl typos
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5582] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  15:24:14
+        Log: Pod::Man bugfixes (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Man.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5581] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  15:17:08
+        Log: File::Path::rmtree() doesn't delete stale symlinks correctly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Path.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5580] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  14:55:57
+        Log: pod nits
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5579] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  14:55:08
+        Log: 64-bit build fix on VMS (from Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5578] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  14:37:46
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> README.win32 configure.com iperlsys.h lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+         !> lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm perl.c t/lib/filefind.t
+         !> t/lib/filespec.t vms/ext/filespec.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vms/test.com vms/vms.c win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+         !> win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+         !> win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/perlhost.h
+         !> win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5577] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  07:26:18
+        Log: skip tests that need VMS::Filespec on other platforms
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/filespec.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5576] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  07:11:21
+        Log: integrate vmsperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> configure.com lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/filefind.t
+         !> t/lib/filespec.t vms/ext/filespec.t vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5575] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  07:05:34
+        Log: support for autovivified handles (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5574] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  06:31:55
+        Log: vendorlib support for Windows; regen win32/config*
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32 iperlsys.h perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+          ! win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/perlhost.h
+          ! win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5573] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  05:23:23
+        Log: Skip openpid.t while VMS subprocess intercommunication in flux (several vmsperlers)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/test.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5572] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  05:21:26
+        Log: the incpush()es weren't all quite right on Windows in change#5559
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5571] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  05:18:59
+        Log: Fix ricochet in File::Spec::VMS
+             Fix eval error in filespec.t
+             Misc. minor fixes in filespec.t
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm t/lib/filespec.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5570] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  05:00:44
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Makefile.SH Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh
+         !> Porting/config_H config_h.SH epoc/config.sh
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL hints/aix.sh patchlevel.h
+         !> perl.c perl.h toke.c vos/config.def vos/config.h
+         !> vos/config_h.SH_orig
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5569] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  04:51:39
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> installperl pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5568] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  04:48:17
+        Log: installperl wasn't putting extensions with two or more
+             nested package names in the archlib
+     Branch: perl
+          ! installperl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5567] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  03:43:36
+        Log: Set up for vendorarch (and fix 64bitint typo) (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5566] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  03:40:14
+        Log: Change $Config{'extensions'} to look Unixy (Charles Lane)
+             FIx logic error in glob-basic.t (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5565] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  03:37:46
+        Log: Remove trailing . from typeless files (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/lib/filefind.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5564] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  03:36:26
+        Log: Resync with mainline, update test in vmsfspec.t
+     Branch: vmsperl
+         +> lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm t/lib/ansicolor.t
+          ! vms/ext/filespec.t
+         !> (integrate 171 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5563] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/06  03:29:11
+        Log: avoid warning
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5562] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/06  02:48:17
+        Log: Downcase function call to hush picky cc
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5561] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/06  00:23:22
+        Log: VOS patch from Paul Green.  Note that the vos/config_h.SH_orig
+             is not exactly identical to the current config_h.SH because
+             Paul needs better $sitearch control.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5560] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  23:26:41
+        Log: Avoid wiping out @dl_{librefs,modules} when XSLoader
+             falls back to DynaLoader.
+             
+             From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@pobox.com>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Subject: [PATCH v5.5.670] maintain DynaLoader::dl_{librefs,modules}
+             Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 15:19:01 -0800 (PST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003051509460.16885-100000@mojo.covalent.net>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5559] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  22:05:54
+        Log: sitelib_stem and vendorlib_stem patches from Andy;
+             problem reported in
+             From: schwern@athens.arena-i.com (Michael G Schwern)
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Subject: [ID 20000305.001] [BUG 5.5.670 perl.c] SITELIB_EXP mangled by hack.
+             Date: Sun,  5 Mar 2000 06:31:29 -0500 (EST)
+             Message-Id: <20000305113129.80DC23820@athens.arena-i.com>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh patchlevel.h perl.c perl.h
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/installdirs/instubperl.U U/installdirs/sitelib.U
+          ! U/installdirs/vendorlib.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5558] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  21:18:59
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> hints/linux.sh lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5557] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  20:35:13
+        Log: Getopt-Long v2.21 update (from Johan Vromans)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5556] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  20:26:57
+        Log: Linux needs -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 too
+             (from Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/linux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5555] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  20:15:34
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm t/lib/ansicolor.t
+         !> MANIFEST lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm opcode.h opcode.pl
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c pp_sys.c
+         !> t/comp/proto.t toke.c utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5554] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  20:02:17
+        Log: prototype changes for eventually supporting C<binmode(F, ":raw")>
+             and C<open F, "-|", 'cat', '-v'>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! opcode.h opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c pp_sys.c
+          ! t/comp/proto.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5553] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  19:55:02
+        Log: AIX gcvt() cannot format long doubles very well.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/aix.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5552] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  18:44:37
+        Log: the monster cpp expression needs to be on one line to
+             appease makedepend
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5551] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  18:24:32
+        Log: IRIX cpp is fussy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5550] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  17:46:18
+        Log: perlbug tweak to grok local_patches better
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perlbug.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5549] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  17:33:10
+        Log: add Term::ANSIColor, perldelta notes on Pod::Man, and fix a bug
+             in Pod::InputObjects (from Russ Allbery)
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/Term/ANSIColor.pm t/lib/ansicolor.t
+          ! MANIFEST lib/Pod/InputObjects.pm pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5548] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  17:27:06
+        Log: clean up the makedepend temp file
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5547] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  17:23:18
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5546] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  17:16:12
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 47 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5545] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  17:13:48
+        Log: strip last component of SITELIB_EXP only if it looks like a
+             number
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5544] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  17:12:42
+        Log: s/Perl/PeRl/; # yeah
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/cpp_stuff.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5543] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  16:54:10
+        Log: thinko in change#4546 that caused variables to lose their importedness
+             (GvIMPORTED_XV_off should be !GvIMPORTED_XV)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! sv.c t/pragma/strict-vars
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5542] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  09:37:26
+        Log: regen win32/config*, up version numbers &c.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+          ! win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc
+          ! win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5541] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  09:20:12
+        Log: undo change#5506; add patch to make blank line warnings optional
+             (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm t/pod/poderrs.xr
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5540] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  09:04:52
+        Log: fixes for most warnings identified by gcc -Wall
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c cop.h deb.c doop.c dump.c embed.h embed.pl gv.c hv.c mg.c
+          ! miniperlmain.c objXSUB.h op.c perl.c perlapi.c pp.c pp_ctl.c
+          ! pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h regcomp.c regexec.c regexp.h run.c
+          ! scope.c sv.c sv.h toke.c universal.c util.c xsutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5539] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  06:37:58
+        Log: shup up warnings about dNOOP from gcc with __attribute__ ((unused))
+             (from Doug MacEachern <dougm@pobox.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! patchlevel.h perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5538] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  05:50:44
+        Log: tyop
+     Branch: perl
+          ! config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5537] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  05:41:10
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline; add new tests from
+             inc.t into 64bit.t
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/op/64bit.t
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh hints/sco.sh perl.h
+         !> pod/perl.pod toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5536] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  05:37:22
+        Log: dethinko
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5535] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  05:14:40
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> pp.c t/op/inc.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5534] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  04:50:26
+        Log: optimize change#5533 to stick to IVs if constant is <= IV_MAX,
+             since runtime is highly optimized for IVs rather than UVs
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5533] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/05  04:30:02
+        Log: scan_num() sticks to UVs rather than IVs (now -2147483648 doesn't
+             end up being promoted to an NV)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp.c t/op/inc.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5532] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  01:11:37
+        Log: more cpp cosmetics, logic cleanup
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5531] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  00:51:20
+        Log: Implement #5525 in metaconfig.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/cpp_stuff.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5530] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  00:32:51
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> config_h.SH doio.c lib/Cwd.pm lib/Pod/Html.pm lib/bytes.pm
+         !> lib/charnames.pm lib/filetest.pm lib/integer.pm lib/locale.pm
+         !> lib/overload.pm lib/utf8.pm os2/os2ish.h pod/perldebug.pod
+         !> t/lib/ipc_sysv.t t/pragma/warn/regcomp win32/config_H.bc
+         !> win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5529] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  00:31:17
+        Log: Sanity check on the strtoll and strtoull.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! d_strtoll.U d_strtoull.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5528] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/05  00:07:21
+        Log: Reformat the fearful cpp expression to be a little bit less fearful.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5527] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  21:55:03
+        Log: make hints available via globals in the respective pragmas to
+             avoid duplicating the constants everywhere
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/bytes.pm lib/charnames.pm lib/filetest.pm lib/integer.pm
+          ! lib/locale.pm lib/overload.pm lib/utf8.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5526] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  20:39:36
+        Log: remove deadcode
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Cwd.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5525] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  19:42:55
+        Log: make CAT2() portable for use as a macro argument with an extra
+             level of macros
+     Branch: perl
+          ! config_h.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5524] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  19:02:27
+        Log: avoid looking up stale PL_statbuf (spotted by Charles Lane
+             <lane@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5523] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  18:59:03
+        Log: pod tweak
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5522] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  17:46:58
+        Log: regen win32/config_H*
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5521] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  16:35:48
+        Log: From: "Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.net>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Subject: BUG: Integer floatifies? +PATCH: reading BIG integers with SMALL floats
+             Date:   Sat, 4 Mar 2000 12:48:42 +0100
+             Message-ID: <20000304124841.A8090@noris.de>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5520] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  15:41:12
+        Log: unthink wishful thinking
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5519] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  06:42:47
+        Log: fix OS/2 coredump with POSIX::tmpnam() (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! os2/os2ish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5518] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  06:02:26
+        Log: avoid "scalars leaked" message in test
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/regcomp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5517] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  06:01:16
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5516] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  05:59:21
+        Log: cleanup AVAILABILITY and mention binaries
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5515] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  05:55:02
+        Log: syntax error in change#5498
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5514] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  05:50:56
+        Log: assuming that removing the libbind will be a good idea
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/sco.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5513] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  05:50:15
+        Log: Pod::Html fixups for nicer links to functions (from Wolfgang Laun
+             <wolfgang.laun@chello.at>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5512] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  05:45:52
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 41 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5511] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  05:42:37
+        Log: HP-UX 64-bitness cures
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5510] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  05:40:08
+        Log: better error messages when xsubpp fails to find map for a particular
+             type (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5509] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  05:33:27
+        Log: scratch #5508
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5508] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/04  05:31:19
+        Log: In HP-UX there is a secret handshake to get strtoll and strtoull.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5507] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  04:27:51
+        Log: more whitespace removal (from Michael G Schwern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.pm ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL
+          ! ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
+          ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm
+          ! ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm ext/IPC/SysV/Semaphore.pm lib/CGI.pm
+          ! lib/CGI/Cookie.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm
+          ! lib/Carp/Heavy.pm lib/DB.pm lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm
+          ! lib/File/DosGlob.pm lib/File/Find.pm lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+          ! lib/Math/Trig.pm lib/Net/Ping.pm lib/Net/netent.pm
+          ! lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/Tie/Array.pm lib/Tie/Handle.pm
+          ! lib/Tie/Scalar.pm lib/Time/Local.pm lib/filetest.pm
+          ! lib/overload.pm x2p/s2p.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5506] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  04:12:06
+        Log: temporarily disable blank line warning from Pod::Parser until
+             it can be made optional
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Parser.pm t/pod/poderrs.xr
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5505] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  04:00:44
+        Log: rid blanks in pods (from Michael G Schwern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.amiga README.dos README.os2
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5504] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  03:59:07
+        Log: avoid warnings from shmread() when given undefined variable
+             (from Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doio.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5503] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  03:53:43
+        Log: fpsetmask() needs include on freebsd (from Slaven Rezic
+             <eserte@vran.herceg.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! unixish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5502] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  03:51:05
+        Log: avoid ambiguity in indirect object notation (breaks with overridden
+             run time require)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CGI.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5501] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  01:08:54
+        Log: adjust perldelta
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Todo-5.6 pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5500] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/04  00:33:49
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh pod/perl.pod
+         !> pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5499] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  22:51:53
+        Log: solaris hints tweak
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5498] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  22:35:46
+        Log: The SysV IPC test must use the native integers
+             (long or short), also noted this in the msgsnd/semctl
+             documentation.  Reported in
+             
+             From: schwern@athens.arena-i.com (Michael G Schwern)
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Subject: [ID 20000302.006] [BUG 5.5.670 t/ipc_sysv.t] Fails 2,5,6 with 64bit on Linux
+             Date: Thu,  2 Mar 2000 17:15:03 -0500 (EST)
+             Message-Id: <20000302221503.EDF6E3830@athens.arena-i.com>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5497] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  21:08:53
+        Log: Update AVAILABILITY.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5496] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  20:21:05
+        Log: perldebug tweak (from M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5495] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  19:32:58
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 79 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5494] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  19:14:01
+        Log: the workaround is needed in all 7.2.* compilers,
+             not just on IRIX64.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5493] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  18:58:45
+        Log: whitespace and readabiliti nits in the pods (from Michael G Schwern
+             and Robin Barker)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes pod/perl.pod pod/perl5004delta.pod
+          ! pod/perl5005delta.pod pod/perlboot.pod pod/perldata.pod
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+          ! pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlfaq.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod
+          ! pod/perlfilter.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlipc.pod
+          ! pod/perllexwarn.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmodinstall.pod
+          ! pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod pod/perlopentut.pod
+          ! pod/perlpod.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlre.pod
+          ! pod/perlref.pod pod/perlreftut.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+          ! pod/perltie.pod pod/perltodo.pod pod/perltoot.pod
+          ! pod/perltootc.pod pod/perltrap.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+          ! pod/perlxstut.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5492] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  17:48:31
+        Log: support for list assignment to pseudohashes (from John Tobey
+             <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! av.c dump.c embed.h embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h op.c op.h
+          ! perlapi.c pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/avhv.t t/op/hashwarn.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5491] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  16:45:49
+        Log: add MakeMaker caveat to INSTALL (from Andy Dougherty)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! INSTALL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5490] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  16:44:42
+        Log: perldelta tweaks
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5489] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  16:26:52
+        Log: /dev/console may not be writable in Syslog.pm (from Ask Bjoern Hansen
+             <ask@valueclick.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5488] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  16:21:34
+        Log: OS/2 patches for dlclose() support (from Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
+             <sthoenna@efn.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl os2/diff.configure os2/dl_os2.c os2/dlfcn.h
+          ! os2/os2.sym
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5487] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  16:16:34
+        Log: skip test on AFS (from Hans Ranke <Hans.Ranke@ei.tum.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/glob-basic.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5486] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  15:42:28
+        Log: integrate cfgperl and vmsperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perl.pod
+         !> (integrate 38 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5485] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  15:21:40
+        Log: pull the sparcv9 workshop libraries in front of loclibpth
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5484] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  15:09:03
+        Log: Introduce i_ieefp because FreeBSD on ix86 needs that
+             for ftpsetmask(0); regen Configure.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh perl.h vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig
+          ! win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+          ! win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5483] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  05:37:58
+        Log: The _cflags must be left-aligned.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5482] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  04:42:45
+        Log: Once more unto resync
+     Branch: vmsperl
+         !> (integrate 48 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5481] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  04:36:46
+        Log: VMS-specific perldelta update
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5480] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  04:05:28
+        Log: Set up Perl invocation method during configuration (Peter Prymmer)
+             Add missing bits to various utilities and install them (ditto)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com pod/pod2usage.PL pod/podselect.PL
+          ! utils/dprofpp.PL vms/descrip_mms.template
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5479] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  04:01:48
+        Log: Fix test to match new behavior of vmsify() (Craig Berry)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/ext/filespec.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5478] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  03:54:10
+        Log: Try to intuit whether typeless file invoked in subprocess
+             is an executable image or DCL procedure.
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5477] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  03:37:18
+        Log: Remove leftover bits of VAXC support (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5476] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  03:34:51
+        Log: Add missing declaration (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5475] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  03:27:52
+        Log: warn about /(?p{})/ (from Simon Cozens)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! regcomp.c toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5474] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  03:27:05
+        Log: Ad hoc patch for duping stdout into stderr
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5473] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/03  03:23:29
+        Log: Bypass PERL_INC_VERSION_LIST until we support in in Configure.Com
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com vms/vmsish.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5472] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  02:58:49
+        Log: File::Spec bugs (spotted by Hack Kampbjorn <hack@hackdata.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5471] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  02:38:23
+        Log: more todo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5470] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  02:36:02
+        Log: skip test if db doesn't have null key support
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/lib/anydbm.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5469] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  02:26:53
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> INSTALL lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/SelfLoader.pm
+         !> lib/Test/Harness.pm lib/constant.pm pod/perl.pod
+         !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlpod.pod pod/perlre.pod
+         !> pod/perltoc.pod regcomp.c t/op/misc.t t/op/pat.t toke.c
+         !> utils/h2xs.PL win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5468] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  02:24:05
+        Log: irix hints tweak
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5467] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  02:19:50
+        Log: /(?p{})/ changed to /(??{})/, per Larry's suggestion (from
+             Simon Cozens <simon@othersideofthe.earth.li>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/SelfLoader.pm
+          ! pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod regcomp.c t/op/misc.t
+          ! t/op/pat.t toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5466] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  02:12:41
+        Log: in words order bad
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perlre.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5465] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  02:09:45
+        Log: /[[:alpha]/ now dies on unmatched [] instead of
+             "an unknown character class" (spotted by Tom Christiansen)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! regcomp.c t/pragma/warn/regcomp
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5464] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  02:04:48
+        Log: perldelta notes about IO::Socket changes (from Graham Barr)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5463] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  02:02:50
+        Log: relax restrictions on constant names a bit (from M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/constant.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5462] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  01:59:49
+        Log: support for generation of accessor functions (from Hugo van der
+             Sanden)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/h2xs.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5461] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  01:51:53
+        Log: cosmetics
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/pack.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5460] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  01:50:07
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/pack.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5459] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/03  01:46:35
+        Log: pod tweaks
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perl.pod pod/perlpod.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5458] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/03  01:25:21
+        Log: solaris hints tweak
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5457] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  22:56:49
+        Log: detypo
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5456] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  21:15:11
+        Log: Test::Harness uses $ENV{HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES} when running perl;
+             add test targets for -C switch on windows
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Test/Harness.pm win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5455] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  21:06:49
+        Log: add note about failed tests on memory starved systems (from
+             Andy Dougherty)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! INSTALL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5454] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  21:03:35
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/Html.pm lib/Pod/Man.pm
+         !> lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm lib/blib.pm
+         !> pod/perldata.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5453] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  20:58:43
+        Log: Further long double patches from Spider Boardman.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/comp/use.t t/lib/bigfltpm.t t/op/pack.t t/op/universal.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5452] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  20:52:08
+        Log: move doc about v-strings from perlop to perldata (suggested by
+             David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldata.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5451] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  20:30:29
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure hints/irix_6.sh pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5450] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  20:08:10
+        Log: still other multiline match cleanups (from Greg Bacon)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/Html.pm lib/Pod/Man.pm
+          ! lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm lib/blib.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5449] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  20:01:58
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> configure.com ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm ext/File/Glob/bsd_glob.c
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/lib/glob-basic.t
+         !> t/pragma/warn/8signal t/pragma/warn/pp_ctl
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+         !> vms/subconfigure.com vms/vms.c win32/Makefile
+         !> win32/makefile.mk win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5448] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  20:00:37
+        Log: workaround for Tru64 compiler bug (cleaner fix will have
+             to wait until 5.6.1), from Spider Boardman
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5447] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  19:52:34
+        Log: Workaround for an optimizer bug.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5446] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  19:44:35
+        Log: installation directory fix from Andy Dougherty
+             (installstyle was being clobbered, spotted by Spider Boardman)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/installdirs/installstyle.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5445] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  19:40:44
+        Log: patch to fix mingw32 build under USE_IMP_SYS (from Benjamin Stuhl);
+             some parts not applied
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5444] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  19:26:08
+        Log: avoid buffering issue in warn/8signal
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/8signal
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5443] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  18:13:28
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh
+         !> hints/solaris_2.sh makedepend.SH sv.c t/lib/syslfs.t
+         !> t/op/lfs.t t/op/pack.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5442] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  18:02:40
+        Log: integrate vmsperl changes into mainline (denied their changes to
+             Glob.pm, t/pragma/warn/{8signal,pp_ctl})
+     Branch: perl
+         !> configure.com ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm ext/File/Glob/bsd_glob.c
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/lib/glob-basic.t
+         !> t/pragma/warn/8signal t/pragma/warn/pp_ctl
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+         !> vms/subconfigure.com vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5441] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  17:56:20
+        Log: nit from Spider Boardman
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! makedepend.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5440] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  17:48:15
+        Log: Confusion over uselargefiles.cbu and uselfs.cbu (the first one
+             is the correct one), spotted by Robin Barker.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! uselfs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5439] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  15:32:04
+        Log: Remove the pack.t kludge introduced to fudge the test
+             to pass under long doubles: leave the similar kludge
+             to posix.t because POSIX::strtod() is still double,
+             not long double. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/op/pack.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5438] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  04:58:48
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Installed.pm
+         !> lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/FindBin.pm
+         !> lib/Pod/Html.pm op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5437] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/02  04:51:46
+        Log: A patch on #5407.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5436] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  04:45:37
+        Log: avoid useless comparison
+     Branch: perl
+          ! op.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5435] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:43:11
+        Log: YA sync with mainline
+     Branch: vmsperl
+         +> lib/open.pm pod/perlboot.pod pod/perlnumber.pod
+         +> t/lib/env-array.t
+         !> (integrate 150 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5434] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/02  04:28:48
+        Log: make the "back to top" links optional
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Html.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5433] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:26:58
+        Log: Protect manipulation of open pipe list from concurrent ASTs (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5432] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:20:51
+        Log: Update dependencies and remove obsolete VAXC support
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/descrip_mms.template
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5431] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:19:42
+        Log: Rmeove obsolete VAXC support
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5430] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:18:57
+        Log: Minor updates to subconfigure.com:
+             - remove old VAXC support
+             - avoid echoing commands to tempfiles
+             - fix typos
+             - define 64bit symbols (as "undef") when not using 64 bit support
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5429] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:16:11
+        Log: Minor changes to Configure.Com:
+             - permit operation in batch mode (splits output)
+             - remove old VAXC support
+             - default to enabling secure internal lnm translation
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5428] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:06:53
+        Log: Optional warning for truncated logical name equivalence string (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5427] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:05:47
+        Log: FIx no-op in vms.c
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5426] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:04:52
+        Log: MIscellaneous tweaks to test and driver (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/8signal t/pragma/warn/pp_sys t/pragma/warnings.t
+          ! vms/test.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5425] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:02:44
+        Log: Take advantage of new subprocess invocation (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/op/runlevel.t t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t
+          ! t/pragma/warnings.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5424] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  04:00:20
+        Log: Increment counter for skipped tests (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/io/open.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5423] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:59:14
+        Log: Remove redundant elements of @INC to cope with VMS' 255-char limit
+             on PERL5LIB logical (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/Test/Harness.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5422] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:57:40
+        Log: Use temp to construct dirspec in File::Find (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5421] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:56:13
+        Log: Satisfy various Pod::* needs for Unix syntax (Charles Lane)
+             (Should move to File::Spec in long term)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm t/pod/testp2pt.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5420] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:52:45
+        Log: Escape \n in commands written to Descrip.MMS (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5419] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:50:53
+        Log: Make File::Glob more VMS-friendly (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm ext/File/Glob/bsd_glob.c
+          ! t/lib/glob-basic.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5418] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:47:21
+        Log: Miscellaneous fixes to build procedures (Peter Prymmer)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! configure.com vms/subconfigure.com
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5417] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:42:49
+        Log: Temrinate statements in pp_ctl warning test (Charles Lane)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! t/pragma/warn/pp_ctl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5416] By: bailey                                on 2000/03/02  03:39:46
+        Log: Warn but continue installing when file missing (Dan Sugalski)
+     Branch: vmsperl
+          ! installperl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5415] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  23:31:23
+        Log: Make file sparseness detection more portable (Scott Henry)
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! t/lib/syslfs.t t/op/lfs.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5414] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  22:53:48
+        Log: detypo #5411 continues: Sun grep doesn't have -e.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5413] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  22:49:44
+        Log: detypo #5411
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5412] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  20:04:42
+        Log: typo in change#5408
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5411] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  18:48:52
+        Log: Better detection of the solaris workshop compiler.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5410] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  18:18:04
+        Log: From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Subject: solaris 64-bit and gcc
+             Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:59:36 GMT
+             Message-Id: <200003011759.RAA03938@tempest.npl.co.uk>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5409] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  18:16:43
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> t/lib/env-array.t
+         !> MANIFEST README.cygwin ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c lib/AutoLoader.pm lib/AutoSplit.pm
+         !> lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/Cwd.pm lib/Env.pm
+         !> lib/File/Find.pm lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+         !> pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/env.t
+         !> t/lib/filefind.t t/lib/glob-basic.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5408] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  18:15:49
+        Log: still more multiline match cleanups (from Greg Bacon)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Installed.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/FindBin.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5407] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  18:11:09
+        Log: A further patch from Spider Boardman for long doubleness.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5406] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  17:32:09
+        Log: yet more multiline match cleanups (from Greg Bacon)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/CPAN.pm lib/Cwd.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5405] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  17:24:53
+        Log: add support for Env arrays (from Gregor N. Purdy
+             <gregor@focusresearch.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          + t/lib/env-array.t
+          ! MANIFEST lib/Env.pm pod/perldelta.pod t/lib/env.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5404] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  17:00:23
+        Log: cygwin update (from Eric Fifer)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.cygwin t/lib/glob-basic.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5403] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  16:55:47
+        Log: more multiline match cleanups (from Greg Bacon)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/AutoLoader.pm lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/CGI/Carp.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5402] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  16:38:48
+        Log: avoid DProf entering dl_unload_file() (from Alan Burlison)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5401] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  16:35:28
+        Log: fix minor compatibility issues with finddepth() (from Helmut Jarausch)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm t/lib/filefind.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5400] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  16:32:24
+        Log: mention "r" debugger command (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5399] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  14:58:33
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> Changes configure.com ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm
+         !> ext/File/Glob/bsd_glob.c installperl lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+         !> lib/File/Find.pm lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm
+         !> t/io/open.t t/io/openpid.t t/lib/glob-basic.t t/op/goto.t
+         !> t/op/runlevel.t t/op/split.t t/pod/testp2pt.pl
+         !> t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warn/8signal
+         !> t/pragma/warn/pp_sys t/pragma/warnings.t
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/subconfigure.com vms/test.com
+         !> vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5398] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  07:03:13
+        Log: fix testsuite issues in change#5397
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes t/pragma/warn/8signal t/pragma/warn/pp_sys
+
 ----------------
-Version v5.5.670        Development release working toward v5.6
+Version v5.5.670
 ----------------
 
 ____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5397] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  06:44:42
+        Log: consolidated VMS patches (from Craig A. Berry
+             <craig.berry@metamorgs.com>); Glob.pm patch modified to use
+             $DEFAULT_FLAGS, and iff no flags were supplied
+     Branch: perl
+          ! configure.com ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm ext/File/Glob/bsd_glob.c
+          ! installperl lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/File/Find.pm
+          ! lib/Pod/Checker.pm lib/Pod/Parser.pm t/io/open.t
+          ! t/io/openpid.t t/lib/glob-basic.t t/op/goto.t t/op/runlevel.t
+          ! t/op/split.t t/pod/testp2pt.pl t/pragma/strict.t
+          ! t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warn/8signal t/pragma/warn/pp_sys
+          ! t/pragma/warnings.t vms/descrip_mms.template
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5396] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  06:28:22
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm hints/solaris_2.sh pp.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5395] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  06:12:10
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> lib/open.pm
+         !> MANIFEST Todo-5.6 mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5394] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  06:07:00
+        Log: fix segfault on C<local ${^WARNING_BITS}>
+     Branch: perl
+          ! mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5393] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  06:02:12
+        Log: Fcntl de-cut-and-pasto.
+             From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@pobox.com>
+             To: perl5-porters@perl.org
+             Subject: [PATCH v5.5.660] Fcntl.pm
+             Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:24:00 -0800 (PST)
+             Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002292120200.382-100000@mojo.itixs.com>
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5392] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  05:55:20
+        Log: update Todo-5.6, add stub open.pm
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/open.pm
+          ! MANIFEST Todo-5.6
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5391] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  05:42:25
+        Log: The 64-bitallness does require the /usr/lib/sparcv9 in loclibpth.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5390] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  05:35:53
+        Log: Couple of math functions need to be Perl_ so that
+             they are correctly long double, especially the frexp()
+             in sv_vcatpvfn() (spotted by Spider Boardman).
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pp.c sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5389] By: jhi                                   on 2000/03/01  05:33:54
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> pod/perlnumber.pod
+         !> Changes MANIFEST README.win32 ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c lib/File/Find.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm
+         !> pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod
+         !> pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlhack.pod pod/perlhist.pod
+         !> pod/perlport.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall vms/vms.c
+         !> win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5388] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  03:38:03
+        Log: Windows miscellany
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlguts.pod win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5387] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  03:13:37
+        Log: mention ftp/rsync access to repository in perlhack
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes pod/perlhack.pod pod/perlhist.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5386] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  03:04:54
+        Log: support kill(0,$pid) on Windows to test if process exists
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.win32 pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlport.pod win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5385] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  02:10:01
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH epoc/config.sh hints/dec_osf.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+         !> perl.h vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def win32/config.bc
+         !> win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5384] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  01:47:55
+        Log: oops, change#5382 didn't really fix the typo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5383] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  01:38:25
+        Log: avoid warning on type-mismatch
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5382] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  01:33:42
+        Log: fix bug in change#5381
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5381] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  00:46:44
+        Log: unload extension shared objects when exiting, implemented
+             only for dl_dlopen.xs (from Alan Burlison)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5380] By: gsar                                  on 2000/03/01  00:34:10
+        Log: add perlnumber.pod (from Ilya Zakharevich); substantially edited
+             prose
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perlnumber.pod
+          ! MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
+          ! pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5379] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  23:37:01
+        Log: Be understanding.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U uselfs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5378] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  23:35:50
+        Log: VMS fixups (from Dan Sugalski); cosmetic tweaks
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Test/Harness.pm vms/vms.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5377] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  23:12:29
+        Log: Tru64 hints fix from Spider Boardman; Tru64 hint for
+             d_Gconvert on long doubles to use sprintf %Lg.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/dec_osf.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5376] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  23:02:45
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> gv.c lib/Pod/Html.pm malloc.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlcall.pod
+         !> pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+         !> pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5375] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  23:02:34
+        Log: fix File::Find::finddepth() bugs (from Helmut Jarausch)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5374] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  23:01:35
+        Log: Add libsunmath (long double math library for Solaris,
+             SUNWspro cc only) awareness; fix various Solaris nits.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+          ! config_h.SH epoc/config.sh hints/solaris_2.sh perl.h
+          ! vms/subconfigure.com vos/config.def win32/config.bc
+          ! win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          + i_sunmath.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5373] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  22:56:10
+        Log: fix Pod::Html to recognize C<< > >> etc., and convert some pods
+             to the more readable form (from Robin Barker)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5372] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  22:52:27
+        Log: better fix for malloc bug in change#5346 (from Dominic Dunlop)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5371] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  22:29:36
+        Log: fix pods to reflect newer canonical names for call_sv() etc.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+          ! pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5370] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  22:08:26
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> perl.c perl.h win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5369] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  21:37:10
+        Log: remove bogus code that caused test failures on HP-UX
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5368] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  20:45:01
+        Log: change#5364 had a few problems
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5367] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  18:19:04
+        Log: integrate cfgperl changes into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure config_h.SH epoc/config.sh hints/hpux.sh
+         !> hints/solaris_2.sh regcomp.c vms/subconfigure.com
+         !> vos/config.def win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5366] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  18:15:09
+        Log: Some compilers have problems with quad switch() controls.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! regcomp.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5365] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  18:14:30
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> perl.c win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/win32.c
+         !> win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5364] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  18:11:34
+        Log: utf8-ize @ARGV when -C switch is used on Windows
+     Branch: perl
+          ! perl.c win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/win32.c
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5363] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  17:47:48
+        Log: HP-UX lddlflags were broken.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! dlsrc.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5362] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  17:32:27
+        Log: Make the failsafe question about socket address structure
+             sizes hopefully a bit less confusing.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/protos/socksizetype.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5361] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  17:17:10
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5360] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  17:16:09
+        Log: malloc "fix" in change#5346 coredumps on HP-UX, revert
+     Branch: perl
+          ! malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5359] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  17:06:12
+        Log: Make the warning about preferring HP's ar more visible.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5358] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  17:04:36
+        Log: The sprintf option was blithely printing long doubles as
+             doubles (spotted by Spider Boardman); dqgcvt() wasn't ever
+             being used; made the test more thorough.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH epoc/config.sh vms/subconfigure.com
+          ! vos/config.def win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5357] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  16:58:08
+        Log: Make the warning about abandoning long doubles more visible.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! uselongdbl.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5356] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  16:51:33
+        Log: HP-UX gcc fix; detypo in use64bits.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! dlsrc.U use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5355] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  16:31:17
+        Log: Solaris 64-bitness hints saga continues.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5354] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  16:04:42
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> ext/Thread/Thread.xs perl.c perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5353] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  15:54:10
+        Log: Solaris hints tweak for 64-bitallness.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5352] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  15:35:13
+        Log: Too many 64-bitness option combinations.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5351] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  15:31:56
+        Log: more adjustments needed for change#5342 under use5005threads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! ext/Thread/Thread.xs perl.c perl.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5350] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  15:24:59
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> pod/perlboot.pod
+         !> (integrate 40 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5349] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  08:13:56
+        Log: more m//s and $ vs \z fixups (from Greg Bacon)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/CheckTree.pm lib/File/Copy.pm lib/File/DosGlob.pm
+          ! lib/File/Path.pm lib/File/Spec/Mac.pm lib/File/Spec/OS2.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5348] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  08:00:48
+        Log: increase sleep to compensate for slow cpu (from Peter Haworth
+             <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! t/io/pipe.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5347] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  07:52:35
+        Log: add OO tutorial for beginners (from Randal L. Schwartz
+             <merlyn@stonehenge.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perlboot.pod
+          ! MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5346] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  07:24:52
+        Log: malloc bug fix and machten hints (from Dominic Dunlop
+             <domo@computer.org>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/machten.sh malloc.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5345] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  06:32:56
+        Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs
+         !> ext/DynaLoader/hints/aix.pl ext/File/Glob/Makefile.PL
+         !> hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+         !> mg.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pp.c sv.c
+         !> t/lib/ipc_sysv.t t/op/64bit.t t/op/misc.t t/op/numconvert.t
+         !> win32/config.bc win32/config.gc win32/config.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5344] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  06:25:33
+        Log: export list tweak
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5343] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  06:01:22
+        Log: various shenanigans in change#5342
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl thread.h util.c win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
+          ! win32/win32.h win32/win32thread.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5342] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/29  04:53:00
+        Log: support fetching current interpreter from TLS under useithreads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.h embed.pl embedvar.h global.sym intrpvar.h makedef.pl
+          ! objXSUB.h perl.c perl.h perlapi.h perlvars.h pod/perldelta.pod
+          ! proto.h sv.c thread.h util.c win32/perlhost.h win32/perllib.c
+          ! win32/win32.h win32/win32thread.c win32/win32thread.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5341] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  03:26:11
+        Log: Don't know how to do large files using gcc in HP-UX.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5340] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  03:07:16
+        Log: Added few more libs to scan.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Myinit.U U/modified/libs.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5339] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  01:37:43
+        Log: Bigger warning on the changed behaviour of the unary ~.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5338] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  01:17:07
+        Log: IRIX 64-bitness fixes.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/irix_6.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5337] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  00:59:08
+        Log: Userfriendliness.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5336] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  00:53:51
+        Log: Undo the sv_2pv() change of #5329, caused numconvert.t
+             problems in IRIX 32-n32. 
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! sv.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5335] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/29  00:22:37
+        Log: Fixes for building on HP-UX using gcc from Daniel S. Lewart.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! dlsrc.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5334] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  23:59:59
+        Log: Do not cast pointers into I32s.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! mg.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5333] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  23:39:26
+        Log: More AIX fixes from Steven Hirsch.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs
+          ! ext/DynaLoader/hints/aix.pl hints/aix.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! use64bits.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5332] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  22:45:59
+        Log: Detypo.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/irix_6.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5331] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  22:23:36
+        Log: Regularize the call-back units (and fix a bug in #5330).
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/aix.sh hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5330] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  21:50:28
+        Log: Don't be overeager to turn on 64-bitallness.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5329] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  20:32:53
+        Log: Lift the 32-bit straightjacket from bit ops;
+             prefer IV/UV over NV in sv_2pv().
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pp.c sv.c t/op/64bit.t
+          ! t/op/misc.t t/op/numconvert.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5328] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  20:11:59
+        Log: Do not add -Ae for gcc.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5327] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  17:35:39
+        Log: Use the vendor file(1).
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh hints/irix_6.sh hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5326] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  17:31:19
+        Log: Put back madvise lost because of a typo.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH perl.h win32/config.bc win32/config.gc
+          ! win32/config.vc
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5325] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  16:44:32
+        Log: Tweak HP-UX libraries.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/hpux.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5324] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  16:37:43
+        Log: Don't be overeager to turn on largefileness.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! hints/solaris_2.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5323] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  16:23:15
+        Log: AIX 64-bit patches from Steven Hirsch <hirschs@btv.ibm.com>
+             The patch to File/Glob/Makefile.PL is inconvenient but at the
+             moment necessary: adding an ext/FIle/Glob/hints/aix.pl to turn
+             off the optimization ($self->{OPTIMIZE} = '') doesn't work,
+             the file is processed by MakeMaker but OPTIMIZE ends up as -O
+             in the resulting Makefile.  A MakeMaker bug?
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! MANIFEST ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs ext/File/Glob/Makefile.PL
+          ! hints/aix.sh t/lib/ipc_sysv.t
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5322] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/28  16:17:33
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> (integrate 45 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5321] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/28  10:13:03
+        Log: avoid warnings in legacy code (from David Dyck)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/pwd.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5320] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/28  10:11:37
+        Log: find2perl doc tweak (from David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! x2p/find2perl.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5319] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/28  10:07:00
+        Log: fix outdated URLs (from Michael G Schwern)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod
+          ! pod/perlfaq9.pod pod/perlmodinstall.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod
+          ! pod/perlopentut.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perltoc.pod
+          ! pod/perlvar.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  5318] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/28  10:04:57
+        Log: update Changes, patchlevel etc.
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config.bc
+          ! win32/config.gc win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc
+          ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [  5317] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/28  09:39:47
         Log: make stringwise bitops work properly on utf8 strings
      Branch: perl
@@ -8844,7 +15253,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________
 ____________________________________________________________________________
 [  4045] By: jhi                                   on 1999/08/29  15:18:38
         Log: Fix scalar gmtime (and localtime) in quad environments,
-             bug reported by Robin Parker.
+             bug reported by Robin Barker.
              
              From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
              To: jhi@iki.fi
@@ -9798,7 +16207,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________________________
 [  3914] By: jhi                                   on 1999/08/03  21:11:11
         Log: The op/filetest.t failed subtest 7 if testing as root.
              
-             From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois=20D=E9sarm=E9nien?= <desar@club-internet.fr>
+             From: François Désarménien <desar@club-internet.fr>
              To: perl5-porters@perl.org
              Subject: [ID 19990727.039] Not OK: perl 5.00558 on i386-sco 3.2v5.0.4
              Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:54:05 +0200