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-Version v5.5.640        Development release working toward 5.6
+Version v5.5.640        Development release working toward v5.6
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 ____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4966] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  11:42:03
+        Log: workaround for undefined symbol
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4965] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  11:19:19
+        Log: on cygwin, h_errno is now "__declspec(dllimport) int h_errno"
+             (from Eric Fifer <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_sys.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4964] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  11:11:15
+        Log: adjust notes on use5005threads
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure INSTALL README.threads
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4963] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  10:14:30
+        Log: fix typo
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Configure
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4962] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  10:13:10
+        Log: integrate selected changes from cfgperl (#4899,4900,4904,4918)
+     Branch: perl
+         !> Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H
+         !> config_h.SH ext/IO/IO.xs lib/Benchmark.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4961] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  09:55:45
+        Log: PodParser-1.092 update via CPAN (from Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          + lib/Pod/Find.pm lib/Pod/ParseUtils.pm
+          ! MANIFEST lib/Pod/Checker.pm t/pod/poderrs.t t/pod/poderrs.xr
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4960] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:22:31
+        Log: replace misleading docs with a BUGS section
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/English.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4959] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:16:17
+        Log: remove FUD from perlfunc/use (from M J T Guy)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4958] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:13:04
+        Log: Benchmark displays bogus CPU stats (suggested by Cedric Auzanne
+             <cedric.auzanne@nist.gov>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes lib/Benchmark.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4957] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:04:52
+        Log: fix coredump on C<"x" =~ /x/; print @-> (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pp_hot.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4956] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  08:02:57
+        Log: flock() pod talks about "adding" in the sense of "or-ing"
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4955] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:58:35
+        Log: fixes for switching files in the debugger (from Ilya Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl pod/perldebug.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4954] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:53:51
+        Log: use warnings rather than fiddling with $^W (from Paul Marquess)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Cwd.pm lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+          ! lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm lib/Fatal.pm
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm lib/Math/BigFloat.pm
+          ! lib/Text/ParseWords.pm lib/utf8_heavy.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4953] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:40:33
+        Log: dynixptx hints tweak (from Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@sequent.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! hints/dynixptx.sh
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4952] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  07:36:39
+        Log: deltanotes on weakrefs and Pod::Parser (from Tuomas Lukka and
+             Brad Appleton)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4951] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:54:22
+        Log: avoid mismatched type warnings
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl perlapi.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4950] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/02  06:49:10
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         +> pod/perlunicode.pod
+         !> MANIFEST Makefile.SH lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm lib/Text/Tabs.pm
+         !> lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl lib/utf8.pm lib/warnings.pm
+         !> makedef.pl op.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pp_ctl.c regcomp.c
+         !> regexec.c t/pragma/warn/2use utf8.h utils/perldoc.PL
+         !> vms/descrip_mms.template warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4949] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:41:17
+        Log: fix broken abs2rel() (from François Allard <franka@host.ott.igs.net>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4948] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:30:41
+        Log: makefile tweak
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Makefile.SH
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4947] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:27:43
+        Log: future-proof unknown warning categories (from Greg Bacon
+             <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/warnings.pm t/pragma/warn/2use warnings.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4946] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:21:34
+        Log: doc tweak (from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/Text/Tabs.pm
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4945] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  06:03:04
+        Log: more meaningful message on invalid pattern argument (from
+             Kevin Meltzer <KMeltzer@USCO.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! utils/perldoc.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4944] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  05:43:49
+        Log: XSLoader build patch for VMS (from Craig A. Berry
+             <craig.berry@metamorgs.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! vms/descrip_mms.template
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4943] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/02  03:40:49
+        Log: reword some sections of perlunicode.pod
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlunicode.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4942] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  21:02:01
+        Log: AIX warning on undefined symbol
+     Branch: perl
+          ! makedef.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4941] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  20:29:30
+        Log: HINT_UTF8 is not propagated to the op tree anymore; add a
+             perlunicode.pod that reflects changes to unicode support so far
+     Branch: perl
+          + pod/perlunicode.pod
+          ! MANIFEST lib/byte.pm lib/byte_heavy.pl lib/utf8.pm op.c perl.h
+          ! pod/perldelta.pod pp_ctl.c regcomp.c regexec.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4940] By: jhi                                   on 2000/02/01  12:22:30
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+         !> embed.pl embedvar.h global.sym gv.c intrpvar.h
+         !> lib/charnames.pm lib/utf8.pm mg.c objXSUB.h op.c op.h
+         !> perlapi.c perlapi.h pod/perlvar.pod pp.c sv.c sv.h
+         !> t/lib/charnames.t toke.c win32/win32.c win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4939] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  08:52:16
+        Log: export pregexec(), Tk uses it
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4938] By: gsar                                  on 2000/02/01  04:00:09
+        Log: mark literal utf8 in string literals properly
+     Branch: perl
+          ! toke.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4937] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  20:19:34
+        Log: introduce $^U, a global bit to indicate whether system
+             calls should using widechar APIs; chr and sprintf "%c" also
+             follow this flag in the absense of "use byte"; "use utf8"
+             sets $^U=1 (this appears kludgey)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! embedvar.h gv.c intrpvar.h lib/charnames.pm lib/utf8.pm mg.c
+          ! op.c op.h perlapi.h pod/perlvar.pod pp.c sv.c sv.h
+          ! t/lib/charnames.t win32/win32.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4936] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  20:17:44
+        Log: HP-UX (induced) fixes.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH hints/hpux.sh
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Oldconfig.U U/modified/libs.U
+     Branch: metaconfig/U/perl
+          ! quadfio.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4935] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  19:15:43
+        Log: Cosmetics.
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/compline/d_gconvert.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4934] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  19:15:22
+        Log: Cppsym saga continues.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4933] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  18:45:07
+        Log: !USING_WIDE() branch is busted in win32_stat()
+     Branch: perl
+          ! win32/win32.c
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4932] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  06:41:47
+        Log: Reveal even more symbols.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          ! Configure config_h.SH
+     Branch: metaconfig
+          ! U/modified/Cppsym.U
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4931] By: jhi                                   on 2000/01/31  06:21:41
+        Log: Integrate with Sarathy.
+     Branch: cfgperl
+          - lib/caller.pm
+         !> (integrate 29 files)
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4930] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  04:57:42
+        Log: runtime now looks at the SVf_UTF8 bit on the SV to decide
+             whether to use widechar semantics; lexer and RE engine continue
+             to need "use utf8" to enable unicode awareness in literals
+             and patterns (TODO: this needs to be fixed); $1 et al are marked
+             SvUTF8 if the pattern was compiled for utf8 (TODO: propagating
+             it from the data is probably better)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! doop.c gv.c mg.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c
+          ! sv.c t/pragma/warn/doop t/pragma/warn/pp t/pragma/warn/sv
+          ! t/pragma/warn/toke t/pragma/warn/utf8 toke.c utf8.h
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4929] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  04:17:09
+        Log: remove caller.pm from change#3534 (flawed idea)
+     Branch: perl
+          - lib/caller.pm
+          ! MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4928] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/31  04:16:01
+        Log: fix factual regression (-e doesn't create temporary files anymore)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfilter.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4927] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/30  21:27:12
+        Log: introduce $^V (eq chr($revision) . chr($version) . chr($subversion));
+             document version tuples
+     Branch: perl
+          ! gv.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
+          ! pod/perlvar.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4926] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  18:10:12
+        Log: implement -follow option in find2perl (from Helmut Jarausch
+             <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/File/Find.pm x2p/find2perl.PL
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4925] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  18:03:28
+        Log: document what chdir() without an argument does (from Mark-Jason
+             Dominus <mjd@plover.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! pod/perlfunc.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4924] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  17:49:34
+        Log: README.cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! README.cygwin
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4923] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  17:10:08
+        Log: avoid leaking lexicals into program being debugged (from Ilya
+             Zakharevich)
+     Branch: perl
+          ! lib/perl5db.pl
+____________________________________________________________________________
+[  4922] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  16:36:13
+        Log: perldelta note about export list changes
+     Branch: perl
+          ! Changes pod/perldelta.pod
+____________________________________________________________________________
 [  4921] By: gsar                                  on 2000/01/28  15:49:04
         Log: alias realpath() to abs_path() (from Tom Christiansen)
      Branch: perl