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perldelta entry for [perl #78058] qr/\88/ hangs
authorFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:50:15 +0000 (14:50 -0700)
committerFather Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:36:37 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
pod/perldelta.pod

index 73a90d2..0eea356 100644 (file)
@@ -637,6 +637,15 @@ L<[perl #75154]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75154>.
 Assignment through a glob no longer triggers set-magic on the glob itself
 L<[perl #77928]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77928>.
 
+=item *
+
+The regular expression parser no longer hangs when parsing C<\18> and
+C<\88>.
+
+This bug was introduced in version 5.13.5 and did not affect earlier
+versions
+L<[perl #78058]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78058>.
+
 =back
 
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