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Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:16:17 +0000 (08:16 +0000)]
remove FUD from perlfunc/use (from M J T Guy)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4959
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:13:04 +0000 (08:13 +0000)]
Benchmark displays bogus CPU stats (suggested by Cedric Auzanne
<cedric.auzanne@nist.gov>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4958
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:04:52 +0000 (08:04 +0000)]
fix coredump on C<"x" =~ /x/; print @-> (from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4957
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:02:57 +0000 (08:02 +0000)]
flock() pod talks about "adding" in the sense of "or-ing"
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4956
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:58:35 +0000 (07:58 +0000)]
fixes for switching files in the debugger (from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4955
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:53:51 +0000 (07:53 +0000)]
use warnings rather than fiddling with $^W (from Paul Marquess)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4954
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:40:33 +0000 (07:40 +0000)]
dynixptx hints tweak (from Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@sequent.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4953
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 07:36:39 +0000 (07:36 +0000)]
deltanotes on weakrefs and Pod::Parser (from Tuomas Lukka and
Brad Appleton)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4952
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:54:22 +0000 (06:54 +0000)]
avoid mismatched type warnings
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4951
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:41:17 +0000 (06:41 +0000)]
fix broken abs2rel() (from François Allard <franka@host.ott.igs.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4949
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:30:41 +0000 (06:30 +0000)]
makefile tweak
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4948
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:27:43 +0000 (06:27 +0000)]
future-proof unknown warning categories (from Greg Bacon
<gbacon@cs.uah.edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4947
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:21:34 +0000 (06:21 +0000)]
doc tweak (from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4946
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 06:03:04 +0000 (06:03 +0000)]
more meaningful message on invalid pattern argument (from
Kevin Meltzer <KMeltzer@USCO.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4945
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 05:43:49 +0000 (05:43 +0000)]
XSLoader build patch for VMS (from Craig A. Berry
<craig.berry@metamorgs.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4944
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 2 Feb 2000 03:40:49 +0000 (03:40 +0000)]
reword some sections of perlunicode.pod
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4943
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:02:01 +0000 (21:02 +0000)]
AIX warning on undefined symbol
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4942
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 1 Feb 2000 20:29:30 +0000 (20:29 +0000)]
HINT_UTF8 is not propagated to the op tree anymore; add a
perlunicode.pod that reflects changes to unicode support so far
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4941
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 1 Feb 2000 08:52:16 +0000 (08:52 +0000)]
export pregexec(), Tk uses it
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4939
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:00:09 +0000 (04:00 +0000)]
mark literal utf8 in string literals properly
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4938
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:19:34 +0000 (20:19 +0000)]
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)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4937
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 31 Jan 2000 18:45:07 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
!USING_WIDE() branch is busted in win32_stat()
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4933
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 31 Jan 2000 04:57:42 +0000 (04:57 +0000)]
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)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4930
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 31 Jan 2000 04:17:09 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
remove caller.pm from change#3534 (flawed idea)
p4raw-link: @3534 on //depot/perl:
f3aa04c29a85dd63d563ae8e27316ff34501ccd5
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4929
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 31 Jan 2000 04:16:01 +0000 (04:16 +0000)]
fix factual regression (-e doesn't create temporary files anymore)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4928
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:27:12 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
introduce $^V (eq chr($revision) . chr($version) . chr($subversion));
document version tuples
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4927
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:10:12 +0000 (18:10 +0000)]
implement -follow option in find2perl (from Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4926
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:03:28 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
document what chdir() without an argument does (from Mark-Jason
Dominus <mjd@plover.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4925
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:49:34 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
README.cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4924
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:10:08 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
avoid leaking lexicals into program being debugged (from Ilya
Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4923
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:36:13 +0000 (16:36 +0000)]
perldelta note about export list changes
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4922
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:49:04 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
alias realpath() to abs_path() (from Tom Christiansen)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4921
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:29:37 +0000 (05:29 +0000)]
more exported symbols needed for build on windows
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4916
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 28 Jan 2000 03:43:52 +0000 (03:43 +0000)]
autogenerate API listing from comments in the source (from Benjamin
Stuhl <sho_pi@hotmail.com>); fix the markup format to be more
flexible for better readability; add missing docs in sv.c; regenerate
perltoc
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4915
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:43:35 +0000 (19:43 +0000)]
document unimplemented status of forking pipe open() on windows
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4914
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:04:17 +0000 (08:04 +0000)]
add missing flag in change#4892
p4raw-link: @4892 on //depot/perl:
9e5f57defb0d4fe4a23e6e24c3d57478465aea87
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4911
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:56:48 +0000 (03:56 +0000)]
various pod nits identified by installhtml (all fixed except
unresolved links)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4910
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:45:28 +0000 (22:45 +0000)]
typo
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4909
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:41:18 +0000 (22:41 +0000)]
update p4 tool
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4908
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:45:41 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
revised attribute syntax: C<my $foo :a :b :c>, C<my $foo : a b c>
and C<my $foo : a : b : c> are all valid (from Spider Boardman)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4907
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:16:39 +0000 (20:16 +0000)]
pod typos and warnings (from Abigail <abigail@delanet.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4906
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:10:26 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
s/STOP/CHECK/ blocks
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4905
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 09:28:37 +0000 (09:28 +0000)]
tweak exports list on Windows
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4902
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 04:49:45 +0000 (04:49 +0000)]
allow '--' to terminate argument processing (suggested by
Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4898
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 02:42:38 +0000 (02:42 +0000)]
change#3744 should have made grep more like map instead of the
other way around
p4raw-link: @3744 on //depot/perl:
4e4e412b11cee5b4d44ee0d29943215db93eb350
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4897
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:56:14 +0000 (00:56 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4896
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:45:45 +0000 (00:45 +0000)]
fix parse failure of (my $foo : bar) and similar (from Spider
Boardman)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4895
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:33:53 +0000 (00:33 +0000)]
avoid failure if directories already read by rmtree() are
deleted by another process
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4894
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:19:18 +0000 (23:19 +0000)]
typo in change#4892
p4raw-link: @4892 on //depot/perl:
9e5f57defb0d4fe4a23e6e24c3d57478465aea87
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4893
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:16:19 +0000 (22:16 +0000)]
eliminate need for perl95.exe on Windows 9x by working around CRT
bug internally (from Benjamin Stuhl <sho_pi@hotmail.com>); modified
to call the fixed version of open_osfhandle() only on Windows 9x;
updated the makefiles and README.win32 to suit
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4892
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:22:01 +0000 (20:22 +0000)]
produce redeclaration warning on C<our $foo; { our $foo; ... }>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4891
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:21:17 +0000 (19:21 +0000)]
update Makefile notes on the now deprecated USE_5005THREADS and
USE_OBJECT
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4890
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:44:55 +0000 (14:44 +0000)]
Misedit in #4888.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4889
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 14:38:59 +0000 (14:38 +0000)]
UNICOS/mk patches. Removing the _CRAYMPP test may be
rash but it's the best move I can think of right now.
Removing the _CRAYMPP test fixes a legion of pack/unpack
failures (hint: shortsize=4,intsize=8,longsize=8).
One subtest, t/lib/io_sock.t #14, is still failing.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4888
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 06:13:14 +0000 (06:13 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4887
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 02:54:00 +0000 (02:54 +0000)]
consistently use MAX_PATH+1 buffer sizes
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4886
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 02:51:35 +0000 (02:51 +0000)]
workaround for rename('x','X') bug in Windows NT
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4885
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:32:57 +0000 (01:32 +0000)]
windows build fixups from uniform DLL name change to perl56.dll
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4884
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:31:27 +0000 (01:31 +0000)]
more fixes for warnings from change#4840
p4raw-link: @4840 on //depot/perl:
2a28b791c040b17cd26931dd9a159635db5fe244
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4883
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:35:12 +0000 (15:35 +0000)]
assorted little nits
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4882
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:32:31 +0000 (14:32 +0000)]
add new warnings to perldelta
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4881
Stephane Payrard [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:15:38 +0000 (17:15 +0100)]
<patch> avoid division by 0 in Benchmark.pm
To: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>
Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org
Message-ID: <
20000124161538.A995@freesurf.fr>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4880
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:14:20 +0000 (14:14 +0000)]
force linkage of the function wrappers for globals in change#4878
p4raw-link: @4878 on //depot/perl:
6f4183fe04888927cb36b966262c959c5166404b
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4879
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 13:04:45 +0000 (13:04 +0000)]
enable function wrappers for access to globals under MULTIPLICITY
(provides binary compatibility in the face of changes in interpreter
structure)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4878
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:41:57 +0000 (11:41 +0000)]
perlhist update.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4877
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:32:07 +0000 (11:32 +0000)]
Updates on the large file support status.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4876
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:23:16 +0000 (11:23 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4875
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:43:03 +0000 (10:43 +0000)]
fix typos; avoid use constant for lowercase constants (produces
warnings now)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4874
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:40:24 +0000 (09:40 +0000)]
avoid warnings when there's no subs to autosplit
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4873
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:39:01 +0000 (09:39 +0000)]
Create a tool for converting a config_h.SH into a VOS config.h.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4872
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:15:20 +0000 (09:15 +0000)]
typos in change#4623
p4raw-link: @4623 on //depot/perl:
9426adcd48655815b65cea5a9f1eebbe7e23a9df
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4871
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 06:43:19 +0000 (06:43 +0000)]
Sync metaconfig units to comply with the typo fixes of #4869.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4870
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 24 Jan 2000 06:04:31 +0000 (06:04 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4869
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:49:28 +0000 (21:49 +0000)]
on windows, set seek position to end for files opened in append mode
(improves compatibility with Unix, avoids buffering issues)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4868
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:19:31 +0000 (21:19 +0000)]
change#4866 was flawed; revert and add better fix for warning
p4raw-link: @4866 on //depot/perl:
ef8040b067557994d471dfa4e5ac3900907e94ce
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4867
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:43:56 +0000 (20:43 +0000)]
optimize away runtime code for our($foo) (also avoid warnings)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4866
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:17:18 +0000 (13:17 +0000)]
DB_File 1.72 update from Paul Marquess <paul.marquess@bt.com>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4865
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:12:31 +0000 (13:12 +0000)]
system('VAR123=foo cmd') wasn't invoking shell (de-locale-ized patch
suggested by Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4864
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:01:35 +0000 (13:01 +0000)]
fix misclassified warnings
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4863
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:52:12 +0000 (12:52 +0000)]
document bareword prototype incompatibility
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4862
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:32:25 +0000 (12:32 +0000)]
faulty edit
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4861
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 12:23:48 +0000 (12:23 +0000)]
s/use vars/our/g modules that aren't independently maintained on CPAN
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4860
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 11:29:22 +0000 (11:29 +0000)]
fix diagnostics to report "our" vs "my" correctly
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4859
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:14:46 +0000 (10:14 +0000)]
set api_version to 5.5.0 (binary compatibility needs to get tested
more widely)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4858
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 10:04:03 +0000 (10:04 +0000)]
disallow our($foo::bar)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4857
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:50:54 +0000 (09:50 +0000)]
dprofpp can't find Devel::DProf::VERSION due to change#4852
p4raw-link: @4852 on //depot/perl:
117c97cc8bc4f8d1e649a798c680208c2e87c6d9
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4856
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:36:51 +0000 (09:36 +0000)]
new test (from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4855
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:24:40 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
add PREREQ_PM to default template (suggested by Michael G Schwern
<schwern@pobox.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4854
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:08:30 +0000 (09:08 +0000)]
cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <EFifer@sanwaint.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4853
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:52:44 +0000 (08:52 +0000)]
mark some extensions as "special versions" to avoid CPAN indexer
confusion (from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4852
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:48:46 +0000 (08:48 +0000)]
prefer POSIX::uname() rather than syscalls, which require attempting
to load syscall.ph (from David Huggins-Daines <dhd@eradicator.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4851
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:36:43 +0000 (08:36 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4850
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 08:17:30 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
fix localization in while BLOCK when there is a continue BLOCK
by introducing an explicit scope (c.f. change#4848)
p4raw-link: @4848 on //depot/perl:
1ee987245c095afd177d3e2ca6255cec8dbb53ca
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4849
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 06:43:51 +0000 (06:43 +0000)]
fix scope cleanup when next jumps to a continue block; this is rather
in the nature of a kludge; it doesn't fix the longstanding bug that
makes C<while (!$x++) { local $x = 7 } continue { print $x }> print "7"
instead of "1")
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4848
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 04:47:25 +0000 (04:47 +0000)]
don't warn about masked lexical in C<if (my $x = 1) { my $x; }>,
C<while (my $x = foo()) { my $x = bar(); }> etc.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4847
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 23 Jan 2000 04:44:17 +0000 (04:44 +0000)]
avoid warnings in change#4839
p4raw-link: @4839 on //depot/perl:
191f2cf3f90fff5e4eb7a8663a83ed6c7031cf5d
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4846
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:12:38 +0000 (13:12 +0000)]
Configure typos (from Ray Phillips <r.phillips@mailbox.uq.edu.au>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4845
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:46:26 +0000 (12:46 +0000)]
wrong category for exec() warning
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4844
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:42:40 +0000 (12:42 +0000)]
fix line continuations in argument lists (from Helmut Jarausch)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4843
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:34:39 +0000 (12:34 +0000)]
CGI.pm upgraded to v2.56 from CPAN
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4842
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