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Karl Williamson [Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:31:20 +0000 (13:31 -0600)]
perlunicode: Update text about malformed UTF-8
Pali [Sun, 5 Mar 2017 10:35:51 +0000 (11:35 +0100)]
PATCH: [perl #130801] perlapi: Clarify SvIV/SvUV/SvNV behavior
[The committer made a few changes for improved readability]
Karl Williamson [Sat, 8 Apr 2017 18:52:05 +0000 (12:52 -0600)]
perlunicode: Add link
Karl Williamson [Sat, 8 Apr 2017 18:36:32 +0000 (12:36 -0600)]
PATCH: [perl #121292] wrong perlunicode BOM claims
A BOM at the beginning of a UTF-8 file is ignored, and doesn't otherwise
do anything.
James E Keenan [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:09:22 +0000 (11:09 -0400)]
Spelling corrections only.
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 13:55:37 +0000 (14:55 +0100)]
[MERGE] make tests run without '.' in @INC
Update TestInuit.pm etc so that tests are no longer invoked with
'.' in @INC. Then fix up all the tests that break because of this.
Then fix up some bad usage of 'do' that's not detected by tests.
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:51:19 +0000 (12:51 +0100)]
Safe.pm: document rdo()'s usage of @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:39:53 +0000 (12:39 +0100)]
fix and test execution of non-empty .bs files
During the build of XS modules, an empty Foo.bs file is normally created
for each Foo.so file. If a Foo_BS file is present, instead this triggers
the auto-generatation of a .bs file which may have executable perl
content.
However, nothing in core currently generates a non-empty .bs file. So add
a test that this mechanism works, and fix up the three dynamic lib loaders
which implement the 'do $bs if -s $bs' mechanism to not rely on the
process having '.' present in @INC.
As it happens this already works currently, because the name of the
.bs file to load will usually be something like
../../lib/auto/Foo/Foo.bs
and the presence of the leading '..' causes 'do' to load the file directly
rather than via @INC. But locally fix up @INC anyway, in case '../' isn't
always the case.
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:05:34 +0000 (12:05 +0100)]
dist/Unicode-Normalize/Makefile.PL: fix 'do'
It 'do's a file in the current directory, which fails without '.' in @INC.
This doesn't matter in core at the moment, but CPAN releases should be
fixed.
James E Keenan [Mon, 27 Mar 2017 23:31:34 +0000 (19:31 -0400)]
fix cases where 'do file' should be 'do ./file'.
These are some cases which weren't picked up by the test suite
[ This is a subset of a set of fixes originally submitted by James as
2 commits - DAPM]
David Mitchell [Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:32:58 +0000 (17:32 +0100)]
utils/libnetcfg: fix 'do' without '.' in @INC
Note that this isn't normally executed during build, so it wasn't spotted
earlier.
David Mitchell [Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:03:42 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
Porting/bench.pl: fix 'do' without '.' in @INC
The --benchfile arg (default t/perf/benchmarks) is supposed to be loaded
via 'do'. With '.' no longer in @INC by default, it doesn't find files
with relative paths.
David Mitchell [Mon, 3 Apr 2017 15:20:22 +0000 (16:20 +0100)]
fixup regen/regcharclass.pl for no '.'in @INC
Note that this isn't normally executed during build, so it wasn't spotted
earlier.
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:41:25 +0000 (11:41 +0100)]
fix dist/Safe/t/*.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:24:33 +0000 (11:24 +0100)]
fix dist/Time-HiRes/t/*.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:18:22 +0000 (11:18 +0100)]
fix ExtUtils-ParseXS/t/*.t that needed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:14:24 +0000 (11:14 +0100)]
fix dist/base/t/*.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:12:22 +0000 (11:12 +0100)]
fix lib/B/Deparse.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:57:12 +0000 (09:57 +0100)]
fix ext/Pod-Html/t/*.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:45:10 +0000 (09:45 +0100)]
fix ext/arybase/t/*.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:42:37 +0000 (09:42 +0100)]
fix ext/XS-APItest/t/*.t that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 08:32:01 +0000 (09:32 +0100)]
fixup tests under t/ that assumed '.' in @INC
David Mitchell [Fri, 7 Apr 2017 07:46:13 +0000 (08:46 +0100)]
stop passing '.' in @INC to tests
Currently TestInit.pm adds '.' to @INC (except if running under taint).
Since *all* tests run from the perl core are invoked as
perl -MTestInit[=arg,arg,..] some/test.t
this means that all test scripts (including those under cpan/ etc) are
excuted with dot present, regardless of the settings of
$PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC and -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot.
This commit changes it so that:
1) TestInit.pm transparently passes though a trailing dot in @INC
if present (so it now honours $PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC and
-Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot)
2) Adds a 'DOT' arg (e.g. -MTestInit=DOT) which unconditionally adds '.';
3) Updates t/TEST so that it (and t/harness which requires t/TEST)
have a whitelist of cpan/ modules which need '.'; test scripts for these
are invoked with -MTestInit=DOT.
4) Removes the $PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC unsetting in t/TEST and t/harness;
now that environmant variable is passed unchanged to all perl processes
involved in running the test suite.
As of this commit, lots of tests will fail on a dotless perl build; the
next few commits will fix up any tests scripts and non cpan/ distributions
which relied on dot being present.
Karl Williamson [Fri, 31 Mar 2017 04:10:46 +0000 (22:10 -0600)]
pods: Add L<> for links missing them; a couple nits
David Mitchell [Mon, 3 Apr 2017 07:25:02 +0000 (08:25 +0100)]
perlfunc: 'do' synopsis: clarify when @INC used
David Mitchell [Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:44:58 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
vec(): defer lvalue out-of-range croaking
RT #131083
Recent commits v5.25.10-81-gd69c430 and v5.25.10-82-g67dd6f3 added
out-of-range/overflow checks for the offset arg of vec(). However in
lvalue context, these croaks now happen before the SVt_PVLV was created,
rather than when its set magic was called. This means that something like
sub f { $x = $_[0] }
f(vec($s, -1, 8))
now croaks even though the out-of-range value never ended up getting used
in lvalue context.
This commit fixes things by, in pp_vec(), rather than croaking, just set
flag bits in LvFLAGS() to indicate that the offset is -Ve / out-of-range.
Then in Perl_magic_getvec(), return 0 if these flags are set, and in
Perl_magic_setvec() croak with a suitable error.
Sawyer X [Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:02:29 +0000 (12:02 +0200)]
Merge branch 'sawyerx/rmg-make-minitest' into blead
Sawyer X [Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:42:42 +0000 (11:42 +0200)]
Also check minitest when preparing the tarball:
This was noted by Jarkko was a missing instruction for something
that tends to fail but we usually don't notice. ("We" here excludes
Jarkko who randomly finds this broken without us noticing.)
I wasn't sure where to put this, but preparing the tarball seems
like an appropriate time.
David Mitchell [Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:18:48 +0000 (09:18 +0100)]
fix perldiag entry for CORE::dump()
the bare form wasn't deprecated in 5.30
David Mitchell [Fri, 31 Mar 2017 08:13:33 +0000 (09:13 +0100)]
tweak 'do "%s" failed' message
The warning
do "%s" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC
was added in the previous devel release; this commit enhances it to say
do "%s" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC; did you mean do "./%s"
and updates the relevant docs.
See http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/243788.
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [Sat, 25 Mar 2017 20:06:53 +0000 (20:06 +0000)]
Fix wrong text in Module-CoreList is_core test
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 25 Mar 2017 13:14:24 +0000 (09:14 -0400)]
Slight comment enhancement.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [Sat, 25 Mar 2017 09:40:06 +0000 (09:40 +0000)]
Include 'sh' in Configure invocations in INSTALL
Most invocation examples included it, but some were missing.
Add them for consistency.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [Sat, 25 Mar 2017 09:37:56 +0000 (09:37 +0000)]
Use -Udefault_inc_excludes_dot in Configure example
While equivalent to to the -D…=n form, the -U form is more common.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [Sat, 25 Mar 2017 09:35:25 +0000 (09:35 +0000)]
[MERGE] Test and document PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC
Also remove it from the test environment in case it's set by the user.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:12:04 +0000 (17:12 +0000)]
Document PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC in perlrun.pod
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:54:08 +0000 (15:54 +0000)]
Test PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:53:32 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
Delete PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC from test environment
It intereferes with tests of @INC contents, and all core tests must work
without it.
David Mitchell [Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:48:32 +0000 (08:48 +0000)]
INSTALL: add entry for -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot
David Mitchell [Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:30:26 +0000 (08:30 +0000)]
bump base.pm $VERSION and un-CUSTOMISE
follow-up to the previous commit's reverting of base.pm @INC changes.
David Mitchell [Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:10:12 +0000 (08:10 +0000)]
Revert base.pm's dot-in-INC changes.
This reverts:
458470f62360040dcd4b5a55c8ba07503e1af5fc
362f3f748cb84934a072fadbfb8b51090e2f9afe
bca552795994a553e07b38a6f82a233533919926
and the base.pm part of
8901ddee94b1bc3764b4278d1cb26bed30bc2605
This commit removes all the recent stuff that made base.pm localise
@INC and remove a trailing '.'.
This is because perl 5.26.0 will be released with '.' in @INC disabled by
default.
See RT #128769.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:14:43 +0000 (07:14 -0400)]
Skip %Config test under minitest.
David Mitchell [Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:35:33 +0000 (08:35 +0000)]
skip an op/range.t test under -Dusemallocwrap=no
RT #131033
A recently added test checked for a memory wrap condition, which won't
happen if memory wrap checking is disabled.
Sawyer X [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:26:54 +0000 (18:26 +0100)]
Add link to epigraph
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:06:31 +0000 (13:06 +0000)]
Regen opcodes
Ran regen/opcode.pl to regenerate
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:04:44 +0000 (13:04 +0000)]
Fix uconfig errors
Ran regen/uconfig_h.pl to regenerate
Sawyer X [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:16:41 +0000 (08:16 +0100)]
Regen META.json for 5.26.0 - it is stable
Sawyer X [Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:16:28 +0000 (08:16 +0100)]
Update Module::CoreList for 5.26.0
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:51:40 +0000 (22:51 +0100)]
Version bump: 5.25.11 -> 5.26.0
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:25:43 +0000 (22:25 +0100)]
New perldelta
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:17:04 +0000 (22:17 +0100)]
Tick off release
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 21:15:40 +0000 (22:15 +0100)]
Add epigraph for 5.25.11 (link forthcoming)
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:50:59 +0000 (17:50 +0100)]
add new release to perlhist
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:06:38 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
Finalize perldelta:
This includes cleanups, adding obituary notice for Kip, upgraded
modules, and fixing a small unescaped <>.
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:53:51 +0000 (16:53 +0100)]
Update Module::CoreList for 5.25.11
Leon Timmermans [Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:54:19 +0000 (16:54 +0200)]
Revert "Respect hashbangs containing perl6"
This reverts commit
d9fc04eebe29b8cf5f6f6bf31373b202eafa44d6.
As discussed in
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236423.html,
the current perl6-shebang code has rather sharp edge-cases. Hence a revert
until we come up with a better solution seems wise.
(cherry picked from commit
f691e4455dd520eff11e7f070a9b034b0fa5ca1c)
Leon Timmermans [Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:51:51 +0000 (22:51 +0100)]
Upgrade to Test::Harness 3.38
Sawyer X [Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:01:30 +0000 (14:01 +0100)]
Fix loading Module::CoreList in corelist.pl
Sawyer X [Sun, 19 Mar 2017 18:51:10 +0000 (19:51 +0100)]
Update Test::Harness 3.36 -> 3.38
Aaron Crane [Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:57:37 +0000 (09:57 +0000)]
Porting/sync-with-cpan: honour exec-bit whitelist
Reported by kid51++
Aaron Crane [Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:58:56 +0000 (09:58 +0000)]
Porting/sync-with-cpan: handle absence of "." from @INC
James E Keenan [Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:22:13 +0000 (20:22 -0400)]
Regenerate t/porting/customized.dat.
By running t/porting/customized.t --regen. This should have been done as
final part of CPAN-sync for IO-Compress et al in commit
5173674b1cb46b59301b559929904bc67fa15056 on Mar 10 2017.
Sawyer X [Sat, 18 Mar 2017 19:32:57 +0000 (20:32 +0100)]
Fix copyright test:
Other tests are run from t/ and so they add ".." to @INC, but
this test runs from the main dir, so it needs to add ".".
Sawyer X [Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:01:28 +0000 (19:01 +0100)]
Reflect next changes in release schedule
James E Keenan [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 23:10:50 +0000 (19:10 -0400)]
Sync Pod-Perldoc with CPAN version 3.28.
This should enable us to close
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130759.
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:13:57 +0000 (14:13 +0000)]
[MERGE] fix vec() offset overflow issues
David Mitchell [Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:29:03 +0000 (12:29 +0000)]
fix integer overflows in Perl_do_vecget()/set
RT #130915
In something like
vec($str, $bignum, 16)
(i.e. where $str is treated as a series of 16-bit words), Perl_do_vecget()
and Perl_do_vecset() end up doing calculations equivalent to:
$start = $bignum*2;
$end = $start + 2;
Currently both these calculations can wrap if $bignum is near the maximum
value of a STRLEN (the previous commit already fixed cases for $bignum >
max(STRLEN)).
So this commit makes them check for potential overflow before doing such
calculations.
It also takes account of the fact that the previous commit changed the
type of offset from signed to unsigned.
Finally, it also adds some tests to t/op/vec.t for where the 'word'
overlaps the end of the string, for example
$x = vec("ab", 0, 64)
should behave the same as:
$x = vec("ab\0\0\0\0\0\0", 0, 64)
This uses a separate code path, and I couldn't see any tests for it.
This commit is based on an earlier proposed fix by Aaron Crane.
David Mitchell [Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:35:59 +0000 (14:35 +0000)]
Perl_do_vecget(): change offset arg to STRLEN type
... and fix up its caller, pp_vec().
This is part of a fix for RT #130915.
pp_vec() is responsible for extracting out the offset and size from SVs on
the stack, and then calling do_vecget() with those values. (Sometimes the
call is done indirectly by storing the offset in the LvTARGOFF() field of
a SVt_PVLV, then later Perl_magic_getvec() passes the LvTARGOFF() value to
do_vecget().)
Now SvCUR, SvLEN and LvTARGOFF are all of type STRLEN (a.k.a Size_t),
while the offset arg of do_vecget() is of type SSize_t (i.e. there's a
signed/unsigned mismatch). It makes more sense to make the arg of type
STRLEN. So that is what this commit does.
At the same time this commit fixes up pp_vec() to handle all the
possibilities where the offset value can't fit into a STRLEN, returning 0
or croaking accordingly, so that do_vecget() is never called with a
truncated or wrapped offset.
The next commit will fix up the internals of do_vecget() and do_vecset(),
which have to worry about offset*(2^n) wrapping or being > SvCUR().
This commit is based on an earlier proposed fix by Aaron Crane.
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:10:59 +0000 (14:10 +0000)]
[MERGE] fix -DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE builds
With no automatic smoking, this build option has suffered some bitrot over
the last few months.
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:51:46 +0000 (13:51 +0000)]
PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE: dump.c:op_class_names
t/porting/libperl.t under -DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE doesn't like
non-const static data structures
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:40:03 +0000 (13:40 +0000)]
PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE: fix scope.c:arg_counts
t/porting/libperl.t under -DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE doesn't like
non-const static data structures
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:15:13 +0000 (13:15 +0000)]
PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE: fix PL_isa_DOES
I added the global string constant PL_isa_DOES recently. This caused
t/porting/libperl.t to fail under -DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE builds.
This commit makes PL_isa_DOES be declared and defined in a similar
way to other such global constants. This is pure cargo-culting - I have no
real idea of the point of all the EXTCONST, INIT and globvar.sym stuff.
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:19:44 +0000 (12:19 +0000)]
t/porting/libperl.t: add better dianostics
For -DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE builds, it checks that there aren't any
global symbols. Make it display the symbols if it finds any. It already
does so for bss; this commit adds data and common diag()s.
David Mitchell [Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:57:39 +0000 (09:57 +0000)]
locale.c: fix compiler warning
(this is debugging-only code)
It was trying to printf a U32 using %u
David Mitchell [Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:25:51 +0000 (09:25 +0000)]
[MERGE] fixes and tests for Renew (RT #130841)
David Mitchell [Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:22:49 +0000 (15:22 +0000)]
add range.t test for RT #130841
Hugo van der Sanden [Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:23:09 +0000 (11:23 +0000)]
update size after Renew
RT #130841
In general code, change this idiom:
PL_foo_max += size;
Renew(PL_foo, PL_foo_max, foo_t);
to
Renew(PL_foo, PL_foo_max + size, foo_t);
PL_foo_max += size;
so that if Renew dies, PL_foo_max won't be left hanging.
Hugo van der Sanden [Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:21:55 +0000 (11:21 +0000)]
reentr: update size after Renew
RT #130841
Setting it before Renew can cause problems if the Renew fails.
Required 'make regen'.
Hugo van der Sanden [Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:21:09 +0000 (11:21 +0000)]
WIN32: update size after Renew
RT #130841
Setting it before Renew can cause problems if the Renew fails.
Craig A. Berry [Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:03:05 +0000 (13:03 -0500)]
configure.com: default_inc_excludes_dot catch-up
This makes it configurable rather than hard-wired, and switches
the default to "define" following
458ea8f78a2917, which did so
on Windows, and
4634f4819b15eb18, which did so for platforms using
Configure.
Tony Cook [Tue, 7 Mar 2017 03:50:11 +0000 (14:50 +1100)]
warn if do "somefile" fails when . not default in @INC and somefile exists
the message and warning category may need adjustment
Tony Cook [Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:56:59 +0000 (21:56 +1100)]
initialize default_inc_excludes_dot to '' like every variable
Handling of the default is done further down.
Sawyer X [Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:43:19 +0000 (09:43 +0100)]
Turn on removal of dot in @INC by default:
That's it. Dot no longer in @INC.
Karl Williamson [Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:18:06 +0000 (20:18 -0600)]
perlrun: -F pattern can't have NULs
David Mitchell [Mon, 13 Mar 2017 09:12:34 +0000 (09:12 +0000)]
perlhacktips.pod: clarify -DDEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS
distinguish between the cc -D option and the Configure -D option.
Suggested by KES in
http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/243481
Steve Hay [Sun, 12 Mar 2017 15:37:57 +0000 (15:37 +0000)]
Make DEFAULT_INC_EXCLUDES_DOT the default on Windows
and provide a makefile option of the same name to control it. It is set to
'define' by default, but can be commented out or set to 'undef' in the
usual manner to switch it off and return to the legacy default behaviour
of including '.' at the end of @INC.
James E Keenan [Fri, 10 Mar 2017 16:46:48 +0000 (11:46 -0500)]
Sync IO-Compress with CPAN version 2.074.
CUSTOMIZED array no longer needed in this distro's entry in
Porting/Maintainers.pl; removed.
lib/File/GlobMapper.pm lacks a $VERSION; compensate for that by adding an
entry in Porting/cmpVERSION.pl.
From Changes file (since last version distributed with core):
2.074 19 Feb 2017
* Fix bad 2.073 release
2.073 18 Feb 2017
* #120239: [PATCH] ISA fixes for c3
2.072 12 Feb 2017
* Makefile.PL
#120084: Need Fix for Makefile.PL depending on . in @INC
2.070 28 Dec 2016
* File::GlobMapper
#117675: Fix prototype errors while lazy loading the module
* zipdetails
#116538: CVE-2016-1238: avoid loading optional modules from default .
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:40:21 +0000 (11:40 +0000)]
Ensure that lib is built before IO-Compress
Karl Williamson [Thu, 9 Mar 2017 02:56:25 +0000 (19:56 -0700)]
POSIX.pod: Remove obsolete text
James E Keenan [Thu, 9 Mar 2017 02:40:27 +0000 (21:40 -0500)]
Sync Compress-Raw-Zlib with CPAN version 2.074.
James E Keenan [Thu, 9 Mar 2017 02:28:01 +0000 (21:28 -0500)]
Sync Compress-Raw-Bzip2 with CPAN version 2.074.
Karl Williamson [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 19:25:21 +0000 (12:25 -0700)]
utf8.c: Don't use Newx in decoding UTF-8
The bottom level UTF-8 decoding routine can be used during periods when
using Newx is prohibited, as diagnosed by Dave Mitchell for perl #130921
(see that ticket for his explanation).
This particular use of Newx was unnecessary, as it is just large enough
to hold a single character, and that can be done by an automatic
variable on the C stack. The variable is used only upon rare error
conditions, but its only 14 bytes (15 on EBCDIC).
Karl Williamson [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 20:09:13 +0000 (13:09 -0700)]
perlop.pod: Clarify, expand /a description
Karl Williamson [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 20:07:20 +0000 (13:07 -0700)]
perlop: Fix spelling error
Karl Williamson [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 19:34:52 +0000 (12:34 -0700)]
PATCH: [perl #128302] Document split pat mods
Karl Williamson [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 19:33:28 +0000 (12:33 -0700)]
perlfunc: Add missing ')'
David Mitchell [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:21:07 +0000 (09:21 +0000)]
ExtUtils-ParseXS: bump all $VERSION 3.33->3.34
The previous commit only changed a pod file, but there have also been a
few other minor commits too since the last version bump, so give a fresh
version for the 5.26.0 release.
David Mitchell [Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:14:34 +0000 (09:14 +0000)]
perlxstut.pod: s/newRV/newRV_inc/g
newRV_inc() and newRV_noinc() are the preferred forms since 5.004;
newRV is #deffed to newRV_inc and is only kept for backwards
compatibility.
Spotted by KES.
Aaron Crane [Sun, 5 Mar 2017 17:19:31 +0000 (17:19 +0000)]
perlfunc: fix documentation for UTF-8 vec()
The documentation previously claimed that the internal UTF-8 buffer is
used even if the string is downgradeable. But the current behaviour is to
downgrade the buffer to the single-byte representation, and use the UTF-8
behaviour only if that fails.
That's been the case since commit
33b454808819084359e76a3f223a41b842c180b7,
from 7th September 2000.
There was also a period of a few days before that when a failed downgrade
yielded an exception; see commit
246fae53ea6ae12991e7653f136a0f797ce002d4.
Dave Cross [Thu, 2 Mar 2017 01:34:53 +0000 (20:34 -0500)]
Ensure that documentation works under 'use strict'.
In response to discussion at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/
42486716/perl-inline-selection-of-fd-as-in-docs-does-not-work-with-strict-refs/
42486952#
42486952
Add additional email address for author.