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24 years agotweak sort() notes (from Nathan Torkington)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:14:21 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
tweak sort() notes (from Nathan Torkington)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5730

24 years agofixes for Borland compiler (from Vadim Konovalov
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:43:37 +0000 (07:43 +0000)]
fixes for Borland compiler (from Vadim Konovalov
<vkonovalov@lucent.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5726

24 years agomore efficient Text::Abbrev (from M.E. O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:38:00 +0000 (07:38 +0000)]
more efficient Text::Abbrev (from M.E. O'Neill <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5725

24 years agointegrate cfgperl changes into mainline, ignoring the
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:59:02 +0000 (05:59 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl changes into mainline, ignoring the
__attribute__((unused)) stuff that seems to have snuck
back in

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5724

24 years agopatches for many bugs in the debugger; documentation updates for
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:49:08 +0000 (05:49 +0000)]
patches for many bugs in the debugger; documentation updates for
perldelta; split perldebug.pod into perldeb{ug,guts}.pod (from
Tom Christiansen)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5723

24 years agoadd sleep() to avoid race on NeXT (from M.E. O'Neill
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 05:37:29 +0000 (05:37 +0000)]
add sleep() to avoid race on NeXT (from M.E. O'Neill
<oneill@cs.sfu.ca>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5722

24 years agosupport a -U option when run as root to drop privileges (from
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:53:50 +0000 (03:53 +0000)]
support a -U option when run as root to drop privileges (from
Tom Christiansen)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5721

24 years agomove the big AVAILABILITY list to perlport as Supported Platforms
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:43:51 +0000 (03:43 +0000)]
move the big AVAILABILITY list to perlport as Supported Platforms
(Tom Christiansen); add few more platforms

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5720

24 years agomore todo
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:44:55 +0000 (02:44 +0000)]
more todo

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5719

24 years agodetypo
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:17:16 +0000 (02:17 +0000)]
detypo

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5718

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 02:00:24 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5717

24 years agoreference miscount in Devel::Peek that causes debugger to
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:01:39 +0000 (00:01 +0000)]
reference miscount in Devel::Peek that causes debugger to
crash unceremoniously when doing "V DB" etc., repeatedly

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5716

24 years agofixes for broken L<> links (from Wolfgang Laun
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:40:23 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
fixes for broken L<> links (from Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5715

24 years agotypos in perlboot.pod (from Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:37:48 +0000 (21:37 +0000)]
typos in perlboot.pod (from Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5714

24 years agoavoid infinite loop in h2xs (from Hugo van der Sanden)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:36:24 +0000 (21:36 +0000)]
avoid infinite loop in h2xs (from Hugo van der Sanden)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5713

24 years agolexical warnings update for docs and tests (from Paul Marquess)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:29:15 +0000 (21:29 +0000)]
lexical warnings update for docs and tests (from Paul Marquess)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5712

24 years agoupdates from PodParser v1.12 on CPAN (from Brad Appleton)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:08:29 +0000 (21:08 +0000)]
updates from PodParser v1.12 on CPAN (from Brad Appleton)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5711

24 years agocleaner logic in op.c, also avoids QNX optimizer bug (from Norton
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:46:37 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
cleaner logic in op.c, also avoids QNX optimizer bug (from Norton
Allen <allen@huarp.harvard.edu>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5710

24 years agomention changes to diagnostics
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:43:30 +0000 (20:43 +0000)]
mention changes to diagnostics

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5709

24 years agoignore const for the purposes of typemaps (from Hugo van der Sanden)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:34:38 +0000 (20:34 +0000)]
ignore const for the purposes of typemaps (from Hugo van der Sanden)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5708

24 years agodon't check for errno after Atof() (atof() doesn't set errno, and
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:23:24 +0000 (20:23 +0000)]
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)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5707

24 years agointegrate cfgperl changes into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:14:18 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl changes into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5706

24 years agoSTRLEN != int.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:44:11 +0000 (14:44 +0000)]
STRLEN != int.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5705

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:18:07 +0000 (13:18 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5704

24 years agomention autoflush portability caveat
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:40:51 +0000 (12:40 +0000)]
mention autoflush portability caveat

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5703

24 years agofinal touches for lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:09:05 +0000 (11:09 +0000)]
final touches for lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5702

24 years agoavoid compiler warnings
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 11:00:00 +0000 (11:00 +0000)]
avoid compiler warnings

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5701

24 years agomake the is_utf8_*() safe for use on invalid utf8 (they now
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 09:57:59 +0000 (09:57 +0000)]
make the is_utf8_*() safe for use on invalid utf8 (they now
return false on such input instead of emitting warnings)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5700

24 years agothe premature FREETMPS calls in change#1187 weren't defensive enough
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 06:59:57 +0000 (06:59 +0000)]
the premature FREETMPS calls in change#1187 weren't defensive enough

p4raw-link: @1187 on //depot/perl: a29cdaf07aa5601e42ae4955cc0f168e91a7c385

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5699

24 years agohints nibbling continues
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:03:37 +0000 (05:03 +0000)]
hints nibbling continues

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5698

24 years agothere's no end to tweaking
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:45:57 +0000 (04:45 +0000)]
there's no end to tweaking

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5697

24 years agohints tweak
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 04:26:15 +0000 (04:26 +0000)]
hints tweak

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5696

24 years agoSolaris long double fixes from Alan Burlison.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:41:51 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
Solaris long double fixes from Alan Burlison.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5687

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:17:13 +0000 (00:17 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5686

24 years agoRetract #5680, it broke more than it helped.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:13:17 +0000 (00:13 +0000)]
Retract #5680, it broke more than it helped.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5685

24 years agoset optimize=-O only if not already set
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:48:44 +0000 (21:48 +0000)]
set optimize=-O only if not already set

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5684

24 years agoanother optimized-OP_SASSIGN bug: ops that were not OA_TARGLEX
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:11:45 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
another optimized-OP_SASSIGN bug: ops that were not OA_TARGLEX
were being mistakenly subverted anyway

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5683

24 years agoupdate AVAILABILITY for LynxOS
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:11:52 +0000 (18:11 +0000)]
update AVAILABILITY for LynxOS

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5682

24 years ago64-bitness hints tweaks
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 18:03:46 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
64-bitness hints tweaks

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5681

24 years ago64-bitness tweak: separate 64bitint and 64bitall.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:49:25 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
64-bitness tweak: separate 64bitint and 64bitall.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5680

24 years agometaconfig-ify #5676.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:43:09 +0000 (17:43 +0000)]
metaconfig-ify #5676.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5679

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:37:14 +0000 (17:37 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5678

24 years agointegrate cfgperl changes into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:35:10 +0000 (11:35 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl changes into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5677

24 years agodon't bother testing if we can flush all handles when fflush(stdin)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:27:38 +0000 (11:27 +0000)]
don't bother testing if we can flush all handles when fflush(stdin)
shows the pipe bug

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5676

24 years agocontinue flogging the string->int conversion ifdefs
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 05:08:29 +0000 (05:08 +0000)]
continue flogging the string->int conversion ifdefs

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5675

24 years agofix File::DosGlob for patterns with drive names like c:*.bat
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 05:01:30 +0000 (05:01 +0000)]
fix File::DosGlob for patterns with drive names like c:*.bat
(suggested by Jason Mathews <mathews@computer.org>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5674

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 04:48:14 +0000 (04:48 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5673

24 years agosecurity fixes for perldoc (from Tom Christiansen)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:57:23 +0000 (03:57 +0000)]
security fixes for perldoc (from Tom Christiansen)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5672

24 years agoLarry's patch to disallow CORE::Snark, with perldiag entry
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:45:27 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
Larry's patch to disallow CORE::Snark, with perldiag entry

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5671

24 years agoinsufficient buffer in change#5317
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:36:17 +0000 (03:36 +0000)]
insufficient buffer in change#5317

p4raw-link: @5317 on //depot/perl: 0c57e439868bda58b2cbd4708d7a8b4dcf15b989

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5670

24 years agoavoid L<foo|bar> for now, not all the pod2foo support it
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:15:29 +0000 (03:15 +0000)]
avoid L<foo|bar> for now, not all the pod2foo support it

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5669

24 years agorework change#5664
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 12 Mar 2000 02:35:55 +0000 (02:35 +0000)]
rework change#5664

p4raw-link: @5664 on //depot/perl: 388d3c036745024b7ca2276efc330e632cfbcaa9

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5668

24 years agotodo and perldelta updates
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:35:29 +0000 (21:35 +0000)]
todo and perldelta updates

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5667

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:00:34 +0000 (21:00 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5666

24 years agoFixes for #5661.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:58:58 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
Fixes for #5661.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5665

24 years agofix Strtoul() misdefinition is change#5661
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:50:06 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
fix Strtoul() misdefinition is change#5661

p4raw-link: @5661 on //depot/cfgperl: 55eb892c8d1c2d0317b54696f56f6afb30a62cd1

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5664

24 years agointegrate cfgperl contents into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:21:18 +0000 (19:21 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5663

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:06:20 +0000 (19:06 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5662

24 years agoUse Atof() instead of bare strtod(); ditto for Atol()/Atoul()
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 19:03:32 +0000 (19:03 +0000)]
Use Atof() instead of bare strtod(); ditto for Atol()/Atoul()
(introduce the latter) instead of bare strtoll()/strtoll().

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5661

24 years agoanother long-standing eval bug: return doesn't reset $@ correctly
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:40:49 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
another long-standing eval bug: return doesn't reset $@ correctly

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5660

24 years agometaconfig-ify the test for broken fflush(NULL)
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:27:54 +0000 (18:27 +0000)]
metaconfig-ify the test for broken fflush(NULL)
(which ails e.g. Solaris), from Ulrich Pfeifer.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5659

24 years agochange#3511 was not defensive enough about try blocks, causing
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:11:22 +0000 (18:11 +0000)]
change#3511 was not defensive enough about try blocks, causing
bogus attempts to free closures, and thence, segfaults

p4raw-link: @3511 on //depot/perl: 067f92a0e46641b4b3e89afcde43bf134105f7b7

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5658

24 years agoRewording.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:04:44 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
Rewording.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5657

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:41:29 +0000 (17:41 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5656

24 years agoreword comment
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:06:03 +0000 (17:06 +0000)]
reword comment

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5655

24 years agooff-by-one in os2.c (from Ilya Zakharevich)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:01:47 +0000 (17:01 +0000)]
off-by-one in os2.c (from Ilya Zakharevich)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5654

24 years agoFile::Spec::VMS fixups, *not tested* on VMS (from Barrie Slaymaker)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:59:48 +0000 (16:59 +0000)]
File::Spec::VMS fixups, *not tested* on VMS (from Barrie Slaymaker)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5653

24 years agomissing export list entry in change#5619
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:52:03 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
missing export list entry in change#5619

p4raw-link: @5619 on //depot/perl: e4783991709775389a3fc70c841522b0165cd076

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5652

24 years agoavoid using context pointer in MUTEX_INIT() et al; remove the
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:50:05 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
avoid using context pointer in MUTEX_INIT() et al; remove the
*_NOCONTEXT variants to keep it simple

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5651

24 years agoremove =for section (from Johan Vromans)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:07:35 +0000 (16:07 +0000)]
remove =for section (from Johan Vromans)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5650

24 years agoadd nokfile target in Makefile (from Andy Dougherty)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:05:50 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
add nokfile target in Makefile (from Andy Dougherty)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5649

24 years agomention podchecker (from Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:02:53 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
mention podchecker (from Tim Jenness <timj@jach.hawaii.edu>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5648

24 years agoVMS build tweaks (from Charles Bailey)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:01:03 +0000 (16:01 +0000)]
VMS build tweaks (from Charles Bailey)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5647

24 years agoremove outdated ftp.cis.ufl.edu reference
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:13:27 +0000 (10:13 +0000)]
remove outdated ftp.cis.ufl.edu reference

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5646

24 years agofailed hunk in change#5644
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:10:39 +0000 (10:10 +0000)]
failed hunk in change#5644

p4raw-link: @5644 on //depot/perl: 96776eda41a10f1802094966189301751fcdd558

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5645

24 years agofix optimizer bug in /^(?p{"a"})b/ (from Ilya Zakharevich)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:08:47 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
fix optimizer bug in /^(?p{"a"})b/ (from Ilya Zakharevich)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5644

24 years agobetter {local,gm}time documentation (from Mark-Jason Dominus)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:48:30 +0000 (09:48 +0000)]
better {local,gm}time documentation (from Mark-Jason Dominus)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5643

24 years agotweaks for lynxos build (from Ed Mooring <mooring@lynx.com>)
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:45:10 +0000 (09:45 +0000)]
tweaks for lynxos build (from Ed Mooring <mooring@lynx.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5642

24 years agointegrate cfgperl contents into mainline
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:42:56 +0000 (09:42 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5641

24 years agoperldelta update, typos and whitespace adjustments
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:24:30 +0000 (09:24 +0000)]
perldelta update, typos and whitespace adjustments

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5640

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:51:48 +0000 (00:51 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5639

24 years agoCpp out deadcode that IRIX compiler noticed.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:45:46 +0000 (00:45 +0000)]
Cpp out deadcode that IRIX compiler noticed.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5638

24 years agoDo not use Perl's malloc in IRIX.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:22:24 +0000 (14:22 +0000)]
Do not use Perl's malloc in IRIX.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5637

24 years agoFix goofups noticed by Mark Bixby and Jeff Okamoto.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:07:54 +0000 (01:07 +0000)]
Fix goofups noticed by Mark Bixby and Jeff Okamoto.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5634

24 years agoRemove an obsolete note.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:22:33 +0000 (23:22 +0000)]
Remove an obsolete note.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5633

24 years agoupdate Changes
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:50:43 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
update Changes

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5632

24 years agotrack more of the child state on Windows
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:49:12 +0000 (18:49 +0000)]
track more of the child state on Windows

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5631

24 years agoUNIVERSAL::isa() and UNIVERSAL::can() fail for magic values
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:48:05 +0000 (18:48 +0000)]
UNIVERSAL::isa() and UNIVERSAL::can() fail for magic values

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5630

24 years agotweak Unicode notes, other cleanups
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 18:37:35 +0000 (18:37 +0000)]
tweak Unicode notes, other cleanups

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5629

24 years agosupport binmode(F,":crlf") and use open IN => ":raw", OUT => ":crlf"
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:39:58 +0000 (17:39 +0000)]
support binmode(F,":crlf") and use open IN => ":raw", OUT => ":crlf"
semantics; the pragma sets defaults for both open() and qx//

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5628

24 years agoavoid autoflushing behavior of fork/system/exec on Solaris (thanks
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:54:08 +0000 (12:54 +0000)]
avoid autoflushing behavior of fork/system/exec on Solaris (thanks
to fflush(NULL) bug)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5627

24 years agoabort build on HP-UX if bundled non-ANSI compiler is detected
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:34:51 +0000 (11:34 +0000)]
abort build on HP-UX if bundled non-ANSI compiler is detected
(from Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5626

24 years agopatch from Larry to make -T filetest algorithm recognize utf8 as
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:17:07 +0000 (11:17 +0000)]
patch from Larry to make -T filetest algorithm recognize utf8 as
"text"

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5625

24 years agoprovide support for deleting actions etc. (from Ronald J Kimball
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:11:59 +0000 (11:11 +0000)]
provide support for deleting actions etc. (from Ronald J Kimball
<rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5624

24 years agonew xsubpp keywords should be in all caps
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:39:21 +0000 (06:39 +0000)]
new xsubpp keywords should be in all caps

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5623

24 years agodemand-load utf8.pm in swash routines
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 9 Mar 2000 06:26:04 +0000 (06:26 +0000)]
demand-load utf8.pm in swash routines

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5622

24 years agomake Dump() call the XSUB implementation transparently (modified
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:27:02 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
make Dump() call the XSUB implementation transparently (modified
version of patch suggested by David Boyce <dsb@world.std.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5621

24 years agodo FILE should not see outside lexicals (from Rick Delaney
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:35:48 +0000 (18:35 +0000)]
do FILE should not see outside lexicals (from Rick Delaney
<rick@consumercontact.com>)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5620

24 years agoabstract code for C<use Foo 1.23 @ary;> into a Perl_load_module()
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:04:45 +0000 (18:04 +0000)]
abstract code for C<use Foo 1.23 @ary;> into a Perl_load_module()
API function

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5619

24 years agoIntegrate with Sarathy.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:03:30 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@5618