From ab9a6a636dbb66ae5bf3f7546a87872aa295f96d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aaron Crane Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:23:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Add some perldelta entries for 5.27.2 --- pod/perldelta.pod | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index aa41ad3..57b65c1 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -384,6 +384,25 @@ representation contained characters that are whitespace by Unicode rules but not by ASCII rules, it treated those characters as part of fields rather than as field separators. [perl #130907] +=item * + +Several built-in functions previously had bugs that could cause them to +write to the internal stack without allocating room for the item being +written. In rare situations, this could have led to a crash. These bugs have +now been fixed, and if any similar bugs are introduced in future, they will +be detected automatically in debugging builds. + +=item * + +Using a symbolic ref with postderef syntax as the key in a hash lookup was +yielding an assertion failure on debugging builds. [perl #131627] + +=item * + +Array and hash variables whose names begin with a caret now admit indexing +inside their curlies when interpolated into strings, as in C<< +"${^CAPTURE[0]}" >> to index C<@{^CAPTURE}>. [perl #131664] + =back =head1 Known Problems -- 1.8.3.1