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gnu/usr.bin/perl/win32/config.gc create mode 100644 gnu/usr.bin/perl/win32/config_H.gc create mode 100644 gnu/usr.bin/perl/win32/des_fcrypt.patch create mode 100644 gnu/usr.bin/perl/win32/perlhost.h create mode 100644 gnu/usr.bin/perl/win32/win32thread.c create mode 100644 gnu/usr.bin/perl/win32/win32thread.h diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Changes5.004 b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Changes5.004 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d0601663ecf --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Changes5.004 @@ -0,0 +1,16073 @@ +Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes +between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete +list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information, +please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant +release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN +site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases, +or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version +releases.) + + + --------------- + CAST AND CREW + --------------- + +To give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 what is is today, +here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their +current addresses (as of March 1997): + + Gisle Aas + Kenneth Albanowski + Graham Barr + Spider Boardman + Tom Christiansen + Hallvard B Furuseth + M. J. T. Guy + Gurusamy Sarathy + Jarkko Hietaniemi + Nick Ing-Simmons + Andreas Koenig + Doug MacEachern + Paul Marquess + Hans Mulder + Jeff Okamoto + Ulrich Pfeifer + Tom Phoenix + Norbert Pueschel + Dean Roehrich + Roderick Schertler + Larry W. Virden + Ilya Zakharevich + +And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: + + Charles Bailey + Tim Bunce + Andy Dougherty + Chip Salzenberg + +And, of course, the Author of Perl: + + Larry Wall + +---------------- +Version 5.004_05 Maintenance release 5 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope + For hope would hope for the wrong thing; wait without love + For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith + But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. + Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: + So the darkness shall be light, and the stillness the dancing." + -- T.S.Eliot, East Coker + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + TBA + + +Change 996 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Negative array subscript unrecognized in regex" + From: Mark-Jason Dominus , + h.sanden@elsevier.nl (Hugo van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <19980425040819.13828.qmail@plover.com>, + <199805151514.RAA04121@dorlas.elsevier.nl> + Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c + + Title: "Remove e_fp from toke.c after change 955" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: toke.c + +Change 995 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix -e security hole (no longer uses temp file)" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: embed.h perl.h perl.c + +Change 992 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "install non-backwards compatible .pm files into archlib" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: installperl + + Title: "revert "Can't locate" message to original for maintenance" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199804240047.SAA24155@den-mdev1.co.csgsystems.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + +Change 990 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Add tests for die $ref" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <355C6297.121B576B@ti.com> + Files: MANIFEST t/op/die.t + +Change 989 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix t/op/ipcmsg.t for Digital UNIX" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199805151337.QAA01174@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/op/ipcmsg.t + +Change 986 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Patches for BeOS port of Perl, courtesy of Tom Spindler" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi , Tom Spindler + Msg-ID: <199805042312.CAA09025@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: MANIFEST Configure config_h.SH hints/beos.sh pod/perlfunc.pod + Porting/Glossary README.beos beos/nm.c lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + plan9/config.plan9 pp_sys.c t/io/pipe.t vms/config.vms + win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc + win32/config_H.vc + +Change 985 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "allow die $ref" + From: Graham Barr , Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199805151351.OAA01985@toad.ig.co.uk>, <355C3E67.AF25B9F7@ti.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c util.c + + Title: "ExtUtils::Manifest could truncate files during "make dist"" + From: "James E Jurach Jr." , + koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: <199805111048.MAA02573@arrakis.int.ein.cz>, + + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Title: "Autosplit doesn't like upper case letters in sub names on VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980330152332.009cb130@osshe.edu> + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "AutoSplit/AutoLoaded subs: give useful line numbers in warnings etc" + From: "Jesse N. Glick" , koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas + J. Koenig), larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) + Msg-ID: <199709292015.NAA09627@wall.org>, <342FCDDF.23534195@sig.bsh.com>, + , + + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + +Change 984 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Fix close pipe returning status from wrong child" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , kstar@chapin.edu@ig.co.uk () + Msg-ID: <199805142313.TAA02684@chapin.edu>, + + Files: t/io/pipe.t util.c + + Title: "Avoid English.pm triggering load of Errno.pm" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c lib/English.pm + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "Document child exit cause a parent sleep to end early" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + ------ EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "BSD Platforms need STRUCT_TM_HASZONE for POSIX" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: MANIFEST ext/POSIX/hints/bsdos.pl ext/POSIX/hints/freebsd.pl + ext/POSIX/hints/netbsd.pl ext/POSIX/hints/openbsd.pl + + Title: "MM_VMS.pm fixes for building external library" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980511160542.009dd480@ous.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + + Title: "Appease picky DEC compiler in POSIX.xs" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980511161434.009f8bb0@ous.edu> + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "Fix constant detection in t/op/ipcsem.t for Digit UNIX" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199805121212.PAA15351@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/op/ipcsem.t + + Title: "Fix doc bug for system() return value" + From: Daniel Grisinger + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/exec.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Avoid possible constant autoload loop" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Graham Barr , Ilya + Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199805141910.PAA26994@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <355B475A.C5AD4B90@ti.com>, + + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "Further improvements to h2ph.PL" + From: kstar@chapin.edu + Msg-ID: <199805130241.WAA25459@chapin.edu> + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + +Change 982 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "comment init_postdump_symbols issues" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Improve sort docs re SUBNAME" + From: circle@azstarnet.com + Msg-ID: <199804281828.LAA22737@andromeda.azstarnet.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + +Change 981 on 1998/05/15 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Add hook to tie %! to external Errno.pm module (not included)" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <355080CD.1111BC81@ti.com> + Files: gv.c + +Change 971 on 1998/05/14 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "fix C (pp_refgen fumbles when G_SCALAR, no args)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199805070402.AAA02858@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp.c + +Change 970 on 1998/05/14 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "perlbug reformatted" + From: Dominic Dunlop , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199805110954.LAA20367@dorlas.elsevier.nl>, + , + + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + +Change 965 on 1998/05/14 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Sub declaration cost reduced from ~500 to ~100 bytes" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199805050607.CAA02050@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: gv.h gv.c op.c + +Change 949 on 1998/05/14 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "while($x=<>) no longer warns (implicit defined added)" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199805051035.LAA27365@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Files: MANIFEST op.c t/op/defins.t + +Change 946 on 1998/05/14 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL core dumps" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199805062301.TAA24599@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c sv.c t/op/misc.t + +Change 944 on 1998/05/14 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "5.004_04-m2 Cleanup of test failures" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199805070416.AAA03082@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/die_exit.t t/op/ipcmsg.t t/op/ipcsem.t t/op/taint.t + win32/config.bc win32/config.vc + +Change 922 on 1998/05/11 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Assorted patches: + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "incorrect return value for hv_iterinit" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199805031848.OAA20618@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod hv.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "perlvar.pod buglet E" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9805041415.AA22185@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Improve docs for warning about code after an exec()" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Chaim Frenkel + + Msg-ID: , + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Remove dead code from pod2man" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "tweak doc for C" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199805090017.UAA06888@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document integer pragma effect on % operator" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Reduce rm command line length in pod/Makefile" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199805041423.QAA13199@dorlas.elsevier.nl> + Files: pod/Makefile + + ------ EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "Clarify Termios usage in POSIX.pod" + From: Rocco Caputo + Msg-ID: <199805101952.PAA12738@ns.netrus.net> + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod + + ------ LIBRARY ------ + + Title: "Fix File::Find::finddepth typo in trial 2 release" + From: koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/File/Find.pm t/lib/filefind.t + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Add Porting/patching.pod document" + From: Daniel Grisinger + Msg-ID: <199805030305.XAA16147@relay.pair.com> + Files: MANIFEST Porting/patching.pod + + Title: "hints/machten.sh: disable semctl(), align with devel version" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Add VMS specifics to Porting/makerel" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IWDK1LONRQ0026P0@cor.newman.upenn.edu>, + <199804271732.SAA13762@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <9804250212.AA27695@forte.com> + Files: Porting/makerel + +Change 913 on 1998/05/01 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Update MANIFEST for trial 2. + (Porting/Contract lib/Tie/Handle.pm t/op/tiehandle.t) + +Change 912 on 1998/05/01 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Add t/op/tiehandle.t as xtext to repository (see change 911) + +Change 911 on 1998/05/01 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Add ERRSV, ERRHV, DEFSV and SAVE_DEFSV for XS 5.005 compatibility" + From: timbo@ig.co.uk (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199804200854.JAA01482@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: perl.h + + Title: "Add WRITE & CLOSE to TIEHANDLE" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <34F63DC8.CA95670F@pobox.com> + Files: pod/perltie.pod lib/Tie/Handle.pm pp_sys.c t/op/tiehandle.t + +Change 910 on 1998/05/01 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Add warning for Illegal hex digit" + From: Stephen P Potter , Stephen Potter + , Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199804232219.SAA02267@spp.users.ds.net>, + <199804271409.PAA12819@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <199804280307.WAA12332@psasolar.psa.pencom.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod util.c + + Title: "perl_call_method() bug fix (corrupt op pointer)" + From: "Alterman, Eugene" + Msg-ID: <510415F72ECFD111A31700A0C9B3CCDE3098@efx98digmasa.bremer-inc.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix printf segmentation fault" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Document changed local($a[$i],$b{$j}) behaviour re delete/splice" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IVMVIHNZ36001NKH@cor.newman.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + +Change 909 on 1998/05/01 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Change Ilya's do_binmode to K&R prototype and move to doio.c" + Files: doio.c util.c + +Change 907 on 1998/05/01 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Runtime Carp verbosity without aliasing" + From: Joshua.Pritikin@NewYork2.dmg.deuba.com, Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Fix File::Basename to not untaint results (using new //t flag)" + From: Eric Hammond , Tom Phoenix + + Msg-ID: <199710070515.WAA00682@finity.citysearch.com>, + + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm + +Change 906 on 1998/04/28 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "5.004_04m5t1: Fix dangling references in LVs", "Fix dangling + references in LVs" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199804010541.AAA32615@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>, + <19980422164037.D29222@perl.org> + Files: embed.h keywords.h opcode.h perl.h proto.h doop.c global.sym mg.c + pp.c sv.c + + Title: "Fix SvGMAGIC typo in change 904" + Files: doop.c + +Change 905 on 1998/04/28 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Regexp patches + + Title: "New regex flag //t to leave $1 etc. tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <19980310192640.37826@cyprus> + Files: pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod op.h dump.c mg.c pp_hot.c sv.c + t/op/taint.t toke.c + + Title: "Don't accidentally untaint target of s///" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <19980310151756.24767@cyprus> + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Allow but ignore embedded /...(?o).../ in regexp" + From: h.sanden@elsevier.nl (Hugo van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <199804201243.OAA08244@dorlas.elsevier.nl> + Files: regcomp.c + +Change 904 on 1998/04/27 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Assorted patches: + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Protect join() against double reads on undef and SvGMAGICALs" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Tim Bunce + + Msg-ID: <19980424080630.D13985@perl.org> + Files: doop.c + + Title: "Better error message for require failure" + From: epeschko@den-mdev1 (Ed Peschko) + Msg-ID: <199804240047.SAA24155@den-mdev1.co.csgsystems.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "fixes for various noises under PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199804231926.PAA23969@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix nice_chunk memory leak" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199804052347.TAA15699@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "-2.0 vs. -2 (was Number representations)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <19980309185652.11231@cyprus> + Files: op.c + + Title: "perl.c fixes for -DUNEXEC" + From: Matt Wette , Matthew R Wette + + Msg-ID: <199710152146.OAA07283@mr-ed.jpl.nasa.gov> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "perlcall is Perl from C, not C from Perl" + From: Steve A Fink + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Clarify require "Foo::Bar" non-bareword issue" + From: Dominique Dumont + Msg-ID: <199804231527.AA153445256@ss7serv.grenoble.hp.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "(repost) new text for perlsec", "new text for perlsec" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlsec.pod + + ------ EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "IO::Socket->socketpair broken (typo)" + From: Olaf Titz + Msg-ID: <19980425224535.2807.qmail@bigred.inka.de> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "NDBM_File man page needs Fcntl" + From: "Danny R. Faught" + Msg-ID: <199707011500.IAA00601@palrel3.hp.com> + Files: ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.pm + + ------ LIBRARY ------ + + Title: "Documentation discrepancy: pragmatic modules" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , h.sanden@elsevier.nl (Hugo van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <199804221525.RAA12695@dorlas.elsevier.nl>, + + Files: lib/strict.pm lib/subs.pm lib/vars.pm + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Updated hints file for svr4" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "Pumpkin update -- shared libperl.so location" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "perl compile fix for AIX 4.3" + From: Jens-Uwe Mager + Msg-ID: <199804261611.SAA34728@ans.helios.de> + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs + + Title: "Dynaloader build on VMS", + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer), timbo@ig.co.uk (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199804271732.SAA13762@toad.ig.co.uk>, <9804250212.AA27695@forte.com> + Files: vms/descrip.mms + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Major update to h2ph.PL" + From: Billy + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + +Change 897 on 1998/04/23 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Assorted patches: + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "fix for "Unbalanced string table refcount"" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199804042251.RAA25527@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Allow more lenient switch processing" + From: "John L. Allen" + Msg-ID: <199803251638.LAA22664@gateway.grumman.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Add fourth arg to substr: substr EXPR,OFFSET,LEN,REPLACEMENT" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod Todo opcode.pl pp.c t/op/substr.t + + Title: "Odd number of elements in hash list." + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: MANIFEST pod/perldiag.pod pp.c pp_hot.c t/op/hashwarn.t + + Title: "another destruct_level fix" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199804030105.UAA04400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: hv.c + + Title: "bidirectional pipe warning blues" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9804082151.AA20399@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "stale pointers after realloc (MEXTEND in pp_print and pp_prtf)" + From: Malcolm Beattie + Msg-ID: <199801191107.LAA17979@sable.ox.ac.uk> + Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "unimplemented umask() should return undef not die" + From: kstar@chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic) + Msg-ID: <199803120515.VAA08660@chapin.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "warning for: bless $foo, """ + From: Joshua.Pritikin@NewYork2.dmg.deuba.com + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "Mention SWIG in perlxs.pod" + From: Steve A Fink + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "fix-up of previous perlre.pod patch" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199803031540.KAA09388@ns.southern.edu> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "long list of man page nitpicks" + From: Greg Bacon , Tom Christiansen + + Msg-ID: <199804221844.NAA08338@pluto.cs.uah.edu>, + <199804222204.QAA20805@jhereg.perl.com> + Files: pod/perlapio.pod pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldelta.pod + pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod + pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod + pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlform.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlre.pod pod/perlref.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod + pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlvar.pod pod/perlxs.pod + pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "document that system() does not set $! when it fails" + From: "Mark R. Levinson" + Msg-ID: <199803011946.OAA31942@anaximander.dccs.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Fix pod/roffitall execute permission" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <1997Nov17.132031.2589892@cor.newman> + Files: pod/roffitall + + Title: "document when split ignores trailing empty fields" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + ------ EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "Buglet in Opcode.pm documentation" + From: Horst von Brand + Msg-ID: <199804170349.XAA32445@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + + Title: "Failure to append to perllocal.pod should not be fatal" + From: koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Document that IO.pm does not load IO::Select etc" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <353B48F1.64E35A63@ti.com> + Files: ext/IO/IO.pm + + Title: "Install extensions with bootstrap (again) in $archlib" + From: Achim Bohnet , koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. + Koenig) + Msg-ID: <9804061909.AA12675@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de>, + + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "glibc2.0.6 missing MSG_* defines." + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + ------ LIBRARY ------ + + Title: "Benchmark.pm: add run-for-some-time mode" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199804080647.JAA15136@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Comments added to Carp.pm" + From: Andy Wardley , Chip Salzenberg + , Tom Christiansen + + Msg-ID: <19980422164242.E29222@perl.org>, + <199804222033.OAA17959@jhereg.perl.com>, + <980409182357.ZM21638@bandanna> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "chat2.pl fix" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IVMVF507PO001NKH@cor.newman.upenn.edu> + Files: lib/chat2.pl + + Title: "lib/Pod/Html.pm" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199710170718.DAA25472@staff1.cso.uiuc.edu>, + <199710180417.AAA19778@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu> + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "ormaments method in Term/ReadLine.pm causes warning with string + arg." + From: hiroo.hayashi@computer.org + Msg-ID: <199804061519.AAA21907@mail.fb3.so-net.ne.jp> + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "ptags broken" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199804120208.WAA29264@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: emacs/ptags + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "win32 tweaks (signals and crypt support)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199804170505.BAA06413@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.h win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc + win32/config_H.vc win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Add Social Contract (2nd Draft) as Porting/Contract" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/Contract + + Title: "Config: Irix 5 hints" + From: kstar@O2.chapin.edu + Msg-ID: <199804061712.NAA22823@O2.chapin.edu> + Files: hints/irix_5.sh + + Title: "VMS patches to 5.004_03" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IVYJS0L8D200209B@cor.newman.upenn.edu> + Files: vms/vms.c + + Title: "hints/netbsd.sh - enable vfork" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "support find2perl -follow" + From: Billy + Msg-ID: + Files: x2p/find2perl.PL + +Change 896 on 1998/04/22 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Assorted patches: + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Additional regex-cache patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <19980305104831.38100@cyprus> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Conservative C<*x = undef> patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <19980310163310.48509@cyprus> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c sv.c t/op/gv.t + + Title: "Consider @ARGV to be plain files if inplace (-i)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199802042106.QAA04082@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Fix semctl for Linux, Sun and SVR4" + From: Graham Barr , lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <3484247D.BB036D39@ti.com>, <9712021313.AA11495@cas.org> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "C entails using C, not C" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199803070149.UAA12217@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlembed.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxs.pod + doio.c doop.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_dld.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs ext/Socket/Socket.xs gv.c + lib/ExtUtils/typemap mg.c os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.xs + win32/win32.c + + Title: "Make autouse -w-safe" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199803030236.VAA13244@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/autouse.pm op.c sv.c + + Title: "Misleading error on close of unopened handle" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Confusing error from perl -e "x'"" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <1998Mar25.174320.2866352@cor.newman.upenn.edu> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Add HAS_GNULIBC define" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: config_H config_h.SH + + Title: "h_errno might not be an int" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Revised taint hole closer", "Revised taint hole closer" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Ilya Zakharevich + + Msg-ID: <19980310222127.09350@cyprus>, + <199803110554.AAA29157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "SEGV compiling localised lexical in perl5.004_05t1" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , h.sanden@elsevier.nl (Hugo + van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <199803171530.QAA24053@dorlas.elsevier.nl>, + <199803171727.MAA05234@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Stale SP in pp_substr" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Statement unlikely to be reached warning" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <1997Dec24.171511.2683516@cor.newman> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Tainting propagates from nowhere" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199803140411.XAA09343@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "two trivial tweaks to 5.004m5t1" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199803060553.AAA28461@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: proto.h win32/Makefile + + Title: "unpacking negatives on Alpha" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9710201503.AA24797@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "Cwd.pm: abs_path() and fast_abs_path() plus code merge" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <3482F365.4A0486BA@ti.com> + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "Math/BigInt.pm, fixed use of undefined value." + From: abigail@fnx.com + Msg-ID: <19980313052452.27365.qmail@betelgeuse.wayne.fnx.com> + Files: lib/Math/BigInt.pm + + Title: "File::Find rewrite" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199803052344.SAA01008@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + Title: "efficient version of strict.pm" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/strict.pm + + Title: "Socket occasional SEGV in pack_sockaddr_un" + From: Trevor Blackwell + Msg-ID: <199710281804.NAA09632@wagg.viaweb.com> + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + Title: "Warning on mis-use of 'use lib'" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Tom Phoenix + , chip@atlantic.net + Msg-ID: <199801270435.XAA14147@cyprus.atlantic.net>, + , + + Files: lib/lib.pm + + Title: "bug in Class::Struct" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199803290814.KAA05699@toy.perl.com> + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm + + Title: "Allow POSIX to export nice()" + From: bkeelerx@iwa.dp.intel.com (Bruce J. Keeler) + Msg-ID: + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm + + Title: "'use Env' on WinNT/95 fails" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199803280511.AAA15933@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Env.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "mv-if-diff" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <14572.9803271806@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Files: mv-if-diff + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "fix various problems with backticks on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199803070705.CAA15945@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/config_h.PL win32/win32.c + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "Fix bug in locale.t" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199801042148.XAA08599@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + +Change 887 on 1998/04/10 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Assorted patches: + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Re: die exits with 0" + From: Robin Barker + Files: perl.c t/op/die_exit.t + + Title: "More toke.c commentary; fix oddity" + From: h.sanden@elsevier.nl (Hugo van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <199803251022.LAA01308@dorlas.elsevier.nl> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "for semctl on solaris" + From: Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <34624B80.C014E841@ti.com> + Files: doio.c t/op/ipcmsg.t t/op/ipcsem.t + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "Add more 'see also's to perlre.pod.", "Perl regexp /g modifier bug" + From: Ilya Zakharevich , epeschko@den-mdev1 (Ed + Peschko), pjr@watcher.telstra.com.au (Peter Richardson) + Msg-ID: <199803050000.LAA11476@watcher.telecom.com.au>, + <199803050231.VAA19128@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199803050605.XAA09785@den-mdev1.co.csgsystems.com> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "BigFloat - small neagtive numbers cause panic" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199711201325.NAA09732@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: lib/Math/BigFloat.pm + + Title: "Update Getopt::Long to 2.16" + From: JVromans@Squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans), Johan Vromans + + Msg-ID: <13571.48089.726787.147769@plume.nl.compuware.com>, + <13572.6847.863219.973795@phoenix.squirrel.nl> + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "New Text::ParseWords" + From: pomeranz@netcom.com (Hal Pomeranz) + Msg-ID: <199710162118.OAA06275@netcom7.netcom.com> + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm t/lib/parsewords.t + + Title: "Fixed Text/Wrap.pm bugs (2)" + From: Jacqui Caren + Msg-ID: <199709291548.QAA08645@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: lib/Text/Wrap.pm + + Title: "Very *evil* File::CheckTree behavior! (now uses warn/die not + print/exit)" + From: Eryq , Randal Schwartz + Msg-ID: <34B542FD.190A@zeegee.com>, <8cen2i9k6f.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: lib/File/CheckTree.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "Add ./emacs/ptags" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199803150847.DAA08196@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: emacs/ptags + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "Avoid stat test failure from build in /tmp (tmpfs)", "Build in /tmp" + From: Andy Dougherty , Greg Bacon + , pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) + Msg-ID: <199710171616.LAA13435@crp-201.adtran.com>, + , + + Files: t/op/stat.t + + Title: "for failure with lib/timelocal" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <34c78f61.2529827@smtp1.ibm.net>, + + Files: t/lib/timelocal.t + + Title: "Make "localhost" related failures more clear" + From: Paul Hoffman + Msg-ID: <199801201859.KAA05686@mail.proper.com> + Files: t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_udp.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Let h2xs read multiple header files" + From: Andy Dougherty , Benjamin Sugars + + Msg-ID: , + + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + +Change 886 on 1998/04/10 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Changes relating primarily to portability. + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "5.004_55: Another round of OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199803050945.EAA20153@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh pod/perlguts.pod cop.h perl.h proto.h README.os2 + global.sym lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/File/Path.pm op.c + os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/perl2cmd.pl + perl.c pod/pod2man.PL pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + t/lib/filecopy.t util.c utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "VMS: chdir() with empty arg list" + From: lane@duphy4.drexel.edu (Charles Lane) + Msg-ID: <980317125556.222041c7@DUPHY4.Physics.Drexel.Edu> + Files: pp_sys.c + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm changed to use ld -rpath on IRIX" + From: "W. Phillip Moore" + Msg-ID: <199712011738.MAA21139@zappa.morgan.com> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "[Linux] POSIX::_[PS]C_.+ bug (add HINT_SC_EXIST)" + From: Yutaka OIWA + Msg-ID: <199712251923.EAA08260@tjms1f.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> + Files: ext/POSIX/hints/linux.pl ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "5.004_04-m1] Use HAS_GNULIBC in POSIX.xs" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: ""ODBM_File.c", line 275: NULL undefined" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9803091310.AA23264@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "5.004_04 QNX getcwd" + From: Norton Allen + Msg-ID: <199802121838.NAA20452@dolores.harvard.edu>, + <199803061511.KAA22346@bottesini.harvard.edu> + Files: hints/qnx.sh lib/Cwd.pm t/op/magic.t + + Title: "hints/netbsd.sh d_setrgid d_setruid" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199802281435.QAA10866@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "osname=unixware, osvers=2.03, archname=i386-unixware + d_casti32=undef" + From: Tom Hughes + Msg-ID: <465398da47%tom@compton.demon.co.uk> + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "hints/bsdos.sh patch for BSDI 3.1" + From: Jan-Pieter Cornet + Msg-ID: <6fbip6$3cp$1@xs1.xs4all.nl> + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "Remove BIND_NOSTART from DynaLoader for HP" + From: Keong Lim + Msg-ID: <01BD1D03.53B65E90@sieplan2.sr.com.au> + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Building Perl on AIX 4+ with shared libraries and dynamic loading" + From: Juan Gallego + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/aix.sh + + Title: "alpha-dec_osf 5.0" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199712232305.SAA08359@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Off-by-one error with OS2::PrfDB" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710170920.FAA00390@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.xs + + Title: "5.004_04-m1] Allow overrides in hints/openbsd.sh" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/openbsd.sh + + Title: "5.004_04-m1] Linux shouldn't use -lnet" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "5.004_(04|63)] Close VMS security hole" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IV6LRJCSSC0009C4@cor.newman.upenn.edu> + Files: vms/vms.c + + Title: "Re: Perl online documentation on OpenVMS" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <9803192143.AA28120@forte.com> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Perl5.004_04m4t4 *almost* makes it for VMS", "Updated + vms/perly_c.vms and vms/perly_h.vms" + From: Andy Dougherty , Dan Sugalski + , larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) + Msg-ID: <199710151650.JAA29185@wall.org>, + <3.0.3.32.19971014150404.02fdef78@osshe.edu>, + + Files: vms/perly_c.vms + + Title: "Updated, non-wordwrapped, patch to README.VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980213133828.0092c870@osshe.edu> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "VMS patches to 5.004_03 (excluding installperl and timelocal.t)" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01INZT9G2LZS0006YW@cor.newman.upenn.edu> + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/Path.pm vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/genconfig.pl vms/test.com vms/vms.c vms/ext/Filespec.pm + vms/ext/filespec.t + + Title: "Re: VMSperl crashes on -Mblib argument" + From: bailey@newman.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey) + Msg-ID: <1997Dec10.004439.2635060@cor.newman> + Files: lib/blib.pm vms/vms.c + + Title: "hints/linux.sh (MkLinux / PPC)" + From: pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "hpux.sh hints file clarification suggestion" + From: root@qad.com + Msg-ID: <199802192351.QAA09096@jhereg.perl.com> + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "new hints/solaris_2.sh" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/solaris_2.sh + +Change 873 on 1998/04/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "FileHandle Documentation patch" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." + Msg-ID: <87emzqo49g.fsf@perv.daft.com> + Files: lib/FileHandle.pm + +Change 872 on 1998/04/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Documentation and documentation related patches: + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "Docs re /usr/bin/perl quasi-standard location" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL pod/perlrun.pod + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "/RFC|RFC-1305/ non-greedy" + From: Jan-Pieter Cornet + Msg-ID: <6epo02$c4r$1@xs1.xs4all.nl> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "5.004_04: perlhist.pod, buildtoc, perltoc.pod" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199802191543.RAA29231@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/buildtoc + + Title: "5.004_04: pod/perlfunc.pod: i18n example for localtime()" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199711141555.RAA18875@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "typo-fix and suggestion for perlguts.pod" + From: h.sanden@elsevier.nl (Hugo van der Sanden) + Msg-ID: <199803051543.QAA03097@dorlas.elsevier.nl> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perlfunc/syscall curiosity" + From: Roderick Schertler , Tkil + + Msg-ID: <199711302259.PAA02134@reptile.scrye.com>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document sprintf %#x behaviour for zero value" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Nov5.185959.2539604@cor.newman> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "NUL termination (was Re: STOP THE PRESSES)" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Typo fix." + From: abigail@fnx.com + Msg-ID: <19971101120114.1030.qmail@betelgeuse.wayne.fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "5.004_63 perlrun.pod: _DEBUG_MSTATS" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9803181940.AA22587@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Re: Conservative C<*x = undef> patch" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod for flock()" + From: "Jeremy D. Zawodny" + Msg-ID: <3.0.5.32.19971118203119.00a723e0@woody.wcnet.org> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "buglet: 'perltoc' not mentioned in perl.pod" + From: Tkil + Msg-ID: <19971127035036.17668.qmail@scrye.com> + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "for() and map() peculiarity" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Re: new text for perlsec" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlsec.pod + + Title: "perldsc's debugger x command" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <10669.878352893@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Files: pod/perldsc.pod + + Title: "perlre.pod" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199802271501.KAA09279@ns.southern.edu> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "Re: printf and $\", "printf and $\" + From: Roderick Schertler , Tom Phoenix + , nag + Msg-ID: <199711141918.TAA08096@flirble.org>, + , + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "recv() typo" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <12064.877012073@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "truncate return value" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <5490.878337883@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "update to perlbook.pod" + From: "Nathan V. Patwardhan" , Randal Schwartz + , Stephen Potter + , Tom Phoenix + + Msg-ID: <199803241354.HAA23938@psasolar.psa.pencom.com>, + <199803241441.OAA01261@mediaone.net>, + <8clnu0i05k.fsf@gadget.cscaper.com>, + + Files: pod/perlbook.pod + + Title: "utime documentation" + From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" , "M.J.T. Guy" + + Msg-ID: <199802180256.VAA11369@speaker.kf8nh.apk.net>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "(well, doc patch) use of // requires successful match" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "MakeMaker PM doc patch and a DIR buglet" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9711101050.AA13868@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "bareword clarification for constant.pm" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <6460.878143077@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Files: lib/constant.pm + + Title: "integer rand - bug or feature?" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/integer.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "FileHandle Documentation patch" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." + Msg-ID: <87emzqo49g.fsf@perv.daft.com> + + Title: "perl5.004_61 myconfig updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: myconfig + + Title: "small fixups in pod2latex.PL" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." + Msg-ID: <873eg6o3v2.fsf@perv.daft.com> + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Misc doc fixes for README.VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980121113134.00924a20@osshe.edu> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "moved DynaLib" + From: John Tobey + Msg-ID: <199710182332.XAA21630@remote212> + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm.PL + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Searching for FAQs (patch to perldoc)" + From: Piers Cawley , Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: , + + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199802271510.KAA10506@ns.southern.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc -f not using pod2man" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc -m should not require pod" + From: Robin Houston + Msg-ID: <199803241319.NAA24777@stringfellow.guardian.co.uk> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "small fix for perldoc in perl 5.004_04" + From: Julian Yip + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + +Change 764 on 1998/03/05 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + APPLLIB_EXP now has arch and version dirs added to @INC + +Change 761 on 1998/03/05 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "properly refcount localization, fix C" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199802191207.MAA10742@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: av.c hv.c scope.c t/op/local.t + +Change 758 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + perldoc -f now uses pager if text is too long for screen + +Change 757 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Added OpenBSD hint file from + Document 'warn with no args' behaviour, from + +Change 756 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Fix for new gnulibc stdio.h when using sfio+perlio + +Change 755 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Fixed typo in vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm AUTOLOAD + Added details of split in scalar context to perlfunc.pod + +Change 754 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Updated perl -v info to include reference to docs and home page. + +Change 753 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Updated hints/bsdos.sh for BSD/OS 3.1 + Fixed typo in pod/perlsyn.pod + Added workaround for old gmake in ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + Fixed typo in ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm + +Change 752 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Changed bug address in README to perlbug@perl.com + Changed Copyright in perl.c to 1998 + Added op/pos.t test from Robin Houston + +Change 751 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Make t/comp/require.t and t/lib/ph.t executable in repository + +Change 750 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Added dTHR definition to ease backwards compatibility for XS + source code from 5.005. + +Change 749 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "rename local 'op' variables to 'o'", #F114 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: op.h opcode.h proto.h dump.c op.c opcode.pl pp_ctl.c run.c scope.c + toke.c + +Change 748 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "consolidated win32 patch", #F112 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perlrun.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h + EXTERN.h INTERN.h dosish.h lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/TEST + t/harness win32/win32.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 + doio.c installhtml installperl pp_sys.c win32/Makefile + win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_H.bc + win32/config_H.vc win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL + win32/dl_win32.xs win32/makedef.pl win32/makefile.mk + win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c win32/win32.c + win32/win32sck.c win32/bin/perlglob.pl x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.c + x2p/a2py.c + +Change 747 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "initialize @INC in ph.t, and fix up MANIFEST", #F111 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST t/lib/ph.t + +Change 746 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "properly save STDOUT during system() in debugger", #F110 + From: Jason Smith + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + +Change 745 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "generate DynaLoader.pm at build time", #F109 + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9802111938.AA26224@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: MANIFEST ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm.PL ext/DynaLoader/Makefile.PL + +Change 744 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Install extensions with bootstrap in $archlib", #F108 + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig), koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas + J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + +Change 743 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Pod::Html trips over "C<0>"", #F107 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + +Change 742 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "5.004_58 | _04: pod2*,perlpod: L", #F106 + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9802111629.AA00595@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: pod/perlpod.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2man.PL + +Change 741 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "New patch for $^E==GetLastError() under Win32", #F105 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Tye McQueen + , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <199801040630.AA29298@metronet.com>, + <199801041826.NAA11568@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1998Jan4.130412.2719461@cor.newman> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod doio.c lib/dumpvar.pl lib/perl5db.pl + win32/win32.h mg.c util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + +Change 740 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "5.004_56: Patch to Tie::Hash and docs", #F104 + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199801120134.UAA05437@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod lib/Tie/Hash.pm + +Change 739 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "more doc for perldoc", #F103 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + +Change 738 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make perldoc look for an index file ", #F102 + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199801221220.NAA22902@furu.g.aas.no> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + +Change 737 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "perldoc -F filename", #F101 + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199712120037.TAA00176@math.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + +Change 736 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "sv_grow can fail for HAS_64K_LIMIT systems", #F100 + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: sv.c + +Change 735 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Benchmark.pm: timethese corrupts $_", #F099 + From: abigail@fnx.com + Msg-ID: <19980201114609.7779.qmail@betelgeuse.wayne.fnx.com> + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + +Change 734 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "STRANGE_MALLOC should test failed alloc", #F098 + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199802021406.PAA03285@furu.g.aas.no> + Files: hv.c + +Change 733 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "support caseless %ENV", #F097 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: hv.c t/op/magic.t win32/win32.h + +Change 732 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "newer cperl-mode.el (from 5.004_60)", #F096 + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + +Change 731 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Handle set magic on xsub OUTPUT args, add API functions that handle + magic", #F095 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199801190409.XAA26710@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxs.pod embed.h proto.h sv.h global.sym + lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp sv.c + +Change 730 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix flawed cleanup when signal handlers are not defined", #F094 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710290106.UAA11485@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: mg.c + +Change 729 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Tests for C", #F093 + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199711021247.MAA01743@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/op/sort.t + +Change 728 on 1998/03/04 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make search.pl work on win32", #F092 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/bin/search.pl + +Change 721 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix spurious perldoc warnings on DOSISH platforms", #F091 + From: Molnar Laszlo + Msg-ID: <34475659.1AA69855@cdata.tvnet.hu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + +Change 720 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make ExtUtils::MM_Unix::fixin() do something meaningful on win32", + #F090 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199801070016.TAA17766@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + +Change 719 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix inconsistent case $ENV{Path} (vs $ENV{PATH})", #F089 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/FindBin.pm + +Change 718 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix File::Find's longstanding confusion about win32 being like VMS", + #F088 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199802020459.XAA04964@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + +Change 717 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "do_postponed breaks with multiple interpreters", #F087 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710290316.WAA15888@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c + +Change 716 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make warning on C optional, add to perl{diag,delta}.pod", + #F086 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + +Change 715 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Pod::Html bug and fix: missing in index", #F085 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199802192314.SAA23326@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + +Change 714 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "New pod: perlhist", #F084 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199802191556.RAA09578@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perlhist.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/buildtoc + +Change 713 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix restoration of locals on scope unwinding", #F083 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199802110515.AAA23700@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c t/op/local.t + +Change 712 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "after an eval-ed bad require, requiring a string ref SEGVs", #F082 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199802102349.SAA16001@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + +Change 711 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix seg fault on eval/require and syntax errors", #F081 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199802102321.SAA15346@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST scope.h op.c pp_ctl.c scope.c t/comp/require.t toke.c + +Change 710 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "5.004_58: the locale.t problem in IRIX", #F080 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199802091747.TAA01735@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + +Change 709 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "sv_setnv will upgrade SVt_NV to SVt_PVNV", #F079 + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: sv.c + +Change 708 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Eliminate double warnings under C", #F077 + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: gv.c op.c toke.c + +Change 707 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix infinite loop on unlink() failure in File::Path::rmtree()", + #F076 + From: Murray Nesbitt , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199802061100.LAA16423@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + +Change 706 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Update of h2ph", #F075 + From: kstar@www.chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic) + Msg-ID: <199802051354.FAA11452@www.chapin.edu> + Files: t/lib/ph.t utils/h2ph.PL + +Change 705 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix AutoLoader for deep packages", #F074 + From: Zachary Miller + Msg-ID: <199710092348.SAA02108@zappy.er.usgs.gov> + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + +Change 704 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix order of warnings for misplaced subscripts", #F073 + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199710131023.LAA16796@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: op.c + +Change 703 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make recursive lexical analysis more robust", #F072 + From: Ilya Zakharevich and Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199710160102.VAA28817@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: toke.c + +Change 702 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix random whitespace errors in docs", #F070 + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <12726.877706444@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/checkpods.PL + +Change 701 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix line numbers after here documents in eval STRING", #F069 + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710241745.NAA08166@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: toke.c + +Change 700 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix SEGV from combining caller and C", #F068 + From: James Duncan , Nicholas Clark + + Msg-ID: <199710241248.NAA00163@flirble.org>, + + Files: pp_ctl.c sv.c + +Change 699 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Don't fold string comparison under C", #F067 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199711151506.RAA26287@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: op.c + +Change 698 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix SEGV on constant at end of sort block", #F066 + From: Administration + Msg-ID: <199711170838.JAA26073@thetis.fi.muni.cz> + Files: op.c + +Change 697 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Allow C to mean C", #F065 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + +Change 696 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix extension version mismatch message", #F064 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h + +Change 695 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Better handle and test struct tm of Linux and SunOS", #F063 + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: MANIFEST ext/POSIX/hints/linux.pl ext/POSIX/hints/sunos_4.pl + hints/linux.sh hints/sunos_4_1.sh t/lib/posix.t + +Change 694 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix doc bug in getservbyname() examples", #F062 + From: Tom Christiansen + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.pm + +Change 693 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Kill warning about parameter type", #F061 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + +Change 692 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Socket occasional SEGV", #F060 + From: Trevor Blackwell + Msg-ID: <199710281804.NAA09632@wagg.viaweb.com> + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + +Change 691 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Avoid SEGV from local($@)", #F059 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710290251.VAA14362@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + +Change 690 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Don't use broken pad_reset() (was Re: Perl bug in 5.004_03 )", #F058 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710300036.TAA01004@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c + +Change 689 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Use STMT_{START,END} in XSRETURN", #F057 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710300245.VAA04244@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: XSUB.h + +Change 688 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Re: Sort grammar bug", #F056 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199711011946.OAA18882@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: toke.c + +Change 687 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Document indirect object cases for exec(), system()", #F055 + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + +Change 686 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Update docs on tr///", #F054 + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlstyle.pod toke.c + +Change 685 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Re: perlop bitwise & | ^ documentation", #F053 + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlop.pod + +Change 684 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix SEGV on C<*glob{'SCALAR','ARRAY'}>", #F052 + From: "Joseph N. Hall" + Msg-ID: <199711110552.WAA12613@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y vms/perly_c.vms + +Change 683 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "for perlguts.pod: document sv_derived_from, sv_vcatpfn and + sv_vsetpfn", #F051 + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) and Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <346ae970.7444534@smtp1.ibm.net> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + +Change 682 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "5.004_04: locale startup failure (at last) documented", #F050 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199711172054.WAA08261@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod pod/perllocale.pod + +Change 681 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Cope with lack of args in Fcntl::AUTOLOAD", #F049 + From: Jerome Abela + Msg-ID: <19971120183248.23588@coredump.hsc.fr> + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm + +Change 680 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Commenting toke.c", #F048 + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199801082138.OAA14186@prometheus.frii.com> + Files: toke.c + +Change 679 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Re: 5.004_04 vec() fails with 32-bit values", #F047 + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlguts.pod pp.c t/op/vec.t + +Change 678 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "A few perl5.004_03 bugs", #F046 + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199801221211.MAA05315@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: mg.c t/op/magic.t + +Change 677 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Faster, cleaner av_unshift() ", #F045 + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199801221850.TAA23111@furu.g.aas.no> + Files: av.c + +Change 676 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "New hints/solaris2.sh", #F044 + From: Stephen Zander + Msg-ID: <87oh12y458.fsf@wsuse5.mckesson.com> + Files: hints/solaris_2.sh + +Change 675 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Refresh Complex.pm and test", #F043 + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199802051608.SAA20262@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + +Change 674 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix (\@@) proto", #F042 + From: "Joseph N. Hall" + Msg-ID: <199801240132.SAA25111@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: op.c t/comp/proto.t + +Change 673 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Allow empty BLOCK in code", #F041 + From: Vladimir Alexiev + Msg-ID: <19980129002112Z13378-6931+226@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> + Files: toke.c + +Change 672 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix name of $Foo::{'Bar::'}: '*Foo::Bar::'", #F040 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c t/op/gv.t + +Change 671 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Keep accurate reference count on globs' stashes", #F038 + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: gv.c sv.c + +Change 670 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Avoid memory allocation in gv_fetchpv(), for speed", #F037 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + +Change 669 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make Configure less negative about PerlIO", #F036 + From: chip@atlantic.net + Msg-ID: <199801312323.SAA15237@cyprus.atlantic.net> + Files: Configure + +Change 668 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix (mostly) pseudo-same-REs due to embedded NULs", #F035 + From: Martin Plechsmid + Msg-ID: <199802021217.NAA05230@albert.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> + Files: pp_ctl.c + +Change 667 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Make Getopt::Long avoid $&, $`, $'", #F034 + From: Irving Reid + Msg-ID: <98Feb3.005102est.11655@janus.tor.securecomputing.com> + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + +Change 666 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "adding the newSVpvn API function", #F033 + From: Matthias Ulrich Neeracher + Msg-ID: <199801310532.GAA23798@solar.ethz.ch> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod pod/perltoc.pod proto.h global.sym sv.c + +Change 665 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Support C as function-blind bearword", #F032 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + +Change 664 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Re-optimize character classes", #F031 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c + +Change 663 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix C which needed ENTER/LEAVE", #F030 + From: dfh@dwroll.lucent.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040) + Msg-ID: + Files: op.c t/op/local.t + +Change 662 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Dramatically improve performance of // with parens or $&", #F029 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h perl.h proto.h regexp.h gv.c interp.sym perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c + pp_hot.c regexec.c scope.c + +Change 661 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Don't warn on $x{shift}, ne => 1, or -f => 1", #F028 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + +Change 660 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Protect against weirdness with unreal @_ in C", #F027 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: scope.c + +Change 659 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix C", #F026 + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199711021331.NAA01826@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: sv.c t/op/sprintf.t + +Change 658 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Tiny core patch for source filters", #F025 + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9711202312.AA02937@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: toke.c + +Change 657 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Here-doc in s///e (was: Bug)", #F024 + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199711221445.OAA14153@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c + +Change 656 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix duplicate warnings on C<-e undef>", #F023 + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199711221252.MAA14000@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: doio.c t/pragma/warn-1global + +Change 655 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix '*' prototype", #F022 + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199711212225.RAA00755@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: toke.c + +Change 654 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "File::Find bugs (and patches)", "File::Find bugs & patches", #F021 + From: "Conrad E. Kimball" + Msg-ID: <199711260703.XAA21257@mailgate2.boeing.com> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + +Change 653 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix typo: FORM{,AT}LINE", #F020 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + +Change 652 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix use of unref mem when blessed object goes out of scope", #F019 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199711282326.SAA15090@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: scope.c + +Change 651 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix C", #F018 + From: Stephane Payrard + Msg-ID: <199712040054.BAA04612@www.zweig.com> + Files: op.c t/op/my.t + +Change 650 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "enhanced "use strict" warning", #F017 + From: Tkil + Msg-ID: <199712040938.CAA07628@reptile.scrye.com> + Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-subs t/pragma/strict-vars + +Change 649 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "eval of sub gives spurious "uninitialised" warning", #F016 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199712061025.FAA14396@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod op.c t/op/eval.t + +Change 648 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "[PERL] Assigning result of pop scrambles unrelated reference", #F015 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199712061100.GAA14864@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: sv.c + +Change 647 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "[PERL] Filedescriptor leak in 5.004_55 (and earlier)", #F014 + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199712151922.OAA06410@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/os2.c util.c + +Change 646 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix fdopen() on STD{IN,OUT,ERR}", #F013 + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Files: doio.c t/op/misc.t + +Change 645 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix local $a[0] and local $h{a}", #F012 + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: embed.h scope.h global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c t/op/local.t + +Change 644 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Eliminate redundant mg_get() in SvTRUE()", #F011 + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199712251839.NAA14800@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: sv.c + +Change 643 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Don't force scalar context on C or C", #F010 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c t/op/my.t + +Change 642 on 1998/03/03 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix assignment to $_[0] in DESTROY", #F009 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199801010030.TAA14274@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlobj.pod sv.c t/op/ref.t + +Change 627 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix inefficient checks for TIEHANDLE", #F008 + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199801080106.UAA05048@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + +Change 626 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + This is the change description for change 625 + Title: "Fix tr///s option", #F007 + From: Inaba Hiroto + Msg-ID: <19980110155333D.inaba@st.rim.or.jp> + Files: doop.c + +Change 623 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix lexical lookup in eval-sub-eval", #F006 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + +Change 622 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Don't upgrade target of assignment from LVALUE", #F005 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + +Change 621 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix compile-time warning line in while ()", #F004 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + +Change 620 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "STMT foreach LIST;", #F002 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y t/cmd/mod.t toke.c + vms/perly_c.vms + +Change 619 on 1998/03/02 by TimBunce@ig.co.uk + + Title: "Fix SIGSEGV on C<42 until forever>", #F001 + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + +---------------- +Version 5.004_04 Maintenance release 4 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. + 2. From discord, find harmony. + 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." + -- Albert Einstein, three rules of work + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Fixed gaps in tainting (readdir, readlink, gecos, bit vector ops). + Fixed memory leak in splice(@_). + Fixed debugger core dumps. + IO::Socket now sets autoflush by default. + Several perldoc bugs fixed, now faster and more helpful. + Fixed Win32 handle leak. + Many other improvements to Win32 support. + Many many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "ExtUtils::Liblist prints diagnostics to STDOUT (vs. STDERR)" + From: Andy Dougherty , jesse@ginger + (Jesse Glick) + Msg-ID: <199708290032.UAA15663@ginger>, + + Files: MANIFEST lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Set LD_RUN_PATH when building suidperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Tony Sanders + + Msg-ID: <199708272226.QAA10206@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "INSTALL version 1.26" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Propagate MAKE=$(MAKE) through perl build" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Makefile.SH makedepend.SH x2p/Makefile.SH ext/util/make_ext + + Title: "update to installperl for perl5.004_02 to skip CVS dir" + From: Tony Sanders + Msg-ID: <199708272307.RAA13451@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: installperl + + Title: "makedepend loop on HP-UX 10.20" + Msg-ID: <1997Sep20.183731.2297443@cor.newman> + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Tiny Grammaro in INSTALL" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Fix Configured osvers under Linux 1" + From: Andy Dougherty , Hugo van der + Sanden + Msg-ID: <199709241439.PAA17114@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL-1.28" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "makedepend.SH fix for UNICOS" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710132039.XAA21459@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: makedepend.SH + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "Re: "perl -d" dumps core when loading syslog.ph" + From: Jochen Wiedmann , Stephen McCamant + , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug30.034921.2297381@cor.newman.upenn.edu>, + <3407639E.FEBF20BA@neckar-alb.de>, + + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Allow $obj->$coderef()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199708291649.MAA23276@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and + perl5" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen McCamant + + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "Avoid assumption that STRLEN == I32" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hallvard B Furuseth + + Msg-ID: <199708242310.BAA05497@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: hv.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak in splice(@_)" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: + Files: proto.h av.c global.sym pp.c + + Title: "Fix line number of warnings in while() conditional", "misleading + uninit value warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Greg Bacon + + Msg-ID: <199708271607.LAA01403@crp-201.adtran.com> + Files: proto.h op.c perly.c perly.y + + Title: "-t and POSIX::isatty on IO::Handle objects", "Fix C<-t $handle>" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Greg Ward + + Msg-ID: <199708261754.NAA24826@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix output of invalid printf formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199708241529.QAA02457@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: sv.c t/op/sprintf.t + + Title: "regexec.c regcppartblow declaration missing an arg" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199708290059.BAA05808@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "taint readlink, readdir, gecos" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709131651.TAA13471@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "clean up old style package' usage in op.c" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199709151813.NAA14433@psisa.psa.pencom.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "beautifying usage() code in perl.c" + From: "John L. Allen" <"John L. Allen"> + Msg-ID: + Files: perl.c + + Title: "debugger to fix core dumps, adds $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709170823.EAA21359@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c lib/perl5db.pl mg.c perl.c toke.c + + Title: "downgrade "my $foo masks earlier" from mandatory to "-w"" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen Potter + + Msg-ID: <199709091832.NAA14763@psisa.psa.pencom.com>, + <199709102019.QAA09591@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod op.c + + Title: "fix overridden glob() problems" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199709171645.MAA13988@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlsub.pod lib/File/DosGlob.pm op.c t/lib/dosglob.t + toke.c + + Title: "Reverse previous "Fix C" patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Kenneth Albanowski + , Tom Christiansen + + Msg-ID: <199707050155.VAA27394@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199708172326.RAA19344@jhereg.perl.com>, + + Files: toke.c + + Title: "printf type warning buglets in m3t2" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199708141017.MAA10225@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: regcomp.c regexec.c scope.c sv.c util.c x2p/util.c + + Title: "Localize PV value in save_gp()", "typeglob differences in perl4 and + perl5" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen McCamant + + Msg-ID: <199708272348.TAA03139@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "unpack now allows commas but -w warns", "unpack() difference + 5.003->5.004" + From: "John L. Allen" , Chip Salzenberg + , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + Jim Esten , Jim Esten + , timbo (Tim Bunce) + Msg-ID: <199709031632.LAA29584@wepco.com>, + <199709090257.WAA32670@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199709090917.MAA05602@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199709091000.LAA24094@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <341077FE.132F@wdynamic.com>, + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + Title: "5.004_04 trial 1 assorted minor details" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod hv.c op.c sv.c x2p/util.c + + Title: "A couple of 4_04t1 problems" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9709210959.AA28772@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: lib/Cwd.pm perl.c + + Title: "Minor changes to ease port to MVS" + From: Len Johnson , SMTP%"BAHUFF@us.oracle.com" , + SMTP%"pfuntner@vnet.ibm.com" , pvhp@forte.com (Peter + Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199709162058.NAA00952@mailsun2.us.oracle.com> + Files: unixish.h miniperlmain.c + + Title: "Truer version string and more robust perlbug" + From: "Michael A. Chase" , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199709201514.QAA21187@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <1997Sep22.090701.2297448@cor.newman> + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Fix locale bug for constant (readonly) strings" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709262125.AAA28292@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Enable truly global glob()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710080000.UAA18972@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix for $0 truncation" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199710081703.SAA02653@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix for missing &import leaving stack untidy" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709282252.SAA22915@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Larry's proto fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709290004.UAA07559@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c t/comp/proto.t + + Title: "Fix bugs with magical arrays and hashes (@ISA)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199709232148.RAA29967@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: perl.h proto.h av.c global.sym gv.c mg.c pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c + t/op/method.t + + Title: "Perl_debug_log stream used for all DEBUG_*(...) macro uses" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709230820.JAA11945@tiuk.ti.com> + Files: perl.c taint.c util.c + + Title: "Tainting bitwise vector ops" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199710061726.NAA16438@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: doop.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Enhance $^E on OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709232236.SAA04463@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod mg.c os2/Changes + + Title: "option "!#... -- ..." in perl 5.004.03 seems not to work" + From: "John L. Allen" , Urs Thuermann + + Msg-ID: <199709232030.WAA30425@isnogud.escape.de>, + + Files: perl.c + + Title: "syswrite will again write a zero length buffer" + From: Cameron Simpson , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) + Msg-ID: <199710042107.AAA28561@alpha.hut.fi>, + <19971007104652-cameron-1-10391@sid.research.canon.com.au> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "make Odd number of elements in hash list warning non-mandatory" + From: Jason Varsoke {81530} + Msg-ID: <199710021651.MAA15690@caesun7.msd.ray.com> + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix defined() bug in m4t3 affecting LWP" + From: chip@atlantic.net@ig.co.uk () + Msg-ID: <199710101822.OAA14249@cyprus.atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Include $archname in perl -v output" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: perl.c + + Title: "-I flag can easily lead to whitespace in @INC" + From: Kenneth Stephen , Tim Bunce , + pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199710130922.KAA07780@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <5040400007001448000002L082*@MHS>, + <9710132015.AA12457@forte.com> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "perldiag.pod: gotcha in short pattern/char ops" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709050718.KAA31405@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Documenting the perl-thanks address" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Missing section for @_ in perlvar." + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199708142146.RAA13146@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Promised information about AvHASH in perguts is not delivered" + From: mjd@plover.com + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.doc - $_ aliasing in map, grep, foreach etc" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199708181852.OAA15901@ns.southern.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "-U Unsafe operations need -w to warn" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "document the return value of syscall" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <1997Sep7.160817.2297395@cor.newman> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "minor fix for perltrap.pod" + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709170500.BAA14805@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "xsubpp: document advanced dynamic typemap usage" + From: "Rujith S. de Silva" + Files: pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Improved diagnostic docs for here-documents" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[POD patch] do-FILE forces scalar context." + From: Robin Houston + Msg-ID: <199709221553.QAA28409@carryon.oneworld.org> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlop.pop. Behaviour of C vs C." + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709220107.VAA27064@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Clarify exec docs in perlfunc.pod" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199710081353.OAA00834@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Documentation patch for perlguts.pod--document tainting routines" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971007165226.02fd2cd4@osshe.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Man perlfunc: incorrect split example" + From: Joerg Porath + Msg-ID: <199709240620.IAA30928@pandora.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Improve "Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method" disgnostic" + From: rjray@uswest.com (Randy J. Ray) + Msg-ID: <199709231710.LAA08854@tremere.ecte.uswc.uswest.com> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Document split-with-limit on empty string perl4/perl5 change" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Gisle Aas , Hugo + van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199709221419.PAA03987@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltrap.pod URI/URL/http.pm t/op/split.t + + Title: "Clarify close() docs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710081653.MAA20611@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perldiag log & sqrt - refer to Math::Complex package" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710042129.AAA20367@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod: sysread, syswrite docs" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710061910.WAA15266@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document //gc" + From: abigail@fnx.com (Abigail) + Msg-ID: <199709232302.TAA27947@fnx.com> + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "repeating #! switches" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Robin Barker + + Msg-ID: <199709241736.NAA25855@rio.atlantic.net>, + <24778.9709241501@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Re: taint documentation bug" + From: Ken Estes , Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlsec.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "FileHandle.pm fails if Exporter has not been loaded previously" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <3445e05b.17874041@smtp2.ibm.net> + Files: lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "Prefer startperl path over perlpath in MakeMaker" + From: Andreas Klussmann + Msg-ID: <199709162017.WAA05043@troubadix.infosys.heitec.net> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname fails under Solaris 2.5 when setuid" + From: Patrick Hayes + Msg-ID: <199708201240.OAA04243@goblin.renault.fr> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "Cwd::getcwd cannot handle path contains '0' element" + From: Hironori Ikura , Hironori Ikura + , Stephen Zander + Msg-ID: <19970830060142J.hikura@matsu.tcc.co.jp>, + + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "Getopt::Long 2.11" + From: JVromans@squirrel.nl (Johan Vromans) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "IO::Socket autoflush by default, assume tcp and PeerAddr" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Andy Dougherty + , Gisle Aas + + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Syslog.pm and missing _PATH_LOG" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Undocumented: $Test::Harness::switches" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9708272110.AA26904@o09.xray.mpe.mpg.de> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "Patches for lib/Math/Complex.pm and t/lib/complex.t" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709102009.WAA27428@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Win32: Install.pm not correctly comparing binary files." + From: Jeff Urlwin + Msg-ID: <01BCBFAA.E325C4A0.jurlwin@access.digex.net> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Document that File::Find doesn't follow symlinks" + From: Greg Ward + Msg-ID: <199708191853.OAA07111@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + Title: "fix subroutines called in a void context in perl5db.pl" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "xsubpp fix to allow #ifdef's around entire XSubs" + From: John Tobey + Msg-ID: <199709070034.AAA16457@remote119> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Banishing eval from getopt.pl and Getopt/Std.pm" + From: "John L. Allen" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/getopt.pl lib/Getopt/Std.pm + + Title: "further complex number patches" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi , d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199709221009.FAA21216@staff2.cso.uiuc.edu>, + <199709221216.PAA15130@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Trap Time::Local infinite loop" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199710030030.BAA17372@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Cosmetic Test::Harness patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032226.SAA15354@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "ExtUtil::Install sub my_cmp needs to binmode its files" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Stephen Potter + + Msg-ID: <199710010617.BAA02037@psisa.psa.pencom.com>, + <199710011819.OAA03288@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Enable make test "TEST_FILES=t/*.t.were_failing"" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032231.SAA15364@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix for autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710071734.NAA19462@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex fixes - fixes problems on m68-linux" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199709301422.HAA24368@koah.research.nokia.com> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Updated CPAN.pm for 5.004_04" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "debugger bug with 'c subname'" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709232331.TAA04546@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Fix atan2 & restrict $t to (-pi,pi] instead of to [-pi,pi]" + From: Daniel S. Lewart, Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199710010939.CAA00964@koah.research.nokia.com> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Cwd::fastcwd needs changes to work with tainting" + From: Hugo van der Sanden , Ulrich Pfeifer + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Cwd.pm + + Title: "use autouse: requires prototype now" + From: user@agate.berkeley.edu + Msg-ID: <9709220450.AA0380@tuzik.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: ""use base qw(Foo Bar);" to set @ISA at compile time" + From: Gisle Aas , Graham Barr , Graham Barr + , Tim Bunce , + jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois), larry@wall.org (Larry + Wall) + Msg-ID: <199710022151.WAA21250@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <199710031613.JAA11286@wall.org>, + <199710040829.KAA16739@furu.g.aas.no>, + <3434E4C6.AE24135E@ti.com>, <343C2278.7DC1ADC6@pobox.com>, + <343ec306.50394803@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> + Files: lib/base.pm + + Title: "Further Math/Complex.pm enhancements" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710132055.XAA02086@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Further Math::Complex fixes" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199710120933.MAA01165@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "POD patches w.r.t. $^S" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710030001.UAA14241@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ../pod/perlfunc.pod ../pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "libperl.sl on HP-UX 10.20" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199709250003.BAA18085@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <873emkbpit.fsf@perv.daft.com> + Files: + + Title: "myconfig / perl -V: remove randbits and add prototype" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709290857.JAA07706@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: myconfig + + Title: "Emacs CPerl update for 5.004_04" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710140835.EAA26825@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + Title: "Enhance perly.fixer to help porters." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: perly.fixer + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "Fix win32/Makefile for perl95" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "Win32 archnames" + From: Bill Middleton , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Peter Prymmer , Tim + Bunce + Msg-ID: <199709111929.PAA22488@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <341719E4.4923@forte.com>, + + Files: win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc + + Title: "pl2bat.bat -> pl2bat.pl change in win32/pod.mak" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <3411ee6f.9143607@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> + Files: win32/pod.mak + + Title: "Add test-notty target to Win32 Makefile" + From: jan.dubois@ibm.net (Jan Dubois) + Msg-ID: <343f5106.12461608@smtp2.ibm.net> + Files: win32/Makefile + + Title: "Bug in Win32::GetShortPathName" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710092229.SAA21556@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Fix NT handles leak." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710111319.JAA10918@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "fix socket init duality on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199710111523.LAA12407@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - GENERAL ------ + + Title: "Tweak to hints/machten.sh: stop t/lib/complex.t from failing" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Irix 6.2 build problem - so_locations" + From: "Billinghurst, David" + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Porting/pumpkin.pod version 1.13" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "lib/timelocal.t fails test 1 for VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970908112449.0087bc90@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + Title: "Patches to updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970918100648.008b1c60@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Fix perl build on Digital UNIX after JDK installs libnet.so" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199709191826.OAA18040@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Updated README.VMS for Perl 5.004_04" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970912091524.008a3620@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: README.vms + + Title: "Dynixptx hints" + From: bruce@aps.org ("Bruce P. Schuck") + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/dynixptx.sh + + Title: "Minor OS/2 patch for 4_03" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710032224.SAA15345@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/os2.c + + Title: "OS2::REXX improvements" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709272214.SAA08638@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/Changes os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm + + Title: "hints/qnx.sh update" + From: Norton Allen + Msg-ID: <199709261508.LAA07889@dolores.harvard.edu> + Files: hints/qnx.sh + + Title: "New hints file for IBM OS/390 OpenEdition (MVS)" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <9709240106.AA26484@forte.com> + Files: hints/os390.sh + + Title: "OS/2 Hints" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199710130631.CAA25426@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "op/glob.t test failure under Win32 with CVS" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Aug26.091048pdt.35761-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: t/op/glob.t + + Title: "tests fail if localhost/loopback address not defined" + From: David McLean >, David McLean + + Msg-ID: <34048947.2944@icc.gsfc.nasa.gov> + Files: t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_udp.t + + Title: "Improve pragma/locale test 102 - and don't fail, just warn" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Invalid test output in t/op/taint.t in trial 1" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970919160918.00857a50@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Identify t/*/*.t test failing because of file permissions" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "fix poor t/op/runlevel.t test" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Hugo van der Sanden + , Norton Allen + + Msg-ID: <199709261458.KAA28611@dolores.harvard.edu> + Files: t/op/runlevel.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "Missing 'require' in auto-generated .pm by h2xs" + From: davidk@tor.securecomputing.com (David Kerry) + Msg-ID: <97Aug27.131618edt.11650@janus.tor.securecomputing.com> + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "Perldoc tiny patch to avoid $0" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199709122141.RAA16846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph broken in 5.004_02" + From: David Mazieres , + kstar@www.chapin.edu (Kurt D. Starsinic) + Msg-ID: <199708201454.KAA05122@reeducation-labor.lcs.mit.edu>, + <199708201700.KAA02621@www.chapin.edu> + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "add key_t caddr_t to h2ph", "eg/sysvipc/ipcsem bug", "update + hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Tony Sanders + Msg-ID: <199708272301.RAA12803@austin.bsdi.com> + Files: eg/sysvipc/ipcsem utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "perldoc search ., lib and blib/* if -f 'Makefile.PL'" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199708251732.KAA19299@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "5.004m4t1: perlbug: NIS domainname gets into wrong places" + From: koenig@anna.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "add better local patch info to perlbug", "perlbug checks perl + build/run version changes" + From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc - suggest modules if requested module not found" + From: Anthony David + Msg-ID: <3439CD83.6969@netinfo.com.au> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc mail::foo tries to read binary /usr/ucb/mail" + From: "Joseph Moof-in' Hall" , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199710082014.NAA00808@gadget.cscaper.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc -f setpwent (for example) returns no descriptive text" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "perldoc diffs: don't search auto - much faster" + From: "Joseph N. Hall" + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_03 Maintenance release 3 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"To err is human, to forgive divine." + -- Alexander Pope + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Fixed 5.004_02 compilation failure on VMS. + Fixed Configure (non)errors being displayed to user. + Better support for Windows 95. + Assorted documentation and hint file improvements. + perl --foo no longer silently ignored. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "Show Configure failure reason even with -s" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can stop without fully explaining itself" + From: Jim Anderson + Msg-ID: <199708111328.JAA28976@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com>, + <199708111952.PAA29346@nsd15.ny-swaps-develop.ml.com> + Files: Configure + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "typos in perl -h output" + From: "Richard A. Wells" + Msg-ID: <6D0BF914BC@gateuhs.harvard.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Some perldb -> PERLDB_* macro changes were missed" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199708100323.XAA27155@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Further fix to lseek's in lockf_emulate_flock" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199708060031.CAA07387@bombur2.uio.no>, + <199708102225.AAA16970@bombur2.uio.no> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "GNU style perl --version (or any other --foo) ignored" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Kenneth Albanowski + , Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "seen_dot declaration in perl.c needed for VMS" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708072033.QAA09167@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] -D info in perlrun", "[PATCH] Re: -D info in perlrun" + From: Stephen McCamant , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya + Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug10.195832.2224477@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + , + + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "perlop pod inconsistent in presentation of regexp options" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Hans Mulder , + jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com + Msg-ID: <199708061404.KAA06717@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <199708081505.LAA09810@whirlwind.fmr.com>, + <1997Aug7.160530.2196011@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + , + + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "pod2man generated .IX lines upset whatis on Solaris" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , jmr@whirlwind.fmr.com (John + Redford) + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "The description of the \Q metacharacter is confusing to novices" + From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) + Msg-ID: <199708101946.AA06339@world.std.com> + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "doc patch for pack("p",undef) packing a NULL pointer" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod error" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199708102235.QAA18420@jhereg.perl.com> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "patch for documentation error in FileCache.pm" + From: Mike Stok , mikebo@tellabs.com + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/FileCache.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] 5.004_02: Complex/Trig: update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708081842.VAA31214@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "CPAN Use of uninitialized value in newest perl" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9708091738.AA16435@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] /x is not a valid shell switch on Win95" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708121720.NAA14760@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Win95-proofing pl2bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708121733.NAA14888@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk win32/bin/pl2bat.pl + win32/bin/runperl.pl win32/bin/search.pl + win32/bin/webget.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] [OK] Perl5.004_02 on Alpha NT" + From: wmiddlet@adobe.com (William Middleton) + Msg-ID: <199708072100.OAA13141@ducks> + Files: win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------ + + Title: "Improve dual-universe comments in hints/sunos_4_1.sh" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "Dynamic Loading on MkLinux (osname=linux,archname=ppc-linux)" + From: Chris Nandor , Shimpei Yamashita + + Msg-ID: <33EF1634.B36B6500@pobox.com> + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "5.004_02 Configure - worrying but normal errors displayed to user" + From: Paul Marquess , pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk + (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <01BCA3DE.E257BFC0.pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>, + <9708102159.AA11726@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: Configure os2/diff.configure + + Title: "Minor glitch with Perl 5.004_01 on SunOS 4.1.3 (groupstype)" + From: thad@thadlabs.com (Thad Floryan) + Msg-ID: <9708111415.AA03808@thadlabs.com> + Files: hints/sunos_4_1.sh + + Title: "SCO Openserver 5.0.4 - add comment to hint file re compiler bug" + From: Bill Glicker + Msg-ID: + Files: hints/sco.sh + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "perlbug -d non-interactive (with patch)" + From: Ted Ashton + Msg-ID: <199708071418.KAA15711@ns.southern.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_02 Maintenance release 2 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"When you work you are a flute through whose + heart the whispering of the hours turns to music." + -- from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran + + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + Major memory growth bug fixed. + Object destruction is more timely and orderly. + Further major enhancements to Win32 support, including: + Win32 binary compatibility between Visual C++ and Borland C++. + The -S option is now more useful on dos/Win32 (see perlrun). + Implicit -p print now checks for write errors. + DB_File now sub-classable (and other fixes). + Memory usage stats available with perl's malloc (see perldelta). + 'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated (see perldelta). + Internal integer to string conversions are faster. + Carp can be forced to give stack traces (see perldoc Carp). + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + + ------ BUILD PROCESS ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: Configure: cf_time always in C locale" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708061827.VAA09623@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure can't find open3 on NeXTstep" + From: Andy Dougherty , hans@icgned.nl + (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9706271816.AA10551@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't use undef value in Config::myconfig" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: <199706271525.RAA13517@sissy.in-berlin.de> + Files: configpm + + Title: "make Configure recognize powerux hint (perl5.004_01)" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9707301938.AA08352@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "[PATCH]: HP-UX 10 w/o transition links" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199706181851.AA093329906@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>, + <199706231650.AA070364627@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "INSTALL updates for GNU ld and __inet_* errors" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL + + ------ CORE LANGUAGE ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Additional patch for "Can't execute ..."" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707191651.MAA04897@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod perl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Band-aid fix for local([@%]$x)" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod op.c pp_hot.c t/op/local.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Bug in Regular Expressions when using colon as + delimiter" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod regcomp.c t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Can't pack literals as pointers" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708012250.SAA20278@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/pack.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Do not constant-fold ops that depend on locale if C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199707210519.BAA13785@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eval fails in certain situations (eval "{'...")" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707211753.NAA14940@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/comp/term.t toke.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak on eval 'sub {}'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "stringify looses integerness" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix intolerance of a space between "print" and opening paren" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707011421.KAA15836@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Calling Perl from within C from within Perl" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706301842.OAA05569@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods (tests)" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "Avoid core dump on some paren'd regexp matches", "One-liner regex + causes SEGV on 5.003 under HP-UX and Linux" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199706261236.NAA03472@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707061144.MAA04443@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: regexec.c t/op/re_tests + + Title: "Forbid negative splice offset beyond array start" + From: "John L. Allen" , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Forbid "goto" into middle of foreach loop" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "bless file handles as FileHandle if loaded else IO::Handle" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: gv.c lib/FileHandle.pm + + Title: "infinite recursion in malloc() with some compile flags" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706240050.CAA10550@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "sv_vcatpvfn hogs memory [Patch included]" + From: Matthias Neeracher + Msg-ID: <199706211521.RAA12778@solar.ethz.ch> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix '-' flag on sprintf() of floats" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705270646.JAA02510@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Free temps before calling END blocks", "Too late destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix C parsing" + From: "Chuck D. Phillips (NON-HP Employee)" , Chip + Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199706121737.KAA00503@palrel3.hp.com> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix lockf_emulate_flock() positioning" + From: Chip Salzenberg , gen@atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp + Msg-ID: <199706091132.UAA00895@wampa.atd.rdc.ricoh.co.jp> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use atol() for unsigned values", "signedness problem in + pack("N", "value");" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Roger Espel Llima + + Msg-ID: <19970531200007.40218@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr> + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't warn about "${foo}" in string, even if &foo exists" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -p does not check for failure of implicit print" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod toke.c + + Title: "Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150010.UAA00816@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Constant-fold sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] Fix double form() in XS version check" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Msg-ID: <199707210518.BAA13771@nielsenmedia.com> + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "[PATCH] Make DEBUGGING_MSTATS info consistent" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL pod/perldelta.pod perl.h + + Title: "Minor Win32 glitch with -S flag" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun19.150511pdt.35717-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Slightly safer signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: mg.c perl.c + + Title: "Time::Local patch (plus perl.c and filehand.t)" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm perl.c t/lib/filehand.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Weirdness in sv_peek()" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Win32 UNC path causes autoload to fail" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun18.163826pdt.35714-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH]: reduced malloc patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: av.c + + Title: "[PATCH] $\1 and serious bug in evalling" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707262127.RAA12883@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Faster int to string conversion", "[PATCH} Re: memory leak in buffer + safety code" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199707140912.KAA09935@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707142050.QAA20976@rio.atlantic.net>, + <199707182035.VAA20990@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <9707151040.AA02883@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: global.sym sv.c + + Title: "object never destructs" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707131955.PAA29655@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: scope.c t/op/ref.t + + Title: "[PATCH] -S flag fixes for DOSISH platforms", "[RESEND] [PATCH] -S + flag fixes for DOSISH platforms" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250043.UAA02385@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301828.OAA19508@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod perl.c + + Title: "Perldb internal flag rehaul" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: pod/perldebug.pod pod/perlvar.pod perl.h gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c + pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: q and escaping paired delimiters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Kenneth Albanowski + + Msg-ID: <199707280516.BAA14055@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + , + + Files: t/base/lex.t toke.c + + Title: "Enable PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS without -DDEBUGGING_MSTATS" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707150829.EAA01291@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: malloc.c perl.c + + Title: "semctl broken under Linux" + From: Andreas Schwab , Andreas + Schwab , Graham + Barr , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <33C38291.2D9302DA@ti.com>, + <9707040912.AA03470@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, + <9707041538.AA08946@toad.ig.co.uk>, + <9707070924.AA11774@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, + <9707090933.AA19012@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: doio.c + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t2: problem in NetBSD 1.2D with sfio" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: perl.h + + Title: "fix substr fix (tests 27 etc)", "perl5.004_02 trial 1 available + (with substr bug and still some" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Hugo van der Sanden + , Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199707301759.SAA02899@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199707302228.BAA18032@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199707310929.KAA06515@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fwd: substr("foo", -1000)", "substr: warn if substring doesn't + intersect original at all" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199707100655.JAA14924@alpha.hut.fi>, + + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c t/op/substr.t + + Title: "[PATCH] work around compiler bug on CX/UX (perl5.004_01)" + From: tom@amber.ssd.hcsc.com (Tom Horsley) + Msg-ID: <9707301934.AA18594@amber.ssd.hcsc.com> + Files: hints/cxux.sh pp.c + + ------ DOCUMENTATION ------ + + Title: "Duplicates in perlguts.pod" + From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9707082346.AA13231@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Better "Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC" error documentation" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Jun24.195847.2091744@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "new perlembed.pod:match.c" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199707170355.XAA21370@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Document bug fix in localization of $1 etc." + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Major goof in XS Tutorial regarding subdirs" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707260920.FAA12453@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Magic info in perlguts, take 2" + From: Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] Missing semicolon message wrong in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: , + + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Updates to perlguts (repost)" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707152223.SAA00776@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "[BUG:47:LOG] Dropped "and" in pod2man" + From: hans@icgned.nl (Hans Mulder) + Msg-ID: <9707082355.AA13254@ icgned.icgned.nl > + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[BUG] perlembed.pod:power.c example" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199707181344.JAA10565@postman.opengroup.org> + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] arguments swapped in perlapio.pod" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706240049.CAA10534@xs2.xs4all.nl> + Files: pod/perlapio.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] cool quote for perldebug" + From: Greg Bacon + Msg-ID: <199707292140.QAA28579@adtrn-srv4.adtran.com> + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] multiline commands in qx//" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707212350.TAA18496@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "patch to 5.004_01 perltrap.pod" + From: jmm@revenge.elegant.com (John Macdonald) + Msg-ID: <9706231525.AA22790@revenge.elegant.com> + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "perl4 to perl5.004 converion with debugger problem" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "done3/perlbook.pod" + From: Randal Schwartz + Files: pod/perlbook.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] readline and readpipe are undocumented" + From: Hans Mulder + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document use of - in a regex char class." + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] splitpod broken in 5.004_01" + From: Hans Mulder , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199706240048.CAA10515@xs2.xs4all.nl>, + <9706241612.AA09119@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: pod/splitpod + + ------ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS ------ + + Title: "Carp::cluck() and -MCarp=verbose" + From: Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk, epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko) + Msg-ID: <199708060607.AAA16681@den-mdev1.tci.com>, + <199708062105.PAA09878@den-mdev1.tci.com> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Warning from calls using "use Shell"" + From: Andrew Pimlott + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Shell.pm + + Title: "confessing a carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg , Hugo van der Sanden + , Nick Ing-Simmons + , Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199708052155.WAA25393@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199708060721.IAA30894@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199708061533.LAA01313@rio.atlantic.net>, + <33E79BE2.4E6F@ni-s.u-net.com>, + <33E8E3C5.62C@ni-s.u-net.com>, + <9708051619.AA13764@toad.ig.co.uk> + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "[BUG:PATCH] dumpvar.pl parses some references incorrectly" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/dumpvar.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: minor doc patch (to obsolete I18N::Collate)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708060732.KAA02675@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: lib/I18N/Collate.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Binary installers for Perl modules" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707210006.UAA06165@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "m2t2 broke CPAN.pm :-(" + From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] CPAN.pm on OS/2" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" , Ilya Zakharevich + + Msg-ID: <199707180415.AAA03180@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199707181407.QAA12920@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Docs of IO::Handle [PATCH]" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707222307.TAA08380@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Exporter errors give wrong location" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Exporter new export_to_level method" + From: epeschko@elmer.tci.com (Ed Peschko) + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "DB_File produces spurious output when trapping __DIE__" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9706302125.AA28254@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "Remove 'use UNIVERSAL;', switch to UNIVERSAL::isa()" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + + Title: "perl5.004 Time::Local still broken" + From: Mathias Koerber + Msg-ID: <199706260452.MAA22647@dnssec1.singnet.com.sg> + Files: lib/Time/Local.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname should localize $SIG{__DIE__}" + From: Ken Shan + Msg-ID: <199707070357.XAA18065@digitas.harvard.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "xsubpp patch" + From: John Tobey + Msg-ID: <199707010221.CAA01234@remote133> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "DB_File 1.15 patch" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9707192117.AA01973@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/typemap + t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + Title: "Problems with setvbuf" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707250040.UAA11000@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + Title: "[PATCH] Repost of fork() debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707252101.RAA11846@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "IO::File and DB_File pollutes namespace with Fcntl constants" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "[MM] [PATCH] Re: Liblist problems for MSWin32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706182152.RAA20273@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + Title: "Net::hostent documentation error" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199707082222.QAA24728@elara.frii.com> + Files: lib/Net/hostent.pm + + Title: "PATCH: make DBM*_File modules sub-classable" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9707121854.AA19472@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: ext/GDBM_File/typemap ext/NDBM_File/typemap + ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs ext/SDBM_File/typemap + t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + + Title: "Sys::Syslog patch to allow unix domain sockets" + From: Sean Robinson + Msg-ID: <33B31342.7EB16A44@sc.maricopa.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "'use UNIVERSAL;' deprecated, do C instead", + "UNIVERSAL.pm and import methods" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Gisle Aas , + Graham Barr , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199706271701.NAA25664@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199706271904.UAA00120@crypt.compulink.co.uk>, + <199706272054.QAA28913@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199706301554.LAA03763@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <33B22248.7D7C1985@ti.com>, + , + , + , + , + , + + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Compare.pm lib/File/Copy.pm + t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "[MM] Small patch to MakeMaker, new release" + From: "Andreas J. Koenig" + Msg-ID: <199706281603.SAA10869@anna.in-berlin.de> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "ExtUtils-Embed upgrade" + From: Doug MacEachern + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] icmp tweak for IO::Socket" + From: Nick.Ing-Simmons@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199707041240.NAA21484@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Allow concurrent mkdir in File::Path::mkpath" + From: schattev@imb-jena.de (Ruben Schattevoy) + Msg-ID: <199707300943.LAA21574@kant.imb-jena.de> + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "CPAN.pm, $VERSION and nested (bundled) modules." + From: a.koenig@kulturbox.de (Andreas J. Koenig) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] perl debugger, win32, and emacs" + From: Jay Rogers + Msg-ID: <199707311759.NAA13276@crooked-i.mitre.org> + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] pod2html mangles C<&foo(42);>" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199706250057.CAA10162@xs1.xs4all.nl> + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] posix.xs broken on VMS 7.1" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095755.00875ba0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "MM_Unix.pm nits for Win32 DMAKE" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708032051.QAA14248@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Sys::Hostname -w unclean in trial 2" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708032055.QAA14278@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Hostname.pm + + Title: "(3) File::Find::find()/finddepth() bugs with toplevel paths" + From: "Conrad E. Kimball" + Msg-ID: <199707040045.RAA24459@mailgate2.boeing.com> + Files: lib/File/Find.pm + + ------ OTHER CHANGES ------ + + Title: "EMERGENCY_SBRK or PERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK ?" + From: Andy Dougherty , + ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Aug1.191631.2167470@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + + Files: + Files: + + ------ PORTABILITY - WIN32 ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] Embedding threaded apps in perl.dll" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707261518.LAA24346@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301833.OAA19570@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "Minor fix for pl2bat.bat", "[PATCH] Re: Minor fix for pl2bat.bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Warren Jones + + Msg-ID: <199707061843.OAA23874@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <97Jun24.115804pdt.35752-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + Title: "WIN32 Build - pod2xxx.bat Missing?", "[PATCH] Re: WIN32 Build - + pod2xxx.bat Missing?" + From: Chris Williams , Gurusamy Sarathy + + Msg-ID: <199707011423.KAA15855@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <33B8B962.D96FA1F5@netinfo.com.au> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Win32 sitelib intuition from DLL location" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706231647.MAA23260@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/config_h.PL win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] binary coexistence on win32", "[RESEND] [PATCH] binary + coexistence on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250109.VAA02666@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301829.OAA19516@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h + win32/win32iop.h win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] docs for win32 utilities" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250045.UAA02510@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] exec() fixed on win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706241525.LAA06554@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] getenv() after my_setenv() gets old entry on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706231700.NAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] getservby*() calls fail on Windows NT" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199706231654.MAA23276@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] minor win32 scribbles" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Hugo van der Sanden + + Msg-ID: <199707262307.TAA28410@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707270832.JAA19399@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod README.win32 win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/config.vc win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] trial2: some batch files won't run" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708040226.WAA17301@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 docs and runperl.bat" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707070446.AAA29560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 win32/bin/pl2bat.bat win32/bin/runperl.bat + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 extras and embedding" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250232.WAA03421@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199707301831.OAA19528@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: dosish.h win32/win32.h perl.c win32/config.bc win32/config_H.bc + win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 tweaks" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707042150.RAA01065@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32_stat() fixes (2nd try)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708040137.VAA16810@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/stat.t win32/win32iop.h win32/win32.c + + ------ PORTABILITY - OTHER ------ + + Title: "Additional OS/2 patches" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Ilya Zakharevich + + Msg-ID: <199708020823.EAA19521@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>, + <199708021424.KAA28561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199708042108.RAA27671@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: README.os2 os2/Changes perl.c + + Title: "Additional patch is needed for os2/diff.configure" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199708020745.DAA19483@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: os2/diff.configure + + Title: "Assorted OS/2 fixes" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Jun16.163234.2091727@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: hints/os2.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h README.os2 os2/Changes + os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c util.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Changes for VMS 7.1 support" + From: Charles Bailey , Dan Sugalski + + Msg-ID: <01ILDXUH0J1W00026U@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <3.0.2.32.19970718095935.0087a2d0@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/sockadapt.h vms/config.vms vms/sockadapt.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Easier TCP stack selection for VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970624151939.00994490@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "Minor VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01ILCUO6XXTE000WFK@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/vmsish.h vms/descrip.mms vms/test.com + vms/vms.c vms/ext/filespec.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Two un-disabled tests for VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.2.32.19970718095842.00879220@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: vms/test.com + + Title: "fixes for hints/svr4 for UnixWare >= 2.1.1" + From: John Hughes + Msg-ID: <199707021230.OAA24230@titanic.AtlanTech.COM> + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "make depend loop fix and minor OS/2 improvements to build process" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Files: Makefile.SH hints/os2.sh os2/Makefile.SHs + + ------ TESTS ------ + + Title: "Add xor tests to test suite" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199706250730.IAA06097@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Files: t/comp/cmdopt.t + + Title: "[PATCH] enable some tests on Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199707250029.UAA02351@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Fix up problems with *DBM tests" + From: Paul Marquess + Files: t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + + ------ UTILITIES ------ + + Title: "[PATCH] m2t3: utils/perlbug.PL: -ok report is not a bug" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199708071022.NAA13008@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug - check sendmail and fix win32 tmp path" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199708060349.XAA15895@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "OK: perl on (corrected)", "enhancements + to perlbug -ok" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" , Stephen McCamant + Msg-ID: , + , + + Files: utils/Makefile utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug -ok [PATCH]" + From: "Charles F. Randall" + Msg-ID: <199706181824.MAA04082@free.click-n-call.com> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perlbug broken" + From: Andreas Schwab + Msg-ID: <9707040912.AA03466@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perlbug under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707180333.XAA03102@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "perldoc doesn't grok Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones + Msg-ID: <97Jun17.184420pdt.35728-1@gateway.fluke.com>, + <97Jun18.165618pdt.35713-1@gateway.fluke.com> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] perldoc under OS/2" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199707180340.XAA03114@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "h2ph corrections to avoid redefined sub warnings" + From: wdconsta + Msg-ID: + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + + +---------------- +Version 5.004_01 Maintenance release 1 for 5.004 +---------------- + +"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty" + -- Anne Herbert + + HEADLINES FOR THIS MAINTENANCE RELEASE + + (..., undef, ...) = split(...) bug fixed. + Win32 support greatly improved, now very strong. + Memory leak using Tied hashes and arrays fixed. + Documentation updates. + Many other bug fixes and enhancements. + + CORE LANGUAGE + + Title: "[PATCH] first true value returned by scalar C<...> is wrong" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pp_ctl.c t/op/flip.t + + Title: "Regex Bug in 5.003_26 thru 003_99a" + From: Andreas Karrer , Chip Salzenberg + + Msg-ID: <199705152303.BAA08890@kuru.ee.ethz.ch>, + <199705161915.PAA18721@rio.atlantic.net> + Files: regcomp.h regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "[PATCH] -w interacts badly with -Dt" + From: Spider Boardman + Files: sv.c + + Title: "No DESTROY on untie. Tie memory leak fixed." + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , Jay Rogers , + pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <199705170235.WAA00267@fluffy.rgrs.com>, + <199705172156.RAA20561@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <9705171506.AA04491@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "magic_clear_all_env proto should match svt_clear" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: proto.h mg.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)", + "[PATCH] for NETaa13787: %ENV=(); doesn't clear the environment" + From: hansm@euronet.nl, pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Msg-ID: <199705292240.AAA01135@mail.euronet.nl> + Files: embed.h perl.h proto.h global.sym mg.c t/op/magic.t + + Title: "Patch to show @INC when require dies" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9705230121.AA27872@membrane.hal.com> + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "[PATCH] bug with m// nested inside s///e" + From: hansm@euro.net + Files: op.c t/op/subst.t + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "[PATCH] perlembed Win32 update" + From: Doug MacEachern + Files: pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "perldiag.pod patch - "(W) substr outside string" is "(S)evere" if + used as lvalue." + From: John Hughes + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "local(%ENV) looses magic - document behaviour" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] perlguts caveats", "perlguts additions" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy , ilya@math.ohio-state.edu + (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <199705180052.UAA22066@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705180202.WAA22826@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199705301341.JAA05204@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May17.235722.2033087@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pod2man produces broken pages", "weird condition in perldelta breaks + nroff" + From: Davin Milun , Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <199705310447.AAA15721@obelix.cs.Buffalo.EDU>, + <1997May25.192350.2055977@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "Perl 5 pod2man fix", "perlguts man page corrupted" + From: chen@adi.com (Franklin Chen), gnat@frii.com, lvirden@cas.org, tom + (Tom Dinger on Feste), tom@edc.com (Tom Dinger on Feste) + Msg-ID: <199705210013.UAA09599@menhaden.adi.com>, + <199706011305.JAA18271@cas.org>, + <199706012116.PAA14102@elara.frii.com>, + <9504250959.AA23419@feste.edc.com>, + <9504251700.AA23823@feste.edc.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] reference form chomp to chop in perlfunc" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "pod2man gags if "=pod" is before "=head1 NAME"" + From: whyde@pezz.sps.mot.com (Warren Hyde) + Msg-ID: <9705212115.AA21730@pezz.sps.mot.com> + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + Title: "perlfunc.pod unclear about return value range of rand" + From: "Tuomas J. Lukka" + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Error in perllol manpage", "Error in perllol manpage (fwd)" + From: Chris Wick + Files: pod/perllol.pod + + Title: "5.004 removed deprecated %OVERLOAD support silently" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705232319.QAA28388@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "[PATCH] Documentation bugs" + From: Stephen Potter + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfaq9.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "5.004 POD stuff", "make html - any takers?", "make html --> unusable + xref links", "pod/*.html -- all hyperlinks are invalid" + From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." , "Paul D. Smith" + , Gurusamy Sarathy + , Jarkko Hietaniemi , + Michael R Cook , avera@hal.com (Jim + Avera), lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <199705162008.XAA06906@alpha.hut.fi>, + <199705171830.OAA15652@erawan.cognex.com>, + <199706081749.NAA04552@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <1997May16.191039.2033079@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, + <87hgg2y1h4.fsf@perv.daft.com>, + <9705161931.AA01075@membrane.hal.com>, + <9705191839.AA28702@lemming.engeast> + Files: INSTALL pod/perldiag.pod installhtml + + Title: "checkpods- forget blank line status when starting a new file" + From: Larry Parmelee + Files: pod/checkpods.PL + + Title: "installhtml: Fix 'no title' & 'unexpected ...' warnings. Double speed." + From: Tim Bunce + Files: installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/splitpod + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "sdbm can fail if a config.h exists in system directories" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + Title: "LWP and SIG __DIE__ traps not playing well together!" + From: Gisle Aas + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "Memory Consumption of autosplit_lib_modules/sv_gets (workaround)" + From: Matthias Neeracher + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "Comments of this Sys::Syslog patch", "Unusual Sys::Syslog behaviour + with FQDN ? [Even in 5.004 - a bug?]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi , Russ Allbery , + alansz@mellers1.psych.berkeley.edu (Alan Schwartz) + Msg-ID: <199705231621.TAA16790@alpha.hut.fi>, <5m4fjr$rhs@agate.berkeley.edu> + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Patch to CPAN.pm (perl5.004) for ncftp" + From: "Richard L. Maus, Jr." + Msg-ID: <337FBAC8.167EB0E7@monmouth.com> + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Harness.pm bug w/perl5.004 & VMS" + From: Dan Sugalski + Msg-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970530102300.008a2730@stargate.lbcc.cc.or.us> + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "more Fcntl constants [PATCH]" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs + + Title: "5.004 breaks ftp.pl due to missing (although obsolete) chat2.pl" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: lib/chat2.pl + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "make test && ... doesn't work" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "[PATCH] INSTALL-1.18" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "improved gnuwin32 Configure support" + From: Chris Faylor + Msg-ID: <199706070318.XAA09214@hardy.bbc.com> + Files: Configure + + Title: "installhtml problems finding splitpod" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Files: installhtml INSTALL + + Title: "perl 5.004 (and 01) man pages not generated and installed" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Files: installman + + Title: "oddity in Configure" + From: Mike Stok + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.004 on AIX: Patches", "perl5.004 on FreeBSD and AIX" + From: Peter van Heusden + Msg-ID: , + + Files: Makefile.SH perl_exp.SH ext/DynaLoader/dl_aix.xs perlio.sym + + Title: "Compiling perl5.004 on NEWS-OS 4.x" + From: Makoto MATSUSHITA (=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCJF4kRCQ3JD8kXiQzJEgbKEI=?=) + + Msg-ID: <19970521132814F.matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp> + Files: Configure hints/newsos4.sh + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "win32: additional default libraries" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705291332.JAA21560@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] win32 minor fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm win32/config.bc + + Title: "[PATCH] clean up perlocal.pod output on VMS" + From: pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Term::ReadKey on Win32: set console" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] Pod::Text nit for Win32" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "pathname bug in xsubpp on win32" + From: jon@sems.com (Jonathan Biggar) + Msg-ID: <199705230126.SAA23401@clamp.netlabs.com> + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "MakeMaker stumbles on Win32 UNC paths" + From: Warren Jones + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + + Title: "build problem on SGI R10000 PowerChallenge (IRIX 6.2) lseek proto" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Perl 5.004 + Linux 2.0.30 & semctl()" + From: Andy Dougherty , Jordan + Mendelson + Files: doio.c + + Title: "lib/io_udp.t fails on VMS" + From: Jonathan.Hudson@jrhudson.demon.co.uk + Msg-ID: + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Compilation of mg.c from perl5.004m1t2 fails on OpenVMS/AXP" + From: Henrik Tougaard + Files: mg.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "[PATCH] (NEXT|OPEN)STEP hints" + From: Gerd Knops + Files: hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "win32: user defined shell" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705291339.JAA21682@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: pod/perlrun.pod win32/win32.c + + Title: "misc perl5.004 doc fixes, especially vms" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705160419.AAA16317@cas.org> + Files: pod/perlfaq4.pod vms/perlvms.pod lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/roffitall + vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm + + Title: "[PATCH] gen_shrfls.pl too picky for Dec C 5.6 preprocessor output" + From: Dan Sugalski + Files: vms/gen_shrfls.pl + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: Configure cf_email" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705301335.JAA05079@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Files: win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc win32/config_sh.PL + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] README.win32 nits" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "Document cause and remedy for op/taint.t failure" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 + + Title: "SVR4 hints for DDE SMES Supermax Enterprise Server" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "porting.help" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod Porting/preprel + + Title: "Major 5.004 Win32 update (Borland win32 support, and other patches)", + "($a,undef,$b) = qw(a b c) and ties delaying DESTROY fixes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST pod/perlguts.pod win32/include/sys/socket.h EXTERN.h + opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm + ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/DosGlob.pm t/op/mkdir.t t/op/stat.t win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h README.win32 doio.c gv.c + mg.c op.c perlio.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c util.c + win32/Makefile win32/config.bc win32/config.vc + win32/config_H.bc win32/config_H.vc win32/makedef.pl + win32/makefile.mk win32/makeperldef.pl win32/perlglob.c + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c + win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Maintenance release (remove PERL_DUMMY_SIZE)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: opcode.h perl.h regcomp.h win32/win32.h gv.c + + Title: "[PATCH] ENV leaks on win32 (was Re: Comments on ENV patch sought)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/win32.h win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h global.sym mg.c perl.c + t/op/magic.t util.c win32/makedef.pl win32/win32.c + win32/win32io.c + + Title: "[PATCH] win32: ExtUtils::Liblist support" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm win32/Makefile win32/config.bc + win32/makefile.mk + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: borland C++Perl embedding failures re __declspec()" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: win32/win32.c + + Title: "No need to use `pwd` in t/op/magic.t test for amigaos" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Files: t/op/magic.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Tests depend on locale" + From: "Jan D." , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705191127.NAA08148@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191230.PAA21070@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/lib/safe2.t t/op/mkdir.t + + Title: "op/groups test fails on Linux (groups in /bin)" + From: "Jan D." + Msg-ID: <199705191120.NAA08130@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se> + Files: t/op/groups.t + + Title: "More simple regexp tests and test docs" + From: Hans Mulder + Files: t/op/re_tests t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "[PATCH] Re: Using undef to ignore values returned from split" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Files: t/op/split.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "bad test of -A flag in h2xs" + From: "Jeffrey S. Haemer" + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] h2xs missing from utils/Makefile" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/Makefile + + Title: "PATCH: bug in perlbug w.r.t. environment variables", "bug in perlbug + w.r.t. environment variables" + From: "Jan D." , Jarkko Hietaniemi + + Msg-ID: <199705191841.UAA00969@ostrich.gaia.swipnet.se>, + <199705191857.VAA09154@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "[PATCH] final newline missing in MANIFEST generated by h2xs" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + +------------- +Version 5.004 +------------- + +"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a release out of my hat!" +"Aww, that trick never works..." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make C reset pos on failure; make C not reset" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c op.c op.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq6.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c regcomp.c + t/op/pat.t toke.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{BASH_ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t + taint.c + + Title: "Allow exec() if $ENV{TERM} is tainted but innocuous" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t + taint.c + + Title: "Allow globbing when tainted under VMS (no external program)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c t/op/taint.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Make Irix hints adapt when n32 libm.so is missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "Fix default HP-UX installation path" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199705132228.AA227042483@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:28:04 -0700 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "VMS update, including socket support (four patches)" + From: Jonathan Hudson , + Peter Prymmer , + Dan Sugalski + Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms.c + vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: README.win32 perl.c win32/Makefile win32/config.H + win32/config_h.PL win32/config_sh.PL win32/makedef.pl + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h + win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "Don't require executable bit on perl -S if DOSISH" + From: Danny Sadinoff + Msg-ID: <337351CE.79B28DE3@olf.com> + Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:33:18 -0400 + Files: perl.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "In C, always call &func in scalar context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix recursive substitution" + From: Chip Salzenberg; test from Tim Bunce + Files: cop.h global.sym pp_ctl.c proto.h scope.c t/op/subst.t + + Title: "Make read with <> from a TTY notice EOF" + From: Jonathan I. Kamens + Msg-ID: <199705121147.HAA03845@jik.saturn.net> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 07:47:13 -0400 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix core dump from get*() functions returning no alias array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo" + From: Mark K Trettin + Msg-ID: <199705102228.RAA11163@gv18c.ih.lucent.com> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 17:28:35 -0500 + Files: pp_sys.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use 'unset' in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Protect against having no such command as 'cc'" + From: Hans Mulder + Msg-ID: <1997May12.163534.2006434@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:35:34 -0400 (EDT) + Files: Configure + + Title: "minor wording enhancement for Configure" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199705101038.NAA00471@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:38:31 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.36" + From: Lincoln Stein + Files: eg/cgi/frameset.cgi eg/cgi/javascript.cgi lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "In IO::File::open, prepend './' less often (for Win32 et al)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + Title: "Fix core dump on IO::Seekable::setpos($fh, undef)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs t/lib/io_xs.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Make rand.t vanishingly unlikely to give false failure" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:57:30 -0700 (PDT) + Files: t/op/rand.t + + Title: "Fix sleep test: sleep(N) is defined to allow sleeping N-1" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199705151735.KAA01143@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:35:41 -0600 + Files: t/op/sleep.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "h2xs and @EXPORT_OK" + From: Jeff Okamoto + Msg-ID: <199705092348.AA057881699@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 16:48:20 -0700 + Files: utils/h2xs.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Tweaks for perldelta" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705102346.BAA17300@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Sun, 11 May 97 01:46:00 +0200 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Mention perlfaq.pod and perlmodlib.pod in perldelta.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Fix example of use of lexicals with formats" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Explain that destruction order is not defined" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705150600.CAA13550@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 02:00:23 -0400 + Files: pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "Note that DATA filehandle is unavailable during BEGIN {}" + From: neilb@cre.canon.co.uk (Neil Bowers) + Msg-ID: <199705121227.NAA29718@tardis.cre.canon.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:27:43 +0100 + Files: pod/perldata.pod + + Title: "More detailed IO::Socket documentation" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199705141456.IAA19061@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:56:30 -0600 + Files: pod/perlipc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_99a +----------------- + +Herein we find the fruits of the gamma. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid glob() when tainting (-T or setuid)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "SECURITY: Forbid exec() if $ENV{TERM} or $ENV{ENV} is tainted" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsec.pod t/op/taint.t taint.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "(NeXT|Open)Step update" + From: Gerd Knops + Msg-ID: <9705072247.AA18882@BITart.com> + Date: Wed, 7 May 97 17:47:02 -0500 + Files: Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/next_3.sh hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: Giles Lean + Msg-ID: <199705051346.XAA13584@topaz.nemeton.com.au> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 23:46:37 +1000 (EST) + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "Irix hint update" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 06 May 1997 11:09:56 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6.sh + + Title: "HPUX: patch for ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199705050548.WAA21260@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:48:39 -0600 + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs + + Title: "Win32 update (consolidated patch plus three followups)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: EXTERN.h README.win32 lib/Sys/Hostname.pm pod/perldelta.pod + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32.h win32/include/sys/socket.h + + Title: "Win32 boot_DynaLoader problem in 99" + From: Gary Clark + Msg-ID: <1997May05.105000.1708.84476@mail.jeld-wen.com> + Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 10:49:03 -0700 + Files: win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix wantarray() in sort subs [fixes metaconfig]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix for redefined sort subs nastiness" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199705090004.UAA15032@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 20:04:18 -0400 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod sv.c t/op/sort.t + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "AFS patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg, Larry Schwimmer + Files: Configure installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Another blank line patch to Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Date: 08 May 1997 11:36:12 -0700 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Three bugs in pod2html" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199705052228.AAA25351@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Tue, 6 May 97 00:28:06 +0200 + Files: lib/Pod/Html.pm + + Title: "Trivial bugfix for pod of xsubpp" + From: Ralf S. Engelschall + Msg-ID: <199705051447.QAA09995@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:47:03 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Newer CPerl mode" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080032.UAA22532@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:32:46 -0400 (EDT) + Files: emacs/cperl-mode.el + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Updates to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Dominic Dunlop + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "More explicit Solaris instructions" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: 06 May 1997 23:27:55 +0200 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "perlfaq9, hostname" + From: John D Groenveld + Msg-ID: <199705061741.NAA22777@cse.psu.edu> + Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 13:41:12 EDT + Files: pod/perlfaq9.pod + + Title: "Debugger docs patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080107.VAA24317@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 21:07:14 -0400 (EDT) + Files: pod/perldebug.pod + + Title: "Document that C is just like C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Refresh description of sprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Mention the Regular Expressions book" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:37:37 -0500 + Files: pod/perlbook.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "OS/2 doc patch for _99" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199705080046.UAA23466@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:46:45 -0400 (EDT) + Files: README.os2 + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_99 +---------------- + +"Oops." Now this _has_ to be the gamma; we're out of numbers. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "NeXT hints update" + From: hansm@euronet.nl + Msg-ID: <199704302229.AAA02690@mail.euronet.nl> + Date: Thu, 1 May 97 00:28:41 +0200 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/next_4.sh + + Title: "Support shared libperl on AIX" + From: Eric Bartley + Msg-ID: <199704270131.UAA51426@icd.cc.purdue.edu> + Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:31:37 -0500 + Files: Configure Makefile.SH hints/aix.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix NUL-termination bug in delimcpy()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Forget prototype of subroutine after C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Handle tainted values in lists returned from subs, evals" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix sysread() on tied handle" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199705010601.CAA04926@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 02:01:20 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix OS/2-specific buffer overflow" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704301920.PAA09681@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 15:20:01 -0400 (EDT) + Files: os2/os2.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Add new globals to perl.exp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.14" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704302045.AA05484@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:45:09 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs t/lib/db-btree.t + t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + + TESTS + + Title: "Disable op/pipe.t test under Machten" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:48:26 +0200 + Files: t/io/pipe.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "typo fixes to installhtml" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) + Msg-ID: <199705011114.HAA26968@cas.org> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 07:14:31 -0400 + Files: installhtml + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Fix description of av_undef() in perlguts" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199705011042.MAA09897@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 12:42:46 +0200 + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "Fix typo in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_98 +---------------- + +Here it is, the second public beta (a.k.a gamma). + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support C< $coderef->($x,$y) >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldsc.pod + pod/perlref.pod t/op/ref.t vms/perly_c.vms + + CORE PORTABILITY + + (no changes) + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< hex('80') * 0x1000000 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: opcode.pl + + Title: "Reset errno after failed piped close" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28152.862264940@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:02:20 -0400 + Files: lib/Time/gmtime.pm lib/Time/localtime.pm pod/perlfunc.pod + t/io/pipe.t util.c + + Title: "Fix warning wrt return value of PerlIO_getname()" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199704300448.AAA24174@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 00:48:13 -0400 + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + (no changes) + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Describe Math::Trig in perlmodlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlmodlib.pod + + Title: "Add new diagnostics to perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97j +----------------- + +This patch should be _98, unless it's egregiously broken somehow. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Return to favoring memset(,0,) over bzero()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h + + Title: "NetBSD hint update" + From: matthew green + Msg-ID: <199704251021.EAA22570@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:18:02 +1000 + Files: hints/netbsd.sh + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Chuck D. Phillips + Msg-ID: <199704280535.WAA22441@palrel1.hp.com> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:35:07 -0600 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Update sprintf: '%hn'; '%s',NULL; panic on frexp() failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pod/perldiag.pod sv.c + + Title: "Fix lingering '%S' in XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h + + Title: "Eliminate Alpha warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth and Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix typo in NeXT dynaloader" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + + Title: "Fix possible buffer overflow under VMS" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: taint.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI.pm to 2.35" + From: Lincoln Stein + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.13" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704271413.AA08876@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 15:12:59 +0100 (BST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "SelfLoader: fix prototype pattern, rename intrusive lexical" + From: Jesse Glick and Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/SelfLoader.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Split perlmod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704260050.RAA02468@toy.perl.com> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:50:09 -0400 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perldsc.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perlobj.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "Describe __PACKAGE__ in perldelta" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Doc fix for close of pipe handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97i +----------------- + +This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the +crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + (no changes) + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c + + Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes" + From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip + Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Guard against long numbers, <" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c + + Title: "Guard against C to deeply nested label" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: util.c + + Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/win32sck.c + + Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV" + From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: perl.c util.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Undo private patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Cope with a that isn't related to DB" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs + + Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall + t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2py.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington + Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97h +----------------- + +This patch eliminates almost all possible sources of buffer overflow; +in particular, there are no more sprintf() bugs. (!!) This patch +also has a few other fixes. With these changes in place, I can sleep +at night. (Because I've stopped hacking. :-)) + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support PRINTF for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Win32 update (two patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm win32/config.w32 + win32/makedef.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs + ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs + global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h + pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h + regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Problems with glob" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT) + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix scalar leak in closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c scope.c + + Title: "Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Outermost scope is void, not scalar" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: without module name" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Silence warnings on simple C" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 19 Apr 1997 10:22:43 -0400 + Files: ext/Opcode/ops.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Don't put leading newline on numeric strings" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:47:00 +0200 + Files: t/pragma/constant.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)" + From: Nathan Torkington + Msg-ID: <199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com> + Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT) + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + Title: "Two doublewords less" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:38:13 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: pod/perlrun.pod vms/perlvms.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97g +----------------- + +This one has two security bug fixes for buffer overflows. Perl has +not yet been searched to see if more fixes are needed. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Improve sysseek(), remove systell(), fix Opcode" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + proto.h t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Fix (and test) spaces in {,un}pack()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Irix update" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:37:24 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6.sh hints/irix_6_0.sh hints/irix_6_1.sh + + Title: "ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm not built on Win32" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199704181742.SAA08407@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:42:32 +0100 + Files: win32/Makefile + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "SECURITY FIX: 'Identifier too long'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "SECURITY FIX: Buffer overflow in gv_fetchfile()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Remove pp_method() inefficiency from last patch" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix unnecessary re-linking" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Fix tcsh hack in Configure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Minor, optional patch to Makefile.SH" + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:32:17 -0600 + Files: Makefile.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Patch to Getopt::Long" + From: Johan Vromans + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 22:24 MET DST + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Fix NAME in SDBM_File build" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Make h2ph generate constant subs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:23:46 -0400 + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Document {,un}pack changes" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9704181249.AA11733@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:49:39 BST + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97f +----------------- + +This is it before _98. No more last-minute features. Really, I mean +it this time. No kidding. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "New operator systell()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms + vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl + + Title: "Win32 update (three patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl + win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix error messages on method lookup failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix use of var before init in util.c" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400 + Files: util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh" + From: Michael De La Rue + Files: Configure hints/linux.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm + ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs + + Title: "CGI.pm broke again" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200 + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Revise quotewords()" + From: Shishir Gundavaram + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "Document size restrictions for packed integers" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97e +----------------- + +Y'know, I've heard of this "beta" thing, but it's been so long since +I've seen one, I'm not sure it really exists... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "New operator: sysseek()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym + keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c + + Title: "Allow recursive substitution again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix STMT_{START,END} under g++" + From: Steven Parkes + Msg-ID: <199704141935.MAA11240@monterey.sierravista.com> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:35:34 -0700 + Files: perl.h + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c + ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c + utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST + win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL + win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c + win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "New API function: perl_eval_pv()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400 + Files: perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c + + Title: "Return a value from PerlIO_{,un}getc" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199704131228.OAA05695@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:14 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: perlio.c + + Title: "Fix for environment leak" + From: skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be (Sven Verdoolaege) + Msg-ID: <19970415103246.NN46698@breughel.ufsia.ac.be> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:32:46 +0200 + Files: util.c + + Title: "Fix comments in seed()" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199704141758.TAA06895@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:58:38 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Put extensions' autoload files in $archlib" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Use '-fPIC' for debugging compiles under Solaris with gcc" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CGI to 2.34" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: eg/cgi/customize.cgi eg/cgi/tryit.cgi lib/CGI.pm + lib/CGI/Apache.pm + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704142115.RAA09923@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:15:27 -0400 (EDT) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "diagnostics: $/ gotcha" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704151814.UAA03404@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:14:01 +0200 + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Update File::Path" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199704151401.QAA02556@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:01:07 +0200 + Files: lib/File/Path.pm t/lib/filepath.t + + Title: "User::pwent.pm: g{,e}cos" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704130135.TAA23274@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:35:54 -0600 + Files: lib/User/pwent.pm + + Title: "Sys::Syslog: hyphens in hostnames" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704151421.RAA19693@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:21:53 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "Clean up format of dlopen() debug info" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "xsubpp incorrectly handles 'class::newthing()'" + From: "John Q. Linux" + Msg-ID: <199704122201.PAA01780@jql.accessone.com> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:01:33 -0700 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add CGI to perldelta.pod and improve its description in MANIFEST" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Describe probs with majordomo 1.94.1" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Fix description of /\G/g" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Mention '...' operator in precedence table" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199704131724.LAA23120@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0600 + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97d +----------------- + +Any minute now... second public beta... no, really... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix for incorrect overloaded assignment" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704112225.SAA03482@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:25:33 -0400 (EDT) + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Fix C< $x=''; pos($x)=0; $x=~/\G$/ >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix label on C statement" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.c perly.y + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "update to 5.003_97b/hint/irix_6_2.sh" + From: Scott Henry + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Apr 1997 18:05:03 -0700 + Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Before 'BEGIN not safe', explain why" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "New error msg for low-key failure of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c t/pragma/strict-subs + t/pragma/strict-vars + + Title: "Put "dXSUB_SYS" last in declarations" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: win32/perllib.c + + Title: "Minor type cleanup" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: proto.h toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "win32: perl5db patch" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704102142.RAA27396@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:13 -0400 + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Enhancements to debugger, Term::ReadLine, Term::Cap" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199704101948.PAA01841@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:48:07 -0400 (EDT) + Files: lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "MM_Unix patch for use under CVS" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:59:00 +0200 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Complex update (five patches)" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Fix undef warning in Math::BigInt" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Math/BigInt.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the default" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.pod x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "typo in lib/diagnostics.pm" + From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) + Msg-ID: <199704111800.OAA27297@grymoire.crd.ge.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:00:54 -0400 + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Use B<> for options in Class::Struct pod" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <334D2E7B.67F0@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:16:27 +0100 + Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm + + Title: "Explain //g and \G issues" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704122048.QAA25060@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:48:41 -0400 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod + + Title: "more (err, less) doubled words" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704111931.WAA24460@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:31:25 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm + ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm lib/CGI.pm lib/Exporter.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + lib/vars.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod + pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlipc.pod + + Title: "Freudian slip error in perlsub.pod" + From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) + Msg-ID: <199704111755.NAA27200@grymoire.crd.ge.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:55:07 -0400 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Little patch for perl5.003_97c/pod/perlpod.pod" + From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall) + Msg-ID: <199704112048.WAA08733@en1.engelschall.com> + Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:48:37 +0200 + Files: pod/perlpod.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97c +----------------- + +That second public beta will be Real Soon Now... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Refine setgroups() behavior of C<$)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Forbid -[Mm] on #! line" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix dynamic loading (and argv[0]) under AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724842@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 22:01:45 +0200 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + Title: "Special mkdir() for VMS" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IHGOXN6MZM0004K3@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:33:56 -0400 (EDT) + Files: dosish.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/File/Path.pm os2/os2ish.h + plan9/plan9ish.h pp_sys.c unixish.h vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix assignment from magic SV that becomes a glob" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix syntax error in Configure comment(!)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "For Solaris, if -DDEBUGGING, default to '-KPIC', not '-Kpic'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Fix usage of dXSUB_SYS, esp. in ExtUtils::Miniperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dosish.h minimod.pl os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h vms/vmsish.h + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Replace Class::Template with improved Class::Struct" + From: Jim Miner + Files: MANIFEST lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/Class/Template.pm + lib/File/stat.pm lib/Net/hostent.pm lib/Net/netent.pm + lib/Net/protoent.pm lib/Net/servent.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm + lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm + lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod + pod/perlmod.pod pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "MakeMaker pathname patch" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons + Msg-ID: <199704091908.UAA00877@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 20:08:23 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Fix configuration of new socket" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + Title: "Improve IO::Handle docs; don't export _open_mode_string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Complex.pm: 0**0 sanity" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199704091804.VAA13930@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 21:04:23 +0300 (EET DST) + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in Math::Trig" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Trig.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Accommodate CodeBuilder variant of Machten 4.0.3" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:15:15 +0200 + Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "IO::Socket doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28383.860527843@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:30:43 -0400 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97b +----------------- + +Working on the second public beta... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make assignment to C<$)> call setgroups()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH mg.c plan9/config.plan9 + pod/perldelta.pod vms/config.vms win32/config.H + win32/config.w32 + + Title: "Grandfather "$$" in strings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect warn and die hooks _after_ object destruction" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Forbid recursive substitutions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Use SSize_t for values of PerlIO_{read,write}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c perlio.h perlsdio.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "perlwin-97a_4: win32 environ fix" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704060431.XAA23400@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 23:31:11 -0500 + Files: win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "length($') isn't" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704070730.DAA07310@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 03:30:44 -0400 + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix obscure regex bug related to leading C<.*>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Add warning for glob failure" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C in presence of local patches" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't suggest 'Configure -der' in config.sh comments" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "CGI->redirect patch" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704051527.KAA11280@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:27:52 -0500 + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Updates to Math::Complex and Math::Trig" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/perldelta.pod + t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Fix FindBin under Win32, and document success" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons and Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704051504.QAA09507@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 16:04:52 +0100 + Files: README.win32 lib/Cwd.pm lib/FindBin.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Patch for 'perldoc -f'" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199704061732.TAA00353@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:32:04 +0200 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Document required module versions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Document sample function perl_eval()" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199704051524.KAA06090@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 10:24:43 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlembed.pod + + Title: "Make L refer to L" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + +----------------- +Version 5.003_97a +----------------- + +This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm +planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact" + From: John Cerney + Msg-ID: <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2 + cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld + ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h + pp_sys.c + + Title: "Win32 update (six patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t + t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t + t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak + win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "AmigaOS update" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix const-sub-related panic on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor cleanups" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500 + Files: mg.c mg.h perl.c + + Title: "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix impossible test in vivification" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "runlevel is I32, not int" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: " + From: Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "CPAN & TRL-Gnu" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200 + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm + + Title: "Don't use $4 when it might be undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/bigfloat.pl + + TESTS + + Title: "Make *dbm tests work with Win32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t + t/lib/sdbm.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update INSTALL" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Pod style" + From: Nathan Torkington + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_97 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h + + Title: "Improve definition of Sock_size_t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.h + + Title: "Win32 update" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500 + Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC- + 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.24" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Title: "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix POSIX::raise()" + From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" + Msg-ID: + Msg-ID: <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t + + Title: "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Tweaks to constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/constant.pm + + Title: "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Clean up some poddities, and make C work again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::"" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Eliminate pod warnings in libs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_96 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Implement void context, in which C is undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c + pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + pp_sys.c proto.h + + Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod + pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t + + Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make C mean C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C in sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600 + Files: regcomp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "safefree() mismatch" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500 + Files: util.c + + Title: "FreeBSD update" + From: Slaven Rezic + Msg-ID: <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak + win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl + win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200 + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C{KEY}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500 + Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c + + Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c + + Title: "Re: strict @F" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/diagnostics.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t + + Title: "Remove chat2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl + + Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm + lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm + lib/CGI/Switch.pm + + Title: "Fix C in debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Re: Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET) + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500 + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "C doesn't always restore" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500 + Files: lib/SelectSaver.pm + + Title: "Patch for Benchmark.pm" + From: Hugo van der Sanden w/Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm" + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700 + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT + Files: installhtml + + Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.11" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET) + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Improve documentation of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per " + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod + pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat + + Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t + + Title: "Update docs on $]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "perlvar.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100 + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Fix example of C vs. C<||>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch" + From: Larry W. Virden + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "Pod updates" + From: "Cary D. Renzema" + Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_95 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "If C, do equivalent of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t + t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Shigeya Suzuki + Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp> + Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "Another MachTen Patch" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (five patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t + t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t + win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c + win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t + + Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no other changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix C in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000 + Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm + + Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100 + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100 + Files: t/lib/complex.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Missing item in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlref.pod + + Title: "Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET) + Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod + pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "DB_File documentation fix" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "FAQ update" + From: Nathan Torkington + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_94 +---------------- + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h + sv.c + + Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c + + Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + Title: "Abort compilation at C or C after errors" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t + + Title: "allow C" + From: David Dyck + Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Regularize C, esp. when y is negative" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Flush before C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "Warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Don't warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" + From: Christopher Davis + Msg-ID: + Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "More MachTen hints" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t + utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "vmsish.t and related patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness + t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t + t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t + t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t + t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t + t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c + win32/* + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C on tied default handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c + + Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500 + Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c + x2p/util.c + + Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500 + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it" + From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty + Files: Configure + + Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT + Files: installman installperl + + Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET) + Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh + hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh + hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh + hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh + hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module: autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500 + Files: lib/Symbol.pm + + Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "In Exporter, don't C at file scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + TESTS + + (no other changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perlfaq.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST) + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Update site list" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Patch to document illegal characters" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Document trap with //o and closures" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Re: Inline PI function" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "XSUB's doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document return from do FILE" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document $^M in perlvar" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93" + From: Jim Meyering + Msg-ID: + Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod + pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "clarify example in perlfunc" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_93 +---------------- + +Me, last time: + "This release will be the public beta of 5.004, + or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger." +Me, now: + "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl + vms/sockadapt.h + + Title: "AmigaOS hint patch" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: av.c + + Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c proto.h + + Title: "perl -P path patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Carp with multiple arguments" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500 + Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000 + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: README.os2 + + Title: "PODs corrections" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm + lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm + lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm + lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_92 +---------------- + +This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't +Larson T. Pettifogger. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C and nested subs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Raphael Manfredi + Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t + + Title: "VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h + t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms + vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c + + Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET) + Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c + pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c + + Title: "Update copyright dates" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Newer ReadLine" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9" + From: Johan Vromans + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Benchmark: using code refs" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Fix quotewords" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000 + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com> + Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph" + From: (name lost) + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Clarify C documentation" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/*.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_91 +---------------- + +This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c + t/op/runlevel.t + + Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c + + Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: hv.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches post _90" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST) + Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c + vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c + + Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t" + From: Michael H. Moran + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500 + Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST) + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500 + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm" + From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin + Files: Configure + + Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: os2/diff.configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000 + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "New test op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: , Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Fix references to perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perltoc.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_90 +---------------- + +At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Ultrix hints" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500 + Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh + + Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET) + Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl + ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t + t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Hints for DC/OSx" + From: Stephen Zander + Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800 + Files: hints/dcosx.sh + + Title: "Update VMS version" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500 + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm + + Title: "Pod::Text fixes" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "C didn't work until 5.002" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/vars.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: t/op/rand.t + + Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100 + Files: t/op/magic.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman + utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: undefine &foo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: run.c + + Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c op.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()" + From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld) + Files: hints/aix.sh + + Title: "VMS patches post _27" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod + pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile + vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl + vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes + os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h + os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness + t/op/magic.t + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix a typo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor update to malloc.c" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.y + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm + + Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm + + Title: "prototype error in File::stat" + From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy> + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT + Files: lib/File/stat.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000 + Files: t/op/misc.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL updates since _26" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: " + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Correct doc that claimed that was never false" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Add pumpkin.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl + pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_27 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "Allow C" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c + perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs + vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + win32/makedef.pl + + Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h + + Title: "Digital UNIX hints" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)" + From: John Stoffel + Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM> + Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh + + Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl + vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32 + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix core dump when embedding" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Re: Fragile signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST) + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500 + Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c + perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c + + Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix carriage-return message" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "In <=>, test for equality first" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure" + From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) + Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com> + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4" + From: Tim Mooney + Msg-ID: + Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update To-Do list" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000 + Files: Todo + + Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_26 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "VMS patches post _25" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST) + Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl + vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c + + Title: "Hints for BSDOS" + From: Christopher Davis + Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "On C, call C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix value of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Regexp optimizations" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST) + Files: regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on C in eval" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Catch C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: configure.gnu + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Faster File::Compare" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100 + Files: lib/File/Compare.pm + + Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100 + Files: t/op/closure.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "perldoc -f " + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "return *FH pod patch" + From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) + Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com> + Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500 + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY" + From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perltie.pod + + +---------------- +Version 5.003_25 +---------------- + +This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make $] read-only" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + + Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c + perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c + + Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches for _24" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs + lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t + t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "amigaos.sh" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Fix C and associated stack bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C),"submit()"); +test(4,submit(-name=>'foo',-value=>'bar') eq qq(),"submit(-name,-value)"); +test(5,submit({-name=>'foo',-value=>'bar'}) eq qq(),"submit({-name,-value})"); +test(6,textfield(-name=>'weather') eq qq(),"textfield({-name})"); +test(7,textfield(-name=>'weather',-value=>'nice') eq qq(),"textfield({-name,-value})"); +test(8,textfield(-name=>'weather',-value=>'nice',-override=>1) eq qq(), + "textfield({-name,-value,-override})"); +test(9,checkbox(-name=>'weather',-value=>'nice') eq qq(weather\n), + "checkbox()"); +test(10,checkbox(-name=>'weather',-value=>'nice',-label=>'forecast') eq + qq(forecast\n), + "checkbox()"); +test(11,checkbox(-name=>'weather',-value=>'nice',-label=>'forecast',-checked=>1,-override=>1) eq + qq(forecast\n), + "checkbox()"); +test(12,checkbox(-name=>'weather',-value=>'dull',-label=>'forecast') eq + qq(forecast\n), + "checkbox()"); + +test(13,radio_group(-name=>'game') eq + qq(chess checkers), + 'radio_group()'); +test(14,radio_group(-name=>'game',-labels=>{'chess'=>'ping pong'}) eq + qq(ping pong checkers), + 'radio_group()'); + +test(15, checkbox_group(-name=>'game',-Values=>[qw/checkers chess cribbage/]) eq + qq(checkers chess cribbage), + 'checkbox_group()'); + +test(16, checkbox_group(-name=>'game',-Values=>[qw/checkers chess cribbage/],-Defaults=>['cribbage'],-override=>1) eq + qq(checkers chess cribbage), + 'checkbox_group()'); + +test(17, popup_menu(-name=>'game',-Values=>[qw/checkers chess cribbage/],-Default=>'cribbage',-override=>1) eq < +