Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:54:21 +0000 (14:54 +0000)]
be more optimal about clearing @_
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6216
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:33:04 +0000 (14:33 +0000)]
tweak comment about @DB::args
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6215
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 8 Jun 2000 13:57:54 +0000 (13:57 +0000)]
@_ can't have junk in it even in the non-USE_ITHREADS case because
caller() wants to populate @DB::args with it (causes a coredump
in Carp::confess())
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6214
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 8 Jun 2000 07:06:35 +0000 (07:06 +0000)]
back out change#6106 (seems problematic)
p4raw-link: @6106 on //depot/cfgperl:
e10d0c8254dbe3d4b5c3b2ddb628e61762ab88b4
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6213
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 6 Jun 2000 00:42:59 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Perl_eval_pv() leaks 4 bytes every time it is called because it
does a PUSHMARK that's never ever POPMARKed; in general, only
Perl_call_[sp]v() need a PUSHMARK for incoming arguments;
Perl_eval_[sp]v() don't because they don't take any incoming
arguments (this leak has been around since the original version
of perl_eval_pv() in 5.003_97e)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6201
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 2 Jun 2000 22:43:13 +0000 (22:43 +0000)]
fix yet another eval"" leak under USE_ITHREADS
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6195
Gurusamy Sarathy [Fri, 2 Jun 2000 18:22:06 +0000 (18:22 +0000)]
fix small eval"" memory leaks under USE_ITHREADS
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6194
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:38:21 +0000 (09:38 +0000)]
vec() loses numericalness (modified version of patch suggested
by Robin Barker)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6191
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:26:15 +0000 (09:26 +0000)]
submit missing embed.pl change
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6190
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:05:34 +0000 (09:05 +0000)]
counting tr/// corrupts later operation (from M.J.T Guy)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6189
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:58:39 +0000 (08:58 +0000)]
h2xs tweaks
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6188
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:50:07 +0000 (08:50 +0000)]
replace pod2latex with the one in Pod-LaTeX v0.52 from CPAN
(from Tim Jenness <t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6187
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:24:40 +0000 (08:24 +0000)]
further qualify references to "alphanumeric" (from Wolfgang Laun
<wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6186
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:12:00 +0000 (08:12 +0000)]
remove incorrect documentation about implicit split to @_ in
list context, which never really worked in perl 5 (from
M.J.T. Guy)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6185
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 07:52:27 +0000 (07:52 +0000)]
tweak for change#6127
p4raw-link: @6127 on //depot/perl:
968b39461011b9bd1e503c77c95c2eeec281b946
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6184
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 1 Jun 2000 07:41:02 +0000 (07:41 +0000)]
SelfLoader can lose $@ in AUTOLOAD() (from Nicholas Clark
<nick@ccl4.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6183
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 31 May 2000 22:37:51 +0000 (22:37 +0000)]
buggy modulus on UVs introduced by change#3378 (resulted in
4063328477 % 65535 amounting to 27406, instead of 27407)
p4raw-link: @3378 on //depot/perl:
25da4f389200e19df8aa50bcef9af9506f48ed2e
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6179
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 31 May 2000 05:05:42 +0000 (05:05 +0000)]
fix buggy multiline matching of C<"a\nxb\n" =~ /(?!\A)x/m>
(from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6172
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 31 May 2000 05:01:47 +0000 (05:01 +0000)]
scalar() doesn't force scalar context when used in void context
(from Simon Cozens)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6171
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 31 May 2000 04:41:33 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
change#6142 needs tweaks to tests to work where there's no symlink()
(from Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
p4raw-link: @6142 on //depot/perl:
704ea872433dd6d5a1c650f509289fdea5c037ab
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6170
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 31 May 2000 04:29:49 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
integrate cfgperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6169
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 30 May 2000 22:53:37 +0000 (22:53 +0000)]
Tweak NV_PRESERVES_UV*, vms/subconfigure.com left untouched.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6168
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 30 May 2000 22:20:21 +0000 (22:20 +0000)]
tweak todo
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6167
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 30 May 2000 22:11:51 +0000 (22:11 +0000)]
Introduce HAS_GETESPWNAM, HAS_GETPRPWNAM, and I_PROT
in case somebody wants to write an extension for more
shadow database interfaces.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6166
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 30 May 2000 18:35:34 +0000 (18:35 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6165
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 30 May 2000 18:30:16 +0000 (18:30 +0000)]
detypo
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6164
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 30 May 2000 03:24:03 +0000 (03:24 +0000)]
fix memory leak in C<eval "BEGIN {}"> (bug in change#4579)
p4raw-link: @4579 on //depot/perl:
ed094fafab5cc8979a919ec8755493543b6bddf5
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6163
Gurusamy Sarathy [Tue, 30 May 2000 03:09:38 +0000 (03:09 +0000)]
fix memory leak in method call optimization (change#3768);
made C<eval "$x->foo()"> leak
p4raw-link: @3768 on //depot/perl:
f5d5a27c761624409884a263632e1a922439502b
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6162
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 29 May 2000 17:56:26 +0000 (17:56 +0000)]
Add autogeneration of perlmodlib.pod and the new perlnewmod.pod,
both from Simon Cozens.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6161
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 29 May 2000 17:23:55 +0000 (17:23 +0000)]
Changes for the File::Temp 0.08 (change #6159) test suite
to fit better into the Perl distribution test framework.
p4raw-link: @6159 on //depot/cfgperl:
1c19c86813086fb9efca2171c6506afe1bfe8cc4
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6160
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 29 May 2000 16:55:36 +0000 (16:55 +0000)]
Upgrade to File::Temp 0.08 from Tim Jenness via CPAN.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6159
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 29 May 2000 03:10:36 +0000 (03:10 +0000)]
Regen Configure to jive with #6149.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6157
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 29 May 2000 03:01:38 +0000 (03:01 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6156
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 21:15:58 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
small bug in change#6144; remove random \xA0 character that snuck
in via change#6145
p4raw-link: @6145 on //depot/perl:
e03d20b37534005291cfa8844300128459541e0e
p4raw-link: @6144 on //depot/perl:
0eb0485562acdea1555bc121d0e989d63a918d26
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6155
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 21:04:19 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
avoid type mismatch warning
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6154
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:58:31 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
prettier Test::Harness output on failed tests (from Nicholas Clark
<nick@Bagpuss.uk.boo.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6153
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:53:42 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
cosmetic fixups of RE debug output (from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6152
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:50:28 +0000 (20:50 +0000)]
fix accidental pessimization in RE optimizer (from Ilya Zakharevich)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6151
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:39:58 +0000 (20:39 +0000)]
perlrequick.pod updates (from Mark Kvale <kvale@phy.ucsf.edu>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6150
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:35:16 +0000 (20:35 +0000)]
OS/2 tweaks for usethreads build (from Rocco Caputo
<troc@netrus.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6149
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:21:07 +0000 (20:21 +0000)]
close open file before chmod() (from Rocco Caputo <troc@netrus.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6148
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:12:41 +0000 (20:12 +0000)]
add a make entry to Config.pm so "perl -V:make" works on VMS
(from Peter Prymmer)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6147
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 20:06:15 +0000 (20:06 +0000)]
doc typo
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6146
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 18:44:33 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
make xsubpp skip embedded pod (from Matthias Neeracher
<neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6145
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 18:42:49 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
MacOS support, part 2: make AutoSplit use File::Spec instead
of assuming Unixisms; *UNTESTED on Unix* (from Matthias Neeracher
<neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6144
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 18:41:12 +0000 (18:41 +0000)]
MacOS support, part 1 (from Matthias Neeracher
<neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6143
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 18:21:51 +0000 (18:21 +0000)]
File::Find fails to chdir when chasing symlinks (from
Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6142
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 28 May 2000 14:25:15 +0000 (14:25 +0000)]
BSD/OS (bsdi) hints update by Timur I. Bakeyev and Todd C. Miller,
forwarded by Peter Seebach from the bsdi-users mailing list.
p5p Message-Id: <
200005280543.
AAA24519@guild.plethora.net>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6141
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 28 May 2000 14:11:57 +0000 (14:11 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6140
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 10:01:48 +0000 (10:01 +0000)]
revise mktables.PL for bugs and newness in Unicode 3.0
(from James Bence <jbence@amgen.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6139
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:50:32 +0000 (08:50 +0000)]
add note about the handling of negative indices to tied arrays
(from Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6138
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:46:10 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
fix bogus redeclaration warning for "our" variables in different
scopes
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6137
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:31:20 +0000 (08:31 +0000)]
random pod typos (from Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6136
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:17:50 +0000 (08:17 +0000)]
enable Test::Harness to dynamically determine column width etc.
(from Rob Napier <rnapier@employees.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6135
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:13:39 +0000 (08:13 +0000)]
make Test::Harness use wait.h/WCOREDUMP if available
(from Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6134
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:08:05 +0000 (08:08 +0000)]
elide bogus test in change#6132
p4raw-link: @6132 on //depot/perl:
114bafba71b4fe6a08258e1f6dfc504b5d9fd70c
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6133
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 08:03:14 +0000 (08:03 +0000)]
warnings::enabled() doesn't fall back to looking at $^W if
caller isn't using lexical warnings (from Paul Marquess)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6132
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:57:47 +0000 (07:57 +0000)]
avoid warnings in POSIX.pm (from Barrie Slaymaker)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6131
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:29:12 +0000 (07:29 +0000)]
fix places that mean C<"word" character> but say C<alphanumeric
character>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6130
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:18:41 +0000 (07:18 +0000)]
VMS test harness tweak (from Jesper Naur <jesper.naur@post.tele.dk>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6129
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:12:55 +0000 (07:12 +0000)]
new perlxstut example for passing/returning refs to arrays
(from David Lowe <dlowe@pootpoot.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6128
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 07:02:50 +0000 (07:02 +0000)]
call_method(...,G_EVAL) can longjmp() out if the method probing
failed (from Gisle Aas)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6127
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 06:39:53 +0000 (06:39 +0000)]
change#2879 broke rvalue autovivification of magicals such as ${$num}
(reworked variant of patch suggested by Simon Cozens)
p4raw-link: @2879 on //depot/perl:
35cd451c5a1303394968903750cc3b3a1a6bc892
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6126
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 05:14:55 +0000 (05:14 +0000)]
enable propagating exception objects via Perl_croak() in XS code
(from Gisle Aas)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6125
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 05:07:28 +0000 (05:07 +0000)]
integrate vmsperl contents into mainline
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6124
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 05:03:53 +0000 (05:03 +0000)]
clarify gotcha with #line directives (from Rocco Caputo
<troc@netrus.net>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6123
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 28 May 2000 04:58:29 +0000 (04:58 +0000)]
downgrade fatal error on C<"foo@nosucharray.com"> to optional warning
(from Mark-Jason Dominus)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6122
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:46:54 +0000 (04:46 +0000)]
Allow eliminate_macros() and fixpath() to handle space-delimited
lists (based on fixes by Craig Berry)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6121
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:25:38 +0000 (04:25 +0000)]
Add missing escape (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6120
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:21:25 +0000 (04:21 +0000)]
Quiet error messages in vmsish.t (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6119
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 04:17:57 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
Regularize distinction between RMS$_DNF and RMS$_DIR (Craig Berry)
Flatten case labels in switch statements uniformly (Charles Bailey)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6118
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 03:58:09 +0000 (03:58 +0000)]
Treat sockets as special in sys(read|write) (Charles Lane et al.)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6117
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 03:11:15 +0000 (03:11 +0000)]
Miscellaneous cosmetic fixes (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6116
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 03:10:36 +0000 (03:10 +0000)]
Add bounds checking for several strings (Charles Lane)
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6115
Charles Bailey [Thu, 25 May 2000 02:25:34 +0000 (02:25 +0000)]
Urk -- undo previous removal of vmsish 'exit' change
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6114
Charles Bailey [Wed, 24 May 2000 02:24:40 +0000 (02:24 +0000)]
Ugly workaround for version-specific RTL error
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6113
Charles Bailey [Wed, 24 May 2000 02:19:55 +0000 (02:19 +0000)]
Check for existence of file before trying to delete
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6112
Charles Bailey [Tue, 23 May 2000 23:35:13 +0000 (23:35 +0000)]
Resync with mainline prior to post-5.6.0 updates
p4raw-id: //depot/vmsperl@6111
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 23 May 2000 19:28:32 +0000 (19:28 +0000)]
todo tweak
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6110
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 18 May 2000 17:38:54 +0000 (17:38 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6109
Gurusamy Sarathy [Wed, 17 May 2000 02:24:56 +0000 (02:24 +0000)]
reenable fake signal handling on Windows, bugs and all
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6108
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 15 May 2000 18:01:41 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
Tweak the todo list.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6107
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 15 May 2000 13:41:48 +0000 (13:41 +0000)]
The (Configure) script refuses to go on, after asking for
'You may also choose to try maximal 64-bitness....'.
If answer is yes the script can't find the 'workshoplibpth.cbu' file.
-- Patrick Zima
p5p Message-Id: <
200005151108.NAA19733@pc026991.otn.lm.dasa.de>
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6106
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Thu, 11 May 2000 14:37:43 +0000 (14:37 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6105
Gurusamy Sarathy [Thu, 11 May 2000 03:39:07 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
PL_sys_intern was being initialized too late on windows
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6104
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 9 May 2000 19:42:20 +0000 (19:42 +0000)]
Test tweaking for Unicos continues.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6103
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 9 May 2000 16:47:27 +0000 (16:47 +0000)]
The test suite tweak in #6101 wasn't quite right.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6102
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Tue, 9 May 2000 15:35:34 +0000 (15:35 +0000)]
Hints and test tweaks for Unicos.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6101
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 8 May 2000 21:15:06 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
More compilation tweakery from Allen Smith.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6100
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 8 May 2000 19:21:18 +0000 (19:21 +0000)]
Tweaks for the cc bugs from Allen Smith.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6099
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 8 May 2000 19:13:37 +0000 (19:13 +0000)]
Add a note about other, yet unsupported, shadow password APIs.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6098
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 8 May 2000 18:46:34 +0000 (18:46 +0000)]
Add a note about possible compilation problems from Allen Smith.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6097
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 8 May 2000 17:33:10 +0000 (17:33 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6096
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Mon, 8 May 2000 16:21:33 +0000 (16:21 +0000)]
Introduce NV_PRESERVED_BITS. Not yet used anywhere but
might be useful in future.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6095
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 8 May 2000 14:22:22 +0000 (14:22 +0000)]
cygwin update (from Eric Fifer <efifer@sanwaint.com>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6094
Gurusamy Sarathy [Mon, 8 May 2000 12:52:28 +0000 (12:52 +0000)]
fork() failure to create pseudo process sets errno=EAGAIN and returns
undef on windows (from Clinton Pierce <clintp@geeksalad.org>)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6093
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 7 May 2000 22:40:34 +0000 (22:40 +0000)]
Regen perltoc with the fixed buildtoc.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6092
Jarkko Hietaniemi [Sun, 7 May 2000 22:24:16 +0000 (22:24 +0000)]
Integrate with Sarathy.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@6091
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 19:47:07 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
concat doesn't preserve utf8-ness, and doesn't invalidate
[NI]OK; added tests for both
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6090
Gurusamy Sarathy [Sun, 7 May 2000 18:18:38 +0000 (18:18 +0000)]
buildtoc tweak to fix newline lossage
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6089