perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for October 2000

105	what is our utf8 model, anyway?

I now bit the bullet and read the "use bytes" discussion that went by in p5p while I was gone. The net result is that I am, if possible, even more confused than before of what are we to do with ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 8, 2000 at 7:15 pm
Nov 8, 2000 at 3:36 pm

55	pp_add -> pp_i_add efficiency hack?

So, I'm trying to describe what an PVIV is, and the way to do that is to generate one. OK, so... % ./perl -Ilib -MDevel::Peek -e '$a="12";$a+=1; Dump($a)' SV = PVNV(0x80f3c98) at 0x80fcf30 REFCNT = 1 ...

Simon Cozens
Oct 5, 2000 at 10:07 am
Dec 12, 2000 at 3:07 pm

31	Encode's .enc files and a question

Hi, I've finally been looking at the Encode module and I am somewhat perplexed by the stuff at the head of the Encode/*.enc files. It apparently has something to do with the C<read() code that looks ...

Peter Prymmer
Oct 24, 2000 at 9:45 pm
Nov 23, 2000 at 5:04 pm

23	[ID 20001009.002] Can't open more than 256 files under Solaris 2.7

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Piotr Piatkowski
Oct 9, 2000 at 8:29 am
Oct 9, 2000 at 4:59 pm

22	[ID 20001013.008] perl 5.6.0 on AIX 4.3.2 w/GCC 2.95.2

This may be too brief. Has anyone done this (see subject) yet. I managed to get through 5.004_X and 5.005_X 12 months ago (with some help) but 5.6.0 breaks on pp_sys.c again (but in a new way -- ...

Guy Hulbert
Oct 13, 2000 at 7:37 pm
Jun 25, 2012 at 6:09 am

20	[ID 20001030.010] [PATCH] io_multihomed.t failing

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Casey Tweten
Oct 30, 2000 at 9:43 pm
Nov 7, 2000 at 6:31 pm

20	bleedperl breaks module and gcc.gnu.org/testresults

Dear perl5-porters, Marc Lehmann informed me that the current development version (the current snapshot) breaks my Data::Locations module, which is used e.g. for web applications such as ...

Steffen Beyer
Oct 23, 2000 at 4:45 pm
Oct 26, 2000 at 8:48 pm

19	[ID 20001018.008] flip-flop bug when there's no <FH>

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Jeff Pinyan
Oct 18, 2000 at 7:09 pm
Oct 19, 2000 at 6:28 am

17	\x{...} is confused

./perl -Ilib -MDevel::Peek -we '$x="\x{100}\x{80}";print Dump($x)' SV = PV(0x140001c80) at 0x140013cb8 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8) PV = 0x140001038 "\304\200\200"\0 CUR = 3 LEN = 4 The \x{100} ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 29, 2000 at 6:57 pm
Oct 30, 2000 at 1:17 pm

17	Re: ideas? patches?

-Mcharnames=icelandic means that the letters are going to be looked in the form ICELANDIC CAPITAL LETTER LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN if you ask for 'LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN' (CAPITAL because the first ...

Ilya Zakharevich
Oct 3, 2000 at 7:48 pm
Oct 10, 2000 at 9:58 pm

16	[ID 20001030.002] (was Re: -Duseperlio - something for the brave to try)

Hopefully I've done enough to con perlbug that this is a reply to Hugo's original report that I deleted from my mailbox. It's -DDEBUGGING that's triggering it. This also fails: Summary of my perl5 ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 31, 2000 at 12:19 pm
Nov 1, 2000 at 5:53 pm

16	Total re-make of 'make okfile' after 7451 ?

Applied all patches up to and including 7451 # make distclean # cp ../Policy.sh . # Configure -des # make test ... All tests passed # make okfile ... Starts re-making *everything* :-(((( Never had ...

H . Merijn Brand
Oct 26, 2000 at 9:15 am
Oct 28, 2000 at 5:17 pm

15	[ID 20001020.009] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7368 on dos-djgpp djgpp

This is a build failure report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Peter J. Farley III
Oct 21, 2000 at 4:47 am
Oct 24, 2000 at 12:44 pm

15	what to do when open/fopen/fdopen fail?

Recently in a couple of threads it has been pointed out that in some corner cases (operating system limits and/or bugs) open/fopen/fdopen can return anomalous/conflicting results by either * return ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 17, 2000 at 1:13 pm
Oct 18, 2000 at 8:57 am

15	Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7197 on i686-linux 2.2.16a (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Andreas J. Koenig
Oct 11, 2000 at 7:07 am
Oct 11, 2000 at 5:51 pm

14	[ID 20001009.009] what if cc changes?

It was pointed out to me that we have a nasty problem now that vendors are shipping Perl with their OSes. This Perl is most naturally compiled with the vendor's compiler kit. Now, if the compiler kit ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 9, 2000 at 10:18 pm
Aug 9, 2013 at 1:32 am

14	[ID 20001006.014] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7158 on os390 05.00 (UNINSTALLED)

To: [email protected] Subject: Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7158 on os390 05.00 (UNINSTALLED) This is a build failure report for perl from PVHP@lpar25.uucp, generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 ...

Peter Prymmer
Oct 6, 2000 at 6:58 pm
Oct 13, 2000 at 1:57 am

13	[ID 20001030.011] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7481 on VMS_AXP V7.1 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Peter Prymmer
Oct 30, 2000 at 10:55 pm
Nov 3, 2000 at 8:34 pm

13	Configure (check for C-compiler)

On HP-UX ANSI-C is not the default for HP-UX 10.20 ANSI-C compiler (strange, but true). That's why Policy.sh defines ccflags to at least -Aa, but better -Ae. This has to be used in checking for a ...

H . Merijn Brand
Oct 6, 2000 at 6:43 am
Oct 9, 2000 at 8:39 am

12	why sfio isn't perfect for PerlIO

I've attempted to summarise the reasons why p5p don't think sfio and sfio disciplines are the best way to implement perl's IO disciplines. What have I got wrong? To quote Nick Ing-Simmons in ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 19, 2000 at 5:49 pm
Oct 21, 2000 at 11:02 am

12	Can't locate object method "SWASHNEW" via package "utf8" on EBCDI C environment

Perl build fails on the inability of miniperl to load the utf8 stuff properly on perl-5.7.0 (the same problem that has been since 5.005_63): ./miniperl -w -Ilib -MExporter -e '<? ' || make minitest ...

Roca, Ignasi
Oct 10, 2000 at 2:39 pm
Oct 11, 2000 at 5:55 pm

11	new feature: s?printf parameter reordering

Here's something that has been missing, comments welcome. (All the documentation I could find of the feature said that mixing the plain %/* versus this %D$/*D$ feature would be undefined. I decided ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 22, 2000 at 9:02 pm
Jan 29, 2001 at 12:10 am

11	[ID 20001021.005] SEGV with regex match

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Marc Lehmann
Oct 22, 2000 at 3:45 am
Oct 23, 2000 at 3:56 am

11	Small script segfaults Perl 5.6.0 on OpenBSD 2.8 and Solaris 2.6

Hi, the following script segfault's when using perl 5.6.0 on OpenBSD 2.8 (beta from CVS) and Solaris 2.6 (Sparc) but not perl 5.005_03: aachen: uname -a SunOS aachen 5.6 Generic_105181-12 sun4u sparc ...

Alexander Farber (EED)
Oct 20, 2000 at 12:00 pm
Oct 23, 2000 at 3:47 am

11	Unicode bugs in split

Consider a string made up of the following Unicode characters: 931 949 945 32 83 73 84 69 32 922 963 32 928 965 951 Now: print join " ", map ord, split //, $x; 206 206 206 32 83 73 84 69 32 206 207 ...

Simon Cozens
Oct 4, 2000 at 8:52 am
Oct 7, 2000 at 12:26 pm

10	[ID 20001024.004] Policy.sh

make distclean followed by copying a Policy.sh into the tree and configuring with Policy linux as the defaults get me: Creating config.sh... Hmm...You had some extra variables I don't know ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 24, 2000 at 11:22 am
Oct 24, 2000 at 3:59 pm

10	installman go-faster stripes

On my 4 year old system make install is taking a long time: real 73m59.538s user 61m41.000s sys 2m54.660s A good chunk of this is loading pod2man, Pod::Man and all the modules for each manpage. The ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 21, 2000 at 5:26 pm
Oct 23, 2000 at 6:25 pm

10	PATCH $Config::Config{ldlibpthname} in ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL

Dynaloader_pm.PL is intended to make Dynaloader.pm faster by expanding all the references to entries in %Config::Config at perl build time. The code to push $Config::Config{ldlibpthname} onto ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 21, 2000 at 9:23 pm
Oct 22, 2000 at 7:19 pm

9	[ID 20001025.010] two bugs: substition on a list

(After a report in clp.moderated from Peter Scott <[email protected] .) perl -Dr -we '(($y) = "x") =~ s/a/b/' shows that a) perl is trying to perform the substitution on the string '1' which is not what ...

Hugo
Oct 25, 2000 at 10:41 pm
Sep 8, 2013 at 5:25 am

9	whither 5.6.1?

Do we have an expected timeframe for 5.6.1? I'm afraid of installing 5.7.0 on a production machine, but it seems closer to a less-buggy version than 5.6.0 did. I'm running 5.5.3 in production now, ...

Randal L. Schwartz
Oct 4, 2000 at 6:39 am
Dec 11, 2000 at 9:32 pm

9

switch

I'm considering adding Damian's switch statement implementation to Perl. The first version is in CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/doc/DCONWAY/Switch-1.00/Switch.pm Damian said that this version is a bit ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 26, 2000 at 8:22 pm
Oct 30, 2000 at 5:18 pm

9	[ID 20001016.007] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7228 on i586-linux 2.2.16 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 16, 2000 at 2:36 pm
Oct 17, 2000 at 11:59 am

9	Proposed patches, Install.pm getopts.pl termcap.pl

I have made three modifications to the perl5.005_03 sources. These changes add functionallity without changing existing behaviour with the exception of the termcap.pl script which eliminates a ...

Bill Campbell
Oct 6, 2000 at 1:04 am
Oct 13, 2000 at 12:24 am

8	[ID 20001007.002] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7158 on armv4l-linux-64int 2.2.17-rmk1 (UNINSTALLED)

This is a build failure report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ...

Nicholas Clark
Oct 7, 2000 at 2:33 pm
Nov 8, 2000 at 3:14 pm

8

fcrypt

Hi, I am slowly trying to get the Riscos perl port to compile (Yes, I have been taking to Nicholas Clark before anyone asks) as I want to move the Riscos port closer to the main perl, and should be ...

Richard Proctor
Oct 31, 2000 at 6:11 pm
Nov 1, 2000 at 12:16 pm

8	[email protected]

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/[email protected] http://www.hietaniemi.org/[email protected] ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/[email protected] Changes since the last: [ 7445] By: jhi on 2000/10/25 21:27:08 ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 25, 2000 at 10:03 pm
Oct 26, 2000 at 9:17 pm

8	Happy Birthday, perl5!

According to my birthday file, perl5 is 6 years old as of 16:48:04 on Tuesday 17 October 2000. So, happy birthday to perl5! Hopefully, we can release perl6 by the time perl5 is 7 years old. :) -- ...

Bradley M. Kuhn
Oct 17, 2000 at 8:47 pm
Oct 20, 2000 at 11:59 pm

8	Re: sfio in perl

sfio has been ported to native NT using the C library read/write functions. It could talk to the native Win32 API by replacing the read/write and seek functions with disciplines. David Korn ...

David Korn
Oct 19, 2000 at 6:26 pm
Oct 20, 2000 at 2:34 pm

8	[ID 20001016.009] chomp operation on UNIX and PC

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.13 running under perl 5.003. [Please enter your report here] I guess this is may not be a bug, but ...

Warren L Dodge
Oct 16, 2000 at 5:00 pm
Oct 19, 2000 at 10:23 am

8	Big patch, 5.7 ready, probably 5.6.1 as well

OK, I won't have time for a few days to try to address the issue of changing semantics, nor have I received any feedback on the proposed changes. :-( So I have reworked my patches to Carp.pm and ...

Ben Tilly
Oct 16, 2000 at 2:21 am
Oct 16, 2000 at 4:58 pm

7	[ID 20001031.001] printf ("%*c"... possible problem

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.20 running under perl 5.00404. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Fulko
Oct 31, 2000 at 2:19 pm
Nov 1, 2000 at 3:03 pm

7	[email protected]

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/[email protected] http://www.hietaniemi.org/jarkko/[email protected] ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/snap/[email protected] Changes since the last (note that the few 'missing' patches ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 29, 2000 at 6:31 pm
Oct 30, 2000 at 2:18 pm

7	opinions on a new suggested format feature?

This one fell through the cracks back in May. Opinions? ----- Forwarded message from John Peacock <[email protected] ----- From: John Peacock <[email protected] Subject: Re: Patch Request ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 18, 2000 at 4:52 pm
Oct 26, 2000 at 9:25 am

7	[PATCH 5.7.0] h2xs not documenting the created module

This documents only modules created with -a option. (I know nothing about the generated tied-access code, so cannot do this.) This also uncovers a very serious loophole in the implementation: since ...

Ilya Zakharevich
Oct 4, 2000 at 2:55 am
Oct 24, 2000 at 1:41 pm

7	[ID 20001020.006] "$2$utf8" == modification of read-only-variable

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter ...

Marc Lehmann
Oct 20, 2000 at 7:49 pm
Oct 21, 2000 at 2:16 pm

7	[email protected]

http://www.iki.fi/jhi/[email protected] http://www.hietaniemi.org/[email protected] Changes since the last: [ 7149] By: jhi on 2000/10/05 00:20:01 Log: Regen toc. Branch: perl ! pod/perltoc.pod [ 7148] By: ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Oct 5, 2000 at 12:32 am
Oct 13, 2000 at 8:05 am

7	[ID 20001003.005] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +SUIDMAIL +DEVEL7129 on MSWin32-x86-multi-thr ead 4.0 (UNINSTALLED)

To whom it may concern. (is there anybody reading my mails? Or would it be easier for me to just delete them?) Mingw32 does not compile re_comp.c. There is a problem with ENTER and LEAVE, in ...

Andreas Fehr
Oct 3, 2000 at 2:44 pm
Oct 5, 2000 at 12:07 pm

6	[ID 20001013.006] XS subs are not define()ed

This is a bug report for perl from [email protected], generated with the help of perlbug 1.32 running under perl v5.7.0. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please ...

Dominic Dunlop
Oct 13, 2000 at 10:52 am
Dec 15, 2000 at 3:49 pm

6	perlfaq style changes

Hello. I'm a computer science/english double-major with too much time on my hands. I went through all the perl FAQs this weekend and attempted to coordinate style changes: I tried to limit the number ...

John Borwick
Oct 31, 2000 at 8:15 am
Nov 26, 2000 at 5:01 pm

6	[ID 20001031.003] OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL7503 on aix 4.3.3.0 (ININSTALLED)

----- This was a mostly ok build. The only problem was with linking re.so, which gave this error: Making re (dynamic) LD_RUN_PATH="" ld -o ../../lib/auto/re/re.so -bhalt:4 \ -bM:SRE ...

John L. Allen
Oct 31, 2000 at 9:02 pm
Nov 2, 2000 at 12:41 am

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