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  • Short version: The copy on write code assumes that the only thing that copies scalars is sv_setsv_flags. Clearly this isn't true under ithreads. It seems that something else is copying scalars ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Sep 4, 2002 at 8:55 pm
    Sep 26, 2002 at 7:30 pm
  • Hello Does something like this exist (Collections, Containers, or whatever I should call it)?: I frequently need to put references/objects into some bucket - for later retrieval - for check if an ...
    Christian JaegerChristian Jaeger
    Sep 29, 2002 at 4:46 am
    Oct 3, 2002 at 2:56 pm
  • Before uploading to CPAN, I would like to ask p5p for comments on my latest endeavour: jit.pm. Installable version available from: http://www.liz.nl/CPAN/jit-0.01.tar.gz All the functionality ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Sep 28, 2002 at 10:37 pm
    Oct 7, 2002 at 1:26 pm
  • Excellent! Thanks for catching the potential problem with IRIXes with different shells than the 6.5 ones (although anything before 6.5 is _really_ out of date...). Good programming practice, namely ...
    Allen SmithAllen Smith
    Sep 7, 2002 at 8:06 pm
    Sep 16, 2002 at 7:50 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by DL-pdsupport@ubsw.com # Please include the string: [perl #17197] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    DL-pdsupport@ubsw.com (via RT)DL-pdsupport@ubsw.com (via RT)
    Sep 12, 2002 at 4:54 pm
    Sep 26, 2002 at 9:26 am
  • I noticed that a "make" in a module tree is much slower in 5.8.0 than in older perl versions. Obviously that's because the lines in the pm_to_blib rule are limited to a maximum of 200 characters (see ...
    Slaven RezicSlaven Rezic
    Sep 30, 2002 at 9:21 am
    Oct 8, 2002 at 12:45 am
  • I think, I've perlbuged this but couldn't find it over on rt, so I report it again. Apologies to those that see it as a duplicate. If you can point me to the right URL that finds the report, please ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Sep 27, 2002 at 7:30 am
    Oct 10, 2002 at 10:17 pm
  • Being able to compare two thread objects with "==" (rather than by using the "equal" method), is _very_ wasteful with regards to memory. Since threads.pm is the _only_ module that uses overload.pm, ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Sep 25, 2002 at 6:13 pm
    Oct 7, 2002 at 12:34 pm
  • Then attached patch is a rewrite of a recent posting to perl-unicode@perl.org which turned out to help a few people in their porting efforts. -- andreas --- perlunicode.pod~ Fri Sep 27 00:45:48 2002 ...
    Andreas J. KoenigAndreas J. Koenig
    Sep 27, 2002 at 1:30 pm
    Oct 2, 2002 at 3:16 pm
  • I was searching for a high level interface to select() and could not find it at the expected place. So this doc patch and another to fix my email address. diff -u ext/IO/IO.pm ext/IO/IO.pm.new --- ...
    Stéphane PayrardStéphane Payrard
    Sep 28, 2002 at 9:36 pm
    Oct 28, 2002 at 11:08 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Elizabeth Mattijsen # Please include the string: [perl #17061] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Sep 6, 2002 at 8:50 pm
    Oct 17, 2002 at 2:43 pm
  • I've got some projects now where I need a lot of Unicode, and typeing the full names is a tedious and unneeded way to proceed. We are dealing with a limited subset of the Unicode set and have a list ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Sep 26, 2002 at 9:39 am
    Oct 2, 2002 at 8:40 pm
  • Any reason not to move the pod to the __END__ of strict.pm I've no idea if these are sane timings, but before this patch, time to run the regression tests was: u=32.1484 s=12.1797 cu=1717.68 ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Sep 8, 2002 at 9:44 pm
    Sep 13, 2002 at 6:09 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Allen Smith # Please include the string: [perl #17075] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Allen SmithAllen Smith
    Sep 9, 2002 at 4:48 am
    Jan 1, 2003 at 11:06 pm
  • Using CGI-2.86 (CGI::Carp v1.24), CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser) is now implmented via CORE::GLOBAL::die. The problem is that the builtin die appears to be parsed differently to the CORE::GLOBAL::die ...
    Bradley BaetzBradley Baetz
    Sep 30, 2002 at 4:18 am
    Oct 5, 2002 at 11:39 pm
  • Hi, I just try MinGw-2.0.0-3 with NT4. He is released with gcc-3.2.0. I try to smoke perl-current with defaut gcc, and then gcc-2.95.3. With the two, I have (1) message. I applied then attached ...
    AlianAlian
    Sep 22, 2002 at 10:54 pm
    Oct 3, 2002 at 11:22 pm
  • It took me some time to get bleadperl compiled on Win32/GCC. I used the following patch. I'm not sure about this patch, should the symbol be skipped for all Win32 builds, or is there something else? ...
    Abe TimmermanAbe Timmerman
    Sep 6, 2002 at 3:09 am
    Sep 9, 2002 at 1:25 pm
  • -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, Math::BigInt's testsuite is failing, because at one point $caught & 1 == 0 is not properly working inside Perl: bash-2.03# perl -le '$a = 0; print "== 0" if ...
    TelsTels
    Sep 26, 2002 at 10:50 am
    Oct 3, 2002 at 9:40 pm
  • I submitted patches 15118/15017 which made it into 5.8 to permit initiating overloading from XS code. Unfortunately, I made a mistake and the current code will cause problems (at least under ...
    John PeacockJohn Peacock
    Sep 1, 2002 at 12:23 pm
    Sep 4, 2002 at 2:12 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by (Pete) # Please include the string: [perl #17589] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Pete) (via RTPete) (via RT
    Sep 25, 2002 at 6:06 pm
    Oct 29, 2002 at 10:00 pm
  • diff -ruN bleadperl/pod/perlopentut.pod bleadpatch/pod/perlopentut.pod --- bleadperl/pod/perlopentut.pod Wed Jun 12 19:02:45 2002 +++ bleadpatch/pod/perlopentut.pod Fri Sep 20 09:13:17 2002 @@ -5,7 ...
    Andy LesterAndy Lester
    Sep 20, 2002 at 5:29 pm
    Oct 2, 2002 at 9:00 pm
  • (yeah, I know, I should file these as real bugs...) It seems that somehow the "unused variable" tricks we use fail in the gcc 3 of Jaguar. opmini.c: In function `Perl_scalar': opmini.c:1059: warning: ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 6, 2002 at 3:23 am
    Sep 12, 2002 at 5:40 pm
  • Automated smoke report for patch 17882 on CYGWIN_NT-4.0 NT 1.3.12 - v1.13 using version gcc version 2.95.3-5 (cygwin special) O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = still running or ...
    AlianAlian
    Sep 9, 2002 at 4:40 pm
    Sep 10, 2002 at 7:09 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Richard Soderberg # Please include the string: [perl #17073] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Richard SoderbergRichard Soderberg
    Sep 9, 2002 at 4:48 am
    Sep 10, 2002 at 6:17 pm
  • Attached you'll find a patch that changes the policy with the reentrant libc interfaces from limited to unlimited: in other words, instead of keeping growing the result buffers of calls like ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 26, 2002 at 10:09 pm
    Oct 11, 2002 at 11:38 pm
  • [ this patch requires 'make regen_headers' ] This patch moves (nearly) all pad-related code from the various core src files to the two new files pad.c and pad.h, and attempts to create something ...
    Dave MitchellDave Mitchell
    Sep 25, 2002 at 10:42 pm
    Oct 3, 2002 at 2:42 pm
  • This code coredumps, due to unauthorized memory access, unless I uncomment the first line : #!bleadperl #use B qw/save_BEGINs/; BEGIN { save_BEGINs(); } BEGIN { $f = sub { eval $_[0] } } $bar = ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Sep 17, 2002 at 9:21 pm
    Sep 26, 2002 at 10:34 am
  • Comments applied, and incorrect changes removed... xoxo, Andy diff -ruN bleadperl/pod/perlopentut.pod bleadpatch/pod/perlopentut.pod --- bleadperl/pod/perlopentut.pod Wed Jun 12 19:02:45 2002 +++ ...
    Andy LesterAndy Lester
    Sep 20, 2002 at 4:05 am
    Sep 22, 2002 at 2:25 pm
  • Should or shouldn't this print "hi" ? perl -e '*CORE::GLOBAL::exit = sub { warn "hi" }; exit()' It doesn't. ;-( I guess that means it is impossible to hijack exit()? It seems that you _can_ hijack ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Sep 5, 2002 at 10:36 am
    Sep 5, 2002 at 1:01 pm
  • Is there a way to let a thread stop without using die()? Other than return() from the top level of the thread, of course. Or is there a way to cause die in a thread not to output an error message to ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Sep 2, 2002 at 12:21 pm
    Sep 3, 2002 at 7:23 pm
  • The #11559 broke the $0-setting (as correctly surmised, it was a PL_origargv patch). ------ ../patches/11559.gz <------ Change 11559 by jhi@alpha on 2001/08/03 12:08:59 Subject: [patch] plug ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 3, 2002 at 1:55 am
    Nov 4, 2002 at 3:21 pm
  • Not sure what's causing this... I'll investigate... $ cat foo.pl sub f($); f $x / 2; $ perl5.8.0 -c foo.pl foo.pl syntax OK $ bleadperl -c foo.pl Search pattern not terminated at foo.pl line 2.
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Sep 12, 2002 at 1:19 pm
    Sep 24, 2002 at 7:19 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Mark-Jason Dominus # Please include the string: [perl #17099] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Mark-Jason DominusMark-Jason Dominus
    Sep 10, 2002 at 3:47 am
    Sep 26, 2002 at 9:48 am
  • This patch syncs windows config.xx (and Config.pm) with the Config.pm changes that have been going on: good luck, Abe -- Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org perl -we '$_="rekcah lreP ...
    Abe TimmermanAbe Timmerman
    Sep 6, 2002 at 11:31 am
    Sep 9, 2002 at 3:40 pm
  • Richard SoderbergRichard Soderberg
    Sep 3, 2002 at 6:55 pm
    Sep 8, 2002 at 4:03 pm
  • I've got a failure in t/op/getpid.t. My bleadperl is currently modified, so I'm not sure if this is real or not. I'll try it again with a clean version later. Meanwhile, I fixed up the test a little ...
    Michael G SchwernMichael G Schwern
    Sep 4, 2002 at 12:48 am
    Sep 5, 2002 at 7:39 pm
  • A debian bug (#158587) notes that ther is no documentation (nor methods) to examine/modify the attributes of the POSIX::SigAction object--which might be useful for examining/modifying the object ...
    Brendan O'DeaBrendan O'Dea
    Sep 3, 2002 at 3:48 pm
    Sep 5, 2002 at 12:46 am
  • As a way of thinking through this myself, I want to restate the current [known] objections to version objects. I don't claim that this is a complete list, nor do I pretend that these are the only ...
    John PeacockJohn Peacock
    Sep 2, 2002 at 2:27 pm
    Sep 4, 2002 at 2:30 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by mmokrejs@pf-i400.natur.cuni.cz # Please include the string: [perl #17428] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    mmokrejs@pf-i400.natur.cuni.cz (via RT)mmokrejs@pf-i400.natur.cuni.cz (via RT)
    Sep 19, 2002 at 3:11 pm
    May 4, 2012 at 11:07 am
  • ....to default from "define" to "undef"? We have new Mac OS X hints cooking (library directories will have the Perl version in them, yea) (as everyone else has), but as a part of that discussion Andy ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Sep 19, 2002 at 3:58 am
    Oct 2, 2002 at 2:55 pm
  • echo "hi" out.txt tiilt% perl -we "close(STDOUT); open(F, qq{out.txt}) || die;" Name "main::F" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1. Filehandle STDOUT opened only for input at -e line 1. The ...
    Arthur BergmanArthur Bergman
    Sep 24, 2002 at 5:26 pm
    Oct 2, 2002 at 2:28 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by "rossati@libero.it" # Please include the string: [perl #17632] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    RossatiRossati
    Sep 27, 2002 at 8:55 pm
    Sep 29, 2002 at 5:10 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Mark-Jason Dominus # Please include the string: [perl #17623] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Mark-Jason DominusMark-Jason Dominus
    Sep 27, 2002 at 3:40 pm
    Sep 28, 2002 at 7:37 am
  • lib/ExtUtils/t/Installed.t is creating a directory t/auto when it is run, but not tidying it away. Should it tidy it away? Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Sep 8, 2002 at 2:50 pm
    Sep 26, 2002 at 9:36 am
  • Background: [most everyone here on p5p knows this, but I'll restate it for anyone who doesn't, and to make sure I've got it clear in my own head]: In the old fields.pm implementation, the kind of ...
    Benjamin GoldbergBenjamin Goldberg
    Sep 7, 2002 at 4:03 am
    Sep 14, 2002 at 3:34 am
  • -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, does anybody else see the webfrontend to the bugtracking system of Perl 5 beeing broken? At http://bugs6.perl.org/perlbug/ I can click at the "Current Perl 5 ...
    TelsTels
    Sep 12, 2002 at 9:23 am
    Sep 12, 2002 at 7:57 pm
  • Don't generate empty man pages for podless modules (Net::FTP::A for example). --bod diff -ur perl-5.8.0.orig/installman perl-5.8.0/installman --- x/perl-5.8.0/installman 2002-07-08 05:49:41.000000000 ...
    Brendan O'DeaBrendan O'Dea
    Sep 6, 2002 at 8:42 pm
    Sep 7, 2002 at 1:35 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Elizabeth Mattijsen # Please include the string: [perl #16928] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Elizabeth MattijsenElizabeth Mattijsen
    Sep 2, 2002 at 5:57 pm
    Sep 3, 2002 at 11:03 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Burkhard Meier # Please include the string: [perl #17474] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Burkhard MeierBurkhard Meier
    Sep 21, 2002 at 5:01 pm
    Sep 5, 2013 at 9:30 am
  • For some reason (1 liner containing "remove"?), onion.perl.org decided that the above message was an unsubscribe request. -- ams
    Abhijit Menon-SenAbhijit Menon-Sen
    Sep 30, 2002 at 4:26 pm
    Oct 2, 2002 at 4:57 am
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