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  • I think the thread sort of died ... but I seem to remember seeing some discussion about the deprecation (or not) of pseudohashes (and if, how). Since I'm starting to ramp up for 5.8.1-RC1, I really ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Mar 10, 2003 at 7:26 am
    Mar 17, 2003 at 9:38 pm
  • [I already roported some of these on c.l.p.moderated.] a) threads.xs does not check the result of pthread_create() call. This leads to numerous problems later, when the results of the thread run are ...
    Ilya ZakharevichIlya Zakharevich
    Mar 31, 2003 at 9:18 pm
    Apr 4, 2003 at 11:18 am
  • Currently CPAN.pm has a special logic to make sure that if a requested package is found in the core perl distribution and in another package, that another package takes the precedence if its VERSION ...
    Stas BekmanStas Bekman
    Mar 26, 2003 at 3:45 am
    Mar 31, 2003 at 8:53 am
  • 22

    $a++

    This is strange: crypt% perl -le 'print $a++' crypt% It happens because pp.c:pp_postinc has these lines: if (!SvOK(TARG)) sv_setiv(TARG, 0); which aren't duplicated in pp_postdec. Anyone got a clue ...
    HvHv
    Mar 16, 2003 at 3:32 am
    Mar 19, 2003 at 4:40 am
  • -1 not allowed? d3:/pro/3gl/CPAN/perl-current 106 ./perl -Ilib lib/Config.t 1..36 ok 1 - use Config ok 2 - Config has more than 500 entries : : ok 34 - still d_fork ok 35 - sig_size not ok 36 - ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Mar 13, 2003 at 10:29 am
    Mar 14, 2003 at 2:00 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Paul Dyer # Please include the string: [perl #21614] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Paul DyerPaul Dyer
    Mar 19, 2003 at 3:09 pm
    Mar 29, 2003 at 9:31 pm
  • David Dyck wrote: :On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 at 14:32 +0100, Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig@anima....: : On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 00:22:30 -0800 (PST), David Dyck <david.dyck@fluke.com said: : : Here's a ...
    HvHv
    Mar 3, 2003 at 6:00 am
    Apr 14, 2003 at 9:58 pm
  • The attached patch corrects three minor issues for VMS in configure.com. It's relevant (and should apply cleanly to) both 5.8.1-to-be and bleadperl. -- fixes $Config{sig_num} to be space-separated ...
    Craig A. BerryCraig A. Berry
    Mar 14, 2003 at 3:38 am
    Mar 21, 2003 at 8:55 am
  • This seems to only pop up when doing a one liner. Is this a bug in the parser or a feature? I really think you should be able write '1 ? : 1' instead of being forced into '1 ? ( ) : 1' anyways.... -- ...
    Joshua HoblittJoshua Hoblitt
    Mar 12, 2003 at 1:12 am
    Mar 13, 2003 at 1:17 pm
  • Here's an attempt to squash the glibc _moddi3 negative quad bug that's been around for aeons. An aeon. Almost a year. (The bug is also known as [perl #9402] or "Abigail's faithfully failing int.t".) ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Mar 1, 2003 at 8:57 pm
    Mar 3, 2003 at 6:44 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Michael G Schwern # Please include the string: [perl #21742] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Michael G SchwernMichael G Schwern
    Mar 29, 2003 at 5:40 am
    Apr 1, 2003 at 7:53 pm
  • Did I miss the memo? http://www.cpan.org/ Randy -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Randy J. Ray | Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of ...
    Randy J. RayRandy J. Ray
    Mar 31, 2003 at 10:02 pm
    Apr 1, 2003 at 4:30 pm
  • There was a recent discussion on clp.moderated about adding a @MATCH (aka @&) array, where $MATCH[0] is $&, $MATCH[1] is $1, etc. While ways were pointed out to achieve this with tie, @+, and @-, it ...
    Yitzchak Scott-ThoennesYitzchak Scott-Thoennes
    Mar 27, 2003 at 4:29 am
    Mar 29, 2003 at 12:42 am
  • Hi all, I know AIX' ksh has never been good at running Perl's Configure, which is why Configure explicitly avoids it. This has worked fine (and still does). However, after upgrading my AIX 4.3.3 from ...
    Campo WeijermanCampo Weijerman
    Mar 7, 2003 at 12:33 am
    Mar 8, 2003 at 9:23 pm
  • ... actually smells like a user threads issue rather tha a Perl bug. Commenting out the close STDOUT kills the test failure on my box. -------------------------------------------------------------- ...
    Enache AdrianEnache Adrian
    Mar 22, 2003 at 8:55 pm
    Mar 25, 2003 at 9:43 am
  • I'm trying to get perl580 to compile with long doubles (16 byte reals), and Configure is just not taking it. I'm using Configure -des -Dcc=xlc128 -Duse64bitint -Duselongdouble But after configure is ...
    John L. AllenJohn L. Allen
    Mar 27, 2003 at 3:19 pm
    Mar 28, 2003 at 5:29 pm
  • bin/cpan gets the wrong path to the perl if it's not /usr/bin/perl. I've created utils/cpan.PL copying the perldoc.PL's functionality and updated utils/Makefile (the patch is attached as well as ...
    Stas BekmanStas Bekman
    Mar 22, 2003 at 4:25 am
    Mar 26, 2003 at 10:06 pm
  • While trying testing behaviour of 5.8.1-pre on WinCE I've noticed some differences in a script produced by perl-5.8.0 and perl@18872 in respect to Unicode and Encode and alike. Attached is a script ...
    Vadim KonovalovVadim Konovalov
    Mar 21, 2003 at 5:47 am
    Mar 21, 2003 at 6:06 pm
  • Alian's got one but it's "not real", it's a VMware one, and we are getting a strange Perl crash in ext/POSIX/t/posix.t. In the past we've got strange problems because of VMware, and therefore I would ...
    Jarkko HietaniemiJarkko Hietaniemi
    Mar 16, 2003 at 7:38 pm
    Mar 18, 2003 at 4:39 am
  • perlapi.pod advertises the load_module function, not Perl_load_module. Though it refers to Perl_load_module the require_pv() section. Shouldn't it be always consistent and refer to load_module()? If ...
    Stas BekmanStas Bekman
    Mar 1, 2003 at 4:35 am
    Mar 9, 2003 at 10:38 am
  • This is only natural since encoding.pm also changes layers for STD(IN|OUT). But I have to admit that I did not pay much attension to $ENV{PERL_UNICODE} and -C switch. Maybe I should tell encoding.pm ...
    Dan KogaiDan Kogai
    Mar 6, 2003 at 12:06 pm
    Mar 6, 2003 at 1:53 pm
  • The Net::Ping test would not support non-networked environment (I have loopback, but *no* daemons running). Thanks, Ilya --- ./lib/Net/Ping/t/190_alarm.t-pre Tue Mar 11 00:13:06 2003 +++ ...
    Ilya ZakharevichIlya Zakharevich
    Mar 31, 2003 at 8:41 pm
    Apr 26, 2003 at 5:33 am
  • # New Ticket Created by bplatz@acm.org # Please include the string: [perl #21721] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    bplatz@acm.org (via RT)bplatz@acm.org (via RT)
    Mar 27, 2003 at 6:09 pm
    Apr 2, 2003 at 1:18 pm
  • Dear Perl Porters, I see that 5.8.1 is nearing completion - are there any chances that the Bytecode compiler/loader will work ok? My 5.8.0 (Solaris 7, Sparc, Forte 6.2) compiles happily with perlcc, ...
    Marek RouchalMarek Rouchal
    Mar 17, 2003 at 4:29 pm
    Mar 21, 2003 at 3:25 am
  • Before I state that it is a bug - which it probably is not - I'd like to say that at least it does not DWIM to me $_ = "Blah\n"; print; will print "Blah\n" to the current selected filehandle (default ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Mar 20, 2003 at 4:39 pm
    Mar 20, 2003 at 6:12 pm
  • This comes from a discussion in freenode#perl: With v5.6.1 built for i386-linux: fxn@malacaton:~$ perl -ce '/(?#foo/)/' syntax error at -e line 1, at EOF -e had compilation errors. With v5.8.0 built ...
    Xavier NoriaXavier Noria
    Mar 22, 2003 at 6:52 pm
    Mar 24, 2003 at 3:08 am
  • This Week on perl5-porters (10-16 March 2003) It's back, it's back, the weekly P5P summary, after two weeks of vacation. Pseudo-hash deprecation Jarkko Hietaniemi asks the gang about the pseudo-hash ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Mar 17, 2003 at 10:19 pm
    Mar 18, 2003 at 1:32 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by richard beeblebrox # Please include the string: [perl #21498] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Richard beeblebroxRichard beeblebrox
    Mar 7, 2003 at 6:04 pm
    Mar 11, 2003 at 10:24 am
  • I'm a bit worried by the fact that arbitrary regular expressions are allowed as an argument to the -A switch. So I think either one of those solutions must be chosen : (a) only allow things that ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Mar 10, 2003 at 4:01 pm
    Mar 11, 2003 at 8:09 am
  • Sources of all perl versions released since perl5.000 can be found at http://perl.abigail.nl/History/. Abigail
    AbigailAbigail
    Mar 4, 2003 at 11:51 pm
    Mar 7, 2003 at 5:50 am
  • I'm not sure this is fixing the right thing, so allow me to pose a question. pad_free() not actually deallocating the SV is supposed to be an optimization, AFAIK. Whatever is reusing that pad slot is ...
    Gurusamy SarathyGurusamy Sarathy
    Mar 4, 2003 at 3:22 am
    Mar 5, 2003 at 8:46 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Hugo van der Sanden # Please include the string: [perl #21728] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Hugo van der SandenHugo van der Sanden
    Mar 28, 2003 at 3:21 pm
    May 5, 2003 at 9:22 pm
  • Hi, XS currently supports C++ but the generated files are named with the termination ".c" and so they are compiled by the C compiler instead of by the C++ one. Too work around this, CC has to be ...
    Salvador FandiñoSalvador Fandiño
    Mar 18, 2003 at 10:35 pm
    Apr 8, 2003 at 6:57 am
  • Perl5 Bug Summary Generated at Mon Mar 3 14:00:01 2003 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Issues Open Tickets: 1671 ...
    Robert SpierRobert Spier
    Mar 3, 2003 at 2:51 pm
    Mar 31, 2003 at 3:40 pm
  • Following a thread on the london.pm list: I think that this idea is worthy of discussion. What would be wrong with releasing a dummy warnings module to CPAN, so that putting use warnings; in a module ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Mar 25, 2003 at 10:38 pm
    Mar 30, 2003 at 10:01 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by miko@idocs.com # Please include the string: [perl #21602] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    miko@idocs.com (via RT)miko@idocs.com (via RT)
    Mar 17, 2003 at 7:53 pm
    Mar 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm
  • Hallo perl5-porters, successfully builded bleadperl with threads the first time, many thanks to the Wizard of Perl! $ cat /ftproot/pub/mirror/bleadperl/.patch 19013 Cygwin Package Information Package ...
    Gerrit P. HaaseGerrit P. Haase
    Mar 19, 2003 at 6:48 am
    Mar 20, 2003 at 8:15 pm
  • Hallo Jarkko, This little patch for maintperl is attached: --- perl-5.8.x/cygwin/perlld.in~ 2003-03-16 19:20:37.000000000 +0100 +++ perl-5.8.x/cygwin/perlld.in 2003-03-16 19:21:21.000000000 +0100 @@ ...
    Gerrit P. HaaseGerrit P. Haase
    Mar 16, 2003 at 9:21 pm
    Mar 17, 2003 at 10:25 pm
  • Automated smoke report for 5.9.0 patch 18856 on bsdos - 4.1 (i386/1 cpu) v1.16_22 using cc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release) O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = ...
    KaneKane
    Mar 12, 2003 at 12:52 pm
    Mar 13, 2003 at 8:47 am
  • Dear summary readers, Due to a combination of circumstances, my amount of free time is becoming less copious. As a consequence, I decided to stop writing the P5P summaries : because I can't guarantee ...
    Rafael Garcia-SuarezRafael Garcia-Suarez
    Mar 2, 2003 at 1:31 pm
    Mar 9, 2003 at 7:02 am
  • Hi, In the case of module documentation, I know to turn to the module author in case I have a question about the documentation or want to report an aparent problem/typo/bug. But what do I do in the ...
    Offer KayeOffer Kaye
    Mar 3, 2003 at 7:42 am
    Mar 3, 2003 at 12:34 pm
  • There has been a long-standing bug of the form my $x if $false; which causes odd things to happen. The problem lies in the fact that 'my $x' is compiled into the op padsv(targ=N, OPpLVAL_INTRO), ...
    Dave MitchellDave Mitchell
    Mar 1, 2003 at 6:30 pm
    Mar 2, 2003 at 7:25 pm
  • The patch below fixes three minor problems relating to the perlfunc manpage: 1. Three functions described in pod/perlfunc.pod (readpipe, sysopen and tied) have no entry in the __DATA__ section at the ...
    Steve HaySteve Hay
    Mar 20, 2003 at 11:54 am
    Apr 3, 2003 at 10:00 am
  • The patch below fixes four bugs in the installhtml utility: 1. The create_index() function does not correctly match the "NAME" section of the converted HTML files. This is addressed by the change to ...
    Steve HaySteve Hay
    Mar 20, 2003 at 12:33 pm
    Apr 2, 2003 at 7:59 pm
  • The improved libperl.so patch doesn't do nice things to the regular Linux build: LD_PRELOAD="$LD_PRELOAD /home/nick/19055/libperl.a" ./miniperl -Ilib configpm configpm.tmp ./miniperl: error while ...
    Nicholas ClarkNicholas Clark
    Mar 24, 2003 at 9:31 pm
    Mar 24, 2003 at 11:04 pm
  • Everybody trying to build a Perl with a shared libperl.so on Linux knows it: make test will actually test the previous built. This already resulted for me in more than one horrible confusion. One ...
    Enache AdrianEnache Adrian
    Mar 22, 2003 at 8:55 pm
    Mar 24, 2003 at 8:17 am
  • # New Ticket Created by Matt Sergeant # Please include the string: [perl #21628] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Matt SergeantMatt Sergeant
    Mar 20, 2003 at 4:26 pm
    Mar 20, 2003 at 11:51 pm
  • # New Ticket Created by Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat # Please include the string: [perl #21575] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...
    Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat (via RT)Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat (via RT)
    Mar 14, 2003 at 4:36 pm
    Mar 17, 2003 at 9:22 pm
  • AIX, what a pain :( (/me porting mod_perl 2.0 build on aix) LD_RUN_PATH="" ld -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp -bE:PerlIO.exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc_r ...
    Stas BekmanStas Bekman
    Mar 12, 2003 at 6:11 am
    Mar 12, 2003 at 11:18 pm
  • With all the 'O's flying around on the smoke front, and even Abigail's 64bit 'F's gone, wouldn't it be a nice moment to consider a snapshot? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers ...
    H.Merijn BrandH.Merijn Brand
    Mar 7, 2003 at 9:23 am
    Mar 9, 2003 at 1:14 am
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