perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for June 2005

35	[perl #36211] local @a inside eval

# New Ticket Created by Salvador Fandiño # Please include the string: [perl #36211] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Salvador "Fandiño"
Jun 8, 2005 at 12:01 am
Jun 22, 2005 at 11:16 pm

32	[PATCH] Put Carp into the Tarpit (No Carp #2 - Archive::Tar)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, in my quest to rescue^Wpreserve memory, here is the second patch in my noCarp series. The first one can be found here: ...

Tels
Jun 26, 2005 at 9:11 am
Jul 1, 2005 at 10:57 pm

32	Re: Change 24806: improve static build for win32/Makefile

I guess it serves me right for not being around at weekends, but I wish this hadn't been committed in my absence. Did you try this on Win32 before committing? I've long meant to have a look at a ...

Steve Hay
Jun 13, 2005 at 8:37 am
Jun 17, 2005 at 9:07 am

30	Archive::Tar is now core

I added Archive::Tar to the core, this being the last addition before CPANPLUS. I made the three modifications below, so A::T doesn't leave files behind him when tested, and to get a manpage ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Jun 21, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Jan 3, 2006 at 2:21 pm

21	Re: Some datapoints on hash performanc

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, Semi-stupid question. How do I get different patch-levels from blead? I know how to get the latest, but have no idea how to checkout a certain patch number, ...

Tels
Jun 12, 2005 at 9:42 am
Jul 4, 2005 at 9:11 pm

20	[perl #36127] Using exists() on @_ does not work as expected with undef

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Sebastian
Jun 4, 2005 at 10:52 pm
Jul 24, 2013 at 1:27 pm

20	janitorial work ?

New() macro's 1st arg is a magic number intended to help track memory allocations/leaks. Is this archaic enough to strip out ? it never reaches object code, so its truly a cosmetic change only. ...

Jim Cromie
Jun 17, 2005 at 2:00 am
Jul 8, 2005 at 5:04 pm

19	Editor-Jiggery was: Re: [PATCH] Lint support

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin, Which is different from "added because I noticed it was missing" :) (Just splitting hairs, ignore the man behind the editor etc :) I see a few problems here: ...

Tels
Jun 17, 2005 at 10:13 am
Jun 23, 2005 at 9:00 pm

18	We're going round in circles with pp_sys.c

24953 added some initializations to silence bcc32 compiler warnings 24963 corrected the initialization (sorry!) 24965 removed the initializations! Was that last change deliberate or can the ...

Steve Hay
Jun 24, 2005 at 7:48 am
Jul 5, 2005 at 6:00 pm

18	[perl #36434] blead perl breask CPANPLUS-0.055 and other programs that push @ISA, __PACKAGE__

# New Ticket Created by David Dyck # Please include the string: [perl #36434] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

David Dyck
Jun 30, 2005 at 6:50 am
Jul 1, 2005 at 8:19 am

16	Unexpected parsing of print statement... Is this correct behaviour?

Should this be perlbug'ed? It seems like the + operator is mistakenly being taken for the unary plus and not the binary plus. print() on unopened filehandle 10 at -e line 1. -- perl -Mre=debug -e ...

Demerphq
Jun 15, 2005 at 6:51 am
Jun 15, 2005 at 2:26 pm

15	[perl #7250] Inappropriate warning for 'my' in 'open'

The problem is that Perl sees the "my $fh, $file;" and assumes its a list-like declaration using my which requires parens around the list. This warning occurs with our as well. This can be prevented ...

Steve Peters via RT
Jun 7, 2005 at 11:05 pm
Jun 9, 2005 at 4:12 am

13	[perl #36417] IO::Handle::getline() doco should note an important difference from <$io>

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Justin Mason
Jun 28, 2005 at 6:25 pm
Jul 5, 2005 at 6:44 pm

13	[perl #36130] chr(-1) should probably return undef

# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #36130] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Jun 5, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Jun 7, 2005 at 9:50 am

11	better assertion support

Hi, I have been working further on the assertions support, the patch attached provides: - better docs - new low level subroutines to support alternative assertion frameworks (assertions::enabled() ...

Salvador Fandiño
Jun 13, 2005 at 3:47 pm
Sep 7, 2006 at 4:39 am

11	[perl #36235] perl + gcc-4.0.0 + solaris + gnu binutils

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Niki W. Waibel
Jun 10, 2005 at 3:00 am
Aug 10, 2005 at 9:00 pm

11	Warnings with const char const arguments

win32/win32.c currently generates warnings under gcc. The problem is reproduced by: #include <process.h int main() { const char *cmdname; const char *const *argv; return execv(cmdname, (char *const ...

Steve Hay
Jun 27, 2005 at 9:46 am
Jul 5, 2005 at 7:03 pm

11	[PATCH] XSLoader for Storable

With DynaLoader: perl -MStorable -e1 0,18s user 0,02s system 93% cpu 0,213 total perl -MStorable -e1 0,20s user 0,00s system 96% cpu 0,207 total perl -MStorable -e1 0,20s user 0,00s system 94% cpu ...

Alexey Tourbin
Jun 27, 2005 at 1:11 am
Jun 30, 2005 at 7:02 pm

11	[perl #9741] possible problem with File::Find

With the following script #!perl -w use strict; use File::Find; sub wanted { return if ! -f; print "$File::Find::name\n"; } find \&wanted, "C:/"; I was not able to duplicate your problem with either ...

Steve Peters via RT
Jun 17, 2005 at 1:39 pm
Jun 23, 2005 at 4:17 pm

10	problem building latest perl (24978) on win32

Dear all, when building with ITHREADS, MULTIPLICITY, IMP_SYS turned off, and PERL_MALLOC, PERLIO turned on, following linker error happens: link -dll -def:perldll.def -base:0x28000000 ...

Vadim
Jun 25, 2005 at 2:07 pm
Jul 18, 2005 at 2:49 pm

10	[perl #36207] UTF8/Latin 1/i regexp "Malformed character" warning

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #36207] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Jun 7, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Jul 10, 2005 at 5:13 pm

10	Configure check for whether 0.0 is stored as all bits zero

Is this a suitable patch to apply to Configure (and backport to the metaconfig units), for the purpose of testing whether 0.0 is stored as all bits zero in memory? It's a useful thing to know, ...

Nicholas Clark
Jun 18, 2005 at 5:51 pm
Jul 5, 2005 at 8:35 pm

9	[perl #36359] 1x1e12 eq ''

# New Ticket Created by "Piotr Fusik" # Please include the string: [perl #36359] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Piotr Fusik
Jun 22, 2005 at 11:24 am
Jul 1, 2013 at 6:50 am

9	[perl #36375] current :unique implementation not threadsafe

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #36375] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Jun 23, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Jul 20, 2005 at 11:25 am

9	[perl #36310] sv_vcatpvfn() fails on some (very limited) situations

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Ikegami @ artemis . a01 . aist . go . jp
Jun 16, 2005 at 1:36 pm
Jun 21, 2005 at 7:30 am

9	[perl #36336] $# doesn't apply to 0

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Piotr Fusik
Jun 20, 2005 at 9:32 am
Jun 20, 2005 at 9:06 pm

9	[perl #36313] perl -e "1for$[=0" crash

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Piotr Fusik
Jun 16, 2005 at 3:54 pm
Jun 18, 2005 at 9:47 pm

9	improve static build for win32/Makefile

Hello, all! attached patch introduces ability to make static build of extensions (into perlXX.dll); it was available for win32/makefile.mk for a long time already. BR, Vadim.

Vadim
Jun 12, 2005 at 10:11 am
Jun 13, 2005 at 10:38 am

8	[PATCH] Lint support

Here's a patch for quieting some lint warnings on Solaris lint. Also introduces a little bit of infrastructure. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester = andy@petdance.com = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance

Andy Lester
Jun 16, 2005 at 2:35 pm
Jun 16, 2005 at 10:02 pm

8	[PATCH] make -f invalid when USE_SITECUSTOMIZE isn't set

When you try running Perl-5.8.6 with a -f (which isn't valid), you'll see Unrecognized switch: -f (-h will show valid options). When currently running blead, Perl waits patiently for STDIN, even ...

Steve Peters
Jun 15, 2005 at 2:40 pm
Jun 16, 2005 at 9:11 am

8	[PATCH] util.c cleanup

Here are a couple of cleanups to util.c, four of which will definitely be speedups, although not by much. :-) * On all Perl_*instr functions, removed the register qualifiers from all variables. Also, ...

Andy Lester
Jun 5, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Jun 6, 2005 at 1:17 pm

7	Poor man's smoke

In the absence of a bleadperl smoke (until I or someone else finds time to fix Test-Smoke for the new harness output), here's a new test failure using a default threaded config on Win32/VC++: op/gv.t ...

Steve Hay
Jun 24, 2005 at 8:12 am
Jun 24, 2005 at 2:07 pm

7	B::Deparse test error with bcc32

Looking into the causes of the various test failures when perl is built with Borland bcc32 on Win32, the first failing test is ext/B/t/deparse.t, which fails with "pow: OVERFLOW error"s unexpectedly ...

Steve Hay
Jun 16, 2005 at 1:01 pm
Jun 17, 2005 at 12:05 pm

7	Making Pathtools compile properly on Win32 5.6.x, experiencing problems with tainting

Hi, Ive been trying to help Ken get the latest version of Pathtools (Cwd.xs) to work properly on Win32 5.6.x. Overall this hasnt been much of a problem, except that for the life of me I cant get ...

Demerphq
Jun 3, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Jun 3, 2005 at 7:58 pm

6	[PATCH] Faster **

This is a small optimization of pp_pow. The following: use Benchmark; timethis(30000, 'my $x; for my $base (-8 .. 8) { for my $power (0 .. 10) { $x = $base ** $power; $x = $base ** $power; $x = $base ...

Unknown Sender
Jun 23, 2005 at 7:52 am
Jul 19, 2005 at 11:09 am

6	Intel compiler

Hello, Just saw in today's Freshmeat newsletter that Intel made a public release of ICC 9.0. http://developer.intel.com/software/products/compilers/clin/ It is available for evaluation purpose at ...

Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Jun 16, 2005 at 10:05 am
Jul 5, 2005 at 10:38 pm

6	dirname("/perl/") == ?

dirname("/perl/") == "/perl" dirname("/perl/lib//") == "/perl/lib" That's what I'd think, anyway. But the tests specificly contradict this saying dirname("/perl/lib//") == "/perl" and specificly ...

Michael G Schwern
Jun 30, 2005 at 8:27 am
Jul 5, 2005 at 7:00 pm

6	[PATCH pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlobj.pod pod/perltooc.pod] Recommend Against NIVERSAL:: Methods as Functions

The attached patch rephrases three pieces of Perl documentation which suggest that calling UNIVERSAL::isa() or UNIVERSAL::can() directly is a good idea. The revised version explains why it's a bad ...

Chromatic
Jun 15, 2005 at 7:24 pm
Jun 16, 2005 at 6:28 pm

6	Compress::Zlib in the core

I've added Compress::Zlib to bleadperl. The next steps would be to add IO::Zlib, Archive::Tar and CPANPLUS (and then, profit and release a new blead tarball). It's probably still a bit rough. I've ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Jun 10, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Jun 13, 2005 at 9:28 am

6

mathoms

There was a discussion about this a while back, that seemed to get distracted by a bikeshed argument (the name). Apart from the name, does anyone see any good reason why we shouldn't move all the ...

Nicholas Clark
Jun 3, 2005 at 10:17 am
Jun 3, 2005 at 4:51 pm

6	[PATCH] eliminate always running mktables

mktables is re-run because it depends on Config_heavy.pl which is always updated. What is needed is a temporary config_heavy, as in the patch below. Robin --- ...

Robin Barker
Jun 1, 2005 at 8:55 am
Jun 1, 2005 at 2:56 pm

5	How to suppress warnings when building Errno with gcc

Does anyone else see several dozen warning: #pragma system_header ignored outside include file warnings when building Errno with gcc? I see it on Win32 (MinGW -- gcc 3.2.3). It never used to happen, ...

Steve Hay
Jun 28, 2005 at 12:54 pm
Jul 5, 2005 at 6:27 pm

5	perlio_fd_refcnt

Would it make sense to replace the hardwired 2048 file descriptor reference count array (used in perlio.c, defined in perlvars.h) PERLVARA(Gperlio_fd_refcnt, 2048, int) /* PERLIO_MAX_REFCOUNTABLE_FD ...

Nicholas Clark
Jun 24, 2005 at 10:27 pm
Jul 5, 2005 at 6:10 pm

5	[PATCH] Convert File::Basename tests to Test::More

Attached is a cleanup of the File::Basename tests to use Test::More instead of ad-hockery. I also fixed a warning generated by the taint detection method by replacing it with the new one in perlsec. ...

Michael G Schwern
Jun 30, 2005 at 7:39 am
Jun 30, 2005 at 7:32 pm

5	[perl #36422] Very odd behaviour with .. operator and array slices from a listref

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Avised @ kbcfp . com
Jun 29, 2005 at 8:39 am
Jun 29, 2005 at 3:07 pm

5	[perl #36350] unstable sorting for use integer; sort { $b <=> $a } @foo

# New Ticket Created by Salvador Fandiño # Please include the string: [perl #36350] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Salvador "Fandiño"
Jun 21, 2005 at 2:45 pm
Jun 23, 2005 at 11:06 am

5	I can't get closure on my closure issue

Consider this code for (1 .. 3) { my $outer = 0 ; sub mkClosure { sub { $outer = 1234 } ; } &{ mkClosure() }(); print "outer $outer\n" ; } With all perl's except the bleeding edge I get this $ ...

Paul Marquess
Jun 15, 2005 at 12:28 pm
Jun 22, 2005 at 3:22 pm

5	lib/Test/Simple/t/fail-more.t failure with bcc32

lib/Test/Simple/t/fail-more.t fails test 10 when perl is built with bcc32: not ok 10 # Failed test (../lib/Test/Simple/t/fail-more.t at line 80) # got: 'No such file or directory # ' # expected: '' # ...

Steve Hay
Jun 21, 2005 at 11:58 am
Jun 21, 2005 at 2:18 pm

5	Re: [PATCH replacement] Re: [perl #36313] perl -e "1for$[=0" crash

+ $x = 1 for $[ = 0; + pass('optimized assignment to $[ used to segfault in scalar context'); + if (($[) = 0) { $x = 1 } + pass('optimized assignment to $[ used to segfault in list context'); Looks ...

Piotr Fusik
Jun 19, 2005 at 9:35 am
Jun 20, 2005 at 2:53 pm

5	sv_upgrade

Most calls to upgrade scalars are made via the SvUPGRADE macro, which looks like this: #define SvUPGRADE(sv, mt) (SvTYPE(sv) = (mt) || (sv_upgrade(sv, mt), 1)) However, some code calls ...

Nicholas Clark
Jun 17, 2005 at 10:37 am
Jun 17, 2005 at 2:11 pm

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