perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for September 2010

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mauve--

So I'm catching up with the changes in perl and I find out about this mauve namespace. I'm rather horrified :) Some questions. - if we're going to define new XSUBs, why should they be in universal.c ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Sep 9, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Sep 10, 2010 at 7:37 pm

33	[perl #77654] quotemeta() fails to quote literal non-word character under utf8

# New Ticket Created by Mitchell N Charity # Please include the string: [perl #77654] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Mitchell N Charity
Sep 2, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Feb 16, 2012 at 1:04 am

30	RFC: m//a restrict matching to ASCII

I've been thinking about the oft-expressed issue here concerning e.g., making \d match only 0-9, and now have a concrete proposal. I'm proposing a '/a' regex modifier that would restrict matches of ...

Karl williamson
Sep 21, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Nov 3, 2010 at 2:12 am

19	[perl #78008] Bleadperl fb85c04 breaks CPAN

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #78008] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Sep 23, 2010 at 6:40 am
Apr 19, 2011 at 11:56 am

18	[perl #74798] [PATCH] Data::Dumper: useqq implementation for xs

Thank you for the patch. It looks nice, but there’s one problem: $ ./perl -Ilib -MData::Dumper -le '++$Data::Dumper::Useqq; print Dumper join "", map chr, 0..255' Malformed UTF-8 character (overflow ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Sep 27, 2010 at 12:24 am
Aug 9, 2013 at 5:37 am

18	[perl #78132] [PATCH] Fix perl build problems on Stratus VOS

# New Ticket Created by Paul Green # Please include the string: [perl #78132] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Paul Green
Sep 29, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Apr 24, 2012 at 12:52 am

17	Errors in perl5.12.2

I'm trying to install perl5.12.2 on my computer. This is hoe I did it: sh Configure -de -Dprefix=/usr -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/share/perl5:/usr/lib/perl5 -Dusethreads -Dusemorebits -Uuselargefiles make ...

Shawn H Corey
Sep 21, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Sep 27, 2010 at 12:17 pm

16	[RFC] Exposing PL_dirty to perl space

Quoting from the Devel::GlobalDestruction docs: Perl's global destruction is a little tricky to deal with WRT finalizers because it's not ordered and objects can sometimes disappear. Writing ...

Florian Ragwitz
Sep 28, 2010 at 2:21 am
Oct 5, 2010 at 5:23 am

14	[rt.cpan.org #56225] Innocent-looking Cwd change breaks EPIC + debugger on win32

<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56225 I'm quoting the original bug report for those reading along on p5p: On Fri Sep 10 16:17:48 2010, ...

Steffen Mueller via RT
Sep 11, 2010 at 7:20 am
Nov 24, 2013 at 4:04 pm

14	fresh_perl failure

t/run/fresh_perl.t fails for me on linux and OSX : run/fresh_perl.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 94 Failed: 5) Failed tests: 49-53 Apparently since this commit : commit 57ef47cc7bcd1b57927d5010f363ccaa10f1d990 ...

Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Sep 20, 2010 at 8:57 am
Sep 25, 2010 at 4:13 am

13	Why doesn't shift / splice alias ??

Inspired by a discussion on module-authors: I've always wondered why: my $foo= shift @array; would not be an aliasing operation. Is there a specific reason why a copy is needed?? $ perl -le 'my @a=1; ...

Elizabeth Mattijsen
Sep 13, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Sep 17, 2010 at 10:37 am

12	Why do we parse v-strings this way?

$ perl5122 -MDevel::Peek -we 'Dump(eval "v1.2.3_1")' SV = PVMG(0xf01bb0) at 0xed3990 REFCNT = 1 FLAGS = (TEMP,RMG,POK,pPOK) IV = 0 NV = 0 PV = 0xeefe60 "\1\2\37"\0 CUR = 3 LEN = 8 MAGIC = 0xed7310 ...

David Golden
Sep 26, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Sep 28, 2010 at 1:26 pm

12	[PATCH] Start revamping perlipc.pod

Hi all, Inspired by a message ot the perl documentation proejct, I started working on revamping perlipc.pod here: http://github.com/shlomif/perl/tree/perlipc-revamp What I did so far is convert all ...

Shlomi Fish
Sep 5, 2010 at 5:06 am
Sep 16, 2010 at 8:29 am

11	(not) Building perl with makepp

Hi, after years of steady improvement I'm getting ready for releasing version 2.0 of makepp. I'm testing it against various open source to fix it, so we can keep our promise of being almost gmake ...

Daniel Pfeiffer
Sep 3, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Jun 24, 2013 at 5:01 am

11	[PATCH 1/2] Localize PL_reg_state during re_evals

--- regexec.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/regexec.c b/regexec.c index 881f8c2..867965a 100644 --- a/regexec.c +++ b/regexec.c @@ -3975,7 +3975,10 @@ ...

Florian Ragwitz
Sep 22, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Sep 30, 2010 at 12:24 am

10	How do I enable sfio support in perl?

How do I enable sfio support in perl? A colleague did it a few years who and archived vast performance improvements with it. Now I am tasked with the perl upgrade but do not know where I should ...

Ольга крыжановская
Sep 30, 2010 at 2:33 am
Dec 12, 2013 at 4:28 pm

10	[PATCH] Extract regcurly from regcomp.c and convert it to static inline

This patch extracts regcurly from regcomp.c and converts it to static inline in a new file to be included by regcomp.c and toke.c. It required 'make regen', which I did as part of this patch. (Only ...

Andy Dougherty
Sep 10, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Jul 7, 2011 at 7:58 pm

10	[PATCH] full API for cop hint hashes

Attached patch provides a full API for cop hint hashes, *without* exposing the refcounted_he type per se. The implementation is just a macro layer, so there's no runtime cost, but the set of ...

Zefram
Sep 22, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Oct 21, 2010 at 1:12 pm

10	Smoke [5.13.5] v5.13.5-65-g20c0021 FAIL(M) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.13.5 patch 20c002109cce68de85ddf6451b809a24ae6d650a v5.13.5-65-g20c0021 maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu) on ...

Steve Hay
Sep 23, 2010 at 1:57 am
Sep 23, 2010 at 4:11 pm

10	[PATCH] Only export the public symbols in shared libperls

Only works on ELF platforms, and does require a linker that understands --version-script. That's probably GNU ld only. --- .gitignore | 2 ++ Makefile.SH | 18 +++++++++++++++++- ...

Florian Ragwitz
Sep 2, 2010 at 7:50 pm
Sep 16, 2010 at 2:21 pm

9

All gone

$ ./runbench.sh sub f{my($n)=@_;$n==8 and bless{1..4}and$a=~s/$/../;$n<2 and return$n;f($n-1)+f($n-2)}f(33) perl5.8.9-nt 10.31 perl5.10.1-nt 10.82 perl5.11.3-nt 11.25 perl5.12.1-nt 10.74 ...

Reini Urban
Sep 13, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Sep 17, 2010 at 7:25 am

9	Nondeterministic (and possibly incorrect) destructor order

Hi, rather than file this as a bug I thought I'd discuss it here, since it may be my assumptions which are at fault. I have a program that uses AUTOLOAD to delegate method calls. Among other things ...

Ed Avis
Sep 13, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Sep 14, 2010 at 6:00 pm

8	Smoke [5.12.2] v5.12.2 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP3 (x86/2 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.12.2 patch 7a3b65c9d99f69553fffe01f73d49fe9abf95120 v5.12.2 maldoror.bath.planit.group: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz(~2660 MHz) (x86/2 cpu) on MSWin32 - ...

Steve Hay
Sep 8, 2010 at 1:19 am
Sep 30, 2010 at 12:35 am

8	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Saturday Current branch blead 29 commits. 15 unique authors. 10 unique committers. 61 files changed, 3096 insertions(+), 924 deletions(-) Net code removal: ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Sep 1, 2010 at 1:14 am
Sep 29, 2010 at 1:15 am

8	[perl #76474] IPC::Open3 doesn't handle file descriptors correctly

Thank you. I’ve applied this as fb9b5b31d8a62644191f4e414a66124e86f30797.

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Sep 26, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Sep 28, 2010 at 12:18 am

8	[PATCH] hint APIs

Attached patch API-ifies a bunch of hint-related things. The bulk of it is making the refcounted_he system public, but note that this doesn't particularly publicise the fact that hints in cops are ...

Zefram
Sep 12, 2010 at 1:00 am
Sep 14, 2010 at 1:15 am

8	[PATCH] APIify pad functions

Attached patch puts all the essential pad functions into the API. This is to support parser plugins and things like Parse::Perl. Mostly these are interfaces that would survive a complete ...

Zefram
Sep 9, 2010 at 9:51 pm
Sep 13, 2010 at 8:32 am

7	[perl #77762] Fcntl -w causing perl script compile failures

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Todd Rinaldo
Sep 9, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Nov 30, 2010 at 4:45 pm

7	[perl #77974] [PATCH] Record method calls in the context stack

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Ben Morrow
Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Nov 30, 2010 at 10:27 am

7	[perl #77952] [PATCH] Fix longjmp build warnings in regcomp.c

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Jerry D. Hedden
Sep 20, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Sep 30, 2010 at 1:32 pm

6	[perl #77810] Scalars vs globs

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Father Chrysostomos
Sep 12, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Feb 7, 2011 at 2:52 am

6	[perl #78086] glob fails

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Saddy
Sep 27, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Sep 28, 2010 at 4:03 pm

6	RFC: Proposal for fixing user-defined casing issues

Summary: Deprecate current behavior and supply a better-behaved alternative in 5.14. Remove current behavior in 5.16, speeding up ut8 case changing. Current situation: It is possible to override the ...

Karl williamson
Sep 16, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Sep 18, 2010 at 4:39 am

6	Smoke [5.13.4] v5.13.4-207-g9ea1253 FAIL(m) openvms V8.4 (IA64/2 cpu)

Automated smoke report for 5.13.4 patch 9ea12537a494a537e72f6853f48253349ee8d82d v5.13.4-207-g9ea1253 ALMA: HP rx2600 (1.50GHz/6.0MB) (IA64/2 cpu) on openvms - V8.4 using ? CC/DECC version 70390019 ...

Craig A. Berry
Sep 10, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Sep 11, 2010 at 5:39 pm

5	[perl #77630] [patch] HARNESS_TIMER=$PWD/../perf make test should save timings to dir

# New Ticket Created by Jim Cromie # Please include the string: [perl #77630] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Jim Cromie
Sep 1, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Oct 19, 2014 at 12:52 am

5	[perl #78070] List::Util tests give ‘Attempt to free unreferenced scalar’ warnings

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #78070] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Father Chrysostomos
Sep 26, 2010 at 8:50 pm
Oct 24, 2010 at 8:12 pm

5	[perl #78040] Bleadperl 9de15fe breaks MATISSE/Perl-Metrics-Simple-0.15.tar.gz

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Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Sep 25, 2010 at 9:40 am
Sep 30, 2010 at 2:58 am

5	Release planning for 5.14

Karl Williamson pointed out on IRC that the rough schedule for 5.14.0 that we talked about on IRC, I proposed at OSCON and Leon presented at YAPC::EU never actually got sent to p5p. I've just checked ...

Jesse Vincent
Sep 25, 2010 at 2:05 am
Sep 25, 2010 at 5:46 pm

5	XS question: local $/ = $eol;

To support "weird" eol sequences in Text::CSV_XS, I need the XS variant of my $line = do { local $/ = $eol; scalar <$fh ; } I know *when* I need it, but not (yet) how to do it: { int result; dSP; ...

H.Merijn Brand
Sep 23, 2010 at 6:45 am
Sep 23, 2010 at 1:45 pm

5	[perl #77898] Missing build dependencies on Cwd module

# New Ticket Created by "Todd C. Miller" # Please include the string: [perl #77898] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Todd C. Miller
Sep 16, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Sep 22, 2010 at 2:27 pm

5	Hash::Util::lock_hash_recurse throws warnings

For an example of the bug see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3727619/how-do-i-use-lock-hash-recurse-in-perl/3727667#3727667 Here is a patch that fixes the warnings. I did not include a test ...

Chas. Owens
Sep 16, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Sep 16, 2010 at 4:07 pm

5	RFC: named sequences and charnames::vianame incompatible

A Unicode named sequence is a single name for a string of characters. For example, TAMIL SYLLABLE HO is actually two characters that together are commonly referred to by this name. It is easy to add ...

Karl williamson
Sep 5, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Sep 10, 2010 at 4:21 am

5	Should srand(undef) be srand() or srand(0) ?

Currently srand(undef) assumes its seed is 0. That seems wrong to me. Is there a reason not to change it to generate a seed in this circumstance?

Karl williamson
Sep 9, 2010 at 1:14 pm
Sep 10, 2010 at 12:02 am

4	[PATCH] Re: [perl #19135] string eval turns off readonlyness on lexicals

The readonliness is turned off explicitly in pad_free under ithreads. See also bug #19022, which resulted from the same change. There is some discussion there, too, but nobody seemed to know exactly ...

Father Chrysostomos
Sep 19, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Dec 8, 2010 at 7:39 pm

4	[perl #77610] localisation support on %+ and %- buggy

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #77610] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Nicholas Clark
Sep 1, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Oct 12, 2010 at 5:54 pm

4	Test counts

Currently, if a patch adjusts a test count, it’s very likely going to conflict with any other patch modifying the same test file. There’s a test-counting technique I came up with, which I think I ...

Father Chrysostomos
Sep 5, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Oct 12, 2010 at 4:49 pm

4	Contributing host-specific mods for 'nonstop'

Hi All, We're getting ready to contribute the (small number of) changes I made for the File module and hints file to get perl 5.12 to build on NonStop. I'm not currently a contributor but would like ...

Randall S. Becker
Sep 30, 2010 at 2:07 am
Oct 1, 2010 at 5:22 pm

4	[perl #76678] [PATCH] Locale::Maketext - Import dev changes from CPAN

Not seeing these entries, and not knowing about the dev releases, I copied some change log entries from perldelta into the ChangeLog file. Some of these may be duplicates. Can I leave it to you to ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Sep 27, 2010 at 1:32 am
Sep 28, 2010 at 7:21 pm

4	[perl #76666] [PATCH] Locale::Maketext - Taint issues doing a regex on $_[1] in _compile - perlbug 60378,2734

Thank you. I’ve applied this as e9c9ffcae4a8b5820dabb04674b85bb5195fcfc4.

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Sep 25, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Sep 27, 2010 at 3:59 pm

4	[perl #78022] PATCH: Add a couple of macros to handy.h

# New Ticket Created by karl williamson # Please include the string: [perl #78022] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: ...

Karl williamson
Sep 24, 2010 at 2:01 am
Sep 24, 2010 at 6:25 am

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