perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for September 2013

46	ifdefs and defines for the glue factory

Howdy all. I've started going through several ifdefs & defines in the source, trying to find stuff that could go away. I removed a handful in a branch, but then began compiling a list of things that ...

Brian Fraser
Sep 3, 2013 at 1:45 am
Sep 25, 2013 at 6:35 pm

34	[perl #119897] glob in threads is broken in perl5.18

# New Ticket Created by <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="8aae7541572e6568b84e8f253721b2a7" niels@thykier.net</span # Please include the string: [perl #119897] # in the subject line of all ...

Niels @ thykier . net
Sep 20, 2013 at 11:09 am
Oct 2, 2013 at 3:20 am

32	RFC: Drop VC6 support on Windows for 5.20?

This is a request for comments on a proposal to drop support for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 on Windows from Perl 5.20. A recent thread [1] highlighted the fact that VC6 has slightly flaky support for ...

Steve Hay
Sep 13, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Sep 17, 2013 at 3:45 am

25	Question on porting perl 5.16 to Android (no /bin/sh)

I used the perldroid project to cross-compile perl 5.16 for android (ARM) using the latest Android NDK stand-alone toolchain. After hacking on perldroid to fix a few things I got a mostly-working ...

Ben Greear
Sep 4, 2013 at 4:50 pm
Oct 10, 2013 at 1:41 pm

25	[perl #120047] perl should enable "$_" for use before calling subs

# New Ticket Created by Linda Walsh # Please include the string: [perl #120047] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Linda Walsh
Sep 29, 2013 at 9:26 am
Sep 30, 2013 at 5:26 pm

24	does Win32 install .pl files and .bat files

If a CPAN distribution contains a script, such as Pod::Perldoc contains perldoc, or Digest-SHA contains shasum, what does Win32 actually install? In that, as best I can tell, on all platforms the ...

Nicholas Clark
Sep 20, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Sep 23, 2013 at 8:48 am

23	Re: [perl #119251] [PATCH] Enhancement request - a prototype attribute

I'm getting: [pmartini@pmlenlaptop blah]$ ./miniperl -e 'sub f { use }' syntax error at -e line 1, near "use }" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. If you apply the original second ...

Peter Martini
Sep 17, 2013 at 6:09 am
Oct 24, 2013 at 11:19 pm

20	[perl #119599] [PATCH] Super Quick Patch Guide Improvements

# New Ticket Created by Smylers # Please include the string: [perl #119599] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Smylers
Sep 4, 2013 at 11:59 am
Oct 5, 2013 at 1:40 am

16	[perl #119889] Bleadperl v5.19.3-653-ga49b10d breaks ILMARI/DBIx-Class-Schema-Loader-0.07036.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #119889] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Sep 19, 2013 at 6:27 am
Dec 1, 2013 at 7:16 pm

16	[perl #119635] deprecate and remove qsort?

# New Ticket Created by Nicholas Clark # Please include the string: [perl #119635] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Nicholas Clark
Sep 6, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Sep 12, 2013 at 3:46 pm

15	[perl #119683] $! localisation broken by ref

# New Ticket Created by Zefram # Please include the string: [perl #119683] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Zefram
Sep 9, 2013 at 7:28 pm
Sep 10, 2013 at 6:12 pm

13	[perl #119993] segmentation fault/memory corruption in pure perl

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L . mai @ web . de
Sep 24, 2013 at 9:39 pm
Nov 19, 2013 at 12:56 am

13	[perl #119665] Please warn when assigning from 'return'

# New Ticket Created by Dominic Hargreaves # Please include the string: [perl #119665] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Dominic Hargreaves
Sep 7, 2013 at 6:32 pm
Nov 17, 2013 at 9:03 pm

13	[perl #80058] [Bug Report] Bad \n convert, using UTF-16 on Win32

I believe this is a known problem with the way the default :crlf layer works on Win32. Since the layer is immediately on top of the :unix layer, it's working at a byte level, adding CRs to the bytes ...

Tony Cook via RT
Sep 20, 2013 at 5:27 am
Sep 20, 2013 at 4:34 pm

12	[perl #120043] [PATCH] 38b73da fix a few warnings (format strings, unused variable)

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L . mai @ web . de
Sep 28, 2013 at 10:16 pm
Nov 20, 2013 at 4:14 am

12	A few Perl gdb debugging tools

Howdy folks, I've written two debugging tools for use with Perl and gdb that may be of use to some of you. They are: https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::GDB::Breakpoint ...

Matthew Horsfall (alh)
Sep 26, 2013 at 3:27 pm
Nov 18, 2013 at 4:35 pm

12	[perl #119797] lvalue sub shows "Bizarre copy of ARRAY in block exit" in very specific case.

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GlitchMr
Sep 15, 2013 at 10:08 am
Oct 24, 2013 at 7:44 pm

12	[perl #119771] Bleadperl v5.19.3-361-gde935cc breaks YAPPO/Data-Model-0.00008.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #119771] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Sep 13, 2013 at 7:59 am
Sep 20, 2013 at 12:49 am

11	[perl #120041] regcomp.c missing parens and broken STCLASS

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L . mai @ web . de
Sep 28, 2013 at 9:59 pm
Sep 29, 2014 at 8:19 pm

11	[perl #119801] Modifying @DB::dbline entries can crash perl

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #119801] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
Sep 15, 2013 at 8:04 pm
Dec 26, 2013 at 1:49 am

11	postfix dereference docs

Father Chrysostomos (et al): I have taken the liberty of pushing 05fee314 to sprout/postderef, adding preliminary documentation. I was, unfortunately, out of date on the branch I used for testing ...

Ricardo Signes
Sep 27, 2013 at 2:51 am
Oct 31, 2013 at 5:27 am

11	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 133 commits. 11 unique authors. 9 unique committers. 92 files changed, 3049 insertions(+), 2394 deletions(-) Net code removal ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Sep 1, 2013 at 1:12 am
Sep 25, 2013 at 1:14 am

11	key/value hash slices status

Hello, I've completed code and tests for key/value hash slices and index/value array slices. Tests cover most common uses cases as well as error conditions, warnings and some corner cases people were ...

Ruslan Zakirov
Sep 8, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Sep 20, 2013 at 9:07 am

11	[perl #119567] lib/locale.t test failure with perl-5.18.1 on hppa-unknown-linux-gnu

# New Ticket Created by <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="99583767ee57f36132ca71876d7ba046" dave.anglin@bell.net</span # Please include the string: [perl #119567] # in the subject line of all ...

Dave . anglin @ bell . net
Sep 2, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Sep 11, 2013 at 1:37 am

11	[perl #119577] COW broke version strings

# New Ticket Created by <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="fb34efb771ca1d19d4e0ade85edea2da" rurban@cpanel.net</span # Please include the string: [perl #119577] # in the subject line of all ...

Rurban @ cpanel . net
Sep 3, 2013 at 4:12 pm
Sep 6, 2013 at 6:44 am

10	[perl #120017] perlcall documentation has no good example with POPs

Do you feel you learned enough from that grepping to write a first draft of such documentation? I'm sure that others knowledgeable in that area could help get a draft polished enough to be included ...

James E Keenan via RT
Sep 27, 2013 at 1:47 am
Dec 31, 2013 at 1:48 pm

10	[perl #74854] wait and waitpid can return -1 even when there are running child forks.

I tested with your script under both Linux (3.2.0 kernel) and OS X 10.7.5 and in neither case did it report "Perl bug detected!!". On OS X I tested the system perl 5.12.3 and bleadperl. On Linux I ...

Tony Cook via RT
Sep 20, 2013 at 4:49 am
Sep 20, 2013 at 10:04 pm

10	[perl #119835] [PATCH] d0d9b35 Added is_core() convenience function

# New Ticket Created by Neil Bowers # Please include the string: [perl #119835] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Neil Bowers
Sep 15, 2013 at 11:10 pm
Sep 20, 2013 at 1:06 am

9	[perl #119555] require should not clobber $! and $^E on success

# New Ticket Created by Christian Millour # Please include the string: [perl #119555] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Christian Millour
Sep 2, 2013 at 9:29 am
Jul 28, 2014 at 11:11 pm

9	[perl #119617] PerlEmbed 5.14: sv_setsv(ERRSV, &PL_sv_undef); crashes on Linux

# New Ticket Created by "John Unsworth" # Please include the string: [perl #119617] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

John Unsworth
Sep 5, 2013 at 11:18 am
Oct 26, 2013 at 9:54 pm

9	minitest worth it?

Since there is no smoke testing specifically for 'minitest' it breaks frequently and lately it has broken in a more fundamental way, at least if you're expecting it to test anything ...

George Greer
Sep 3, 2013 at 12:29 am
Sep 30, 2013 at 2:34 am

8	[perl #119791] [PATCH] Remove support for "do SUBROUTINE(LIST)"

# New Ticket Created by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker # Please include the string: [perl #119791] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Sep 14, 2013 at 3:28 pm
Nov 9, 2013 at 5:34 am

8	[perl #119869] [PATCH] WinCE Makefile and make_ext.pl general and XS fixes

# New Ticket Created by bulk88 # Please include the string: [perl #119869] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Bulk88
Sep 17, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Oct 21, 2013 at 5:19 pm

8	[perl #119943] RFE: localized state of $_ should carry across goto ⊂

# New Ticket Created by Linda Walsh # Please include the string: [perl #119943] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Linda Walsh
Sep 22, 2013 at 6:44 pm
Sep 23, 2013 at 3:47 am

8	unstable mergesort?

Writing my opinion piece about timsort See Re: [perl #119635] deprecate and remove qsort got me thinking about the cost of stability. Consider the "stuttering countdown sequence" 100 99 99 98 98 97 ...

John P. Linderman
Sep 11, 2013 at 4:01 pm
Sep 12, 2013 at 5:39 pm

8	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5 #3120

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5/3120/changes Changes: [sprout] toke.c: "Unrecognized character" error shouldn't leak memory or mangle characters. [sprout] regcomp.c, ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Sep 10, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Sep 11, 2013 at 1:14 am

7	[perl #119879] Cannot install module requiring perl-5.6 via 'cpan'

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Steve Hay
Sep 18, 2013 at 11:13 am
Nov 2, 2013 at 3:18 am

7	[perl #119939] Bleadperl v5.19.4-10-g15a4d87 breaks PJCJ/Devel-Cover-1.08.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #119939] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Sep 22, 2013 at 10:15 am
Oct 8, 2013 at 8:08 pm

7	[perl #119987] misleading diagnostic for y() function call

# New Ticket Created by Victor Efimov # Please include the string: [perl #119987] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Victor Efimov
Sep 24, 2013 at 7:20 pm
Sep 29, 2013 at 4:47 pm

7	[perl #120013] [PATCH] better pod for threads::_handle

# New Ticket Created by bulk88 # Please include the string: [perl #120013] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Bulk88
Sep 26, 2013 at 8:42 am
Sep 27, 2013 at 11:56 pm

7	Rights and obligations of Maintainership?

Almost all dual-life modules have an official maintainer listed in Porting/Maintainers.pl, however in a lot of cases that doesn't correspond with reality. In some cases there is a de-facto maintainer ...

Leon Timmermans
Sep 17, 2013 at 3:28 pm
Sep 20, 2013 at 12:37 am

7	Build broken with VC6

Commit 3be8f09452 (drand48) has broken the build on Windows with VC6. I had thought this change was fine when I tested earlier, but that was with VC10. However, it turns out that VC6 doesn't like ...

Steve Hay
Sep 13, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Sep 14, 2013 at 12:54 am

7	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-threaded #2759

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-threaded/2759/changes Changes: [sprout] pp_ctl.c:pp_goto: Cast a boolean properly [sprout] toke.c: "Unrecognized character" error shouldn't leak memory ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Sep 10, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Sep 11, 2013 at 12:55 am

6	[perl #119785] bsd_glob does not sort case-sensitively

Can you explain where you got that concept? Under the section 'GLOB_NOCASE', the POD says: "By default, file names are assumed to be case sensitive ..." Thank you very much. Jim Keenan --- via ...

James E Keenan via RT
Sep 14, 2013 at 2:10 am
Dec 12, 2013 at 2:25 am

6	Buggy gcc sprintf()

Blead was broken on some platforms for much of yesterday as a result of a bug in sprintf that got exposed. As a result, I'm proposing the attached patch to perlhacktips.pod, with a request for ...

Karl Williamson
Sep 12, 2013 at 3:43 am
Dec 10, 2013 at 12:16 am

6	[perl #119805] Errors in preamble code report line 0

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #119805] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
Sep 15, 2013 at 8:16 pm
Oct 29, 2013 at 11:39 pm

6	Goodbye to the 3b1

Inspired by the recent archaeology in old #ifdef's, I noted that perl still ships with hints files (and a replacement compiler script!) for the AT&T Unix PC (aka 7300 or 3b1). That script won't work ...

Andy Dougherty
Sep 7, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Oct 1, 2013 at 2:27 pm

6	[perl #120039] perl -s does not respect read-onlyness, can cause segfaults

# New Ticket Created by Brian Fraser # Please include the string: [perl #120039] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Brian Fraser
Sep 28, 2013 at 3:59 pm
Sep 29, 2013 at 2:50 pm

6	[perl #119769] skip lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t when cross-compiling

# New Ticket Created by Francois PERRAD # Please include the string: [perl #119769] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Francois PERRAD
Sep 13, 2013 at 7:35 am
Sep 23, 2013 at 11:38 am

6	[perl #107726] Filter::Simple with immediately following "no"

I have attempted to reproduce your problem in blead with the script you provided, but was unable to. ~/tmp/FS$ cat foo.pl use lib '.'; use MyFilter; no MyFilter; print "this part is not filtered\n" ...

Ricardo SIGNES via RT
Sep 6, 2013 at 1:09 am
Sep 16, 2013 at 11:22 pm

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