perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for August 2014

25	some thoughts on inf and nan

(Could I have some chicken korma with infinite naan, please?) (How can you tell it's lunch time for me?) I pushed a batch of changes to blead that try to robustify the C API we have for handling the ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aug 20, 2014 at 4:54 pm
Sep 1, 2014 at 12:31 pm

22	5.20.1 status update #2

Regressions hopefully to be fixed: 1. setlocale problem in #121930: Karl has a new patch good for 5.20.1, and is working on docs too: http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl5-porters/210444/ 2 ...

Steve Hay
Aug 11, 2014 at 8:21 am
Aug 22, 2014 at 8:01 am

20	5.20.1 status update #3

Currently remaining: Needing one vote: 1d8d63d Remove compiler warning spam on dos-djgpp [+1 hmb] Needing two votes: version-0.9909, which contains f57000b PATCH: [perl #121930] Bleadperl breaks ...

Steve Hay
Aug 18, 2014 at 7:48 am
Aug 28, 2014 at 9:52 pm

17	Question on IO:Socket::connected() potential enhancement

Hello, Wondering if there ever been any discussion on a potential enhancement to IO::Socket::connected() that would allow it to return additional side information about the conection state? In ...

Glenn Golden
Aug 10, 2014 at 1:22 pm
Oct 27, 2014 at 10:55 pm

16	Concerning the branch smoke-me/arc/deprecate-delete-array

That branch officially deprecates the use of delete and exists on arrays, emitting a warning. I truly hope we don't go in that direction. I have code that will produce thousands of warnings. The ...

Father Chrysostomos
Aug 19, 2014 at 5:01 pm
Sep 15, 2014 at 11:07 pm

15	[perl #122538] perl blead: Update to Test-Simple [patch]

Chad, I applied your patch locally in a branch. While applying it with 'git am', I got error output stating that there were 25 whitespace errors. I then ran 'make test'. I got this failure: ##### ...

James E Keenan via RT
Aug 15, 2014 at 1:46 am
Aug 20, 2014 at 6:36 am

11	[perl #122629] [PATCH] sv_grow: performance improvement for short strings

-- Karl Williamson

Karl Williamson via RT
Aug 31, 2014 at 4:31 am
Oct 8, 2014 at 12:39 am

11	[perl #122558] Questions on list archives

The perl.org hosted archive is at http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/ (fwiw) -- with 15 years of posts: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/1999/08.html --- via perlbug ...

Ask Bjoern Hansen via RT
Aug 18, 2014 at 11:59 pm
Sep 14, 2014 at 9:22 pm

11	Fix global method cache reset when localizing a glob's CV slot.

Fix global method cache reset when localizing a glob's CV slot. { local *Class::func = sub { ... }; } See commit diff for details. https://github.com/syberrus/perl5/tree/syber/local_glob_assign_ref ...

Олег Пронин
Aug 5, 2014 at 12:32 pm
Sep 2, 2014 at 11:46 am

11	Inverting the parser

Inverting the parser I know from working on the lexer that it can be hard to wrap ones head around it. In particular, the fact that it has to return exactly one token each time it is called makes it ...

Father Chrysostomos
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:41 am
Aug 26, 2014 at 1:14 am

11	consistency is overrated, underbar

$perl -wle 'print 1_234.56+1' 1235.56 $ perl -wle 'print "1_234.56"+1' Argument "1_234.56" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1. 2 The literals allow the _, but not strings.

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aug 1, 2014 at 3:28 pm
Aug 7, 2014 at 3:29 pm

10	[perl #122655] 5.20 regression: '"X" !~ /[x]/i', when pattern is UTF-8

# New Ticket Created by karl williamson # Please include the string: [perl #122655] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Karl williamson
Aug 30, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Sep 7, 2014 at 3:48 pm

10	[perl #122570] PATCH: perlre.pod amendments

# New Ticket Created by Karen Etheridge # Please include the string: [perl #122570] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Karen Etheridge
Aug 20, 2014 at 12:25 am
Aug 21, 2014 at 3:05 am

9	[perl #122512] Defined-or operator assigns key in hash too early

I’m not sure this is a bug. The equivalent using the ternary operator is not absolutely equivalent, because it evaluates the $hello{key} twice, once in rvalue context (not vivifying the element), and ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Aug 13, 2014 at 1:17 am
Sep 15, 2014 at 12:52 pm

9	[perl #122476] is_common() uses ptr_table unsafely

# New Ticket Created by Tony Cook # Please include the string: [perl #122476] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Tony Cook
Aug 6, 2014 at 12:55 am
Aug 15, 2014 at 1:31 am

8	[perl #122661] Documentation "The Ellipsis Statement" of perlsyn

# New Ticket Created by ina cpan # Please include the string: [perl #122661] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Ina cpan
Aug 31, 2014 at 7:44 am
Sep 13, 2014 at 2:35 pm

8	[perl #122556] DESTROY handler not firing until after function return.

# New Ticket Created by <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="7025edb9fd7d7bf4911a432c1072c6f4" felipe@felipegasper.com</span # Please include the string: [perl #122556] # in the subject line of all ...

Felipe @ felipegasper . com
Aug 18, 2014 at 6:59 pm
Sep 9, 2014 at 7:37 pm

8	pod2man issue

$ cat example.pod =head1 example This is a simple paragraph, where some words (accidentally or on purpose) have more than one space between them, possibly to align the right side of the text in the ...

H.Merijn Brand
Aug 27, 2014 at 6:53 am
Aug 28, 2014 at 2:44 pm

8	proposed doc change for v5.20.1

I propose adding 65cc07c91673df6e03529e62d23f29b50f6e4716 fixing wrong pod about -B and -T file test operators

Karl Williamson
Aug 22, 2014 at 4:03 pm
Aug 25, 2014 at 2:36 am

8	Can a union be used as a parameter type?

Is this type of thing possible in C? int foom(pTHX_ YYSTYPE squoggle) { } (YYSTYPE is typedeffed in perly.h: typedef union YYSTYPE {...}.)

Father Chrysostomos
Aug 23, 2014 at 5:11 pm
Aug 24, 2014 at 7:15 pm

8	[perl #116467] Pod::Checker should be switched to use Pod::Simple

rjbs: When I go to http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MAREKR/Pod-Checker-1.71/lib/Pod/Checker.pm, I read in the documentation: ##### v1.45 inherits from Pod::Simple as opposed to all previous versions ...

James E Keenan via RT
Aug 9, 2014 at 12:40 am
Aug 15, 2014 at 4:11 am

8	5.20.1 status update

As previously advertised, I had been hoping to roll 5.20.1-RC1 this weekend (2nd/3rd August), but I will delay if necessary while two bug reports are addressed (or, in the case of the latter, deemed ...

Steve Hay
Aug 1, 2014 at 8:20 am
Aug 6, 2014 at 8:51 pm

7

C99 math

In 2acc0aed..fa86ae13 I broke everything^W^Wupgraded the POSIX :math_h bravely to the future^Wfifteen years ago, that is, C99 (from C89) [1] [2]. Lots of new interfaces, in ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs search ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aug 31, 2014 at 11:56 pm
Sep 1, 2014 at 3:30 pm

7	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Wednesday Current branch blead 14 commits. 7 unique authors. 7 unique committers. 42 files changed, 1978 insertions(+), 617 deletions(-) Snapshot ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Aug 2, 2014 at 1:08 am
Aug 27, 2014 at 1:14 am

6	Where is ExtUtils-Install maintained?

Two recently filed RT tickets ... https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121829 https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122596 ... led me to look for the source code for ExtUtils::Installed ...

James E Keenan
Aug 23, 2014 at 1:05 pm
Sep 16, 2014 at 2:23 am

6	[perl #122547] no_chidr find() option in t/porting/dual-life.t

# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #122547] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aug 16, 2014 at 2:23 pm
Aug 25, 2014 at 12:09 pm

6	Perl 5.21.3 has been released.

If they just went straight they might go far, They are strong and brave and true; But they're always tired of the things that are, And they want the strange and new. They say: "Could I find my proper ...

Peter Martini
Aug 21, 2014 at 2:44 am
Aug 21, 2014 at 5:01 pm

6	AIX testing - anyone interested in AIX test results.

Hello all, If there is no interest - no sweat, I shall continue to update my results as I get to them. When there is interest - and feedback/help as I learn - I shall spend more time on this. For the ...

Michael Felt
Aug 14, 2014 at 12:14 pm
Aug 18, 2014 at 10:33 am

6	[perl #122460] Regression with (?{})(?=...) and pos

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #122460] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
Aug 2, 2014 at 6:01 pm
Aug 11, 2014 at 8:21 am

5	[perl #122662] PATCH: Fix wrong function name in perlfork.pod

Applied to blead in commit 9589aa831c3533d85bf7042e049cbe02095df9d3 (but bcc-ing the author of this part of the documentation as a double-check). I believe this correction is eligible for back-port ...

James E Keenan via RT
Aug 31, 2014 at 1:36 pm
Sep 19, 2014 at 3:47 pm

5	[perl #122529] Do more than two my()s collapse in v5.20?

# New Ticket Created by "brian d foy" # Please include the string: [perl #122529] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Brian d foy
Aug 13, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Sep 15, 2014 at 11:27 am

5	[perl #122517] Potential vulnerabilities in perl (5.21.2)

Security issues should be sent to <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="3b030007480d2b8df36cf27b45e661ca" perl5-security-report@perl.org</span That said, the OS/2 support in perl is essentially ...

Tony Cook via RT
Aug 13, 2014 at 1:31 am
Sep 14, 2014 at 1:05 pm

5	[perl #122571] sqrt() and sin() broken in AIX with long doubles

I am now experimenting with a branch that (1) fixes the pp.c:pp_sin not to use function pointers and (2) t/op/exp.t not to test values too close to sin/cos +pi/-pi, because those are apparently too ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi via RT
Aug 31, 2014 at 3:10 am
Sep 9, 2014 at 6:52 am

5

pad_reset

I have managed to get pad_reset working. See the sprout/pad_reset branch. For those who do not know what pad_reset does, pad_reset allows oper- ators from different statements to share targets, ...

Father Chrysostomos
Aug 28, 2014 at 4:58 am
Sep 1, 2014 at 3:22 pm

5	perl-5.21.3 not found on www.cpan.org

When I go to: http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/ ... I do not see any tarballs for perl-5.21.3; the latest available is 5.21.2. Who can fix this? Where can I get a tarball for 5.21.3? Thank you very much ...

James E Keenan
Aug 31, 2014 at 12:41 am
Sep 1, 2014 at 1:44 pm

5	New Publication Schedule for The Unicode Standard

The Unicode Consortium has changed its publication schedule for versions of the Unicode Standard. Starting with the recent Version 7.0 ...

Karl Williamson
Aug 20, 2014 at 7:36 pm
Aug 27, 2014 at 11:10 pm

5	Compiling Perl5 with ICC

Hi all, I received a key for the Intel C/C++ compilers for Linux and MacOS X. I tried to test how perl5 compiles with it and it failed immediately with (example - each test fails same when when ...

Jens Rehsack
Aug 2, 2014 at 3:12 pm
Aug 23, 2014 at 12:04 pm

5	From the archives: (Fwd) Proposal: A Perl 5 Modules List

I went digging and found some interesting old emails. Here's one. (Sadly the archives I have are very patchy and mostly of my own emails.) ----- Forwarded message from Tim Bunce <<span ...

Tim Bunce
Aug 16, 2014 at 12:00 am
Aug 19, 2014 at 1:35 am

5	Concerning commit e35475dec and defined(aassign)

This commit changed the message 'defined(@...) is deprecated' into a hard error: commit e35475dec7197e291306173beba241d4e43bd5b2 Author: Karl Williamson <<span class="m_body_email_addr" ...

Father Chrysostomos
Aug 13, 2014 at 1:00 am
Aug 14, 2014 at 1:01 am

4	[perl #122564] Slow regexp match with balanced parens

# New Ticket Created by "Ed Avis" # Please include the string: [perl #122564] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Ed Avis
Aug 19, 2014 at 4:49 pm
Sep 14, 2014 at 12:30 pm

4	ideas needed: ext/B/t/concise-xs.t in win32?

The concise-xs.t is failing in win32 because there's no strtold() in win32 (I recently added POSIX::strtold, if HAS_STRTOLD): I don't quite understand the test failure in Win32: not ok 1200 - XS ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aug 23, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Sep 1, 2014 at 8:40 am

4	5.20.1-RC1 on 24th/25th

I would like to release RC1 of 5.20.1 either tomorrow or the day after (24th or 25th). I just need one more vote for each of the last two things remaining: 1. XS/locale doc patch (updated) - ...

Steve Hay
Aug 23, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Aug 24, 2014 at 11:14 pm

4	[perl #122482] netlib dtoa.c

# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #122482] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Aug 6, 2014 at 1:35 pm
Aug 22, 2014 at 10:02 pm

4	enabling/disabling optimisations, and B::*

TL;DR: I don't know the best way to get B to handle my new OP_MULTIDEREF op, and I suspect that while solving this issue, that perhaps a more general approach to handling optimisations could be ...

Dave Mitchell
Aug 14, 2014 at 12:23 pm
Aug 19, 2014 at 7:35 pm

4	[perl #122545] u$a and $b not set properly when calling a sort comparator in another package

# New Ticket Created by Mark-Jason Dominus # Please include the string: [perl #122545] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Mark-Jason Dominus
Aug 15, 2014 at 11:35 pm
Aug 19, 2014 at 12:36 am

4	[perl #122445] Segmentation fault while debugging programs using bignum in 5.18.2

This appears to be happening in the debugger at line 4146: (gdb) p my_perl- Icurcop- cop_line $3 = 4146 when it tries to execute: # Turn off all flags except single-stepping. $single &= 1; Partial ...

Tony Cook via RT
Aug 4, 2014 at 2:12 am
Aug 15, 2014 at 11:47 am

4

ScalarIO

OK, I can understand this: $ cat test.pl use 5.20.0; use warnings; my $str = "I \x{2661} Perl"; open my $fh, "<", \$str; say <$fh ; $ perl test.pl Strings with code points over 0xFF may not be mapped ...

H.Merijn Brand
Aug 7, 2014 at 7:02 am
Aug 8, 2014 at 6:25 pm

4	Bugfix in Safe (Opcode)

https://github.com/syberrus/perl5/tree/syber/opcode_bugfix Fix has been extracted from "speeding up perl's OOP" thread. -- Oleg Pronin, CTO, Co-Founder, Crazy Panda LTD CP Decision LTD

Олег Пронин
Aug 4, 2014 at 7:50 pm
Aug 5, 2014 at 10:43 am

3	[perl #122666] Bleadperl v5.21.1-120-g34dadc6 breaks SYOHEX/Text-Xslate-3.3.3.tar.gz

# New Ticket Created by (Andreas J. Koenig) # Please include the string: [perl #122666] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Aug 31, 2014 at 12:19 pm
Sep 2, 2014 at 3:37 pm

3	[perl #122669] mysterious place for an insecure dependency error

# New Ticket Created by Rocco Caputo # Please include the string: [perl #122669] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Rocco Caputo
Aug 31, 2014 at 6:35 pm
Aug 31, 2014 at 9:46 pm

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