perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for November 2014

18	[perl #123188] SIG_PENDING_DIE_COUNT kills program in new situation

1. Can you suggest any way to reproduce this problem outside of your customized environment? 2. Have you ruled out the possibility that the problem lies in the version of Ubuntu you are using (which ...

James E Keenan via RT
Nov 13, 2014 at 1:41 am
Dec 5, 2014 at 6:26 pm

16	IN_PERL_COMPILETIME and mg.c

I have noticed that this macro returns FALSE when I think it should be returning TRUE in magic_get() and magic_set() Is this to be expected? or is this a bug? Is there a work around?

Karl Williamson
Nov 16, 2014 at 12:11 am
Nov 21, 2014 at 9:29 pm

16	[perl #123105] [PATCH 0/4] RFC op-type patchset

# New Ticket Created by Jim Cromie # Please include the string: [perl #123105] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Jim Cromie
Nov 2, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Nov 4, 2014 at 1:51 am

15	OS X hints drift

Neil Bowers asked why in OS X (hints/darwin.sh) do we do ld='MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGE=10.3 ld' anyway? At first I just documented the particular why ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 22, 2014 at 3:42 am
Nov 25, 2014 at 3:33 pm

12	[perl #123322] "our" has the same scoping rules as "my" or "state"

There is code in pad.c to make ‘our’ cover the current statement (if there are no pad entries already under the same name in scope from previous statements), added in 929a0744021. The relevant thread ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Nov 29, 2014 at 4:32 am
Dec 2, 2014 at 10:14 am

12	[perl #123286] $_ incorrect within for loop inside map

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Paul Johnson
Nov 23, 2014 at 11:22 pm
Nov 26, 2014 at 10:44 am

12	[perl #123113] [PATCH] Add optional GCC-only support for using long doubles on Win32

# New Ticket Created by Steve Hay # Please include the string: [perl #123113] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Steve Hay
Nov 3, 2014 at 8:55 am
Nov 7, 2014 at 9:22 am

11	[perl #123172] Bleadperl breaks DCONWAY/Lexical-Failure-0.000006.tar.gz

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Slaven @ rezic . de
Nov 10, 2014 at 9:08 pm
Nov 13, 2014 at 5:36 am

11	failing t/op/infnan.t on linux/arm

Jarkko, For the last month or two on <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="50bd0c9a0dfa7ded438dc5c77087d214" njh@bandsman.co.uk</span 's ARM smoker, t/op/infnan.t has been failing test 195, with an ...

Dave Mitchell
Nov 4, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Nov 6, 2014 at 12:52 am

10	Cherry-picking for Perl 5.20.2

Perl 5.20.2 is slated for a January release, and I will shortly start cherry-picking commits into maint-5.20 in preparation for it. There was some discussion back in September about how best to ...

Steve Hay
Nov 29, 2014 at 5:50 pm
Dec 1, 2014 at 8:21 pm

10	new locale warnings (Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.21.5-435-gbd083ee)

As a result of this commit there are now dozens of new warnings in the test suite on both OS X and VMS. Haven't tried elsewhere yet. Here's a snippet from OS X: $ ./perl -I../lib re/charset.t Locale ...

Craig A. Berry
Nov 15, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Nov 20, 2014 at 1:43 am

10	[perl #123136] [PATCH] add xs_handshake API

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Bulk88
Nov 6, 2014 at 6:19 am
Nov 8, 2014 at 6:53 am

9	Re: [perl #123113] [PATCH] Add optional GCC-only support for using long doubles on Win32

To: <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="8a8da9c7aba4fce7c4185e80120578a0" perlbug-followup@perl.org</span Cc: <span class="m_body_email_addr" title="09202e8285795619cb58a6e55f7a43ce" ...

Sisyphus1
Nov 21, 2014 at 5:59 am
Nov 27, 2014 at 2:13 pm

9	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #585

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/585/changes Changes: [sprout] Correct OPf_SPECIAL/OP_UNSTACK comment [sprout] [perl #123286] Lone C-style for in a block ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Nov 26, 2014 at 5:05 am
Nov 26, 2014 at 9:26 pm

9	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #560

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/560/changes Changes: [jkeenan] Update Test-Simple to alpha 076 ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 6548 lines...] ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Nov 22, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Nov 24, 2014 at 5:04 am

9	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #482

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/482/changes Changes: [sprout] pp.c:do_chomp: Remove redundant assignment [sprout] lex_assign.t: Don’t skip all failing tests [sprout] ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Nov 11, 2014 at 2:45 am
Nov 21, 2014 at 12:10 pm

9	[perl #123259] map failing to parse with 2 element unparenthesis list in a block

This can be seen more clearly if we clear out some non-essentials: ##### $ perl -E 'print map { "$_", 'alpha' } (0);' syntax error at -e line 1, near "} (" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation ...

James E Keenan via RT
Nov 20, 2014 at 12:04 am
Nov 20, 2014 at 3:48 pm

9	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-win32 #426

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-win32/426/changes Changes: [khw] Add 'locale' warning category [khw] perldiag: Remove message that is not raised [khw] Raise warnings for poorly ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Nov 4, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Nov 5, 2014 at 5:23 pm

8	encoding.pm implementation

This pragma is deprecated, and my understanding is that there are unsolved segfaults with it. In trying to figure out some problems involving it, I found what seems to me to be a fundamental flaw in ...

Karl Williamson
Nov 10, 2014 at 7:09 pm
Nov 12, 2014 at 11:01 pm

8	[perl #123135] UTF8-ness no longer propagating through assignments within regexes

Bisects to: bad - non-zero exit from ./perl -Ilib -e "\x{101c}" =~ /((?&TOP))(?{ $result = $^N })(?(DEFINE)(?<TOP .))/; $result eq "\x{101c}" or die 0254aed965cd47adab9025a192546e4a5e63873a is the ...

Tony Cook via RT
Nov 6, 2014 at 2:32 am
Nov 7, 2014 at 5:31 am

7	fileno() on directory handles

LeoNerd suggested on IRC a while ago that it would be useful if fileno() on a directory handle could return the relevant OS-level file descriptor. This is straightforward on systems that have either ...

Aaron Crane
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:42 pm
Nov 30, 2014 at 8:41 pm

7	[Fwd: Re: [perl #123198] Memory leak in regex appears in 5.20.1]

The poster in LinkedIn's "Perl" discussion group is Nimrod Shlomo Chotzen Initial message: I switched this week to using perl-5.20.1, and I try to run an old (but working) script on it. in this loop ...

Arocker
Nov 14, 2014 at 2:38 pm
Nov 18, 2014 at 9:25 pm

7	new lex_assign.t failures (Re: [perl.git] branch blead, updated. v5.21.5-359-gf9e9590)

This change causes the following new test failures on VMS: ok 76 - chr $wide not ok 77 - crypt # Failed test 77 - crypt at (eval 74) line 6 # got "A\x{ad}\x{b6}9E\021\x{ec}\024" # expected ...

Craig A. Berry
Nov 12, 2014 at 1:42 pm
Nov 14, 2014 at 1:52 pm

7	[perl #123103] Bleadperl breaks SREZIC/Tk-804.032.tar.gz

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Slaven @ rezic . de
Nov 2, 2014 at 6:52 pm
Nov 5, 2014 at 9:44 pm

6	330 compilations warnings building Perl

I just built perl after a few weeks of not pulling. We have a *ridiculous* number of warnings during compilation. 330 to be exact. IMO that is *WAY* too many. Some of them appear to be serious. IMO ...

Demerphq
Nov 24, 2014 at 11:18 am
Dec 3, 2014 at 11:52 am

6	some tests are slower than others

I've noticed that some of the tests are slower than others. No, really. Especially if one runs the test suite in not-multi-cpu-or-core not-lots-of-memory not-fast-disk system. At certain tests things ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Nov 29, 2014 at 2:03 am
Dec 2, 2014 at 12:29 am

6	[perl #123210] [PATCH] Deprecate setting ${^ENCODING}

# New Ticket Created by Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker # Please include the string: [perl #123210] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Nov 14, 2014 at 10:51 pm
Nov 15, 2014 at 4:11 am

6	[PPC DoubleDouble] Can't wrap libm functions correctly

Hi, On ppc64 (Debian Wheezy), long double (doubledouble) builds of perl 5.18 and later (including 5.21.5) I'm having awful trouble writing XS wrappers for some of the libm functions in such a way ...

Sisyphus1
Nov 11, 2014 at 7:40 pm
Nov 13, 2014 at 1:38 am

6	[perl #123119] RFC-patchset. in TEST, support linux's perf stat --repeat N ./perl ... t/foo.t

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Jim Cromie
Nov 3, 2014 at 11:36 pm
Nov 7, 2014 at 12:07 pm

5	[perl #123312] Configure - Build - Install Perl

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Hénaut Michel
Nov 28, 2014 at 2:19 am
Dec 1, 2014 at 10:35 pm

5	dromedary and cachegrind

Is there any chance cachegrind could magically make its way on to dromedary?

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 30, 2014 at 2:33 am
Dec 1, 2014 at 2:18 pm

5

S_IFMT()

We're getting this failure on os390: # Failed test 'S_IFMT()' # at Fcntl/t/mode.t line 88. # got: '4278190080' # expected: '-16777216' If you add those two numbers up it becomes clear that this bug ...

Karl Williamson
Nov 26, 2014 at 9:40 pm
Nov 28, 2014 at 7:46 pm

5	[perl #123297] 5.21.6 & blead: FreeBSD 10.0 & clang 3.3: compilation error with ext/POSIX/POSIX.c

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Slaven @ rezic . de
Nov 24, 2014 at 9:51 pm
Nov 25, 2014 at 6:56 am

5	[perl #123277] perl blead: Update Test-Simple to alpha 076 [PATCH]

Chad: We're getting one test failure from this patch set on our Win32 smoke test server: ../cpan/Test-Simple/t/Legacy/fork_die.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 255 Parse ...

James E Keenan via RT
Nov 23, 2014 at 3:15 am
Nov 23, 2014 at 6:10 am

5	[perl #123250] Perl v5.20.1 Configure bug?

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Hafen McCormick
Nov 19, 2014 at 2:24 am
Nov 20, 2014 at 6:26 pm

5	[perl #123182] perl calls [] "anonymous list" instead of array

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L . mai @ web . de
Nov 11, 2014 at 8:19 pm
Nov 14, 2014 at 6:58 pm

5	[perl #123161] B::Op_private provides an awkward interface

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Father Chrysostomos
Nov 9, 2014 at 12:17 am
Nov 13, 2014 at 4:29 am

5	[perl #123148] [PATCH] remove obsolete PL_apiversion

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Bulk88
Nov 7, 2014 at 6:36 am
Nov 7, 2014 at 4:13 pm

4	[perl #123236] B::Deparse and #line 1 somefile

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Father Chrysostomos
Nov 18, 2014 at 2:30 am
Dec 1, 2014 at 9:56 am

4	Do pad name string buffers need to be pointer-aligned?

On the sprout/pn branch, I have created a pad name struct: struct padname { char * xpadn_pv; HV * xpadn_ourstash; union { HV * xpadn_typestash; CV * xpadn_protocv; } xpadn_type_u; U32 xpadn_low; U32 ...

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 26, 2014 at 6:20 am
Dec 1, 2014 at 6:39 am

4	our Type $thing

Does anybody actually use type declarations with 'our' vars? I know the core doesn't (except B::Deparse), and they don't seem to work with Lexical::Types. And what the core does doesn't make too much ...

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 25, 2014 at 5:20 pm
Nov 28, 2014 at 3:34 pm

4	[perl #123304] Perl v5.20.1 fails to build

It looks as though STR_WITH_LEN needs to be defined a little differently. If you change it to: #define STR_WITH_LEN(s) ("" s ""), (sizeof("" s "")-1) does the problem go away? And is this a general ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Nov 26, 2014 at 8:41 pm
Nov 27, 2014 at 9:40 am

4	Pad names and UTF8

When the pad functions were made part of the API, support was added for associating a UTF8 flag with the pad names (in fact, that was con- sidered a blocker). Prior to that, UTF8 pad names were ...

Father Chrysostomos
Nov 21, 2014 at 6:37 am
Nov 24, 2014 at 11:13 pm

4	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5 #5273

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5/5273/changes Changes: [sprout] ExtUtils::ParseXS: Suppress unused ‘file’ warning [sprout] Increase $ExtUtils::ParseXS::VERSION to 3.27 [sprout] Remove ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Nov 21, 2014 at 8:27 am
Nov 21, 2014 at 1:08 pm

4	[perl #123230] Missing word in documentation for "wait"

# New Ticket Created by Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson # Please include the string: [perl #123230] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson
Nov 17, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Nov 19, 2014 at 4:27 pm

4	[perl #123213] New sub(){$var} deprecation breaks CPAN

HKOBA/YATT-v0.0.8.tar.gz SAMV/Net-SSLeay-OO-0.02.tar.gz [rt.cpan.org #100364] Test::LeakTrace apparently broken by other blead changes (at least under debugging builds). Needed for testing ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Nov 16, 2014 at 6:50 am
Nov 18, 2014 at 6:43 am

4	Avoid gcc warning op.c

Hi, First post to this mailing list and first stab at fighting the warnings. Please flame me if anything is inappropriate. In op.c, gcc is not smart enough to figure out that `start` is always set if ...

Martijn Lievaart
Nov 15, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Nov 15, 2014 at 9:34 pm

4	НА: НА: updated EBCDIC porting status

(git commit 00aee0e2) This is perl 5, version 21, subversion 6 (v5.21.6) built for os390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yaroslav Kuzmin Developer C/C++ ,z/OS ...

Yaroslav Kuzmin
Nov 12, 2014 at 8:57 am
Nov 14, 2014 at 1:04 pm

4	[perl #123195] use warnings FATAL => 'all' causes wrong syntax error diagnostics

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via RT
Nov 13, 2014 at 7:45 am
Nov 13, 2014 at 10:49 pm

4	[perl #123192] [PATCH] add filename handling to xs handshake

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Bulk88
Nov 13, 2014 at 3:34 am
Nov 13, 2014 at 12:43 pm

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