perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for December 2014

36	[perl #123466] Introduce string-specific bitwise ops

# New Ticket Created by Father Chrysostomos # Please include the string: [perl #123466] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 21, 2014 at 1:58 am
Jan 7, 2015 at 1:56 pm

26	I've added support for new warning categories outside of "all" to blead

As threatened before I've added support for this, this change will allow us to have our cake and eat it too when it comes to wanting to add new warnings to perl, but not burned existing users with ...

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Dec 29, 2014 at 8:20 pm
Jan 21, 2015 at 10:56 pm

24	[perl #123417] Stringification of multi-char \N{...} in regexps

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Father Chrysostomos
Dec 12, 2014 at 6:23 am
Dec 18, 2014 at 3:31 am

23	[Win32] Unable to build 64-bit 5.21.7

Hi, No problems with a 32-bit build, but a 64-bit build using either gmake or dmake terminates fairly early with: ..\miniperl.exe -I..\lib -f ..\write_buildcustomize.pl .. Attempt to free ...

Sisyphus1
Dec 21, 2014 at 6:35 am
Jan 27, 2015 at 12:19 pm

22	Why do we care if MANIFEST is sorted?

Why do we care if MANIFEST is sorted? porting/manifest.t ........ 1/? # Failed test 10393 - MANIFEST sorted properly at porting/manifest.t line 82 # got ''MANIFEST' is NOT sorted properly # ' # ...

Demerphq
Dec 25, 2014 at 1:25 am
Dec 27, 2014 at 8:17 pm

21	Dependencies for charclass_invlists.h (or regen.t does too much)

Yesterday, to speed up t/porting/regen.t, I switched the two slowest scripts it runs to use the checksums feature it was already using for regen_perly.pl and regen/keywords.pl. In hindsight, I ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 4, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Jan 22, 2015 at 11:12 pm

20	*-couragement of $^V

A few times lately, $^V has come up in the context of being "the better way to check the version than $]." This surprised me, because I always thought it was largely considered better avoided. I ...

Ricardo Signes
Dec 8, 2014 at 8:30 pm
Feb 6, 2015 at 7:00 pm

20	Cannot write serialization code without access to Perl_hv_backreferences_p

For some reason hv_backreferences_p() has been marked as "non-api". Luckily on Linux this does not matter at all. The API flag is meaningless there due to how the linker works. But Win32 is very ...

Demerphq
Dec 21, 2014 at 4:54 pm
Dec 23, 2014 at 1:42 pm

20	[perl #123440] Adding win32/GNUmakefile

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Kmx
Dec 16, 2014 at 8:50 am
Dec 21, 2014 at 9:58 am

19	Re: [perl #40565] Windows fork emulation's child pseudo process cannot restore local scalar values

Is this fix something that can possibly be wrapped in an XS module for even older perl versions? I mainly ask because this effects Test-Simple, because of this bug tests that fork have major issues ...

Chad Granum
Dec 11, 2014 at 4:10 pm
Feb 6, 2015 at 10:06 am

15	BLEAD smoke concerns when using IBM cc (vac v11)

I say particularly the IBM compiler, because the gcc compiler I have installed is getting further. This is issue #1: in the smoker .log file I find several instances of: ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined ...

Michael Felt
Dec 1, 2014 at 8:19 am
Feb 5, 2015 at 9:31 am

15	New blead failures

These are caused by some commit in the past 24 hours: perl: gv.c:719: GV* S_gv_fetchmeth_internal(PerlInterpreter*, HV*, SV*, const char*, STRLEN, I32, U32): Assertion `name' failed ...

Karl Williamson
Dec 7, 2014 at 4:22 pm
Dec 17, 2014 at 10:12 pm

14	[perl #123346] local first sets to undef then assigns, but is documented to 'initialize'

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Ed Avis
Dec 2, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Dec 6, 2014 at 3:26 pm

13	Is the warning fatalization mechanism in fact safe (specificaly FATAL => 'ununitialized')

An important preamble - this thread is *not* about the lately fashionable `use warnings FATAL = 'all';` Instead I want to focus on one very specific case to ensure that the discussion doesn't sray ...

Peter Rabbitson
Dec 27, 2014 at 11:18 am
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:03 am

13	[perl #123473] hv_backreferences_p() is missing from API

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Yves orton
Dec 21, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Dec 25, 2014 at 12:37 am

12	[perl #123367] Does ‘my sub f; eval 'sub f{}'’ make sense?

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Father Chrysostomos
Dec 4, 2014 at 6:43 pm
May 20, 2016 at 1:32 pm

12	[PATCH] perlpolicy for maint documentation changes

Currently, perlpolicy has this to say about documentation changes in maint branches: "Acceptable documentation updates are those that correct factual errors, explain significant bugs or deficiencies ...

Aaron Crane
Dec 30, 2014 at 3:45 pm
Jan 3, 2015 at 12:25 am

12	[perl #123486] [PATCH] make win32 harness process use tested perl binary

This looks fine to me, except that I've always been slightly mystified as to why we copy the top-level perl.exe & dll into t/ in the first place. The short answer seems to be that t/harness uses ...

Steve Hay via RT
Dec 30, 2014 at 3:02 pm
Dec 31, 2014 at 1:48 pm

12	Forking with large data structures heisenbug

We have encountered strange behavior with Perl and forking with large data structures in memory. The attach script recreates the issue. Note use of the script may kill your box due to large memory ...

Demerphq
Dec 10, 2014 at 12:30 pm
Dec 11, 2014 at 11:03 am

12	[perl #123370] Optimizer isn't optimizing read-only value decisions

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Karl williamson
Dec 5, 2014 at 8:33 pm
Dec 8, 2014 at 1:08 am

11	[perl #123390] Bleadperl v5.21.6-336-gfedf30e breaks TOKUHIROM/B-Tap-0.14.tar.gz

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Andreas J. Koenig) (via RT
Dec 8, 2014 at 9:27 pm
Apr 8, 2015 at 3:43 am

11	[perl #117001] (Win32) Dynaloader/XS - DLL naming convention

I would like to propose again changing the defult $Config{dlext} on MS Windows from 'dll' to 'xs.dll' My arguments mentioned in this ticked stays the same. Strawberry perl has switched to 'xs.dll' in ...

kmx via RT
Dec 16, 2014 at 8:27 am
Dec 19, 2014 at 1:43 am

11	[PATCH] Optimise strict.pm for the common case

In the event of (un)import being called with no arguments we can avoid calling bits() and just use a precomputed union of all the bitmasks. Additionally, in bits(), there's no need to bitwise OR ...

James Raspass
Dec 1, 2014 at 2:04 pm
Dec 3, 2014 at 1:13 am

10	OP_MULTIDEREF now in blead

I've just merged my OP_MULTIDEREF work into blead. Here's the commit message; I think it's fairly self-explanatory. commit fedf30e1c349130b23648c022f5f3cb4ad7928f3 Author: David Mitchell <<span ...

Dave Mitchell
Dec 7, 2014 at 9:39 am
Dec 9, 2014 at 11:52 pm

9	Request for votes for 5.20.2

Committers, please consider sparing a short while to cast your eyes (and your votes!) over the list of proposed cherry-picks for 5.20.2, which is due to be released in the next month or so. A good ...

Steve Hay
Dec 29, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Jan 10, 2015 at 4:04 pm

9	Can we eliminate most entersub targets?

Every entersub op, that is, every sub call, gets a special scalar allocated for it in the pad, which is only used by some XSUBs to return a value. Off the top of my head, I think that most entersub ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 15, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Dec 21, 2014 at 1:53 am

9	[perl #123392] Encourage use of $] over $^V

# New Ticket Created by James E Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #123392] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

James E Keenan
Dec 9, 2014 at 1:35 am
Dec 11, 2014 at 12:46 am

8	tests fail with debugging+threads on OS X

Earlier today I mentioned that we'd gone from "test failures" to "build failures." Now the build failures are fixed, so... Tests fail for me on OS X 10.10.1, clang 6, with -DDEBUGGING -Dusethreads ...

Ricardo Signes
Dec 5, 2014 at 9:00 pm
Dec 8, 2015 at 4:44 am

8	Voting for cherry-picks for 5.20.2

I have just created a branch called maint-5.20-votes containing the file Porting/cherry-pick-votes-maint-5.20.xml, which will record votes for proposed cherry-picks into maint-5.20 for the planned ...

Steve Hay
Dec 6, 2014 at 3:20 pm
Dec 16, 2014 at 6:29 pm

8	garbage getting commited

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/5bf8b78e07edcdb636cf0f1a8c1e9e97f2ce2f53 index 18c3f03..55439f3 100644 (file) --- a/pp.c +++ b/pp.c @@ -2842,7 +2842,9 @@ PP(pp_int) } else { const NV ...

Bulk88
Dec 13, 2014 at 6:05 pm
Dec 15, 2014 at 5:49 am

8	[perl #123398] Segmentation failed on calling method of undef with use warnings FATAL => 'all'

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via RT
Dec 9, 2014 at 8:27 pm
Dec 10, 2014 at 4:47 pm

8	Re: Any ideas on these Configure problems on os390?

I chatted with H. Merijn Brand about this on Saturday, who is a Configure expert, and he hasn't seen this before. He suggests finding what shell is being used. If you have bash available, that would ...

Karl Williamson
Dec 8, 2014 at 6:14 am
Dec 9, 2014 at 11:49 am

7	Deprecated use of my() in false conditional

"my $x if 0" has been deprecated since v5.10.0, which will be seven years ago, Thursday. An extremely naive grep of the CPAN shows this in only a handful of dists. I don't know what particular ...

Ricardo Signes
Dec 16, 2014 at 11:37 pm
Dec 17, 2014 at 4:01 pm

7	magic utf8 ball

I'm trying to understand the necessity of this fragment from regcomp.c: sv_catpvn(data- last_found, STRING(scan), STR_LEN(scan)); if (UTF) SvUTF8_on(data- last_found); { SV * const sv = data- ...

Hv
Dec 5, 2014 at 1:08 pm
Dec 6, 2014 at 3:31 pm

6	deleting remote branches

when I delete a remote branch (with either --delete foo or :foo), I always see some spurious errors. Am I doing something wrong, or is this "just the way things are"? $ git push origin --delete ...

Dave Mitchell
Dec 8, 2014 at 11:00 am
Jan 7, 2015 at 12:45 pm

6	All I want for Christmas is: Control over allocated address reuse

Perl's memory allocator is very keen to re-use recently freed memory slots: $ perl -E 'for (1 .. 10) { my $arr = []; say $arr; }' ARRAY(0x1cdb0a0) ARRAY(0x1cdb0a0) ARRAY(0x1cdb0a0) ... Normally this ...

$Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans$

Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans
Dec 25, 2014 at 3:03 pm
Dec 29, 2014 at 5:55 pm

6	Interpreting cachegrind gibberish

I am trying to benchmark $x .= $y against $x = $x . $y when $x is lex- ical. They both optimise down to approximately the same thing, but different code paths are taken at the start of the pp ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 28, 2014 at 3:20 am
Dec 28, 2014 at 9:26 pm

6	[perl #123443] Very large seek in a read-only scalar variable filehandle segfaults

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Slaven @ rezic . de
Dec 16, 2014 at 9:01 pm
Dec 20, 2014 at 3:15 am

6	Yet Another new EBCDIC branch to try

We have found and changed a potential bug that could be causing some or all of the parsing problems. I've cleaned up a couple of other tests. This is rebased to the latest blead. It likely won't ...

Karl Williamson
Dec 8, 2014 at 6:12 am
Dec 10, 2014 at 7:50 am

6	pack 'u' uuencode

Does anyone know why there is code in pp_pack.c that worries about a utf8 version of something in 'u' format? uuencode uses a subset of the ASCII printables, so a string that is in packed 'u' format ...

Karl Williamson
Dec 10, 2014 at 3:37 am
Dec 10, 2014 at 7:00 am

6	Proposed change to perlpolicy concerning crashing bugs

The term 'crashing bugs' is actually ambiguous and questions have been raised in the past about whether it covered specific bugs. Of late, we have been backporting fixes for any sort of assertion ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 9, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Dec 10, 2014 at 3:01 am

6	two handy mysteries to solve

I've been cleaning away the warnings (gcc/clang -Wall -Wextra etc.) lately (note: using with just one version of gcc (or clang) is not enough), but I thought it would be quite impolite to hog all of ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Dec 7, 2014 at 12:23 am
Dec 7, 2014 at 2:58 am

5	[perl #123469] Bug in split function, with utf8 strings

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Rostislav
Dec 21, 2014 at 11:07 am
Dec 21, 2014 at 7:29 pm

5	Suggestions for this os390 stat problem?

This Perl code in t/op/stat.t: ok(opendir(DIR, "."), 'Can open "." dir') || diag "Can't open '.': $!"; use warnings; ok(stat(DIR), "stat() on dirhandle works"); ends up calling this code in ...

Karl Williamson
Dec 17, 2014 at 10:05 pm
Dec 18, 2014 at 4:22 pm

5	What happened to the clang asan smokes?

What happened to the clang asan smokes? I am not seeing smoke failures any more, and I didn't ever get to the bottom of the problem. What is a temporary problem with the smoker? (Did you switch from ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 14, 2014 at 10:32 pm
Dec 18, 2014 at 5:33 am

5	[perl #123413] [PATCH] Update SDBM_File Makefile.PLs

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via RT
Dec 12, 2014 at 2:28 am
Dec 15, 2014 at 10:47 pm

5	[perl #123410] bizarre behavior with sort and CORE::fake

# New Ticket Created by Ricardo SIGNES # Please include the string: [perl #123410] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Ricardo SIGNES
Dec 11, 2014 at 4:55 pm
Dec 12, 2014 at 12:21 pm

5	Build failed in Jenkins: perl5-threaded #5098

See <http://perl5.git.perl.org:8080/job/perl5-threaded/5098/changes Changes: [chris] Update DB_File to CPAN version 1.832 ------------------------------------------ [...truncated 4978 lines...] 2312 ...

Dennis+p5p-jenkins
Dec 9, 2014 at 3:41 pm
Dec 9, 2014 at 9:19 pm

5	Gutting concise-xs.t

As discussed earlier, this test is too sensitive and tests way too much, so it needs to be slimmed down. However, the documentation includes this: Some of that sounds as though someone might find it ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 7, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Dec 9, 2014 at 6:35 pm

5	Deparse testing and regexp stringification

In recent commits I made it so that qr/(?{<<END}/ will deparse cor- rectly and actually produce valid code. Likewise, qr/a(??{ $x})/ (with a line break) no longer deparses with \n\$x in it. Deparse ...

Father Chrysostomos
Dec 4, 2014 at 2:05 am
Dec 7, 2014 at 10:05 pm

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