perl5-porters@perl.org discussions for March 2015

11	local'ising an lvalue sub

This works as expected: my $s = [1]; { local $s- [0] = 2; say $s- [0]; } say $s- [0] It outputs 2 1 I wrote Struct::Dumb a while ago to tidy up the common pattern of making little lightweight ...

$Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans$

Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans
Mar 8, 2015 at 5:44 pm
Mar 9, 2015 at 5:37 am

10	[perl #123958] RFC: Win32 rmdir() is non-blocking, intended or not?

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Christian Walde
Mar 1, 2015 at 2:04 pm
Mar 8, 2015 at 7:16 pm

9	[perl #123981] [PATCH] f8210d2 Add a simple .travis.yml

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Mar 4, 2015 at 8:21 am
Apr 4, 2015 at 11:43 am

9	[perl #124138] Tru64:Heisenbug in t/TEST

Removed this from 5.22 blockers, but leaving open since I want to keep reminding myself of this. Findings so far: What seems to be the real problem (ignore what I said so far) is that running the ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi via RT
Mar 31, 2015 at 11:33 am
Apr 1, 2015 at 12:37 pm

8	[perl #124013] [PATCH] Upgrade to threads 2.01

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Jerry D. Hedden
Mar 8, 2015 at 2:38 am
Mar 8, 2015 at 5:09 pm

7	State of the toolchain?

In recent time, two of our most important toolchain modules have received major work. I'm not sure both have received the attention they deserve given their prominence, these are both modules that ...

Leon Timmermans
Mar 4, 2015 at 2:07 am
Apr 6, 2015 at 8:28 am

7	[perl #124182] Perl debugger, readline and tab

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Mar 25, 2015 at 8:32 pm
Mar 27, 2015 at 10:06 am

6	[perl #124203] debugging threaded perl hangs with perl-5.20.2

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Marco Blanchette
Mar 28, 2015 at 7:08 pm
Mar 29, 2015 at 4:42 pm

5	[perl #124212] porting/extrefs.t fails in tru64 (inline declarations lie)

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Jarkko Hietaniemi
Mar 30, 2015 at 10:48 pm
Mar 31, 2015 at 4:33 pm

5	[perl #124113] Compile-time warning with UTF8 variable in array index

Thank you. I have applied the first three patches: $ git log --oneline -3 8ce2ba8 Fix "...without parentheses is ambuguous" warning for UTF-8 function nam 6e59c86 Allow unquoted UTF-8 HERE-document ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 27, 2015 at 8:18 pm
Mar 31, 2015 at 8:50 am

5	Re: НА: OS/390 service discontinued 2004/09/30

I'm confused by all this. I think Yaroslav is pointing out that internally his z/OS still uses os390, but Karl is saying his z/OS doesn't. Please elaborate.

Karl Williamson
Mar 30, 2015 at 3:55 am
Mar 30, 2015 at 4:40 pm

5	[perl #124181] Tests spew unreferenced scalar warnings

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Father Chrysostomos
Mar 25, 2015 at 4:22 pm
Mar 30, 2015 at 4:02 am

5	[perl #123971] pack doesn't work in new gcc 4.9.1 compiler

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Karl williamson
Mar 3, 2015 at 6:08 am
Mar 27, 2015 at 4:00 am

5	[perl #123963] compcv refcount (again)

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Hugo van der Sanden
Mar 2, 2015 at 8:51 am
Mar 6, 2015 at 6:38 pm

5

sleep(-1)

Did you know that sleep(-1) works? As in, if you want to sleep for 136 years, one month, and a bit. (If your ints are 32 bit. In some Crays, you would sleep somewhat longer.) Now, the question is ...

Jarkko Hietaniemi
Mar 4, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Mar 5, 2015 at 7:57 pm

4	Re: [perl #121727] Bleadperl breaks MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-7.07.tar.gz on Windows

So basically, any .dll compiled with = VC 2010, which is libc/MS CRT aware, is not ABI compatible with, <= VC 2008? Here is a question, has MS made any comments on why they messed up the definitions ...

Bulk 88
Mar 26, 2015 at 10:02 am
Mar 30, 2015 at 8:50 pm

4	[perl #124202] [PATCH] Reword reference to $ENV{PERL_UNICODE} in utf8

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Randy Stauner
Mar 28, 2015 at 5:53 pm
Mar 30, 2015 at 10:42 am

4	[perl #124201] Invalid handshake, static build, 5.21.6+, 32bit Linux, no threads, no debug

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Zgrim
Mar 28, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Mar 29, 2015 at 11:22 pm

4	[perl #124187] null ptr deref -> S_pad_findlex (pad.c:1141

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Brian Carpenter
Mar 27, 2015 at 3:45 am
Mar 27, 2015 at 3:51 pm

4

PERL_EXT

When is this defined, and what does it imply? The only fragment resembling documentation I could find was this in lib/perlxs.pod: This wrapping happens always when compiling Perl core source ...

Hv
Mar 2, 2015 at 11:55 pm
Mar 8, 2015 at 11:39 pm

4	[perl #123985] [PATCH c228279 Bump MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.7

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Mar 5, 2015 at 5:22 am
Mar 7, 2015 at 9:54 am

4	[perl #123848] op_private assertion on OP_QR via smartmatch

Fixed in 57db463f6. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123848

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 1, 2015 at 10:15 pm
Mar 3, 2015 at 4:36 pm

3	Re: more thoughts on op_sibling

(I'm merging the subthread from 'Subject: Re: perl 5.22.0 blockers, March 22nd' into this thread). Having op_lastsib manipulated even on non-PERL_OP_PARENT builds allows the assert code in ...

Dave Mitchell
Mar 30, 2015 at 1:48 pm
Apr 1, 2015 at 5:01 pm

3	Guard SET_NUMERIC_STANDARD() with USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC

Hi p5p, the build of Perl 5.21.10 fails on Android, because SET_NUMERIC_STANDARD() is not defined. Android has no locale functions. From inspection, bleadperl is the same. The attached patch guards ...

Max Maischein
Mar 30, 2015 at 8:53 pm
Mar 31, 2015 at 2:55 pm

3	Re: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=96064 - resolved but not in blead

We are now in code freeze so it's Ricardo's call whether to include this or not at this late stage. I've just pushed it to a smoke-me branch to see whether it at least smokes ok.

Steve Hay
Mar 26, 2015 at 8:32 am
Mar 30, 2015 at 7:50 am

3	[perl #124099] null ptr deref -> Perl_find_lexical_cv () at op.c:11235

my &h will cause &h to be added to the pad, but it also generates a syntax error. When there are syntax errors, the lexer sometimes gets confused as to what a ‘my’ is meant to apply to. Extra pad ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 26, 2015 at 9:28 pm
Mar 27, 2015 at 8:16 pm

3	[perl #123790] readline assert on SvOK_off(glob)

That’s not correct, either. If I assign a string to *x, it should do a typeglob aliasing. This problem is actually quite pervasive. There are many cases that have been broken since 5.20, which I plan ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 25, 2015 at 4:20 pm
Mar 26, 2015 at 9:37 pm

3	[perl #124183] dont report a $@ exception with uninitialized $!'s message in IPC::Open3

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Bulk 88
Mar 26, 2015 at 10:35 am
Mar 26, 2015 at 7:11 pm

3	Test-Simple stable version

I have pushed a branch, rjbs/test-simple-old, that replaces the dev version of "new Test-Simple" with the current stable version on the CPAN. This is all fine except for a test in B that uses forking ...

Ricardo Signes
Mar 8, 2015 at 11:17 pm
Mar 8, 2015 at 11:58 pm

3	Test-Simple and 5.22.0 plan

A design decision is being changed in the new Test-Simple stuff. This change comes at the request of many people in perl-qa, and I agree with the change. However this does mean I will not have ...

Chad Granum
Mar 6, 2015 at 7:51 pm
Mar 7, 2015 at 8:42 pm

3	[perl #124002] perl_5.20.2: Testsuite fails at t/porting/podcheck on sh4 architecture

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Mar 6, 2015 at 12:35 pm
Mar 6, 2015 at 9:34 pm

3	[perl #123788] Unloading Mouse class crashes Perl on 32-bit MSWin32

Pretty much. The attached patch seems to fix the problem. This pushes the edge of my internals knowledge, so I'd appreciate reviews. I still need to write tests for it. Tony --- via perlbug: queue ...

Tony Cook via RT
Mar 4, 2015 at 6:17 am
Mar 5, 2015 at 4:26 am

3	[perl #123955] S_sublex_done: Assertion `(PL_parser->lex_inwhat) == OP_SUBST \|\| (PL_parser->lex_inwhat) == OP_TRANS' failed (toke.c:2448)

# New Ticket Created by Brian Carpenter # Please include the string: [perl #123955] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Brian Carpenter
Mar 1, 2015 at 2:12 am
Mar 2, 2015 at 2:20 am

2	Re: [perl #124109] panic: swash_fetch got swatch of unexpected bit width

Now done as smoke-me/davem/save_re2 -- Music lesson: a symbiotic relationship whereby a pupil's embellishments concerning the amount of practice performed since the last lesson are rewarded with ...

Dave Mitchell
Mar 25, 2015 at 5:22 pm
Mar 30, 2015 at 11:46 am

2	[perl #124127] [patch] Restore ability to debug threaded scripts

Another bug report (https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124203) touched upon a very similar problem, but was reported to have introduced a new bug. -- James E Keenan (<span ...

James E Keenan via RT
Mar 29, 2015 at 10:04 pm
Mar 30, 2015 at 3:55 am

2	[perl #124189] [PATCH] remove all usage of dl_undef_symbols on platforms where its a nop

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Bulk88
Mar 27, 2015 at 8:00 am
Mar 30, 2015 at 12:51 am

2	Re: Perl 5.21.10 is now available!

I've recently taken over maintainership for Cygwin Perl from Reini Urban. I've not yet set up for smoke testing, mainly since I don't know how to set things up so that the test results don't need to ...

Achim Gratz
Mar 29, 2015 at 12:20 pm
Mar 29, 2015 at 6:05 pm

2	Perl 5 Commit Summary

Perl 5 commit summary, activity since Saturday Current branch blead 24 commits. 8 unique authors. 5 unique committers. 77 files changed, 34375 insertions(+), 34197 deletions(-) Thanks, applied: James ...

Perl 5 commit summary
Mar 4, 2015 at 2:14 am
Mar 28, 2015 at 2:38 am

2	Re: perl 5.22.0 blockers, March 22nd

There definitely is a subtle change in behavior there. The combination of my and Oleg's patches made some things writable that used to be read-only. I might dig into it if no one else does, but ...

Leon Timmermans
Mar 26, 2015 at 10:47 pm
Mar 27, 2015 at 8:12 pm

2	Smoke [blead] v5.21.10-19-gaab1202 PASS os/390 23.00 (2964/)

Automated smoke report for branch blead 5.21.11 patch aab1202a8d4b691b16384fb41d2e2a06abf664e2 v5.21.10-19-gaab1202 RS12: 2964 (2964/) on os/390 - 23.00 using c99 version smoketime 7 hours 37 minutes ...

Yaroslav Kuzmin
Mar 26, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Mar 27, 2015 at 6:28 am

2	Re: [perl #124155] -E to imply -w

"*-E* behaves just like *-e*, except that it implicitly enables all optional features (in the main compilation unit)."

Eric Brine
Mar 25, 2015 at 4:30 pm
Mar 25, 2015 at 9:43 pm

2	Current blead on DSM - status report

I updated README.synology and INSTALL (just long lines wrap) after upgrading my DS213 to DSM-5.1-5022-3 Just for kicks, I followed our own guide and tried to build blead git checkout at ...

H.Merijn Brand
Mar 7, 2015 at 1:11 pm
Mar 7, 2015 at 7:27 pm

2	_generic_GET_BREAK_VAL_CP and Coverity

Karl, Coverity is flagging several places in regexec.c as potentially using a neagtive index in an array, for example this line in S_backup_one_SB: sb = getSB_VAL_UTF8(prev_prev_char_pos, ...

Dave Mitchell
Mar 4, 2015 at 12:18 pm
Mar 5, 2015 at 10:48 am

2	Smoke [ebcdic] v5.21.9-231-gb7edca8 FAIL(X) os/390 23.00 (2817/)

Smoke log available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PTttxwo7qARlU5UHA4clBBUW8 dumper.t.log available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PTttxwo7qAVUVJS1Y1dURfeEk Automated smoke report for ...

Yaroslav Kuzmin
Mar 3, 2015 at 10:19 am
Mar 4, 2015 at 1:18 am

2	PATCH: Bump Locale-Codes from 3.33 to 3.34

I just released Locale-Codes-3.34 which contains the core modules Locale::Country, Locale::Language, and Locale::Currency. Due to the size of the patch (due to changes in codes), I'm including a link ...

Sullivan Beck
Mar 2, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Mar 3, 2015 at 12:30 pm

2	[perl #123960] seg fault in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags () at sv.c:11460

# New Ticket Created by Brian Carpenter # Please include the string: [perl #123960] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Brian Carpenter
Mar 1, 2015 at 7:59 pm
Mar 2, 2015 at 6:43 am

2	[perl #123947] Bleadperl v5.21.6-473-g8c2e27d breaks GFUJI/macro-0.06.tar.gz

Reported upstream as https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=102439 by Slaven Rezić. Tony --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123947

Tony Cook via RT
Mar 2, 2015 at 5:22 am
Mar 2, 2015 at 6:14 am

2	[perl #123802] Segfault in Perl_yyparse with minimized test case from #123801

I finally finished tracking this down. It’s PL_lex_defer again. So the fix is nearly identical to #123801. See commit 479ae48. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open ...

Father Chrysostomos via RT
Mar 1, 2015 at 2:29 am
Mar 1, 2015 at 7:41 pm

1	[perl #124216] Perl_sv_clear: Assertion `((svtype)((sv)->sv_flags & 0xff)) != (svtype)0xff' failed (perl: sv.c:6537)

# New Ticket Created by Brian Carpenter # Please include the string: [perl #124216] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL ...

Brian Carpenter
Mar 31, 2015 at 3:22 pm
Mar 31, 2015 at 3:59 pm

1	[perl #124211] Avoid gcc warning op.c

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Ricardo SIGNES
Mar 30, 2015 at 9:33 pm
Mar 30, 2015 at 10:35 pm

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