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Rafael Garcia-Suarez
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November 24, 2003 12:06
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This Week on perl5-porters (17-23 November 2003)
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This Week on perl5-porters (17-23 November 2003)
Due to my laziness, or perhaps to the lack of traffic on perl5-porters
this week, this summary will be rather short, but hopefully long enough
to provide your weekly dose of perl core information. Read on.
Hash revamp
Nicholas Clark proposes to refactor the code that manipulates hashes in
the code ; and he does so.
Before :
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00759.html
After :
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00966.html
He also fixed a remaining bug in the copy-on-write internal
implementation (not enabled in default builds).
More hashes
Alan Burlison's module Solaris::Kstat, which implements a tied hash
entirely in XS code. This module tends to dump cores with perl 5.8.2 ;
this is due to the fact that its implementation clashes with the new
restricted (read-only) hashes.
Digging further, he notices that in perl 5.8.2, locking an empty hash
produces a core dump, and provides a fix.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00694.html
Non-hash stuff (or, In Brief, miscellaneous issues)
Paul Szabo proposes a patch to solve some security issues in suidperl.
Nobody comments.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00814.html
Damian Menscher reports that under some conditions, running the perl
test suite can change the file permissions for "/dev/tty". This
unfortunate side-effect is filed under bug id #24521.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00849.html
Moeller Wolf-Dietrich reports (bug #24508) a case where the
concatenation operator has side-effects and produces the wrong result.
Rafael fixes it by disabling a buggy optimization.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00799.html
Salvador FandiƱo posts a patch for MakeMaker, to add support for modules
written in C++.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00924.html
Chris Nandor reports that $^E, a system-specific equivalent for $!,
sometimes changes unexpectedly. Dan Sugalski comments that, as it
reflects the C variable "errno", it can change at any times, whenever a
system call or another library function (such as malloc()) sets it.
However, in this case, "errno" should be saved and restored when it's
copied in the $^E scalar (this happens correctly for $!). Rafael fixes
it.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00881.html
Daniel Berger can't build a 64-bit perl on Solaris with gcc. Andy
Dougherty provides a fix. (bug #24439.)
Nicholas Clark wonders about the nuances involved in various ways of
creating mortal scalars in the perl core. The answers involve
archeology.
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00831.html
Leon Brocard is *getting confused about versions and Perl*, and asks for
a more or less reliable way to sort versions. John Peacock suggests
"version.pm".
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-11/msg00981.html
Iain Truskett reorganizes a bit the documentation for PerlIO layers,
which is shuffled between the perlrun and PerlIO man pages.
Ton Hospel makes the regexp engine panic in 23 characters (bug #24524).
Bug #24526 demonstrates that index() and rindex() still don't play nice
with UTF-8 locales.
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