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July 24, 2013 15:56
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RE: upcoming release of 5.18.1
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> From: xdg@xdg.me
> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:50:22 -0400
> Subject: Re: upcoming release of 5.18.1
> CC: perl5-porters@perl.org
>
> Looking at the selected bug fixes from 5.19.1 and 5.19.2, here are the
> ones that seem like possible backport candidates per perlpolicy if
> someone were to dig up the relevant commits for them:
>
> [side note: organizing "selected bug fixes" in perldelta along these
> lines in the future would make it easier to triage for backport
> candidates]
>
> Build related:
>
> * The OP allocation code now returns correctly aligned memory in all
> cases for "struct pmop". Previously it could return memory only
> aligned to a 4-byte boundary, which is not correct for an ithreads
> build with 64 bit IVs on some 32 bit platforms. Notably, this caused
> the build to fail completely on sparc GNU/Linux. [RT #118055]
>

That would break ABI/XS between maint releases. 		 	   		  
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