Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: August 22nd-28th

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                                August 22nd-28th

News and highlights

   [1]Threads::Semaphore was upgraded in core to 2.13.

  Grant reports

Issues

  New issues

     * [2]Perl #129048: lib/perlbug.t: avoid spurious failure when testing
       long PATH line.
     * [3]Perl #129059: lexical subs - my sub using our sub segfaults.
     * [4]Perl #129061: Valgrind: Buffer overrun in S_regmatch with
       pathological regular expression.
     * [5]Perl #129068: SV *Perl_cv_const_sv_or_av: Assertion fail.
     * [6]Perl #129069: Fuzzer-detected use-after-free in Perl_yylex.
     * [7]Perl #129070: Refactor toke.c into smaller, more maintainable
       parts.
     * [8]Perl #129071: Perl git repository not available over HTTPS.
     * [9]Perl #129072: Typo in perlpodspec.
     * [10]Perl #129073: Perl_yyparse: Assertion fail.
     * [11]Perl #129087: Null ptr deref, segfault Perl_sv_setsv_flags.
     * [12]Perl #129090: Perl_pad_fixup_inner_anons Null reference Memory
       corruption.
     * [13]Perl #129098: Perl should have a cycle detector.
     * [14]Perl #129106: null ptr deref, segfault Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags
       (sv.c:12398).

  Reopened issues

   This week a ticket was reopened because it was not yet resolved in blead.

     * [15]Perl #129067: Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method is
       deprecated.

  Resolved issues

     * [16]Perl #107726: [17]Filter::Simple with immediately following "no".
     * [18]Perl #125679: segfault in Perl_pad_free.
     * [19]Perl #128598: Quadmath builds fail porting/libperl.t.
     * [20]Perl #128843: printf %a mishandles subnormals.
     * [21]Perl #128888: printf %a mishandles zero precision.
     * [22]Perl #128889: printf %a mishandles negative pseudo-precision.
     * [23]Perl #128890: printf %a rounds incorrectly.
     * [24]Perl #128909: printf %a mishandles exponent-crossing rounding
with
       long double.
     * [25]Perl #128919: limited exponent range in hex fp literal with long
       double.
     * [26]Perl #128930: [PATCH] automatically detect GCC vs VC and set VC
       ver number on Win32.
     * [27]Perl #128987: [PATCH] Upgrade CPAN-Meta to 2.150010.
     * [28]Perl #129029: SIGBUS Perl_sv_peek.
     * [29]Perl #129072: Typo in perlpodspec.

  Rejected issues

     * [30]Perl #129105: null ptr deref, segfault Perl_newSVpv (sv.c:9218).

  Suggested patches

   Dan Collins provided a patch in [31]Perl #129058 ([PATCH] Perl_do_vop:
   resulting string isn't always null-terminated), relating to
   null-terminated strings.

   Theo Buehler provided a patch in [32]Perl #129102 (to update the man
pages
   links for strlcat and strlcpy).

Discussion

   Aristotle Pagaltzis [33]provided an improvement of the original patch
   change to [34]base.pm by Peter Rabbitson (Ribasushi). Another suggestion,
   [35]raised by Todd Rinaldo, is to leave the module unchanged. This is
   supported by Peter, Aristotle, and Kent Fredric.

   Martin Dyers [36]raised (Storable.pm) a question about the licensing of
   [37]Data::Dumper which does not contain its own license file. Should we
   add a file to each or should we just document the license in the POD?

   Father Chrysostomos [38]provided comments regarding the utf8 warnings in
   [39]Encode.

   Herbert Breunung [40]asked for suggestion on documentation Pod files that
   could use help cleaning up, fixing, or generally improving.

References

   1. http://metacpan.org/pod/Threads::Semaphore
   2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129048
   3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129059
   4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129061
   5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129068
   6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129069
   7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129070
   8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129071
   9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129072
  10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129073
  11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129087
  12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129090
  13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129098
  14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129106
  15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129067
  16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=107726
  17. http://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::Simple
  18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125679
  19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128598
  20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128843
  21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128888
  22. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128889
  23. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128890
  24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128909
  25. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128919
  26. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128930
  27. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128987
  28. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129029
  29. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129072
  30. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129105
  31. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129058
  32. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129102
  33. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/239247
  34. http://metacpan.org/pod/base
  35. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/239271
  36. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/239252
  37. http://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Dumper
  38. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/239304
  39. http://metacpan.org/pod/Encode
  40. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/239348

• Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: August 22nd-28th by Sawyer X