Perl 5 Porters Mailing List Summary: January 23rd-29th

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                               January 23rd-29th

News and updates

Grant reports

     * Tony Cook TPF Grant [1]December 2016 report.
     * Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 [2]report 159.

Issues

  New issues

     * [3]Perl #130631: static build with gdbm + gettext.
     * [4]Perl #130632: Memory leak in Perl_yylex.
     * [5]Perl #130633: Bleadperl v5.25.8-223-ga0e213fcb5 breaks
       JV/EekBoek-2.02.05.1.tar.gz.
     * [6]Perl #130639: Bleadperl v5.25.9-10-g3a0fe090c1 breaks
       SPROUT/JE-0.066.tar.gz.
     * [7]Perl #130640: Bleadperl v5.25.8-47-gd1f8d421df breaks
       SPROUT/JE-0.066.tar.gz.
     * [8]Perl #130641: Bleadperl v5.25.8-36-g6cdc5cd8f3 breaks
       HURRICUP/DTL-Fast-1.622.tar.gz.
     * [9]Perl #130642: lex_allbrackets handling and S_tokereport.
     * [10]Perl #130648: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
     * [11]Perl #130649: Threads, shared memory, blessed objects fail to
call
       ->DESTROY method.
     * [12]Perl #130651: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
     * [13]Perl #130655: Bleadperl v5.25.8-68-g94749a5ed2 breaks
       MAUKE/Quote-Ref-0.03.tar.gz.
     * [14]Perl #130656: Bleadperl v5.25.8-145-g188d22cf71 breaks
       AMBS/Lingua-Identifier-0.01.tar.gz.
     * [15]Perl #130661: perly.c: Perl_yyparse: Assertion failure.
     * [16]Perl #130666: toke.c: Assertion failure.
     * [17]Perl #130667: sv.c: Assertion failure.
     * [18]Perl #130668: poor argument parsing in pragma use open.
     * [19]Perl #130669: sv.c: Assertion failure.

  Resolved issues

     * [20]Perl #127697: newPVOP documentation is misleading.
     * [21]Perl #129036: Assertion Failure: S_parse_ident.
     * [22]Perl #129058: Bug #129287 for perl5: Perl_re_op_compile:
Assertion
       failed.
     * [23]Perl #129126: Assertion failure.
     * [24]Perl #129141: OP *Perl_newSVOP: Assertion failure.
     * [25]Perl #129147: Assertion failure.
     * [26]Perl #129190: Multiple suspicious Valgrind errors.
     * [27]Perl #129273: Bug #129274 for perl5: heap-buffer-overflow
       Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
     * [28]Perl #129274: heap-buffer-overflow Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
     * [29]Perl #129770: null ptr deref, segfault Perl_mess_sv.
     * [30]Perl #129285: Perl_gv_fullname4: Assertion failure.
     * [31]Perl #129288: null ptr deref, segfault in S_rv2gv.
     * [32]Perl #130545: utf8.c: Assertion failure.
     * [33]Perl #130561: Coredump in Perl_re_op_compile.
     * [34]Perl #130567: toke.c: Assertion failure.
     * [35]Perl #130596: Perl_utf8_to_uvchr_buf has no prototype in any .h
       file.
     * [36]Perl #130617: op.c: Perl_rpeep: Assertion failed.
     * [37]Perl #130621: Segfault in Perl_vwarner.
     * [38]Perl #130623: pp_sys.c: Assertion failed.
     * [39]Perl #130639: Bleadperl v5.25.9-10-g3a0fe090c1 breaks
       SPROUT/JE-0.066.tar.gz.
     * [40]Perl #130666: toke.c: Assertion failure.

Suggested patches

   John Lightsey provided a patch in [41]Perl #130635 to fix a stack
overflow
   problem in [42]Storable.

Discussion

   Craig Berry [43]raised (test randomization (Re: slowness of
   ext/XS-APItest/t/handy.t,utf8.t)) into discussion the topic of
   randomization and determinism in tests.

   Jim Keenen [44]raised the problem of [45]Scalar-List-Util being out of
   sync and suggests

   Dave Mitchell [46]asked about the status of [47]ExtUtils::Constant.

   Hugo van der Sanden [48]suggests optimizing the run loop a tad and
   provided a branch with the patch for review: hv/runloop.

   In an interesting thread, Yves Orton [49]asked: Should we consider locked
   hashes a failed experiment? Yves also asks this question on
   [50]Blogs.Perl.org.

References

   1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242508
   2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242546
   3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130631
   4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130632
   5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130633
   6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130639
   7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130640
   8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130641
   9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130642
  10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130648
  11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130649
  12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130651
  13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130655
  14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130656
  15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130661
  16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130666
  17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130667
  18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130668
  19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130669
  20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127697
  21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129036
  22. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129058
  23. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129126
  24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129141
  25. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129147
  26. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129190
  27. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129273
  28. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129274
  29. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129770
  30. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129285
  31. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129288
  32. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130545
  33. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130561
  34. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130567
  35. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130596
  36. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130617
  37. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130621
  38. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130623
  39. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130639
  40. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130666
  41. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130635
  42. http://metacpan.org/pod/Storable
  43. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242530
  44. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242482
  45. https://metacpan.org/release/Scalar-List-Utils
  46. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242516
  47. http://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::Constant
  48. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242550
  49. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242664
  50.
http://blogs.perl.org/users/demerphq/2017/01/are-restrictedlocked-hashes-a-failed-experiment.html

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