Blog: http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/10/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-october-10th-15th.html Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/919992195947614208 October 10th-15th News and Updates This past week we held the 2nd Perl 5 Core Hackathon (P5Hack). We are organizing the information to prepare our report for this hackathon. Meanwhile You can read the [1]previous report. Grant Reports * Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [2]report 18. * Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [3]report 19 (TONYC TPF Grant 9 report 19). Issues New Issues * [4]Perl #132158: negative-size-param in S_scan_formline. * [5]Perl #132255: 5.26.1 Perl_fp_class_denorm still incompatible with CentOS 5. * [6]Perl #132272: qw() differs from split " " with OGHAM SPACE MARK. * [7]Perl #132277: re eval stack unwinding. * [8]Perl #132298: Provide a way for distro maintainers to skip t/porting/customized.t. * [9]Perl #132301: a built-in startswith($string, $prefix) function. * [10]Perl #132304: Some code does not work under debugger. Resolved Issues * [11]Perl #124349: [12]Sys::Hostname::hostname warn on spurious arguments. * [13]Perl #131000: splice doesn't honor Internals::SvREADONLY. * [14]Perl #131982: getpriority and setpriority are underdocumented. * [15]Perl #132159: Use preprocessor check for some DEBUG_X_TEST calls in sv.c and toke.c. Suggested Patches Nick Koston provided a patch in [16]Perl #132274 to improve [17]Carp backtrace performance. References 1. http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/02/perl-5-core-hackathon-p5hack-report.html 2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/246671 3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/246674 4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132158 5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132255 6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132272 7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132277 8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132298 9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132301 10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132304 11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124349 12. http://metacpan.org/pod/Sys::Hostname 13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131000 14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131982 15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132159 16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132274 17. http://metacpan.org/pod/Carp