In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated
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commit 2ad45e6fc35ffacc3e7203e55a5fc507aa9bbb06
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Sep 18 20:27:11 2016 -0700
perldelta for #129287 / b43665
M pod/perldelta.pod
commit 47c158f08e62e042778e03c59cf45e2e7d23f137
Author: Father Chrysostomos <spr...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Sep 18 20:24:00 2016 -0700
perldelta: Remove duplicate entry; fix typo
I had already documented the perlinterp change.
M pod/perldelta.pod
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 15 ++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 3fab1a1..4d14955 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -175,11 +175,7 @@ section.
=item *
L<perlinterp> has been expanded to give a more detailed example of how to
-hunt around in the parser to how a given operator is handled.
-
-=item *
-
-L<perlinterp> now has an expanded op-tree section.
+hunt around in the parser for how a given operator is handled.
=back
@@ -450,6 +446,15 @@ when it wasn't. [perl #129038]
Fixed place where regex was not setting the syntax error correctly.
[perl #129122]
+=item *
+
+The C<&.> operator (and the C<&> operator, when it treats its arguments as
+strings) were failing to append a trailing null byte if at least one string
+was marked as utf8 internally. Many code paths (system calls, regexp
+compilation) still expect there to be a null byte in the string buffer
+just past the end of the logical string. An assertion failure was the
+result. [perl #129287]
+
=back
=head1 Known Problems
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