In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/e7e6e8d48b3435bd66d393ce8699bae85dae6677?hp=8bbdbfcb893c4925a0a25dbdd5a2084d97baf940>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit e7e6e8d48b3435bd66d393ce8699bae85dae6677 Author: Karl Williamson <[email protected]> Date: Sat Nov 19 17:33:07 2016 -0700 perldelta fixes from khw The ones I removed are so minor as to not be worth mentioning. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perldelta.pod | 56 ++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 9f9c573..8e63a71 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -15,11 +15,6 @@ release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.25.5, first read L<perl5256delta>, which describes differences between 5.25.5 and 5.25.6. -=head1 Notice - -Name.pl will be going away in the near future, documentation and warnings to -this fact has been introduced. - =head1 Core Enhancements XXX New core language features go here. Summarize user-visible core language @@ -92,16 +87,6 @@ ${^CAPTURE}[0]. %{^CAPTURE_ALL} is the equivalent to %- (ie all named captures). -=head2 Enhancements and fixes for locale code - -locale.c and t/loc_tools.pl were updated: - -Fix not catching incompatible locales, and other minor updates. - -Use meaningful initialization msg. - -Output warning if debugging and 'no warnings'. - =head2 hv.h: rework HEK_FLAGS to a proper member in struct hek Move the store of HEK_FLAGS off the end of the allocated hek_key into the hek @@ -249,13 +234,6 @@ Enhancements in Regex concat COW implementation. =item * -Add branch predictors for DEBUG statements - -It is unlikely that any given debug flag will be set in any given run, even -under DEBUGGING builds. - -=item * - Speed up AV and HV clearing/undeffing. =item * @@ -362,6 +340,13 @@ L<POSIX> Version Bump =item * +L<Unicode::UCD> has had its documentation updated to give a recipe for +using it to get the information contained in F<unicore/Name.pl>. It has +long been deprecated to use any file from F<unicore/>, and their +contents or even existence may change at any time without notice. + +=item * + L<XXX> has been upgraded from version A.xx to B.yy. =back @@ -448,8 +433,8 @@ Clarify behavior single quote regexps. =item * -Add caution about incompatible locales. Some locales aren't compatible with -Perl. Note the potential bad consequences of using them. +Some locales aren't compatible with Perl. Note the potential bad +consequences of using them. =back @@ -696,6 +681,10 @@ that they represent may be covered elsewhere. XS-APItest/t/utf8.t: Several small fixes and enhancements. +=item * + +Tests for locales were erroneously using locales incompatible with Perl. + =back =head1 Platform Support @@ -847,26 +836,13 @@ Handle SvIMMORTALs in LHS of list assign. [perl #129991] [perl #130010] a5540cf breaks texinfo -When a regular expression is compiled that contains user-defined properties, -the subroutine the user must furnish to implement those properties may not yet -be defined. To cope with this possibility, the regex pattern compiler stores -the name and package of the subroutine, and this is to be expanded the first -time the property is actually used during execution. Once expanded, the -property should be immutable, and so the scalar containing the expansion is -marked read-only. It turns out that prior to the blamed commit, that -read-only-ness was being bypassed in some instances simply by freeing the -scalar, replaced by a new one. The commit changed that. The pattern may -contain components both known at compile time, and deferred until runtime. The -two are combined at the time of expansion, but that was now running afoul of -the read-only setting. This commit simply turns off the read-only flag at the -time of expansion, and it's turned on again afterwards. +This involved user-defined Unicode properties. =item * -Fix error message for unclosed \N{ in regcomp. +Fix error message for unclosed C<\N{> in regcomp. -An unclosed C<\N{> that made it through to the regex engine rather than being -handled by the lexer would erroneously trigger the error for +An unclosed C<\N{> could give the wrong error message C<"\N{NAME} must be resolved by the lexer">. =item * -- Perl5 Master Repository
