In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/2cbd034e1cb70cf9cb1ae2a83967a24dd90ecc53?hp=f966a6e60c5062904734d261eea96ba070f47fdb>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 2cbd034e1cb70cf9cb1ae2a83967a24dd90ecc53 Author: Karl Williamson <[email protected]> Date: Sat Feb 16 12:14:27 2019 -0700 perldelta: perldelta for previous commit ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perldelta.pod | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 346d917faf..2ef4f09a15 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -279,7 +279,10 @@ well. =item * -XXX +It is now forbidden to malloc more than C<PTRDIFF_T_MAX> bytes. Much +code (including C optimizers) assumes that all data structures will not +be larger than this, so this catches such attempts before overflow +happens. =back -- Perl5 Master Repository
