Correct blog link: http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/01/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-january-4th-10th.html
My apologies. On 01/11/2016 06:41 PM, Sawyer X wrote: > Blog: > http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2016/01/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-december-28th---january-3rd.html > Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/686602777108299776 > > January 4th-10th > > Corrections > > Last week's summary accidentally noted discouraging the use of > *glob{FORMAT]. It was actually the use of *glob{FILEHANDLE}. Thanks to > H.Merijn Brand for the correction and my apology for the mistake. > > News and updates > > The biggest news of the week were the reworked context stack system Dave > Mitchell had been working on. Read more under Discussion. > > Tony Cook provided the [1]8th and [2]9th reports of his sixth running > grant. Over 34 hours in total with 22 tickets reviewed or worked on, > and 4 > patches applied. > > Tony also provides a more detailed [3]report of his grant work - a great > read. > > Dave Mitchell provided [4]more [5]reports on his grant work. > > Karl Williamson [6]updates the list on feedback request from the Unicode > Technical Committee on pending additions to the draft repertoire of > characters. > > Karl Williamson [7]applied his proposed text for [8]utf8. > > Karl Williamson [9]provides details on the tailored implementation of > qr/\b{wb}/, now committed. > > Karen Etheridge updated [10]podlators in blead to 4.04. > > The release of [11]podlators 4.04 accidentally changed the generation of > the scripts shebang line on Windows. Craig A. Berry noticed, notified > Russ > Allbery, and Russ will revert those changes. > > Ricardo Signes will [12]delete all RC versions of perl from his CPAN > directory. They will remain available on the BACKPAN mirrors. > > Bugs > > Reported bugs > > * [13]Perl #127149: A local PerlIO::encoding::fallback setting + > encoding causes an infinite loop. > * [14]Perl #127189: [15]B::Deparse doesn't emit /n regex flag. > * [16]Perl #127182: One digit short to correctly stringify a double > * [17]Perl #127183: Non-canonical hexadecimal floats are parsed > prematurely. > * [18]Perl #127231: Bleadperl breaks [19]App::JobLog. > * [20]Perl #127212: ABI incompatibilities with -DDEBUGGING vs. without, > caused by memory_debug_header. > * [21]Perl #127232: Segmentation fault with [22]Storable. > > Resolved bugs > > * [23]Perl #126845: Perl_newATTRSUB_x: Assertion block failed. > * [24]Perl #127131: In Configure: libswanted=nm suddenly harmful. > * [25]Perl #126847: Use the new fdclose(3) function in FreeBSD. > * [26]Perl #127080: Perldoc for waitpid missing description for > argument > value -1. > * [27]Perl #126877: Improve build performance on Win32 substantially by > using a real getcwd. > * [28]Perl #126042: Segmentation fault in Perl_pp_multiply (and other > functions). > * [29]Perl #126922: crypt uses uninit/unalloced/freed memory as salt. > * [30]Perl #127189: [31]B::Deparse doesn't emit /n regex flag. > * [32]Perl #126240: Panic happening after freeing the env after a fork. > * [33]Perl #126633: Bleadperl breaks [34]ddb. > * [35]Perl #123737: S_no_op assertion failure. > * [36]Perl #123788: Unloading [37]Mouse class crashes Perl on 32-bit > MSWin32. > * [38]Perl #126862: XS [39]File::Spec's canonpath loses taint. > (CVE-2015-8607) > * [40]Perl #126755: OOB access in [41]VDir::MapPathW (Win32-specific). > (CVE-2015-8608) > > Proposed patches > > Tony Cook provided a patch in [42]Perl #127063 for a warning generated by > setting $[ to zero. > > Tony also provided a patch in [43]Perl #127122 for making sure unless > ( $a > = 2 ) issues a warning just like if ($a = 2) does. > > Yet another patch from Tony in [44]Perl #126991 for integer overflow in > line number tracking reported by caller(). > > Tony tried a different approach (with a suggestion from Karl Williamson) > to handle a VC 2003 crash in [45]Perl #126045. > > Douglas Bell provided a Github [46]Pull Request for [47]Perl #127028. > > Tom Hukins provided a (now merged) patch in [48]Perl #127229 for fixing > module paths in INSTALL. > > Niko Tyni provided a patch in [49]Perl #127234 to fix a Configure escape > when usecrosscompile is used but there is no targethost. > > Discussion > > Dave Mitchell has [50]reworked the context stack system to allow some > subroutines to be much faster now. It breaks several CPAN modules > (notably > [51]Scope::Upper) but there seems to be possible fixes in place. > > Tony Cook writes in [52]Perl #127054 (Bleadperl breaking > [53]Test::MemoryGrowth) that he is seeing inconsistent behavior if the > test is run using perl or using make test and adds some details on how he > ran checks and what he found. Tony was not able to find the cause yet. > > Dan Kogai discovered an interesting problem (and opened [54]Perl #127182) > with having one digit short to correctly stringify a double. Dan then > provided outputs from several languages, showing which also get it wrong > (Rakudo Perl 6, PHP 5, Python 2, and Swift) and which get it right (Go, > Haskell, Node.js, Python 3, and Ruby). Craig A. Berry added that changing > it to 18 fixes a loss of precision he had on FreeBSD, and Zefram linked > this issue to [55]Perl #41202. > > Karl Williamson [56]suggested not generating EBCDIC non-1047 tables, > since > there seems to be no user of those. This will save time when regenerating > and the Perl distribution size will decrease. Ze'ev Atlas (maintainer of > PCRE for z/OS) provides different experience. > > Steve Hay [57]tried to update [58]Pod::Checker, but since it is now > derived from [59]Pod::Simple instead of [60]Pod::Parser, there is a > failing test that requires additional work. Karl Williamson added that he > will work on the changes necessary when time permits, as it is not urgent > for Perl 5.24. > > Bulk88 [61]emailed the list about an idea he has for a new threaded > memory > allocator for Win32 perl. > > An [62]email was sent asking about a "secure" version of perl, > without any > FS access. > > Ricardo Signes [63]asks for help on making the release of [64]PathTools > simpler, since it carries its own ppport.h file. > > References > > 1. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233644 > 2. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233653 > 3. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233687 > 4. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233674 > 5. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233675 > 6. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233649 > 7. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233684 > 8. https://metacpan.org/pod/utf8 > 9. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233699 > 10. https://metacpan.org/release/podlators > 11. https://metacpan.org/release/podlators > 12. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233715 > 13. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127149 > 14. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127189 > 15. https://metacpan.org/pod/B::Deparse > 16. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127182 > 17. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127183 > 18. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127231 > 19. https://metacpan.org/pod/App::JobLog > 20. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127212 > 21. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127232 > 22. https://metacpan.org/pod/Storable > 23. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126845 > 24. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127131 > 25. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126847 > 26. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127080 > 27. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126877 > 28. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126042 > 29. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126922 > 30. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127189 > 31. https://metacpan.org/pod/B::Deparse > 32. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126240 > 33. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126633 > 34. https://metacpan.org/pod/ddb > 35. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123737 > 36. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123788 > 37. https://metacpan.org/pod/Mouse > 38. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126862 > 39. https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Spec > 40. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126755 > 41. https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.22.1/win32/vdir.h#L609 > 42. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127063 > 43. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127122 > 44. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126991 > 45. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126045 > 46. https://github.com/mrallen1/Pod-Perldoc/pull/22 > 47. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127028 > 48. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127229 > 49. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127234 > 50. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233631 > 51. https://metacpan.org/pod/Scope::Upper > 52. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127054 > 53. https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::MemoryGrowth > 54. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127182 > 55. https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41202 > 56. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233663 > 57. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233695 > 58. https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Checker > 59. https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Simple > 60. https://metacpan.org/pod/Pod::Parser > 61. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233685 > 62. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233726 > 63. http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/233737 > 64. https://metacpan.org/release/PathTools
