October 11th-17th
News and highlights
Perl 5.24.1 RC4 is [1]out!
Perl 5.22.2 RC4 is [2]out!
Issues
New issues
* [3]Perl #129851: Bleadperl v5.25.5-43-g607ee43 breaks
CDOLAN/Devel-EnforceEncapsulation-0.51.tar.gz.
* [4]Perl #129866: hv.c: Assertion failure.
* [5]Perl #129868: Assertion failure: void S_mro_gather_and_rename.
* [6]Perl #129869: Perl_sv_setsv_flags: Assertion failure.
* [7]Perl #129880: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
* [8]Perl #129888: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_do_aexec5.
* [9]Perl #129891: t/op/utf8decode.t failing since 2b5e7bc2e60b.
* [10]Perl #129892: sub calls show as gv(IV \).
* [11]Perl #129893: gv.c: Assertion failure.
* [12]Perl #129897: Unexpected behavior with a regular expression.
* [13]Perl #129898: op.c: Assertion failure.
* [14]Perl #129903: regexec.c stack overflow.
Resolved issues
* [15]Perl #128996: heap-use-after-free Perl_utf8n_to_uvchr
(utf8.c:918).
* [16]Perl #129789: [17]Time::HiRes broken in blead on darwin.
* [18]Perl #129891: t/op/utf8decode.t failing since 2b5e7bc2e60b.
Suggested patches
Thomas Sibley provided some patchs for [19]Module::CoreList, one of which
is [20]Perl #129858 , which exposes information about utilities that come
with core, and the versiono in which they were introduced.
Andrew Fresh provided a patch in [21]Perl #129895 to fix a test in
OpenBSD.
Discussion
Proving it is never too late to help, Dmitry Karasik [22]provided an
answer to a question Jakko Hietaniemi asked a year ago, on results of
testing the perl source with the [23]viva64 source code analysis tool.
Following the conversation about the definition of a hash key, Todd
Rinaldo [24]raises a few interesting questions and provides a suggested
patch for simplifying the structure.
Dave Nicol [25]provided an invested response to Dave Mitchell's question
on the topic of (\@a) = \($x,$y) in non-void context.
Dave Mitchell on the same topic [26]provided another observation
regarding
list assignment in list context.
Christian Walde [27]asked about the current maintainership status of
[28]Cwd and [29]File::Spec.
Jarkko Hietaniemi [30]provided an update about the status of perl on
NetBSD/VAX. It's now passing about 98% of the tests.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240224
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240223
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129851
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129866
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129868
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129869
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129880
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129888
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129891
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129892
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129893
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129897
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129898
14. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129903
15. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128996
16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129789
17. http://metacpan.org/pod/Time::HiRes
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129891
19. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::CoreList
20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129858
21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129895
22. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240238
23. http://www.viva64.com/en/pvs-studio/
24. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240246
25. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240189
26. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240295
27. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240280
28. http://metacpan.org/pod/Cwd
29. http://metacpan.org/pod/File::Spec
30. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/240278
