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December 12th-18th
Grant reports
* Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 [1]report 153.
Issues
New issues
* [2]Perl #130333: Perl_pp_rv2sv(): Assertion failed.
* [3]Perl #130334: Perl_pp_rv2av(): Assertion failed.
* [4]Perl #130335: sort{$a<=>$b} fails to sort occasionally.
* [5]Perl #130337: Perl_sv_pvn_force_flags(SV *const, STRLEN *const,
const I32): Assertion failed.
* [6]Perl #130360: Bug #121105 for perl5: During a system(), unquoted
Perl vars are evaluated after the fork() call.
* [7]Perl #130361: debugger does not stop at postponed breakpoints.
* [8]Perl #130367: perl thinks a hash is a scalar in push/keys error
messages.
* [9]Perl #130375: Porting/release_managers_guide.pod: need advice re
new directories created by CPAN synch.
Resolved issues
* [10]Perl #128893: printf %a botches 0 flag for negative values.
* [11]Perl #130108: Perl 5.24.1 fails to compile with DTrace enabled on
FreeBSD.
Suggested patches
Ricardo Signes [12]provided a patch to add missing parts to
[13]Module::Load that provide the core desired behavior of
[14]Module::Runtime.
Aaron Crane [15]provided a patch for fixing the Unicode Bug issue
with the
range operator, to be used under unicode_strings.
Discussion
David Mertens [16]asked (Changes to hints hash via keyword are clobbered
by pragmatic module) about behavior he saw in the hints hash when
changing
the internal hash structure from C. Zefram [17]summarized that changes to
hints (whether from Pure-Perl or from C-level) should be done using %^H
only. David proposed rectifying the documentation to clarify this point.
David [18]seeks (Guidance on keyword and scope at end of for loop)
additional guidance on the issue of the hints hash and keywords in a new
thread.
In a move to clean up the delimiters, Karl Williamson [19]proposes
deprecating a delimiter which is part of a larger grapheme cluster
and not
separate.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241599
2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130333
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130334
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130335
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130337
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130360
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130361
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130367
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130375
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128893
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130108
12. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241627
13. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Load
14. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Runtime
15. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241118
16. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241594
17. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241600
18. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241595
19. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/241597
