Blog:
http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/02/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-february-7th-12th.html
Twitter: https://twitter.com/perl5summaries/status/831078702553432065
February 7th-12th
News and updates
Sawyer X provided an [1]update on the patch which will be applied to
[2]base.pm for 5.24.2 and 5.22.4.
Todd Rinaldo [3]provided an update on removing . from @INC and the
implications of it on CPAN. One possible consequence is introducing
[4]Module::Install into core.
Todd has provided a [5]summary of a limited-scoped solution.
\c` and the like have been undeprecated. The background to this is
[6]here.
Grant reports
* Tony Cook TPF Grant 8 [7]report 12.
* Tony Cook TPF Grant 8 [8]report 13.
Issues
New issues
* [9]Perl #130727: op.c: Assertion failure.
* [10]Perl #130735: [11]AutoLoader implies suitability for constants,
fails to mention inlining incompatibility.
* [12]Perl #130766: substr in [13]Encode leaks memory.
Karl Williamson reports two [14]warning [15]messages.
Resolved issues
* [16]Perl #125697: Perl 5.20.2 - SIGSEV.
* [17]Perl #126203: "Perl v1305670057.0.0 required" in quadmath build.
* [18]Perl #129037: Assertion Failure: Perl_yylex.
* [19]Perl #129157: Assertion failure.
* [20]Perl #129345: perlmod doc bug wrt package scope.
* [21]Perl #130545: utf8.c: Assertion failure.
* [22]Perl #130705: sv.c: Assertion failure.
* [23]Perl #130722: pp_ctl.c: Assertion failure.
* [24]Perl #130727: op.c: Assertion failure.
Suggested patches
Missing from last week's summary, Andy Lester provided a patch to cleanup
some mathoms in [25]Perl #130717.
Tony Cook provided a patch for [26]Perl #130632: Memory leak in
Perl_yylex.
Tony also provided a patch for [27]Perl #128263: Assert failure in
Perl_magic_get.
Jim Cromie [28]provided (more process_optree) a patch a patch to clean up
some opcode processing.
Discussion
Michael Albert is working on a Python port of [29]Storable and has
[30]asked for help regarding the internals.
Karl Williamson [31]asks about 4 unused bits in the SV flag. It is
probably the highest value real estate in the Perl data structures. :)
Hugo van der Sanden is trying to [32]collect (Stack refcount
synopsis) all
the information about the stack ref counting behavior and possible
solutions.
Karl Williamson is also [33]working on thoroughly checking for well
formed
UTF8 in a program code.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242949
2. http://metacpan.org/pod/base
3. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242860
4. http://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Install
5. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242895
6. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242693
7. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242920
8. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242921
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130727
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130735
11. http://metacpan.org/pod/AutoLoader
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130766
13. http://metacpan.org/pod/Encode
14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242942
15. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242943
16. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125697
17. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126203
18. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129037
19. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129157
20. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129345
21. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130545
22. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130705
23. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130722
24. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130727
25. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130717
26. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130632
27. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128263
28. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242954
29. http://metacpan.org/pod/Storable
30. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242913
31. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242901
32. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242906
33. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/242916
