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http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/03/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-february-27th---march-5th.html
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February 27th - March 5th
News and updates
Perl 5.25.11 will be released on March to allow more another development
release testing for @INC changes.
Issues
New issues
* [1]Perl #130893: Reuse code from defined macro.
* [2]Perl #130903: caller_cx(0,NULL) returns NULL.
* [3]Perl #130907: unicode_strings feature doesn't work with split ' '.
* [4]Perl #130921: Bleadperl v5.25.5-100-g2b5e7bc2e6 breaks
JDDPAUSE/re-engine-GNU-0.021.tar.gz.
Resolved issues
* [5]Perl #130853: system() does not return -1 in low-memory
situations.
Suggested patches
Jim Keenen provided a patch in [6]Perl #130885 on how to use
[7]Devel::PatchPerl to repair older builds with an example from bisecting
[8]Perl #72414 (UTF-16 filters do not handle all surrogates gracefully).
Josef Kutej provided a patch in [9]Perl #130902 to update the perlfunc
synopsis about alarm.
Pali provided a patch in [10]Perl #130801 (SvNV() does not store computed
value to NV slot) to clarify the expected behavior.
References
1. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130893
2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130903
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130907
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130921
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130853
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130885
7. http://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::PatchPerl
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72414
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130902
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130801
