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http://blogs.perl.org/users/sawyer_x/2017/07/perl-5-porters-mailing-list-summary-july-24th-30th.html
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July 24th-30th
News and Updates
We are now tracking all blockers for 5.30 in [1]Perl #131806.
Issues
New Issues
* [2]Perl #131786: Linker error with pp.o if -mieee-fp is in CFLAGS:
"multiple definition of _LIB_VERSION".
* [3]Perl #131663: Bleadperl v5.27.0-132-g13f4dd346e breaks
JDDPAUSE/MarpaX-Languages-M4-0.017.tar.gz.
* [4]Perl #131809: Configure script doesn't recognize GCC 6 or 7.
* [5]Perl #131810: Bleadperl v5.27.1-12-gfce4ebb4e9 breaks
NEZUMI/Unicode-BiDiRule-0.03.tar.gz.
* [6]Perl #131811: panic: previous op failed to extend arg stack.
Resolved Issues
* [7]Perl #131726: [Win32] perl.h remaps strtoll and strtoull
incorrectly.
* [8]Perl #78288: ref and other ops are inefficient in boolean context.
Suggested Patches
Father Chrysostomos [9]provided (Re: destabilizing mergesort) a patch to
allow unstable sorting.
Tony Cook provided a patch for [10]Perl #131777: signatures accept fancy
assignment operators.
Tony also provided a patch for [11]Perl #131793: heap-buffer-overflow in
Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
Sullivan Beck [12]provided a patch to update [13]Locale::Codes from 3.52
to 3.53.
Discussion
Jim Keenen [14]asks whether the POSIX 2008 functions could be implemented
in core, and whether they should.
References
1. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131806
2. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131786
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131663
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131809
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131810
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131811
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131726
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78288
9. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245632
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131777
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131793
12. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245696
13. http://metacpan.org/pod/Locale::Codes
14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245712
