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August 15th-21st
News and Updates
Grant Reports
* Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [1]report 11.
* Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 [2]report 12.
Issues
New Issues
* [3]Perl #131866: Null Pointer Dereference in Perl_sv_setpv_bufsize.
* [4]Perl #131910: feature to interpolate method calls in
double-quotish
strings.
* [5]Perl #131912: runtime error: left shift of 1 by 31 places
cannot be
represented in type 'int'.
* [6]Perl #131929: multi-arg open() error leaks.
* [7]Perl #131930: s [foo] \n [bar] confuses line numbers.
* [8]Perl #131938: Bleadperl v5.27.1-66-g87058c31e9 breaks
TONYC/Imager-1.005.tar.gz.
* [9]Perl #131942: Bleadperl v5.27.1-114-g9449f0d6ae breaks
MLEHMANN/Glib-EV-2.02.tar.gz.
Resolved Issues
* [10]Perl #131793: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
* [11]Perl #131904: Bug #131793 for perl5: heap-buffer-overflow in
Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
* [12]Perl #131912: runtime error: left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot
be represented in type 'int'.
Suggested Patches
Tony Cook provided a patch for [13]Perl #131895: stat() doesn't fail on
filenames containing \0/NUL.
Discussions
fREW Schmidt [14]asked about debugging memory usage in Perl.
References
1. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245960
2. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245961
3. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131866
4. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131910
5. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131912
6. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131929
7. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131930
8. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
9. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131942
10. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131793
11. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131904
12. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131912
13. http://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131895
14. http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/245978
