I released a new ZIP of 20 patches to Perl which by different reasons (intentionally or not) did not make it into 5.005_50. Today they are on...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:00 am
32794
... Cool! 5.005_50 also has this bug. Ilya...
Ilya Zakharevich
ilya@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:01 am
32795
This patch supersedes both my OE MVS patch to 5.005 Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 14:41:29 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <199807261141.OAA11770@...> and...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Aug 1, 1998 9:38 am
32796
... It is running out of stack. Solaris default stacksize is (only?) 8M bytes. Mess with limit: SunOS alconbury 5.6 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10 ...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Aug 1, 1998 9:41 am
32797
... ELF object format used by SOlaris does not need collect2. The constructor/destructor stuff can be done with named sections. Are you sure egcs is installed...
Nick Ing-Simmons
nick@...
Aug 1, 1998 9:41 am
32798
Paul Marquess
pmarquess@...
Aug 1, 1998 10:31 am
32799
... It has been alleged to me that Microsoft have an internal development toolkit (including compiler) that provides debugging hooks that reach the bugs that ...
Nicholas Clark
nick@...
Aug 1, 1998 11:54 am
32800
Hello Gurusamy, Data::Dumper seems to have problems dumping hash keys containing a NUL character and a single quote after this. In this case, the single quote...
Slaven Rezic
eserte@...
Aug 1, 1998 11:59 am
32801
This is a bug report for perl from feedback@..., generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00501. ... [Please enter your report here] ...
Florian La Roche
florian@...
Aug 1, 1998 12:30 pm
32802
... It is my strong opinion that something should be done at *run* time. After I found out file globbing was not working, I wiped the complete installation of...
Paul Uiterlinden
puiterl@...
Aug 1, 1998 12:33 pm
32803
To: perlbug@... Subject: perl5.005_50 compilation failed with undeclared `thr' Reply-To: bennyk@... This is a bug report for perl from...
Benny Khoo Kam Kean
bennyk@...
Aug 1, 1998 2:18 pm
32804
... Thanks for your help! I think I found it now. The beginning of the functions looks like: _sp$ = -16 _mark$ = -24 _origmark$ = -20 _Perl_pp_formline PROC...
Jan Dubois
jan.dubois@...
Aug 1, 1998 3:40 pm
32805
... I am objecting. Instead of overloading derefs, I think that both hashes and arrays should be dispatched through vtables. Once we have that, then we can...
joshua.pritikin@...
Aug 1, 1998 3:41 pm
32806
... Did you notice my discussion of proxies? I think that would solve your problem... After long pondering, I think the solution is to re-implement tied...
joshua.pritikin@...
Aug 1, 1998 4:42 pm
32807
... I have nothing against it in principle, but the *implementation* adds an extra branch to hot runtime (all of the pp_rv2*v()). I'd like to be sure that the...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 4:45 pm
32808
... I thought of that, but how many times does one use global variables in main:: (and then mean to type $::foo) when they are using distinct packages?...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 4:46 pm
32809
... I got mine from libdes (in some remote past). ... I think it comes with the ActivePerl beta. (I did ask them to put a separate copy somewhere on their...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 5:08 pm
32810
Sarathy, This patch moves the comment about the vtable in proto.h to the end of the file, and adds a buffer for any new variables that may be added before...
Douglas Lankshear
dougl@...
Aug 1, 1998 5:10 pm
32811
... Thanks. Can one of you suggest a (symbolic :) patch for sysopen()? - Sarathy. gsar@......
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 5:27 pm
32812
CPAN.pm seems to become popular slowly. Among other weak points there is one that is most embarrassing for me: I just don't have experience with firewalls and...
Andreas J. Koenig
andreas.koenig@...
Aug 1, 1998 5:52 pm
32813
... Note the name of that warning has changed to "Complex regular subexpr..." I can't see a way to provoke the warning without extending the stack size first...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 6:00 pm
32814
... [...] ... [...] ... Such plaintive cries have been heard before, it seems, because there is code that is supposed to check for the return value, but,...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 6:45 pm
32815
Hello, I have perl5.004_04 and several problems with it (ie it using the wrong *db* library by default). Now I hand crafted the config.sh to remove unwanted ...
Toni Mueller
support@...
Aug 1, 1998 6:45 pm
32816
... Just for sake of argument, how impossible would it be to make the current syntax $::foo refer to globals in the current package?...
joshua.pritikin@...
Aug 1, 1998 6:50 pm
32817
... Think compatibility please. Unless you mean to suggest a pragma that enables the behavior. Even so, I think that's a recipe for confusion ("You mean,...
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:02 pm
32818
Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@...> wrote ... Or compile with -DREG_INFTY=22700. :-) Mike Guy...
M.J.T. Guy
mjtg@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:23 pm
32819
... Okay, but you did just admit that this syntax is used vanishingly little....
joshua.pritikin@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:24 pm
32820
What ever happened to the $ref->@ deref syntax?...
joshua.pritikin@...
Aug 1, 1998 7:25 pm
32821
... Seekers of the hidden goal, Winzip, a very popular archiving utility for mswin32, sets by default the option TAR File Smart CR/LF conversion, which if not...
Sergio
sergiojr@...
Aug 1, 1998 8:03 pm
32822
... Make both hashes and arrays have MAGIC, and access this magic on each operation? Read my lips: you will not see it! (Until Perl6, and maybe not then.) ...