I was looking through the changes that had accumulated over the weekend on the perl5-changes mailing list, and have a couple of nits. Here's the first. ...
Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:33 am
89171
Patch 11003 introduced a new typo similar to the type AMS had fixed previously. Fixed back. ... +++ Porting/config_H Sun Jul 1 07:16:40 2001 @@ -2937,7...
Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:33 am
89172
Patch 11038 added support for $^N, but the description in perlvar did not include a mnemonic. (Possibly because caret variables are getting so scarce that...
Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:33 am
89173
Looking through changes again, I see a couple of places where C<$^O eq 'qnx'> turned into C<$^O =~ /^qnx|nto$/>. Presumably, this is supposed to be something...
Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:33 am
89174
Automated smoke report for patch 11048 ... O = OK | HP-UX 11.00 B.11.11.02 3.0 32-bit F =...
H.M. Brand
merijn@...
Jul 1, 2001 12:17 pm
89175
... It's still doing type bytes instead of 1. What about this? ... +++ pp_pack.c Sun Jul 1 14:25:27 2001 @@ -1633,7 +1633,8 @@ UV auv = U_V(adouble); do {...
Nicholas Clark
nick@...
Jul 1, 2001 1:35 pm
89176
Nicholas, It looks like it's definitely the resolver library that's crashing- the "ns_name_unpack" code should protect itself against garbage. Here's an mdb...
Fillmore, Bob
fillmore@...
Jul 1, 2001 2:44 pm
89177
I'm not sure why this hasn't failed before, but I'm now seeing ext/IPC/SysV/t/sem.t fail test 8 on ARM linux. [And it would fail on BSD on ARM I think,...
Nicholas Clark
nick@...
Jul 1, 2001 2:52 pm
89178
[ This is the third time I'm sending this, because it has apparently failed to get through to the list previously. It hasn't bounced either; so I apologise if...
Robin Houston
robin@...
Jul 1, 2001 4:17 pm
89179
... Documents can be changed it they document broken practice. Moreover, "s" is wrong, actually. It should be "s!" because short is not always 16 bits. ... ...
Jarkko Hietaniemi
jhi@...
Jul 1, 2001 4:22 pm
89180
... But this will match a weird option such as -q+-lbdbm-x. Why not be explicit about what is desired, rather than fooling around with vague assertions? ...
Ronald J Kimball
rjk@...
Jul 1, 2001 4:27 pm
89181
... Sorry, didn't have a patch for the sss ready. But ispell and my paper dictionary think "signalling" ... +++ pod/perlfunc.pod Sun Jul 1 15:54:13 2001 @@...
Nicholas Clark
nick@...
Jul 1, 2001 6:23 pm
89182
... True. ... Makes sense. ... Of those, I would prefer the latter. Should I submit a new patch, or does anyone have any other suggestions? Cheers, Philip -- ...
Philip Newton
Philip.Newton@...
Jul 1, 2001 7:28 pm
89183
... The following works (x86 and ARM) but I don't think I need to copy back the sembuf structure, as I don't *think* it's modified. However, nothing ever...
Nicholas Clark
nick@...
Jul 1, 2001 9:26 pm
89184
... I believe it's all the same as last time around. Definitely so in the case of test 10. Actually, I wouldn't expect UTS C to have any bugs as gross as...
Hal Morris
hom00@...
Jul 1, 2001 10:12 pm
89185
... To me it's the easiest explanation. If one splits the hex form of the correct output into lines: 05 8102 8200 8430 81fa00 81bd8440 ffffff7f 8480808014 ...
Nicholas Clark
nick@...
Jul 1, 2001 10:35 pm
89186
This stems a segfault coming from the above. There's a bug ID for this, I think, but I'm afraid I'm too zonked to find it. ... +++ hv.c Mon Jul 2 00:13:17...
Simon Cozens
simon@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:19 pm
89187
... Somebody on #perl was saying this was causing segfaults. I see it on 5.6.1, 5.005_03 and 5.004 but not bleadperl (patchlevel 11033). -- Michael G Schwern...
schwern@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:38 pm
89188
... XS_Cwd_abs_path is there. -- Michael G Schwern <schwern@...> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@...>...
schwern@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:40 pm
89189
... Under bleadperl I get "Can't upgrade that kind of scalar" -- Michael G Schwern <schwern@...> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality...
schwern@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:42 pm
89190
Unless there's a new international-standard byte which is nine bits long, this comment in op.h is slightly misleading... .robin. ... +++ op.h Mon Jul 2...
Robin Houston
robin@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:48 pm
89191
... OK, I was going to single-step through that code and so, set a breakpoint I tried at "do {", and at the "UV auv = U_V(adouble);", but it kept running to...
Hal Morris
hom00@...
Jul 1, 2001 11:49 pm
89192
... How came the HeKEY_hek(entry) to be null? I suspect whatever broke that invariant needs fixing instead. Sarathy gsar@......
Gurusamy Sarathy
gsar@...
Jul 2, 2001 12:00 am
89193
I stumbled onto ext/utils/mkbootstrap and found it does nothing. Probably some file from long ago. ExtUtils::MakeMaker::mkbootstrap() does nothing but print a...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jul 2, 2001 4:26 am
89194
... Ok, I'm trying to do this but I don't understand what's going on. A few questions about how perl builds: What is calling Makefile.PL for each of the ext/...
Michael G Schwern
schwern@...
Jul 2, 2001 4:40 am
89195
Have you noticed that the same issues keep coming up over and over: Unicode representation, op despatch and signals, threading, integer preservation, and so on...
Simon Cozens
simon@...
Jul 2, 2001 7:27 am
89196
The attached patch increments the version number of B::Deparse, and adds a short list of changes. I contacted Stephen McCamant about this a few days ago and...
Robin Houston
robin@...
Jul 2, 2001 7:50 am
89197
Hello I investigated some more the bug ID 20010627.004 that I reported recently and now I have a diagnostic. 1. Summary I found that the failure of Perl...
Rudif@...
Jul 2, 2001 7:51 am
89198
[ I sent this yesterday. It still hasn't turned up in the archives so I'm sending it again, supposing there's been a problem (I'm using a new mail client and...
Robin Houston
robin@...
Jul 2, 2001 7:51 am
89199
One down, more to go ... On the right track again. Basic Conf (-des) has 'O's accross the line. Will check what's wrong with 10.20's lib/File/Find/taint and...