Hey everyone,

Following is the p5p (Perl 5 Porters) mailing list summary for the past week. Enjoy!

August 29nd - September 4th

News and highlights

Sullivan Beck provided a patch to upgrade Locale::Codes from 3.39 to 3.40.

Grant reports

• Tony Cook Grant 7 report 21.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #129119: Assertion Failure: pp_ctl.c:5140: MAGIC *S_doparseform(SV *).
• Perl #129122: Unexpected binary operator + with no preceding operand in regex.
• Perl #129126: Assertion fail.
• Perl #129141: OP *Perl_newSVOP(I32, I32, SV *): Assertion failed.
• Perl #129147: Assertion fail.
• Perl #129151: Clarify build options in perlembed doc.
• Perl #129152: mkpport adds quotes to $perl even if it's already quoted.
• Perl #129157: Assertion fail.
• Perl #129158: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_pp_split.
• Perl #129164: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_pp_add.
• Perl #129166: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_pp_subtract.
• Perl #129167: null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_pp_negate.
• Perl #129169: Minor fix to map docs.
• Perl #129176: Conditional jump depends on uninitialized values in S_scan_heredoc.
• Perl #129177: No autovivification, for loop aliasing,.
• Perl #129183: perl -S erroneously allows \ escapes in PATH.
• Perl #129196: Segmentation fault: evalbytes S.

H. Merijn Brand (Tux) asked to address a 64bit sign failure in warnings on HP-UX 11.11.

Matt S. Trout (mst) reported inconsistent behavior with the range operator and ~, which appeared to be a bug. Father Chrysostomos confirms it is a bug. The thread continues here.

James E. Keenan reported intermittent failures on compiling due to maketables.lst build.

Resolved issues

• Perl #126182: /(.(?2))((?<=(?=(?1)).))/ hangs and eats all available RAM.
• Perl #129038: Assertion Failure: *Perl_pp_subst.
• Perl #129069: Fuzzer-detected use-after-free in Perl_yylex.
• Perl #129073: Perl_yyparse: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129102: [patch] update outdated man links for strlcat and strlcpy.
• Perl #129122: Unexpected binary operator + with no preceding operand in regex.
• Perl #129168: perlfunc: die section lacks one link.
• Perl #129169: Minor fix to map docs.
• Perl #129196: Segmentation fault: evalbytes S.

Suggested patches

Karl Williamson provided a tentative patch for Perl #126310 (no "Malformed UTF-8 character" warning on single-quoted strings under "use utf8"). Father Chrysostomos approved with some suggestions.

Yaroslav Kuzmin provided a patch to remove limitations in z/OS for the function fopen.

Discussion

There is an interesting discussion on why toke.c (the tokenizer code) cannot be refactored into multiple files.

Karl Williamson pushed a fix to a problem reported by Father Chrysostomos regarding warnings from clang on unused functions for non-static functions in inline.h.