Hey everyone,

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

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February 13th-19th

Grant reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 162.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 163 (Re: DAVEM TPF grant#2 report #162)
• Tony Cook TPF Grant January 2017.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 8 report 14 (TONYC TPF Grant 8 report 14).
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 8 report 15 (TONYC TPF Grant 8 report 15).
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 8 report 16 (TONYC TPF Grant 8 report 16).

Issues

New issues

• Perl #130814: heap uaf in Perl_yylex().
• Perl #130815: null pointer dereference in Perl_ck_return().
• Perl #130819: null pointer dereference in Perl_yyparse().
• Perl #130822: Perl_reg_named_buff_fetch may be allocating an AV it doesn't need to.

Resolved issues

• Perl #126697: local() in embedded code in regex not working as expected.
• Perl #129342: heap-buffer-overflow S_scan_const.
• Perl #129848: heap-buffer-overflow Perl_sv_setpvn.
• Perl #130675: utf8.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130766: Substr in encode leaks memory.
• Perl #130727: op.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130815: null pointer dereference in Perl_ck_return().

Suggested patches

Andreas Koenig provided a patch for updating CPAN.pm.

Andy Lester continues his cleanup work and provided a patch in Perl #130809 to move variables to their innermost scope.

Tomasz Konojacki provided a patch in Perl #130818 to remove the support in PathTools for EPOC and MacOS Classic (which are no longer supported anyway).

Karl Williamson has revamped the regular expressions documentation.

Discussion

Neil Bowers asked (Dropping conflicting PAUSE permissions) about specialized PAUSE permissions for some distribution, in an effort to clean them up.

Karl Williamson suggests moving XS-APItest to the core and to consider more parallelization of tests.

Pali has suggested adding a synonym to the confusing utf8::is_utf8 function.