Hey everyone,

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

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August 22nd-28th

Grant Reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 13.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant August.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131537: stack overflow in Perl_push_scope.
• Perl #131562: Multiple crash with eval.
• Perl #131568: Null pointer in S_set_haseval.
• Perl #131606: Unknown address reference in Perl_hv_common.
• Perl #131953: Bleadperl v5.27.2-30-gdf6b4bd565 breaks SYBER/Panda-Lib-1.3.2.tar.gz.
• Perl #131955: heap-buffer-overflow in token.c.
• Perl #131976: Module::CoreList::is_core("File::Spec::AmigaOS", "3.64") dies.
• Perl #131982: getpriority and setpriority are underdocumented.
• Perl #131984: Fix potential segfault from pp_sort.c.
• Perl #131987: Heap Use After Free Perl_yylex.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131836: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_yylex.
• Perl #131883: inconsistent sub name in "Illegal character in prototype" warning.
• Perl #131942: Bleadperl v5.27.1-114-g9449f0d6ae breaks MLEHMANN/Glib-EV-2.02.tar.gz.

Suggested Patches

Tony Cook provided a patch in Perl #131975 (duplicate stack extend reporting for xsubs) for review which should help locate faulty XS code.

Jim Keenen provided a patch for Perl #131976 (Module::CoreList::is_core("File::Spec::AmigaOS", "3.64") dies).

Discussions

Abigail raised the problem that caret variables do not have compile-time checking with strict.