Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

January 23rd-29th

News and updates

Grant reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant December 2016 report.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 159.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #130631: static build with gdbm + gettext.
• Perl #130632: Memory leak in Perl_yylex.
• Perl #130633: Bleadperl v5.25.8-223-ga0e213fcb5 breaks JV/EekBoek-2.02.05.1.tar.gz.
• Perl #130639: Bleadperl v5.25.9-10-g3a0fe090c1 breaks SPROUT/JE-0.066.tar.gz.
• Perl #130640: Bleadperl v5.25.8-47-gd1f8d421df breaks SPROUT/JE-0.066.tar.gz.
• Perl #130641: Bleadperl v5.25.8-36-g6cdc5cd8f3 breaks HURRICUP/DTL-Fast-1.622.tar.gz.
• Perl #130642: lex_allbrackets handling and S_tokereport.
• Perl #130648: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130649: Threads, shared memory, blessed objects fail to call ->DESTROY method.
• Perl #130651: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130655: Bleadperl v5.25.8-68-g94749a5ed2 breaks MAUKE/Quote-Ref-0.03.tar.gz.
• Perl #130656: Bleadperl v5.25.8-145-g188d22cf71 breaks AMBS/Lingua-Identifier-0.01.tar.gz.
• Perl #130661: perly.c: Perl_yyparse: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130666: toke.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130667: sv.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130668: poor argument parsing in pragma use open.
• Perl #130669: sv.c: Assertion failure.

Resolved issues

• Perl #127697: newPVOP documentation is misleading.
• Perl #129036: Assertion Failure: S_parse_ident.
• Perl #129058: Bug #129287 for perl5: Perl_re_op_compile: Assertion failed.
• Perl #129126: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129141: OP *Perl_newSVOP: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129147: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129190: Multiple suspicious Valgrind errors.
• Perl #129273: Bug #129274 for perl5: heap-buffer-overflow Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
• Perl #129274: heap-buffer-overflow Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
• Perl #129770: null ptr deref, segfault Perl_mess_sv.
• Perl #129285: Perl_gv_fullname4: Assertion failure.
• Perl #129288: null ptr deref, segfault in S_rv2gv.
• Perl #130545: utf8.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130561: Coredump in Perl_re_op_compile.
• Perl #130567: toke.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130596: Perl_utf8_to_uvchr_buf has no prototype in any .h file.
• Perl #130617: op.c: Perl_rpeep: Assertion failed.
• Perl #130621: Segfault in Perl_vwarner.
• Perl #130623: pp_sys.c: Assertion failed.
• Perl #130639: Bleadperl v5.25.9-10-g3a0fe090c1 breaks SPROUT/JE-0.066.tar.gz.
• Perl #130666: toke.c: Assertion failure.

Suggested patches

John Lightsey provided a patch in Perl #130635 to fix a stack overflow problem in Storable.

Discussion

Craig Berry raised (test randomization (Re: slowness of ext/XS-APItest/t/handy.t,utf8.t)) into discussion the topic of randomization and determinism in tests.

Jim Keenen raised the problem of Scalar-List-Util being out of sync and suggests

Dave Mitchell asked about the status of ExtUtils::Constant.

Hugo van der Sanden suggests optimizing the run loop a tad and provided a branch with the patch for review: hv/runloop.

In an interesting thread, Yves Orton asked: Should we consider locked hashes a failed experiment? Yves also asks this question on Blogs.Perl.org.