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

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January 30th - February 6th

News and updates

Following a discussion started by Father Chrysostomos, \c` will not be deprecated.

Grant reports

• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 reports #160 and #161.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 January 2017 report.

Issues

New issues

• Perl #130256: heap-use-after-free Perl_sv_setpv_bufsize.
• Perl #130650: heap-use-after-free in S_free_codeblocks.
• Perl #130673: readline(FH) throws a warning, <FH> does not.
• Perl #130674: lib/vars.pm setting $^H?
• Perl #130675: utf8.c: Perl_utf8n_to_uvchr_error: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130679: tr''' does not work properly.
• Perl #130682: Unable to compiler Perl 5.24.1 with Intel 17.
• Perl #130683: Windows %ENV and utf8.
• Perl #130684: heap-buffer-overflow in S_compile_runtime_code.
• Perl #130705: sv.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130722: pp_ctl.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130726: semicolons on *_DIAG_{IGNORE,RESTORE}.

Resolved issues

• Perl #120357: Security issue in Pod::Perldoc.
• Perl #130548: pp_sys.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #130650: heap-use-after-free in S_free_codeblocks.
• 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.

Discussion

Karl Williamson reminded (Adding macros to public hdrs, in particular strEQs and strNEs) us of the importance of guarding new macros/functions, proper naming, and documentation in the code.

Dave Mitchell requests (documentation for *foo{GLOB}) help finding an example usage of *foo{GLOB} in order to improve its documentation.