Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

June 20th-28th

News

Encode 2.91 is now available.

Karl Williamson added (blead now has Unicode 10) support for Unicode 10.

Dave Mitchell updated Scalar-List-Utils to version 1.47.

An update from Steve Hay on maintenance releases.

Grant Reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 1.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 2.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 report 181.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131627: op.c: void S_maybe_multideref(OP *, OP *, UV, U8): Assertion failure.
• Perl #131628: Memory leak in S_pmtrans.
• Perl #131630: Stack overflow during exception unwind in Perl_croak.
• Perl #131631: Segfault in Perl_cv_undef_flags.
• Perl #131634: inline.h: I32 S_POPMARK(): Assertion failure.
• Perl #131636: Memory leak in Perl_yylex.
• Perl #131642: regcomp.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #131643: Memory leak in Perl_re_op_compile.
• Perl #131644: Coredump in Perl_yyparse.
• Perl #131645: pp_sys.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #131646: utf8.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #131647: op.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #131659: Bleadperl v5.27.0-228-g34f8e9c776 breaks JREFIOR/Finance-StockAccount-0.01.tar.gz.
• Perl #131660: file:line caller info is changed unexpectedly.
• Perl #131663: Bleadperl v5.27.0-132-g13f4dd346e breaks JDDPAUSE/MarpaX-Languages-M4-0.017.tar.gz.
• Perl #131669: Name.pl Missing from /lib/unicore/.
• Perl #131671: use subs 'xx'; should be identical to sub xx;.
• Perl #131672: perldebguts documentation should be fixed.
• Perl #131674: Feature request: implement $DB::method variable.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131646: utf8.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #131659: Bleadperl v5.27.0-228-g34f8e9c776 breaks JREFIOR/Finance-StockAccount-0.01.tar.gz.

Patches

Tony Cook provided a patch for Perl #131570 (SIGBUS in Perl_leave_adjust_stacks()).

Tony also provided a patch for Perl #131546 (Can open() to an in-memory scalar return false?).

Another patch by Tony, this time for Perl #131577 (heap-use-after-free (READ of size 1) in S_reghop4()).

Chas Owen provided a patch in Perl #131651: Add to add -P and -N to accommodate -p and -n, but using the double diamond operator (<<>>), which is safer.

Vitali Peli, a new contributor, provided a patch to add descriptions to tests in Perl #131655.

Discussion

Abigail notes that the new /xx does not ignore newlines. The thread continued to discuss newlines, as well as comments.

Todd Rinaldo asked about compiling regular expressions during runtime.

Dave Mitchell suggests (deprecate bytes.pm?) deprecating bytes.

Dave also suggested we discourage the usage of Safe.pm even stronger.

Kenichi Ishigaki mentioned in Perl #131664: (Interpolation of @{^CAPTURE} and its friends doesn't work) that the new capture variables do not interpolate. Yves Orton already provided a fix for it!