Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

July 10th-16th

News

Perl 5.24.2 and 5.22.4 are finally, finally out!!

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131732: false positive of stack extending check with empty arrays.
• Perl #131734: AIX 7.1 Smoke Tests.
• Perl #131735: NetBSD 7.1 Smoke Test Failures.
• Perl #131746: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1, which is declared to never be null.
• Perl #131749: ExtUtils::CBuilder bug finding C++ compiler.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131732: false positive of stack extending check with empty arrays.
• Perl #131749: ExtUtils::CBuilder bug finding C++ compiler.

Patches

Discussion

Dave Mitchell suggests (keys(%tied_hash)) in boolean/scalar context) changing the behavior of tied hashes in boolean and scalar context.

John P. Linderman wrote on his progress in destabilizing mergesort and the relevant SORTf_DESC flag.