Hey everyone,

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

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July 24th-30th

News and Updates

We are now tracking all blockers for 5.30 in Perl #131806.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131786: Linker error with pp.o if -mieee-fp is in CFLAGS: "multiple definition of _LIB_VERSION".
• Perl #131663: Bleadperl v5.27.0-132-g13f4dd346e breaks JDDPAUSE/MarpaX-Languages-M4-0.017.tar.gz.
• Perl #131809: Configure script doesn't recognize GCC 6 or 7.
• Perl #131810: Bleadperl v5.27.1-12-gfce4ebb4e9 breaks NEZUMI/Unicode-BiDiRule-0.03.tar.gz.
• Perl #131811: panic: previous op failed to extend arg stack.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131726: [Win32] perl.h remaps strtoll and strtoull incorrectly.
• Perl #78288: ref and other ops are inefficient in boolean context.

Suggested Patches

Father Chrysostomos provided (Re: destabilizing mergesort) a patch to allow unstable sorting.

Tony Cook provided a patch for Perl #131777: signatures accept fancy assignment operators.

Tony also provided a patch for Perl #131793: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.

Sullivan Beck provided a patch to update Locale::Codes from 3.52 to 3.53.

Discussion

Jim Keenen asks whether the POSIX 2008 functions could be implemented in core, and whether they should.