Hey everyone,

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

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August 15th-21st

News and Updates

Grant Reports

• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 11.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 9 report 12.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #131866: Null Pointer Dereference in Perl_sv_setpv_bufsize.
• Perl #131910: feature to interpolate method calls in double-quotish strings.
• Perl #131912: runtime error: left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'.
• Perl #131929: multi-arg open() error leaks.
• Perl #131930: s [foo] \n [bar] confuses line numbers.
• Perl #131938: Bleadperl v5.27.1-66-g87058c31e9 breaks TONYC/Imager-1.005.tar.gz.
• Perl #131942: Bleadperl v5.27.1-114-g9449f0d6ae breaks MLEHMANN/Glib-EV-2.02.tar.gz.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #131793: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
• Perl #131904: Bug #131793 for perl5: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags.
• Perl #131912: runtime error: left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'.

Suggested Patches

Tony Cook provided a patch for Perl #131895: stat() doesn't fail on filenames containing \0/NUL.

Discussions

fREW Schmidt asked about debugging memory usage in Perl.