Hey everyone,

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

Enjoy!

September 25th - October 1st

News and Updates

I'm looking for a release manager for the last releases of 5.27.x in March of 2018.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132163: sv.c: Assertion failure.
• Perl #132164: unsigned integer overflow in S_study_chunk.
• Perl #132167: Error parsing regex set in perl 5.26.0.
• Perl #132177: 5.26.1 sanitize=undefined.
• Perl #132178: Perl 5.24.0: AIX compile error.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #120174: Debugger command regression: Now requires more spaces.
• Perl #121440: spurious lstat calls in Perl_do_readline / glob.
• Perl #131532: swap needs to be removed from perlreapi.

Suggested Patches

Patches by Nicholas R. (Atoomic):

• Perl #132159 (Use preprocessor check for some DEBUG_X_TEST calls in sv.c and toke.c).
• Perl #132160 (Use SvLEN_set/SvCUR_set in a few extra locations).
• Perl #132171: Minor speedup improvement for pp_require.

Bo Lindbergh provided a patch for Perl #105918: Tied hashes stringify their hash keys as of 5.8.3.

Discussions

Yves Orton raised an interesting problem with \G appearing not at the beginning of a string.