Hey everyone,

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

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January 10th-31st

News and Updates

Perl 5.27.8 has been released!

Grant Reports

• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 2.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 Week 3.
• Zefram TPF Grant 2018 week 4.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 Report 5.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 6.
• Tony Cook TPF Grant 10 report 7.
• Dave Mitchell TPF Grant 2 weekly report for weeks 191-194.

Issues

New Issues

• Perl #132552: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_fbm_instr.
• Perl #132602: PERL-5.26.1 heap_use_after_free.
• Perl #132605: PERL-5.26.1 stack overflow.
• Perl #132606: PERL-5.26.1 stack overflow.
• Perl #132609: PERL-5.26.1 stack overflow.
• Perl #132618: PERL-5.26.1 heap_use_after_free
• Perl #132640: Bug #125351 for perl5: null ptr deref -> Perl_ck_shift.
• Perl #132707: perl-5.26.1 fails self-test on osx if file system doesn’t support sub-second time resolution.
• Perl #132715: debugger examine broken.
• Perl #132716: perldoc(sort) bugs.
• Perl #132717: pl2bat BAT files exit with incorrect ERRORLEVEL and process exit codes.
• Perl #132724: Program gets stuck when trying to read an illegal iso-2022-jp file.
• Perl #132727: BBC Class::MethodMaker broken by 6661956a23de82b41adc406200054293d6d7aded.
• Perl #132729: array element lazily created at wrong index.
• Perl #132732: use if - behaviour does not match documentation.
• Perl #132733: getcwd() fails to fail on Cygwin.
• Perl #132736: pl2bat cannot read from stdin.
• Perl #132737: New build warning in Socket.xs.
• Perl #132739: bignum upgrade/downgrade path bug.
• Perl #132745: Langinfo.t fails on FreeBSD 9.2.
• Perl #132750: Uninitialized variable usage.
• Perl #132760: Blead Breaks CPAN: YANICK/List-Lazy-0.3.0.tar.gz.
• Perl #132764: Devel::Peek: Indentation gap when dumping MG object.
• Perl #132766: Recent changes to inline.h have broken VC6 build on Windows.
• Perl #132768: OP_ENTERSUB is not called for constructor of tied object.
• Perl #132769: Blead Breaks CPAN: LEONT/App-a2p-1.009.tar.gz.
• Perl #132771: perl5 erroneously links in libcl on linux.
• Perl #132772: Blead Breaks CPAN: TIMB/Geo-StreetAddress-US-1.04.tar.gz.
• Perl #132773: perlbug overwrite existing perlbug.rep without notice.
• Perl #132774: Segfault when accessing pad_compname_type.
• Perl #132775: Blead Breaks CPAN: SMUELLER/Math-Clipper-1.23.tar.gz.
• Perl #132776: lvalue+signature example: should not return read-only value.
• Perl #132777: Blead Breaks CPAN: GRAY/POSIX-RT-Spawn-0.11.tar.gz.
• Perl #132779: Testing for a directory handle bug.
• Perl #132782: Missing SvPV* utf8/byte nomg macro variants.
• Perl #132783: Blead Breaks CPAN: ADAMK/SQL-String-0.02.tar.gz.
• Perl #132788: Blead Breaks CPAN: LEMBARK/Object-Trampoline-1.42.tar.gz.
• Perl #132790: Test dist/Storable/t/blessed.t fails with threaded perls < 5.14 under not too old Test2.
• Perl #132791: Blead Breaks CPAN: MUIR/modules/HTML-Transmorgify-0.12.tar.gz.
• Perl #132793: $a.="$b" doesn't stringify $b.

Resolved Issues

• Perl #8045: Hash keys are not always parsed as strings if the arrow is omitted.
• Perl #8910: Subroutine doesn't create elements.
• Perl #16113: open on localized *F pb.
• Perl #18581: memory leak: if($foo++){} and = overloading.
• Perl #44129: Setting $0 in eval_pv causes core dump.
• Perl #54412: Mistake in perlipc doc, perl 5.10.0.
• Perl #131878: croak: CWE-134: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String.
• Perl #131953: Bleadperl v5.27.2-30-gdf6b4bd565 breaks SYBER/Panda-Lib-1.3.2.tar.gz.
• Perl #131954: heap-use-after-free in pp.c.
• Perl #132533: [PATCH] Devel::PPPort: Implement croak_sv, die_sv, mess_sv, warn_sv and other mess function.
• Perl #132602: PERL-5.26.1 heap_use_after_free.
• Perl #132608: heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_do_trans.
• Perl #132648: Cwd: different return values between pure perl and XS variants.
• Perl #132695: BBC Catalyst tests broken by abda9fe0fe75ae824723761c1c98af958f17a41c.
• Perl #132704: [PATCH] Set more sensible -O optimization on FreeBSD.
• Perl #132737: New build warning in Socket.xs.
• Perl #132750: Uninitialized variable usage.
• Perl #132766: Recent changes to inline.h have broken VC6 build on Windows.

Rejected Issues

• Perl #21273: Segmentation fault in recursive FETCH.
• Perl #22958: a problem with encoding and -i.
• Perl #31321: a2p fails to parse valid do-while loop in awk script.
• Perl #132743: Incorrect perl version in deprecation error message.

Suggested patches

Tum Hukins provided a patch to set a more sensible -O optimization on FreeBSD. Patch was merged.

Jerry Hedden provided a patch to upgrade threads to 2.21 and another to upgrade threads::shared to 1.58.

Tom Wyant provided an applied patch in Perl #132748 to fix a typo in script_run docs.

Paul Evans is asking (Future::AsyncAwait and sub signatures) for advice on parsing signatures within Future::AsyncAwait.

Karl Williamson has another idea for speeding up /i matching on ASCII characters.

Pali provided patches for Devel::PPPort, merged since.