1 | =head1 NAME
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3 | perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3
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4 |
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5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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6 |
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7 | This document describes differences between the 5.7.2 release and the
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8 | 5.7.3 release.
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9 |
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10 | (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0
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11 | release, see L<perl570delta>. To view the differences between the
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12 | 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see L<perl571delta>. To view
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13 | the differences between the 5.7.1 release and the 5.7.2 release,
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14 | see L<perl572delta>.)
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15 |
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16 | =head1 Changes
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17 |
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18 | This is just a selected list of some of the more notable changes.
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19 | The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see
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20 | L<Changes58> (or L<Changes> in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these
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21 | changes, lots of work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and
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22 | Unicode; general code cleanup; and last but not least porting to
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23 | non-UNIX lands such as Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic,
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24 | and EBCDIC.
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25 |
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26 | =over 4
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27 |
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28 | =item 11362
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29 |
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30 | add LC_MESSAGES to POSIX :locale_h export tag
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31 |
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32 | =item 11371
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33 |
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34 | add DEL to [:cntrl:]
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35 |
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36 | =item 11375
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37 |
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38 | make h2ph understand constants like 1234L and 5678LL
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39 |
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40 | =item 11405
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41 |
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42 | Win32: fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment
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43 |
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44 | =item 11410
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45 |
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46 | fix a bug in the security taint checking of open()
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47 |
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48 | =item 11423
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49 |
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50 | make perl fork() safe even on platforms that don't have pthread_atfork()
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51 |
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52 | =item 11459
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53 |
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54 | make switching optimization and debugging levels during Perl builds
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55 | easier via the OPTIMIZE environment variable
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56 |
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57 | =item 11475
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58 |
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59 | make split()'s unused captures to be undef, not ''
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60 |
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61 | =item 11485
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62 |
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63 | Search::Dict: allow transforming lines before comparing
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64 |
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65 | =item 11490
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66 |
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67 | allow installing extra modules or bundles when building Perl
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68 |
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69 | =item 11516
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70 |
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71 | add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed out dubious
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72 | C practices
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73 |
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74 | =item 11541
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75 |
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76 | pluggable optimizer
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77 |
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78 | =item 11549
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79 |
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80 | WinCE: integrate the port
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81 |
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82 | =item 11589
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83 |
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84 | Win32: 4-arg select was broken
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85 |
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86 | =item 11594
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87 |
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88 | introduce the perlivp utility for verifying the Perl installation
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89 | (IVP = Installation Verification Procedure)
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90 |
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91 | =item 11623
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92 |
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93 | rename lib/unicode to lib/unicore to avoid case-insensitivity problems
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94 | with lib/Unicode
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95 |
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96 | =item 111631
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97 |
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98 | remove Time::Piece
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99 |
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100 | =item 11643
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101 |
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102 | document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the time
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103 |
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104 | =item 11656
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105 |
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106 | allow building perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8
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107 | the default script encoding (not the default since that would
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108 | break all scripts having legacy eight-bit data in them)
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109 |
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110 | =item 11725
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111 |
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112 | division preserving 64-bit integers
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113 |
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114 | =item 11743
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115 |
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116 | document the coderef-in-@INC feature
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117 |
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118 | =item 11794
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119 |
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120 | modulo (%) preserving 64-bit integers
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121 |
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122 | =item 11825
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123 |
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124 | update to Unicode 3.1.1
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125 |
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126 | =item 11865
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127 |
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128 | add the \[$@%&*] prototype support
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129 |
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130 | =item 11874
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131 |
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132 | oct() and hex() in glorious 64 bit
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133 |
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134 | =item 11877
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135 |
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136 | Class::Struct: allow recursive classes
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137 |
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138 | =item 11993
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139 |
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140 | fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U
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141 |
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142 | =item 12056
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143 |
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144 | VMS: waitpid enhancements
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145 |
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146 | =item 12180
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147 |
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148 | unpack("Z*Z*", pack("Z*Z*", ..)) was broken
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149 |
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150 | =item 12243
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151 |
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152 | Devel::Peek: display UTF-8 SVs also as \x{...}
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153 |
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154 | =item 12288
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155 |
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156 | Data::Dumper: option to sort hashes
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157 |
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158 | =item 12542
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159 |
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160 | add perlpodspec
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161 |
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162 | =item 12652
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163 |
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164 | threadsafe DynaLoader, re, Opcode, File::Glob, and B
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165 |
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166 | =item 12756
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167 |
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168 | support BeOS better
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169 |
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170 | =item 12874
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171 |
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172 | read-only hashes (user-level interface is Hash::Util)
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173 |
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174 | =item 13162
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175 |
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176 | add Devel::PPPort
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177 |
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178 | =item 13179
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179 |
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180 | add the sort pragma
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181 |
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182 | =item 13326
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183 |
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184 | VMS: fix perl -P
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185 |
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186 | =item 13358
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187 |
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188 | add perlpacktut
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189 |
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190 | =item 13452
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191 |
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192 | SUPER-UX: add hints file
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193 |
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194 | =item 13575
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195 |
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196 | Win32: non-blocking waitpid(-1,WNOHANG)
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197 |
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198 | =item 13684
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199 |
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200 | introduce the -t option for gentler taint checking
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201 |
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202 | =item 14694
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203 |
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204 | add the if pragma
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205 |
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206 | =item 14832
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207 |
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208 | implement IV/UV/NV/long double un/packing with j/J/F/D
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209 |
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210 | =item 14854
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211 |
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212 | document the new taint behaviour of exec LIST and system LIST
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213 |
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214 | =back
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215 |
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216 | =head1 Reporting Bugs
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217 |
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218 | If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
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219 | recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
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220 | bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be
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221 | information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
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222 |
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223 | If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
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224 | program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
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225 | to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
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226 | output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to [email protected] to be
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227 | analysed by the Perl porting team.
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228 |
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229 | =head1 SEE ALSO
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230 |
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231 | The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed.
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232 |
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233 | The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
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234 |
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235 | The F<README> file for general stuff.
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236 |
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237 | The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
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238 |
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239 | =head1 HISTORY
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240 |
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241 | Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<[email protected]>>, with many contributions
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242 | from The Perl Porters and Perl Users submitting feedback and patches.
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243 |
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244 | Send omissions or corrections to <F<[email protected]>>.
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245 |
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246 | =cut
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