Changes5.8.6

Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
changes that went into every version of Perl.  If you'd like more
detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list.  Patches for each
individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
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For information on what's new in this release, see pod/perldelta.pod.

[The "CAST AND CREW" list has been moved to AUTHORS.]

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repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
happened in; and the affected files.  The file lists have a short symbolic
indicator:

	    !	    modified
	    +	    added
	    -	    deleted
	    +>	    branched (from elsewhere)
	    !>	    merged changes (from elsewhere)

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Version v5.8.6		Maintenance release working toward v5.8.6
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[ 23552] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/27  15:14:36
	Log: Entry for PERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV, reworded slightly from an original
	     by Stas Bekman
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perl586delta.pod
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[ 23551] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/27  15:07:10
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23546]
	     Doc nit for B::Lint
	     Subject: [PATCH] B::Lint
	     From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
	     Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:30:48 -0600
	     Message-ID: <20041126063048.GA10161@petdance.com>
	     
	     [ 23549]
	     Document the interaction of PERL_USE_SAVE_PUTENV and
	     PL_use_safe_putenv, based on text by Stas Bekman
	     
	     [ 23550]
	     Clarify the return values of pos, particularly 0 and undef, as
	     suggested by Stas Bekman
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> INSTALL ext/B/B/Lint.pm pod/perlfunc.pod
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[ 23540] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/25  22:34:55
	Log: Update Changes
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Changes patchlevel.h
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[ 23539] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/25  22:21:23
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23532]
	     Subject: [perl #3242] [PATCH]No error on assignment to $> 
	     From: "Steve Peters via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Date: 21 Nov 2004 04:38:09 -0000
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-3242-100676.6.32723019025057@perl.org>
	     
	     [ 23533]
	     Subject: [patch pod/perlipc] use POSIX; w/o () is a bad idea
	     From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
	     Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:25:14 -0500
	     Message-ID: <41A4B5EA.3020804@stason.org>
	     
	     [ 23534]
	     Subject: RC1 pod fix #anchor
	     From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
	     Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:57:21 -0500
	     Message-ID: <41A4AF61.9080408@stason.org>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod
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[ 23530] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/23  22:49:13
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23518]
	     Subject: [perl #32486] error in documentation for POSIX::pipe 
	     From: chris@ex-parrot.com (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Date: 18 Nov 2004 18:09:54 -0000
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-32486-100537.1.04456486825399@perl.org>
	     
	     [ 23527]
	     Subject: Re: [perl #32486] error in documentation for POSIX::pipe
	     From: Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
	     Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:28:56 -0500
	     Message-ID: <20041119192856.GA4769@windhund.schwern.org>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod
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[ 23529] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/23  15:17:07
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23507]
	     Subject: SuSE's perl safe_putenf diff
	     From: Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
	     Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:54:43 +0100
	     Message-ID: <20041111145443.GA1854@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
	     
	     slightly reworked to make the PL_use_safe_putenv variable fit in
	     the current framework. This patch turns on the use of safe putenv
	     for any application that embeds a perl interpreter.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> embedvar.h mg.c miniperlmain.c perl.c perlapi.h perlvars.h
	  !> util.c
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[ 23524] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/22  15:20:18
	Log: Back out 23348 from maint, pending a better way to upgrade DynaLoader's
	     version number without causing subtle breakages.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL
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[ 23522] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/20  16:14:02
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23495]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Small documentation fix to ExtUtils::Constant
	     Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:15:47 -0600
	     From: steve@fisharerojo.org
	     Message-ID: <20041112171547.GA8011@kirk.dsl-verizon.net>
	     
	     [ 23517]
	     Bump version number
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm
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[ 23521] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/20  15:20:12
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23513]
	     Fix deparsing of reversed sort and descending sorts,
	     due to the recent optimisations on this part of the optree.
	     
	     [ 23514]
	     Fix deparsing of reversed foreach loops,
	     plus a bug in the previous commit
	     
	     [ 23516]
	     Remaining nit in the deparsing of reversed foreach loops
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/B/Deparse.pm ext/B/t/deparse.t
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[ 23515] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/18  21:15:15
	Log: Subject: Re: Proposed patch for perldelta.pod for 5.8.6-RC1
	     From: Mike Guy <mjtg@cam.ac.uk>
	     Message-Id: <E1CUUFq-00006L-H7@virgo.cus.cam.ac.uk>
	     Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:10:06 +0000
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perl586delta.pod
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[ 23512] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/17  14:50:18
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23465]
	     Reformulate an error
	     (so the error message given by "perl -M" is a bit more
	     meaningful, as Jarkko pointed out)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
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[ 23511] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/17  13:45:34
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23506]
	     Subject: [PATCH] perl5db.pl POD cleanup
	     From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
	     Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:41:33 +0800
	     Message-ID: <20041112044133.GA92924@aut.dyndns.org>
	     
	     [ 23508]
	     Fix a couple of typos.
	     
	     [ 23509]
	     PerlFAQ sync.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> hv.c lib/perl5db.pl pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod
	  !> pod/perlfaq6.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod utf8.c
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[ 23504] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/16  21:29:19
	Log: Oops. They didn't want to get here. Pesky stowaways.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   - pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perl591delta.pod pod/perl592delta.pod
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[ 23503] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/16  21:28:30
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23494]
	     Add some descriptive text from Larry to op.c on how optrees are built
	     
	     [ 23496]
	     Subject: [perl #32419] Spelling fixes for perl@23492 
	     Date: 12 Nov 2004 16:14:49 -0000
	     From: Richard Soderberg (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-32419-100173.13.0717895191322@perl.org>
	     
	     [ 23500]
	     Subject: [PATCH] s/hierachy/hierarchy/
	     Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:59:14 -0700
	     From: "Larry Shatzer Jr." <larrysh@cpan.org>
	     Message-ID: <20041115225913.GA22373@zippy.zyx.net>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> pod/perl590delta.pod pod/perl591delta.pod pod/perl592delta.pod
	  !> ext/B/B.pm ext/Time/HiRes/Makefile.PL op.c perlio.h
	  !> pod/perl573delta.pod pod/perl58delta.pod pod/perlapi.pod
	  !> pod/perlapio.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebtut.pod
	  !> pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlport.pod pod/perlre.pod
	  !> pod/perlretut.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlsub.pod
	  !> pod/perlthrtut.pod pod/perltodo.pod pod/perltooc.pod
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[ 23502] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/16  14:20:15
	Log: Disarm the maint branch
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! patchlevel.h
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[ 23493] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/11  14:50:27
	Log: This is RC1
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod
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[ 23488] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/08  21:35:33
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23487]
	     No more late changes, dammit
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_concise.t
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[ 23486] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/08  13:35:28
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23485]
	     Subject: Re: optree tests and VMS progress (no really)
	     From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
	     Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:24:15 -0800
	     Message-ID: <20041108072415.GA3928@efn.org>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm
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[ 23484] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/07  13:53:14
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23481]
	     Subject: Re: optree tests and VMS progress (no really)
	     From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
	     Message-ID: <cfe85dfa041105235723398fe2@mail.gmail.com>
	     Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:57:13 -0700
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm ext/B/t/optree_check.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_concise.t
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[ 23483] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/07  13:18:19
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23482]
	     document regcomp.c/regexec.c's dual life under ext/re/
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> regcomp.c regexec.c
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[ 23480] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/05  22:48:41
	Log: Cargo cult 5.8.6 upgrade
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Cross/config.sh-arm-linux META.yml NetWare/Makefile README.os2
	   ! README.vms epoc/createpkg.pl patchlevel.h plan9/config.plan9
	   ! pod/perl585delta.pod vos/build.cm vos/config.alpha.def
	   ! vos/config.alpha.h vos/config.ga.def vos/config.ga.h
	   ! vos/install_perl.cm win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc
	   ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/config_H.vc64
	   ! win32/makefile.mk wince/Makefile.ce
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[ 23479] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/05  22:01:13
	Log: Update perldelta
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perl586delta.pod
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[ 23478] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/05  21:24:11
	Log: Update Changes
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Changes patchlevel.h
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[ 23477] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/05  21:03:42
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23475]
	     Subject: Re: Buidling stable.tar.gz on Unix as non-root [PATCH]
	     Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:36:57 -0500 (EST)
	     From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
	     Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.58.0411051035020.15217@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> INSTALL
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[ 23476] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/05  20:18:51
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23423]
	     Small updates to the web addresses for Perl, noticed by Robert Spier
	     
	     [ 23466]
	     FAQ sync
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq.pod pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod
	  !> pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq4.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod
	  !> pod/perlfaq6.pod pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod
	  !> pod/perlfaq9.pod
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[ 23464] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  18:20:33
	Log: Subject: Re: [patches] optree_* tests unexpectedly succeeding. + maint-only patch
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Message-ID: <417EB697.9020301@divsol.com>
	     Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:41:59 -0600
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/t/optree_check.t
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[ 23463] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  15:28:24
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23444]
	     Skip tests if Devel::Peek not built
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/threads/shared/t/sv_refs.t ext/threads/t/end.t
	  !> ext/threads/t/join.t lib/base/t/fields-base.t
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[ 23462] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  14:51:33
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23445]
	     Set the IV values for PL_sv_yes and PL_sv_no at initialisation time.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> perl.c sv.c
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[ 23461] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  14:36:03
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23440]
	     Assimilate I18N::LangTags 0.35
	     
	     [ 23442]
	     Oops. Forgot to add the new test in I18N::LangTags 0.35
	     
	     [ 23443]
	     Assimilate PathTools 3.01 (File::Spec and Cwd)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> lib/I18N/LangTags/t/20_locales.t
	  !> MANIFEST ext/Cwd/t/cwd.t lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Spec.pm
	  !> lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm lib/I18N/LangTags.pm
	  !> lib/I18N/LangTags/ChangeLog lib/I18N/LangTags/List.pm
	  !> lib/I18N/LangTags/README
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[ 23460] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  14:16:33
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23439]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Temporary fix for usemallocwrap problems on IRIX (was Re: usemallocwrap problems on IRIX (was Re: Problem and question))
	     Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 04:01:42 -0500
	     From: Ed Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
	     Message-Id: <mid+200410310901.i9V91g1Y519894@dogberry.rutgers.edu>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> hints/irix_6.sh
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[ 23459] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  14:04:39
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23431]
	     Subject: [PATCH] 36 additional tests for B
	     From: Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
	     Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:53:22 -0500
	     Message-Id: <200410290053.22947.steve@fisharerojo.org>
	     
	     [ 23446]
	     Subject: [patches] optree_* tests unexpectedly succeeding. + maint-only patch
	     From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
	     Message-ID: <cfe85dfa04102515365f11ef10@mail.gmail.com>
	     Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:36:40 -0600
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/t/b.t ext/B/t/optree_check.t ext/B/t/optree_varinit.t
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[ 23458] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  13:39:35
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23424]
	     Fix [perl #32130] Errno.pm must not pass references to "prototype"
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/Errno/Errno_pm.PL ext/Errno/t/Errno.t
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[ 23456] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  13:06:23
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23438]
	     [perl #32033] Using foreach on threads::shared array crashes perl
	     The FETCH code for shared aggregate elements could leak a shared RV
	     address into a private SV. RVs are now handled specially, in the
	     same way that they already were for scalar shared magic.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/threads/shared/shared.xs
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[ 23454] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  12:38:48
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23419]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Re: Devel::Peek: hash quality 125%?
	     From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
	     Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:56:31 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200410231656.40995@bloodgate.com>
	     
	     [ 23420]
	     Subject: Re: [perl #31937] perlop: add basic =~ examples
	     From: Steve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>
	     Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:01:51 -0500
	     Message-Id: <200410230801.51649.steve@fisharerojo.org>
	     
	     [ 23422]
	     Subject: [perl #30227] [PATCH]splain vs. -w 
	     From: "Steve Peters via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Date: 23 Oct 2004 13:55:41 -0000
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-30227-98375.1.28465791111211@perl.org>
	     
	     [ 23432]
	     Document sv_magic() changes brought about by sv_magicext()
	     
	     Change 14335 made sv_magic() a wrapper to a new sv_magicext(),
	     but didn't update the documentation for sv_magic() to reflect
	     the changed handling of the name/namlen arguments.
	     
	     Also correct a couple of typos, and mention sv_magicext() in
	     perlguts.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/Devel/Peek/Changes ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm
	  !> lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlguts.pod
	  !> pod/perlop.pod sv.c
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[ 23453] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  12:17:44
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23266]
	     [perl #31078] Fields package bug
	     An intermediate class with no fields messes up private fields
	     in the base class.
	     
	     [ 23267]
	     I somehow managed to omit the base.pm change from #23266
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/base.pm lib/base/t/fields-base.t
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[ 23452] By: nicholas				   on 2004/11/01  10:24:35
	Log: Improvements and corrections as suggested by Ed Allen Smith,
	     Glenn Linderman, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes and Steve Hay
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perl586delta.pod
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[ 23451] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/31  18:46:53
	Log: First draft of 5.8.6's perldelta
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perl586delta.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23447] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/31  14:25:17
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23365]
	     Fix [perl #31971] local $^D gives noise
	     
	     (ish. Actually a rewrite to give binary compatibility)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! embed.fnc embed.h mg.c perl.c proto.h
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23430] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/28  10:20:54
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23425]
	     Subject: [PATCH] lib/Carp.t improvements
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:32:25 -0500
	     Message-Id: <417F24D9.1000904@mac.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/Carp.t
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[ 23429] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/28  10:07:49
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23418]
	     [perl #32039] Chained goto &sub drops data too early.
	     
	     Change 22373 to stop a memory leak in goto &foo intead caused
	     the elements of @_ to be freed too early. This revised fix
	     just transfers the reifiedness of the old @_ to the new @_
	     
	     [ 23426]
	     include flags and refcount in the list of leaked scalars
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> perl.c pp_ctl.c t/op/goto.t
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[ 23428] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/28  09:26:16
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23416]
	     Subject: [PATCH] ext/IO/IO.xs: fix blocking on sparc linux
	     Message-ID: <20041022033033.GA12362@londo.c47.org>
	     From: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
	     Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:30:33 +1000
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/IO/IO.xs
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[ 23427] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/28  09:10:57
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23417]
	     Upgrade to Encode 2.07
	     
	     [ 23421]
	     Upgrade to Encode 2.08.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/Encode/AUTHORS ext/Encode/Changes ext/Encode/Encode.pm
	  !> ext/Encode/Encode.xs ext/Encode/META.yml
	  !> ext/Encode/Unicode/Unicode.pm ext/Encode/Unicode/Unicode.xs
	  !> ext/Encode/encoding.pm ext/Encode/lib/Encode/Encoding.pm
	  !> ext/Encode/t/Encode.t ext/Encode/t/fallback.t
	  !> ext/Encode/ucm/macArabic.ucm ext/Encode/ucm/macCentEuro.ucm
	  !> ext/Encode/ucm/macChinsimp.ucm ext/Encode/ucm/macChintrad.ucm
	  !> ext/Encode/ucm/macDingbats.ucm ext/Encode/ucm/macGreek.ucm
	  !> ext/Encode/ucm/macKorean.ucm ext/Encode/ucm/macROMnn.ucm
	  !> ext/Encode/ucm/macSymbol.ucm ext/Encode/ucm/macThai.ucm
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[ 23415] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/22  18:01:45
	Log: Update Changes
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Changes patchlevel.h
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23414] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/22  17:48:44
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23410]
	     Subject: docpatch for perltie.pod
	     From: David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk>
	     Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:21:52 +0100
	     Message-ID: <20041021112151.GA22862@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> pod/perltie.pod
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[ 23413] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/22  17:47:25
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23372]
	     Implement a new -dt command-line flag, to enable threads under the
	     debugger (bug #31666).
	     
	     Subject: RE: [PATCH] debugger handles threads [perl #31666]
	     From: <richard.foley@ubs.com>
	     Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:01:18 +0200
	     Message-ID: <B374141B0A424D4F9CF143CC51B3ADD903FB9E12@NZURC900PEX1.ubsgs.ubsgroup.net>
	     
	     Subject: Re: [PATCH] debugger handles threads [perl #31666]
	     From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
	     Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 02:49:58 -0700
	     Message-ID: <20041013094957.GA17184@efn.org>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/perl5db.pl perl.c pod/perlrun.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23412] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/22  15:51:06
	Log: Back out changes 23347 and 23349 for now, as they cause URI to fail
	     regression tests. (Integrated with change 23391).
	     It's not clear to me whether the regression tests are buggy, or this
	     change, or something else which this change now exposes.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! lib/overload.pm lib/overload.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23411] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/22  15:26:39
	Log: Ooops. I forgot to move Changes to Changes5.8.5. Split things properly
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> Changes5.8.5
	   ! Changes MANIFEST
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23409] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  15:49:06
	Log: Update Changes
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Changes patchlevel.h
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23408] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  15:42:32
	Log: Rebuild table of contents and re-sort MANIFEST
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! MANIFEST pod/perltoc.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23407] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  15:37:52
	Log: Re-run regen.pl
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23406] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  15:18:42
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23393]
	     Ensure that PVA.pl returns a true value.
	     
	     [ 23394]
	     Remove opmini.c when cleaning up.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> Makefile.SH lib/unicore/mktables
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23405] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  15:08:19
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22741]
	     Include variable names in "Use of uninitialized value" warnings
	     (just for lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf.inc)
	     
	     
	     [ 23216]
	     Subject: [PATCH] pre Math::BigInt v1.72
	     From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
	     Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:02:50 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200408131402.52270@bloodgate.com>
	     
	     [ 23359]
	     Subject: Patch: BigInt v1.73 (pre-release)
	     From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
	     Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:36:03 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200410102236.03637@bloodgate.com>
	     
	     [ 23396]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Math::BigInt v1.73 final
	     From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
	     Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:06:40 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200410202106.41840@bloodgate.com>
	     
	     Subject: [PATCH] Math::BigRat v0.13 (pre-release)
	     From: Tels <tels@bloodgate.com>
	     Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 22:03:55 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200410202203.56063@bloodgate.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/Math/BigFloat.pm lib/Math/BigInt.pm
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbi.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.inc
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.inc
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/mbimbf.inc
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbf.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbi.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/upgrade.inc lib/Math/BigInt/t/upgrade.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/with_sub.t lib/Math/BigRat.pm
	  !> lib/Math/BigRat/t/big_ap.t lib/Math/BigRat/t/bigrat.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigRat/t/bigratpm.inc lib/Math/BigRat/t/bigratpm.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigRat/t/bigratup.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23404] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  13:53:01
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23052]
	     A tool to check the AUTHORS file
	     
	     [ 23371]
	     Make autodoc.pl write its output with UNIX style EOL's.
	     
	     This saves the Win32 committer(s?) having to dos2unix the files
	     before committing.	 Maybe Perforce's "LineEnd: share" suffices
	     anyway, but there's no harm in playing safe.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
	  !> MANIFEST autodoc.pl
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23403] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  13:32:54
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23360]
	     Subject: [PATCH-for-23358] enable statically linked extensions for Win32
	     From: Vadim Konovalov <konovalo@mail.wplus.net>
	     Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:57:00 +0400
	     Message-ID: <80173417046.20041011225700@vkonovalov.ru>
	     
	     [ 23363]
	     Subject: [PATCH@23361] RE: [PATCH-for-23358] enable statically linked exte nsions for Win32
	     From: "Konovalov, Vadim" <vkonovalov@spb.lucent.com>
	     Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:45:31 +0400
	     Message-ID: <7DD1BE2C50259746ABB8683672D2089E08133C@itotest-1.spb.lucent.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> makedef.pl win32/Makefile win32/buildext.pl win32/dl_win32.xs
	  !> win32/makefile.mk win32/perllib.c win32/sync_ext.pl
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23402] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  13:03:35
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23353]
	     A new machine type, some reformatting, some reorganization
	     and a bit of additional info on Sleepycat's db.
	     
	     [ 23364]
	     A few fixes in the list of -D debugging flags
	     
	     [ 23392]
	     Subject: [PATCH perl.c pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod]
	     Rephrase "Perl Home Page" References
	     From: chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>
	     Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:52:19 -0700
	     Message-Id: <1098251539.20976.53.camel@localhost>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> AUTHORS README.hpux perl.c pod/perl.pod pod/perlfaq2.pod
	  !> pod/perlrun.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23401] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  12:50:53
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23354]
	     Make AIX 5 + gcc work in 64bitall
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> hints/aix.sh
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23400] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  11:43:53
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23351]
	     Make the perl interpreter more tolerant of UTF-16-encoded script
	     (patch by Jarkko Hietaniemi)
	     
	     [ 23352]
	     Briefly document the test.utf16 make target.
	     
	     [ 23362]
	     Minor tweaks for the test.utf16 target, by Jarkko
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> Makefile.SH pod/perlhack.pod t/TEST toke.c utf8.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23399] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  11:13:27
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23348]
	     Subject: [PATCH-for-23341] dynaloader improvements and cleanup
	     From: Vadim Konovalov <vadim@vkonovalov.ru>
	     Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 22:10:06 +0400
	     Message-ID: <138-1837306906.20041003221006@vkonovalov.ru>
	     
	     [ 23361]
	     Subject: [perl #31843] warnings::warn($obj,...) fails when $obj overloads "" 
	     From: kaminsky@math.huji.ac.il (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Date: 5 Oct 2004 09:52:07 -0000
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-31843-97358.2.89612012687236@perl.org>
	     (with tweaks)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader_pm.PL lib/warnings.pm warnings.pl
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23398] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  10:54:14
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23343]
	     Subject: [PATCH] make t/uni/class.t pass on VMS
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:57:55 -0500
	     Message-ID: <415D9AA3.1000908@mac.com>
	     
	     [ 23346]
	     Subject: [PATCH] vms/t/filespec.t tweak
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 13:18:03 -0500
	     Message-ID: <415D9F5B.5040306@mac.com>
	     
	     [ 23358]
	     Subject: [PATCH] add the 'test_harness' target to vms "makefile"
	     From: Abe Timmerman <abe@ztreet.demon.nl>
	     Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 18:13:38 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200410091813.38673.abe@ztreet.demon.nl>
	     
	     [ 23367]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Re: [NOT OK] 23353 OpenVMS 7.2 VAX
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:09:41 -0500
	     Message-ID: <416E96B5.5020100@mac.com>
	     
	     [ 23377]
	     Subject: [PATCH] test_harness tweak for VMS
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:15:02 -0500
	     Message-Id: <41715716.5000108@mac.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/ppphtest
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/t/ppphtest.t t/harness t/uni/class.t
	  !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/ext/filespec.t vms/test.com
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23397] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/21  10:30:49
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23350]
	     Subject: [perl #31697] [PATCH] B::Showlex::newlex enhancement and pod 
	     From: Jim Cromie (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Date: 23 Sep 2004 21:45:42 -0000
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-31697-96840.0.810265136907162@perl.org>
	     (with doc nits)
	     
	     [ 23356]
	     Hack to make -Dusethreads -Uuseithreads -Uuse5005threads pass all tests
	     
	     [ 23395]
	     Need to skip optree walking tests if perlio not built
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/B/Showlex.pm ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm
	  !> ext/B/t/f_map.t ext/B/t/f_sort.t ext/B/t/showlex.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23391] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  20:10:52
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22926]
	     Subject: Re: [perl #30197] perlbug AutoReply: Data::Dumper does not indent the deparsed code properly 
	     From: Mathieu Arnold <m@absolight.fr>
	     Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:43:58 +0200
	     Message-ID: <34D483170C7F84E0DFBE442B@andromede.in.reaumur.net>
	     (with a test adjustment)
	     
	     [ 23347]
	     Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Re: [perl #31793] Data::Dumper: Useqq interacts badly with overloading
	     From: Rick Delaney <rick@bort.ca>
	     Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 01:04:49 -0400
	     Message-ID: <20041002050448.GB5059@biff.bort.ca>
	     
	     [ 23349]
	     Increment $overload::VERSION after change #23347
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.pm
	  !> ext/Data/Dumper/t/dumper.t lib/overload.pm lib/overload.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23390] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  19:35:22
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23331]
	     Subject:  Re: [perl #31586] utime does not reach expectations [PATCH]
	     From:  LAUN Wolfgang <wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>
	     Date:  Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:01:11 +0200
	     Message-Id:  <DF27CDCBD2581D4B88431901094E4B4D02B0C88B@attmsx1.aut.alcatel.at>
	     
	     Clarify the effect of utime when the file isn't owned by the user
	     
	     [ 23332]
	     Document that $ENV{PATH} may not contain relative directories under -T
	     
	     [ 23333]
	     Remove a couple of C<> to avoid confusing double quotes in text
	     rendering. [perl #31678]
	     
	     [ 23338]
	     Spelling correction spotted by Greg McCarroll
	     
	     [ 23341]
	     Subject: [patch] Sys::Syslog POD - $Sys::Syslog::host
	     From: "Jay Hannah" <jhannah@omnihotels.com>
	     Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:51:42 -0500
	     Message-ID: <002001c49b5d$6d0d79c0$4722000a@omarests2>
	     
	     [ 23345]
	     More caveats on the non-portability of stat(), suggested by
	     Stas Bekman.
	     
	     [ 23368]
	     Document sv_vcatpvf, sv_vsetpvf, sv_vcatpvf_mg and sv_vsetpvf_mg.
	     
	     These are already in the API supported by Devel::PPPort, and are
	     often more useful than sv_vcatpvfn and sv_vsetpvfn which were
	     already documented.
	     
	     [ 23369]
	     Doc nit to Data::Dumper, suggested by Peter Kay.
	     
	     [ 23378]
	     Add a missing warning categorisation in perldiag.
	     
	     [ 23379]
	     Fix a typo.
	     
	     [ 23382]
	     Subject: [PATCH] perlfaq2.pod (add a book)
	     From: <richard.foley@ubs.com>
	     Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:29:31 +0200
	     Message-ID: <B374141B0A424D4F9CF143CC51B3ADD903FB9E3A@NZURC900PEX1.ubsgs.ubsgroup.net>
	     
	     [ 23383]
	     More Data::Dumper docs nits, fix the previous one,
	     suggested by Yves Orton.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> README.epoc embed.fnc ext/Data/Dumper/Dumper.pm
	  !> ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm pod/perlapi.pod pod/perldiag.pod
	  !> pod/perlfaq2.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod
	  !> pod/perlsec.pod sv.c utils/c2ph.PL
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23389] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  19:16:21
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23326]
	     Subject: [PATCH] encoding and open pragmas
	     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
	     Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:27:00 +0300
	     Message-ID: <41210A84.6060506@iki.fi>
	     
	     Subject: Re: [PATCH] encoding and open pragmas
	     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
	     Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:22:58 +0300 (EEST)
	     Message-Id: <200408170822.i7H8MwUU016793@vipunen.hut.fi>
	     
	     [ 23334]
	     Typo fix.
	     Subject: [PATCH] Re: Smoke [5.9.2] 23330 FAIL(X) hp-ux 11.11/64 (PA-2.0/64/2 cpu)
	     From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@mandrakesoft.com>
	     Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:20:53 +0200
	     Message-ID: <20040922112053.686562b6@valis.local>
	     
	     [ 23355]
	     Restore runtime loading of Encode and Encode-related modules, so that
	     open.pm will work when the Encode extension isn't build.
	     
	     [ 23380]
	     Upgrade to Encode 2.04.
	     
	     [ 23381]
	     Re-apply the encoding.pm part of:
	     
	     Subject: [PATCH] encoding and open pragmas
	     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
	     Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:27:00 +0300
	     Message-ID: <41210A84.6060506@iki.fi>
	     
	     [ 23384]
	     Upgrade to Encode 2.05
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/Encode/AUTHORS ext/Encode/Changes ext/Encode/Encode.pm
	  !> ext/Encode/JP/JP.pm ext/Encode/META.yml ext/Encode/Makefile.PL
	  !> ext/Encode/bin/piconv ext/Encode/bin/ucmsort
	  !> ext/Encode/encoding.pm ext/Encode/lib/Encode/Alias.pm
	  !> ext/Encode/lib/Encode/Supported.pod
	  !> ext/Encode/ucm/big5-hkscs.ucm lib/open.pm lib/open.t
	  !> t/io/layers.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23388] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  18:26:52
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23329]
	     Upgrade to Time::HiRes 1.65.
	     
	     [ 23330]
	     Upgrade to MIME::Base64 3.05.
	     
	     [ 23340]
	     A fix for [perl #31692] : as PerlIO::scalar accesses directly the
	     PV of the scalar it reads from, avoid to read it when it's an
	     undefined PV.
	     
	     [ 23366]
	     Subject: AW: [perl #31864] IO::Poll - undef fd not checked in mask()
	     From: "Dintelmann, Peter" <Peter.Dintelmann@Dresdner-Bank.com>
	     Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:54:15 +0200
	     Message-ID: <8FD9B6A658383E468B55D364D1A9951601857331@ffz00zm6.ffz00e.mail.dresdner.net>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/IO/lib/IO/Poll.pm ext/MIME/Base64/Base64.pm
	  !> ext/MIME/Base64/Changes ext/MIME/Base64/t/warn.t
	  !> ext/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.xs ext/PerlIO/t/scalar.t
	  !> ext/Time/HiRes/Changes ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm
	  !> ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.xs ext/Time/HiRes/Makefile.PL
	  !> ext/Time/HiRes/ppport.h ext/Time/HiRes/t/HiRes.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23387] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  18:09:57
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23373]
	     Implement sv_svset _nosteal variants by passing a flag into
	     sv_set_flags rather than messing with the SvTEMP() flag on either
	     side of the call.
	     
	     [ 23374]
	     The second half of Perl_vwarner is actually a straight cut&paste job
	     from Perl_vwarn, so convert it into a (tail) call to Perl_vwarn.
	     cut&paste is bad, m'kay.
	     
	     [ 23375]
	     Merge the common code from Perl_vdie and Perl_vwarner into a
	     S_vdie_common
	     
	     [ 23376]
	     Merge code from vdie and vcroak into S_vdie_croak_common
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> sv.c sv.h util.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23386] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  16:56:17
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23321]
	     Subject:  Re: [perl #31459] Bug in read()
	     From:  Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
	     Date:  06 Sep 2004 00:03:12 -0400
	     Message-Id:  <1094443392.12379.35.camel@linux.heathens.co.nz>
	     
	     a read(F) into a UTF8-encoded buffer with an offset off the
	     end of the buffer, miss-calculated buffer lengths
	     
	     [ 23337]
	     Subject: Patch for perl.c fixing an obscure environment bug
	     From: Merijn Broeren <merijnb@iloquent.com>
	     Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:18:17 +0200
	     Message-ID: <20040923151817.GA15782@brugman.iloquent.nl>
	     
	     [ 23342]
	     [perl #31767] open $1, "file" doesn't raise an exception
	     
	     [ 23344]
	     Perl_sv_recode_to_utf8 shouldn't be returning SvPVX(sv) without
	     any check on whether it's valid.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c sv.c t/io/open.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23385] By: nicholas				   on 2004/10/19  16:29:12
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23155]
	     Build the perldelta copying command for the main Unix makefile with
	     buildtoc, so that it doesn't get forgotten on version increments.
	     
	     [ 23370]
	     Include opmini.c in the dependency generation.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Makefile.SH
	  !> pod/buildtoc
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23335] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/23  10:12:34
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23320]
	     [perl #30066] Memory leak in nested shared data structures in 5.8.4
	     A pop of an item from a shared array ref causes a leak due to
	     AVf_REAL not having been set after an sv_upgrade(sv, SVt_PVAV).
	     Make sv_upgrade() set always this flag.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> sv.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23328] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/20  14:14:31
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23322]
	     Upgrade to Time::HiRes 1.63.
	     Note that it includes a ppport.h file. See if the one
	     previously built in Devel::PPPort can be used instead.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/Time/HiRes/ppport.h
	  !> MANIFEST ext/Time/HiRes/Changes ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.pm
	  !> ext/Time/HiRes/HiRes.xs ext/Time/HiRes/Makefile.PL
	  !> ext/Time/HiRes/t/HiRes.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23324] By: steveh				   on 2004/09/17  16:31:49
	Log: Have usethreads set the same as useithreads on Win32
	     
	     This should fix the current ext/B/t/optree_*.t failures.
	     
	     Nicholas Clark and Andy Dougherty both say this is how it should be:
	     http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2004-09/msg00195.html
	     http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2004-09/msg00259.html
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23318] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  16:27:07
	Log: Update the skips for the no perlio case
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/t/optree_check.t ext/B/t/optree_concise.t
	   ! ext/B/t/showlex.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23317] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  14:37:25
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23200]
	     Fix [perl #24269] socket() call uses non-IFS providers
	     causing subsequent print/read to hang or misbehave
	     
	     Patch supplied by Artiom Morozov <artiom@phreaker.net>
	     in the bug report at http://rt.perl.org/rt3/index.html?q=24269
	     
	     (strictly actually use the alternative supplied "stable" patch)
	     
	     [ 23275]
	     Implement new environment variable to allow the use of non-IFS
	     compatible LSP's on Windows to allow Perl to work in conjunction
	     with a firewall such as McAfee Guardian.
	     
	     Bug report and possible solutions by Ken Fox <kfox@ford.com>;
	     further assistance by Artiom Morozov <artiom@phreaker.net>.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! win32/win32sck.c
	  !> README.win32 pod/perlrun.pod win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23316] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  10:56:43
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23170]
	     Bug report #30132 was resolved before it was finished!
	     Here's the last piece in the puzzle.
	     
	     [ 23191]
	     Subject: [PATCH] extension to diagnostics.pm
	     From: Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>
	     Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 00:33:09 +0100
	     Message-ID: <20040803233309.GA239@dyn.fergaldaly.com>
	     
	     [ 23221]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Document Carp's global variables + provide tests
	     From: "Jos I. Boumans" <kane@dwim.org>
	     Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:53:40 +0200
	     Message-Id: <ADC6DEC6-EF8B-11D8-8425-000A95EF62E2@dwim.org>
	     (tests a bit reworked)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm lib/Carp.pm lib/Carp.t
	  !> lib/diagnostics.pm
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23315] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  10:34:45
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23280]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.02.
	     
	     [ 23282]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.03.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> (integrate 29 files)
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23314] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  10:24:09
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23146]
	     Subject: [PATCH] Mention common dynaloader errors in perldiag.pod
	     From: "Jos I. Boumans" <kane@dwim.org>
	     Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:47:35 +0200
	     Message-Id: <C226C05A-DB0B-11D8-A551-000A95EF62E2@dwim.org>
	     (with tweaks)
	     
	     [ 23148]
	     Grammar fix by Paul Johnson.
	     
	     [ 23151]
	     Sort perldiag.
	     
	     [ 23159]
	     make a note in perlrun that -i doesn't preserve UNIX hard links.
	     
	     [ 23160]
	     document that -i messes soft as well hard hard links.
	     
	     [ 23164]
	     Subject:  [perl #7558] [PATCH] README.solaris
	     From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
	     Date:  Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:32:35 -0400 (EDT)
	     Message-Id:  <Pine.SOL.4.58.0407261530350.19559@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
	     
	     Add more info on /dev/random under solaris
	     
	     [ 23165]
	     Subject: Re: AW: [perl #7558] [PATCH] README.solaris
	     From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
	     Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:12:06 -0400 (EDT)
	     Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.58.0407271335550.22839@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
	     
	     [ 23172]
	     A few minor updates to README.win32 (aka perlwin32)
	     
	     [ 23182]
	     Subject: [PATCH] mention refaddr() in overload::StrVal docs
	     From: Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>
	     Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:09:19 +0100
	     Message-ID: <20040730150919.GB19022@dyn.fergaldaly.com>
	     
	     [ 23184]
	     Enhance the caveat in the description of tell()
	     
	     Subject: Re: [perl #30788] Error in documentation
	     From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net>
	     Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:12:54 +0100
	     Message-Id: <20040728141254.3861.5@llama.ing-simmons.net>
	     
	     [ 23205]
	     Add a note in perltodo about a potential extension of readpipe()
	     
	     [ 23220]
	     Subject: Updates to modules-related pod
	     From: Kirrily Skud Robert <skud@infotrope.net>
	     Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:00:14 -0400
	     Message-ID: <20040816200014.GC27764@infotrope.net>
	     
	     [ 23224]
	     Add notes for building with MS VC++ Toolkit 2003
	     
	     [ 23227]
	     Delete superfluous "with".
	     
	     [ 23236]
	     Grammatical nit by Hugo.
	     
	     [ 23240]
	     Pumpkinship updates
	     
	     [ 23250]
	     From: david nicol <whatever@davidnicol.com>
	     Subject: [perl #31228] no no-op
	     Message-Id: 1093659222.1436.70.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com>
	     Date: 27 Aug 2004 21:13:42 -0500
	     
	     Document that 0 and 1 can (sort of) be used as no-ops.
	     
	     [ 23276]
	     Subject: [PATCH] perlintro.pod
	     From: Paul Johnson <paul@pjcj.net>
	     Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:13:51 +0200
	     Message-ID: <20040907131351.GD2513@pjcj.net>
	     
	     [ 23281]
	     Subject:  [perl #21553] Re: Solaris Perl (fwd)
	     From:  Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu>
	     Date:  Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:32:26 -0400 (EDT)
	     Message-Id:  <Pine.SOL.4.58.0409081129180.17582@maxwell.phys.lafayette.edu>
	     Clarify whether it's safe to replace the perl bundled with Solaris
	     
	     [ 23283]
	     Subject: [PATCH-5.8.5] lib/bigint.pm tiny typo fix
	     From: "Konovalov, Vadim" <vkonovalov@spb.lucent.com>
	     Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:09:51 +0400 
	     Message-ID: <7DD1BE2C50259746ABB8683672D2089E081132@itotest-1.spb.lucent.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perldiag.pod
	  !> README.solaris README.win32 lib/bigint.pm lib/overload.pm
	  !> pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlhack.pod pod/perlintro.pod
	  !> pod/perlnewmod.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlrun.pod
	  !> pod/perltodo.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23313] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  09:56:57
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23277]
	     Subject: SvO?OK_off()'s return value
	     From: Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl@gmx.net>
	     Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 12:46:48 +0200
	     Message-Id: <20040801124648.7f9b3cee@r2d2>
	     
	     Move (void) casts into SvOOK_off macro.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pp_ctl.c
	  !> gv.c mg.c perl.c pp.c pp_hot.c scope.c sv.c sv.h
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23312] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  09:20:53
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23218]
	     Subject: [PATCH] make cygwin ld2 executable
	     From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>
	     Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 17:14:59 -0700
	     Message-ID: <20040816001252.GA2148@efn.org>
	     
	     [ 23219]
	     Subject: [PATCH] running mktables on VMS
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:28:04 -0500
	     Message-ID: <41199244.9020706@mac.com>
	     
	     [ 23274]
	     Subject: [PATCH] -Dunlink_all_versions for VMS
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 11:58:56 -0500
	     Message-ID: <4139F450.7040708@mac.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> configure.com cygwin/Makefile.SHs vms/descrip_mms.template
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23311] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  09:09:38
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23225]
	     Mark a test that relies on tainting behavior as TODO on Windows.
	     
	     
	     Should have been part of integration 23310, but for
	     http://www.google.com/search?q=%66%75%63%6Bing+perforce
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> t/comp/opsubs.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23310] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  08:57:45
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23206]
	     Subject: Patch for t/op/sleep.t
	     From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
	     Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:11:51 -0500
	     Message-ID: <20040809051151.GA13872@petdance.com>
	     
	     [ 23215]
	     Subject: Test for functions with operator names
	     From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
	     Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:31:03 -0500
	     Message-ID: <20040812163103.GA26687@petdance.com>
	     
	     [ 23253]
	     Subject:  PATCH: Taintedness and ternary conditional
	     From:  Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
	     Date:  Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:44:47 -0500
	     Message-Id:  <20040827044447.GA5268@petdance.com>
	     
	     add tests and documentation to the effect that ($tainted ? $a : $b)
	     doesn't necessarily return a tainted value. Also tidy the markup in
	     perldoc.pod
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> t/comp/opsubs.t
	  !> MANIFEST pod/perlsec.pod t/op/sleep.t t/op/taint.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23309] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  08:41:17
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23179]
	     Skip test when building without Encode.
	     
	     [ 23181]
	     Fix breakage caused by Change 23179
	     
	     [ 23244]
	     Skip a Data::Dumper test if configured without B module.
	     
	     [ 23245]
	     Fix skipping of a Dumpvalue test when configured without Devel::Peek.
	     
	     [ 23246]
	     Skip Time::HiRes tests if configured without that module.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/Data/Dumper/t/dumper.t ext/Time/HiRes/t/HiRes.t
	  !> lib/Dumpvalue.t t/run/fresh_perl.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23308] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  07:28:09
	Log: 
	     Integrate:
	     [ 23173]
	     Fix and update Perl_grok_* docs.
	     
	     [ 23176]
	     Add comment to the top of most .c files explaining their purpose
	     
	     [ 23180]
	     Add comment to top of reentr.c and fix typos in other files
	     
	     [ 23187]
	     more typo fixes for change 3176 (comments at top of .c files)
	     
	     [ 23195]
	     Comment describing purpose.
	     
	     [ 23196]
	     Document sv_catpvn_nomg, sv_setsv_nomg and sv_catsv_nomg.
	     
	     [ 23207]
	     fix minor nit in file description, to keep Jarkko happy
	     
	     [ 23214]
	     Subject: api doc fix for SvSetMagicSV_nosteal
	     From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
	     Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:10:36 -0700
	     Message-ID: <411C150C.5020602@stason.org>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> (integrate 37 files)
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23307] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  06:45:43
	Log: 
	     Email change for Steffen Mueller.
	     
	     [ 23162]
	     Windows-related updates to Porting/repository.pod
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> AUTHORS Porting/repository.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23306] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  06:39:03
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23126]
	     Encourage compilers to tail call optimise in sv_savepv, sv_savepvn
	     and sv_savesharedpv. Need to create non-void returning versions of
	     Copy and Zero, as the existing macros deliberately cast to (void)
	     
	     [ 23135]
	     Turn 2 strcpy()s into memcpy() because we know the length.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> handy.h malloc.c perl.c pod/perlapi.pod sv.c toke.c util.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23305] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  06:25:00
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23122]
	     oslevel can fail on AIX, but the output generated would confuse
	     Configure
	     
	     [ 23124]
	     Be sure HP-UX' ANSI C compiler's PATH is found *before*
	     the path to the bundled braindead C compiler. This might
	     influence ccache's behaviour in finding the correct path
	     
	     [ 23174]
	     First steps towards an explicit perl.exp-less AIX build
	     Previous method can still be used by undeffing usenativedlopen
	     If that is ever tested at all on AIX
	     
	     [ 23188]
	     gcc on AIX doesn't like -G on the commandline
	     
	     [ 23189]
	     gcc on AIX 4 doesn't like -G on the commandline too
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> Configure hints/aix.sh hints/aix_4.sh
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23304] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  06:04:43
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23111]
	     This seems to be needed to get COW working on Win32
	     
	     [ 23121]
	     Some calls to PerlMemShared_alloc() aren't checking the return value.
	     Bug spotted by Nigel Sandever
	     
	     [ 23128]
	     Use VirtualAlloc() more flexibly when using it to mimic UNIX's sbrk().
	     From: Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com>
	     CC: perl-win32-porters@listserv.ActiveState.com
	     Message-ID: <40F6B295.8010804@uk.radan.com>
	     
	     Assumes perl's malloc can now handle non-contiguous memory (believed
	     to be true).
	     Does not address threading issues.
	     
	     "The attached patch (against blead) makes sbrk() initially try to
	     extend the existing block of memory exactly as it currently does, but
	     to not  fail immediately if it can't -- it now frees up that part of
	     whatever it  had previously reserved+committed which hadn't actually
	     been used yet,  resets all its static variables and basically starts
	     anew."
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/threads/threads.xs util.c win32/win32.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23303] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/10  05:25:22
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23091]
	     Check each line of config_re output.
	     
	     [ 23147]
	     Config::config_re and config_sh would report the byteorder as 'ffff'
	     
	     [ 23185]
	     Subject: [PATCH] additional -V:foo tests
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:15:23 -0600
	     Message-ID: <410E5A8B.9030307@divsol.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> configpm lib/Config.t pod/perlrun.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23302] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  21:45:33
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23023]
	     [perl #30258] utf8 POPSTACK crash on split execution
	     split() does a SWITCHSTACK to directly split to an array, but
	     if it subsequently dies (eg the regex triggers a 'use utf8' which
	     is then denied by Safe), then the switch doesn't get undone. Add
	     a new save type to allow for this.
	     
	     [ 23150]
	     Subject: Re: "Too late for -T" could be more descriptive
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:21:50 -0600
	     Message-ID: <40FEA62E.2010809@divsol.com>
	     (with tweaks)
	     
	     [ 23158]
	     [perl #30733] memory leak in array delete
	     av_delete() wasn't mortalizing the returned value
	     
	     [ 23209]
	     eval_sv() failing a taint test could corrupt the stack
	     
	     [ 23210]
	     Fix a typo and remove some debugging crud from change #23209
	     
	     [ 23271]
	     only mortalize deleted array elements for AvREAL
	     (update to change #23158)
	     
	     [ 23279]
	     Add MY_CXT_CLONE to the core. (Taken from Time::HiRes.) See also:
	     http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=r5l1vv00ca033k7a06d40fgei1ion91rnp%404ax.com
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> av.c ext/XS/APItest/t/call.t perl.c perl.h pod/perldebug.pod
	  !> pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlrun.pod pp.c scope.c scope.h
	  !> t/op/delete.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23301] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  16:17:05
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23300]
	     A single version of B that supports 5.8 and 5.10
	     
	     
	     Plus some edits to remove the last differences on the maint side.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B/C.pm
	  !> ext/B/B.xs ext/B/ramblings/runtime.porting ext/B/t/lint.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23299] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  15:44:32
	Log: Synchronise the opname regexp with blead.
	     (No harm in including dor, as nothing in maint will generate that)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/B.pm
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23298] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  13:46:42
	Log: Undo integration edit to make file identical with blead.
	     Expectation munging now done conditionally on perl version.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/t/stash.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23297] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  13:34:25
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23212]
	     Subject: 2 patches: goto.t, B.pm/xs
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:42:47 -0600
	     Message-ID: <4116C887.9080400@divsol.com>
	     
	     [ 23249]
	     Subject:  [ PATCH ] 2 added private flags for B::Concise
	     From:  Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date:  Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:19:54 -0600
	     Message-Id:  <41355BFA.8010900@divsol.com>
	     
	     The OPpENTERSUB_NOMOD and OPpCONST_SHORTCIRCUIT flags weren't
	     displayed by B::Concise.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/B.pm ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/Concise.pm
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23296] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  12:58:00
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23105]
	     Lots of tests for for reverse ...
	     
	     [ 23108]
	     Optimise foreach my $i (reverse ...)
	     foreach without a lexical iterator not yet optimised
	     
	     [ 23109]
	     "That's the way to do it"
	     In taking out a bug spotted by my regression tests in t/cmd/for.t
	     I actually managed to disable the entire optimisation. Which means
	     that I didn't find the other bug. This optimisation is live, and
	     passes all tests.
	     
	     [ 23112]
	     The optrees for C<for $_ (...)> and C<for (...)> differ, so even more
	     tests.
	     
	     [ 23113]
	     Now optimising for $a (reverse ...)
	     
	     [ 23114]
	     Optimise for (reverse ...)
	     
	     [ 23115]
	     for (reverse @foo) now iterates in reverse in place.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! op.c
	  !> ext/B/B/Concise.pm op.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/cmd/for.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23295] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  11:25:08
	Log: Jarkko had reverted ext/B/t/bytecode.t with change 20434.
	     Hence it was gone from the MANIFEST. Re-integrating it may prove to
	     be foolish on my part, but let's give it a smoke for now.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! MANIFEST
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23294] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  11:12:47
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 21566]
	     Subject: [PATCH lib/overload.t] TODO tests for bug #24313.
	     From: Abigail <abigail@abigail.nl>
	     Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:05:37 +0100
	     Message-ID: <20031027120536.GA24608@abigail.nl>
	     
	     Subject: [PATCH bleadperl] [perl #24313] (was Re: [PATCH lib/overload.t] TODO tests for bug #24313.)
	     From: Rick Delaney <rick@bort.ca>
	     Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:17:49 -0500
	     Message-ID: <20031027121749.E2233@biff.bort.ca>
	     
	     [ 23106]
	     Numeric comparison operators mustn't compare addresses of references
	     that are overloaded.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/overload.t pp.c pp_hot.c toke.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23293] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  10:15:43
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23242]
	     Skip ext/B/t/assembler.t when configured without B.
	     
	     [ 23243]
	     Fix typo in B::Assembler.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/B/Assembler.pm ext/B/t/assembler.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23292] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  09:55:09
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23093]
	     The current optimisation for sort {$b cmp $a} is bogus now that we
	     guarantee a stable sort. Disable it, pending a correct optimisation.
	     
	     [ 23096]
	     A proper, working, stable optimisation for sort {$b cmp $a}
	     
	     [ 23097]
	     Also test reverse sort in scalar context
	     
	     [ 23098]
	     Test reverse sort as the return from a function in list and scalar
	     contexts.
	     
	     [ 23099]
	     Check that non-optimimisable sort comparisons work when reversed
	     (Not optimised yet, but might be coming soon)
	     
	     [ 23100]
	     check that reverse (sort (@a), @b) etc work.
	     Join some lines that don't need wrapping
	     
	     [ 23102]
	     Optimise list context reverse sort to reverse as part of the sort op
	     
	     [ 23166]
	     Subject: Re: more 5.9 sort tests (second draft)
	     From: david nicol <whatever@davidnicol.com>
	     Date: 21 Jul 2004 17:10:05 -0500
	     Message-Id: <1090447805.995.24.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! op.c
	  !> ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/t/f_sort.t op.h pp_sort.c t/op/sort.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23291] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  09:22:38
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23046]
	     Subject: Re: [perl #30504] B::Deparse scoping problem with for loop 
	     From: Stephen McCamant <smcc@MIT.EDU>
	     Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:26:24 -0700
	     Message-ID: <16608.50496.787002.560481@apocalypse.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
	     
	     [ 23047]
	     Update tests and $VERSION for change 23046
	     
	     plus changes to Deparse.pm from 17682 and 18727. Deparse is now
	     identical in blead and maint.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/B/Deparse.pm ext/B/defsubs_h.PL
	  !> ext/B/t/deparse.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23290] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  08:39:31
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22824]
	     Fix new B::Concise test output
	     Subject: Re: Smoke [5.9.2] 22820 FAIL(F) openbsd 3.5 (i386/1 cpu)
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:19:00 -0600
	     Message-ID: <40A8D7E4.1020007@divsol.com>
	     
	     [ 22825]
	     Remove a TODO test that is no longer to do.
	     
	     [ 22833]
	     Test portability nit.
	     Subject: [PATCH] Re: Smoke [5.9.2] 22821 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)
	     From: Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com>
	     Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:31:04 +0100
	     Message-ID: <40A9E5E8.7030800@uk.radan.com>
	     
	     [ 22951]
	     If we don't build B, we should skip all its tests.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/B/t/bytecode.t
	   ! ext/B/t/f_sort.t ext/B/t/optree_samples.t
	  !> ext/B/t/f_map.t ext/B/t/optree_check.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_concise.t ext/B/t/optree_sort.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_specials.t ext/B/t/optree_varinit.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23289] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  06:48:05
	Log: I DO NOT NEED THIS
	     //depot/maint-5.8/perl/ext/B/t/f_map.t - can't branch (already opened for add) 
	     //depot/maint-5.8/perl/ext/B/t/f_sort.t - can't branch (already opened for add)
	     
	     (23278 integration redux - the parts that perforce JUST CANNOT DO the
	     first time)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/t/f_map.t ext/B/t/f_sort.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23288] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/09  06:30:32
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22820]
	     Subject: Re: more B::Concise stuff (PATCH - updated)
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 05:28:11 -0600
	     Message-ID: <409F674B.2000506@divsol.com>
	     
	     [ 23278]
	     backport B to work on 5.8.x, so that a single version of the source
	     can be maintained, and ultimately dual-lifed on CPAN
	     (the version conditional changes are actually surprisingly small)
	     
	     (well, except the bits that hateful perforce won't let me integrate
	     this time round)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/B/t/f_map ext/B/t/f_map.t ext/B/t/f_sort ext/B/t/f_sort.t
	  +> ext/B/t/optree_specials.t
	   ! ext/B/t/concise.t ext/B/t/showlex.t
	  !> MANIFEST ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/B/Showlex.pm
	  !> ext/B/B/Terse.pm ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm ext/B/t/optree_check.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_concise.t ext/B/t/optree_samples.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_sort.t ext/B/t/optree_varinit.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23287] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/08  22:14:31
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22354]
	     Increment the version number of B, due to the incompatible
	     API change introduced by #22353 (no more op_seq method.)
	     
	     [ 22801]
	     Subject:  Re: stdio still supported?
	     From:  Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date:  Thu, 06 May 2004 16:37:56 -0600
	     Message-Id:  <409ABE44.8060307@divsol.com>
	     
	     Update B::Concise tests to skip stuff requiring the
	     "open to a scalar" feature of Perlio is it isn't available.
	     Also note this caveat in perlfunc.pod
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/B.pm
	  !> ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/t/concise.t ext/B/t/optree_check.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_concise.t ext/B/t/optree_samples.t
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_sort.t ext/B/t/optree_varinit.t
	  !> pod/perlfunc.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23286] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/08  21:58:30
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22669]
	     Fix command-line quoting under Windows for the new optree tests
	     Subject: Re: Smoke [5.9.2] 22666 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu)
	     From: Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com>
	     Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:46:01 +0100
	     Message-ID: <4073BFC9.10707@uk.radan.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/B/t/optree_samples.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23285] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/08  21:47:12
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22664]
	     Subject: Re: tests for change #22539
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:39:31 -0700
	     Message-ID: <4069E913.5040906@divsol.com>
	     (with some spelling tweaks)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm ext/B/t/optree_check.t
	  +> ext/B/t/optree_concise.t ext/B/t/optree_samples.t
	  +> ext/B/t/optree_sort.t ext/B/t/optree_varinit.t
	  !> MANIFEST ext/B/B/Concise.pm ext/B/t/concise.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23284] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/08  20:50:55
	Log: Integrate:
	     
	     (the parts of the first that affect ext/B/... and the parts of the
	     second that related to changes in 22353)
	     
	     [ 22353]
	     Subject: Re: op_seq (was: Freeing code)
	     From: Paul Johnson <paul@pjcj.net>
	     Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:31:47 +0100
	     Message-ID: <20040221013147.GB6953@pjcj.net>
	     
	     Rework the OP structure to use less space.
	     Remove op_seq (and simulate it in dump.c),
	     replace it by op_opt and op_static,
	     shrink op_type, remove PL_op_seqmax.
	     
	     [ 23278]
	     backport B to work on 5.8.x, so that a single version of the source
	     can be maintained, and ultimately dual-lifed on CPAN
	     (the version conditional changes are actually surprisingly small)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! ext/B/B.xs ext/B/B/C.pm ext/B/B/Concise.pm
	  !> ext/B/B/Debug.pm ext/B/t/stash.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23273] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  22:06:51
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23232]
	     Upgrade to Time::HiRes 1.61
	     
	     [ 23237]
	     Upgrade to MIME::Base64 3.02.
	     
	     [ 23238]
	     Upgrade to MIME::Base64 3.03
	     
	     [ 23241]
	     Subject: [PATCH] File::Spec::VMS update
	     From: "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry@mac.com>
	     Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:51:09 -0500
	     Message-ID: <412FC8ED.1020300@mac.com>
	     
	     [ 23247]
	     Update to File::Spec 0.90
	     
	     [ 23248]
	     Upgrade to Cwd 2.21.
	     
	     [ 23258]
	     Upgrade to Encode 2.02
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> (integrate 28 files)
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23272] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  21:47:13
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23194]
	     Subject: Re: POSIX::sigprocmask implemented incorrectly
	     From: Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@sun.com>
	     Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:07:02 +0100
	     Message-ID: <40FBAB56.1030208@sun.com>
	     
	     (last chunk only)
	     
	     [ 23204]
	     Subject: Re: POSIX::sigprocmask implemented incorrectly
	     From: Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@sun.com>
	     Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 10:30:25 +0100
	     Message-ID: <41174431.6050803@sun.com>
	     
	     [ 23211]
	     Subject: Re: POSIX::sigprocmask implemented incorrectly
	     From: Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison@sun.com>
	     Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:00:12 +0100
	     Message-ID: <4117BBAC.7080603@sun.com>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23270] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  21:34:19
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23175]
	     Fix copy & paste bugs in mX?PUSH macro tests.
	     
	     [ 23203]
	     Add tests for XS call_*() API
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/XS/APItest/t/call.t
	  !> MANIFEST ext/XS/APItest/APItest.pm ext/XS/APItest/APItest.xs
	  !> ext/XS/APItest/MANIFEST pod/perlcall.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23269] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  21:03:20
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23223]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.00_01.
	     
	     [ 23226]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.00_02.
	     
	     [ 23229]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.00_03.
	     
	     [ 23234]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.01.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/sv_xpvf ext/Devel/PPPort/t/cop.t
	  +> ext/Devel/PPPort/t/sv_xpvf.t
	  !> MANIFEST ext/Devel/PPPort/Changes ext/Devel/PPPort/MANIFEST
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/META.yml ext/Devel/PPPort/Makefile.PL
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.pm ext/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.xs
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/PPPort_pm.PL ext/Devel/PPPort/TODO
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/module2.c ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/apicheck.pl
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/misc
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/ppphbin
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/ppphtest
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/uv
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/inc/version
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/ppptools.pl
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/todo/5004000
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/todo/5004050
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/parts/todo/5006000
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/t/ppphtest.t ext/Devel/PPPort/t/uv.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23268] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  20:48:03
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22535]
	     Move Beau Cox's ppport.h fixes into PPPort.pm
	     
	     [ 23222]
	     Upgrade to Devel::PPPort 3.00.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> (branch 103 files)
	   - ext/Devel/PPPort/t/test.t
	  !> MANIFEST ext/Devel/PPPort/Changes ext/Devel/PPPort/MANIFEST
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/Makefile.PL ext/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.pm
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.xs ext/Devel/PPPort/README
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/TODO ext/Devel/PPPort/module2.c
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/module3.c ext/Devel/PPPort/ppport_h.PL
	  !> ext/Devel/PPPort/soak
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23265] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  19:50:28
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23142]
	     Subject: [perl #30609] [PATCH] BigInt v1.71 - first try
	     From: Tels <perl_dummy@bloodgate.com>
	     Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 16:22:57 +0200
	     Message-Id: <200407171622.58443@bloodgate.com>
	     
	     [ 23152]
	     Upgrade to Cwd 2.20
	     
	     [ 23168]
	     Upgrade to File::Spec 0.88.
	     
	     [ 23171]
	     Upgrade to Math::BigInt v1.71.
	     
	     [ 23202]
	     Subject: [PATCH] DB_File 1.810
	     From: "Paul Marquess" <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
	     Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:22:09 +0100
	     Message-Id: <20040807142059.CTQC10838.mta10-svc.ntlworld.com@MARQUESSPT21>
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> ext/Cwd/t/win32.t
	   ! lib/Math/BigInt.pm
	  !> MANIFEST ext/Cwd/Changes ext/Cwd/Cwd.xs ext/Cwd/t/cwd.t
	  !> ext/DB_File/Changes ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
	  !> ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/DB_File/t/db-hash.t lib/Cwd.pm
	  !> lib/File/Spec.pm lib/File/Spec/Win32.pm lib/File/Spec/t/Spec.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigFloat.pm lib/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbf.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbi.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.inc lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigfltpm.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.inc lib/Math/BigInt/t/bigintpm.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbf.t lib/Math/BigInt/t/sub_mbi.t
	  !> lib/Math/BigInt/t/with_sub.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23264] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  18:42:01
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23092]
	     Subject: Re: [perl #30568] splice generates undef? [PATCH]
	     From: LAUN Wolfgang <wolfgang.laun@alcatel.at>
	     Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:26:01 +0200
	     Message-ID: <DF27CDCBD2581D4B88431901094E4B4D02B0C7D2@attmsx1.aut.alcatel.at>
	     
	     [ 23145]
	     Subject: [PATCH perl-current] Re: [perl #30688] Empty slice arg with ($;$) prototype
	     From: Rick Delaney <rick@bort.ca>
	     Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:53:54 -0400
	     Message-ID: <20040720205353.GA970@biff.bort.ca>
	     
	     [ 23177]
	     shut up a warning in mg.c
	     
	     [ 23178]
	     Remove redundant SvOOK_off (called implicitly by SvOK_off)
	     and merge identical cases.
	     
	     [ 23213]
	     Subject: Re: 2 patches: goto.t, B.pm/xs
	     From: Jim Cromie <jcromie@divsol.com>
	     Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 07:29:08 -0600
	     Message-ID: <4118CDA4.3060700@divsol.com>
	     
	     [ 23217]
	     make pp_goto() cope potential stack reallocation in EXTEND
	     The code for goto &foo had local pointers to the stack that
	     pointed to the wrong place after a realloc.
	     
	     [ 23230]
	     a regex in STDOUT destructor coredumped because regex pad already
	     freed
	     
	     [ 23235]
	     Subject: [perl #31295] PATCH: Test comp/use.t fails on Tru64 
	     From: Nikola Milutinovic (via RT) <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
	     Date: 23 Aug 2004 10:37:31 -0000
	     Message-ID: <rt-3.0.11-31295-94232.1.74127465250315@perl.org>
	     
	     [ 23251]
	     [perl #31111] Random made scripts crashing perl
	     fix 'formline undef' coredump
	     
	     [ 23252]
	     delete spurious blank lines added by change 23251
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> mg.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c scope.c t/comp/use.t t/op/goto.t
	  !> t/op/list.t t/op/ref.t t/op/splice.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23263] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  08:30:36
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23090]
	     no_plan support in test.pl
	     
	     [ 23208]
	     made eq_array in t/test.pl handle undef values better
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> t/test.pl
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23262] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/05  08:11:31
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23089]
	     Subject: Re: debugger 'R'estart and open database connections
	     From: Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
	     Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:06:01 -0400
	     Message-ID: <20040713010601.GF8232@pimlott.net>
	     
	     [ 23095]
	     Tweak to change #23089, as suggested by Tim Bunce
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/perl5db.pl
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23261] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/04  20:30:30
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23074]
	     Subject: Re: Segfault using HTML::Entities
	     From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
	     Message-ID: <40EDBE1A.6080205@iki.fi>
	     Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:35:22 +0300
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> pp_ctl.c regexec.c t/run/fresh_perl.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23260] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/04  20:18:50
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22997]
	     Cleanup the main regex in Text::ParseWords and make the
	     parse_line() routine faster. Add a Unicode test case.
	     
	     [ 23060]
	     Failing matches don't reset numbered variables.
	     Change #22997 could cause Text::ParseWords to loop forever if the
	     regex didn't not match. Explicitly return if the match fails.
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> lib/Text/ParseWords.pm lib/Text/ParseWords.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23259] By: nicholas				   on 2004/09/04  19:40:24
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 22969]
	     Abolish the "Tied variable freed while still in use" error - I have
	     a way to cleanly avoid the coredump.
	     
	     [ 23040]
	     t/op/tie.t test 23 is failing when run with utf8 everywhere.
	     Problem appears to be due to theft of temporaries
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> mg.c pod/perldiag.pod t/op/tie.t
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23169] By: nicholas				   on 2004/07/29  22:05:16
	Log: Integrate:
	     [ 23058]
	     Stop ENV_IS_CASELESS hv.c picking up the wrong hash value from a
	     shared string scalar.
	     
	     [ 23061]
	     hv_store was not passing hash onwards (spotted by Dave)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  !> hv.c
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23153] By: nicholas				   on 2004/07/22  17:05:37
	Log: Create pod/perl586delta.pod
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	  +> pod/perl586delta.pod
	   ! MANIFEST Makefile.SH pod.lst pod/perl.pod pod/perl585delta.pod
	   ! pod/perltoc.pod vms/descrip_mms.template win32/Makefile
	   ! win32/makefile.mk win32/pod.mak
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23144] By: nicholas				   on 2004/07/20  16:39:42
	Log: Typo spotted by Jarkko. (But not by ispell, as it was another valid
	     word)
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! pod/perl585delta.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23143] By: nicholas				   on 2004/07/19  21:51:18
	Log: Disarm the maint branch
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! patchlevel.h
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23141] By: nicholas				   on 2004/07/19  14:25:58
	Log: Break a leg
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! patchlevel.h pod/perlhist.pod
____________________________________________________________________________
[ 23140] By: nicholas				   on 2004/07/19  14:06:59
	Log: Update Changes
     Branch: maint-5.8/perl
	   ! Changes patchlevel.h