| 1 | .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v1.37, Pod::Parser v1.32 |
| 2 | .\" |
| 3 | .\" Standard preamble: |
| 4 | .\" ======================================================================== |
| 5 | .de Sh \" Subsection heading |
| 6 | .br |
| 7 | .if t .Sp |
| 8 | .ne 5 |
| 9 | .PP |
| 10 | \fB\\$1\fR |
| 11 | .PP |
| 12 | .. |
| 13 | .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) |
| 14 | .if t .sp .5v |
| 15 | .if n .sp |
| 16 | .. |
| 17 | .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text |
| 18 | .ft CW |
| 19 | .nf |
| 20 | .ne \\$1 |
| 21 | .. |
| 22 | .de Ve \" End verbatim text |
| 23 | .ft R |
| 24 | .fi |
| 25 | .. |
| 26 | .\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will |
| 27 | .\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left |
| 28 | .\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. | will give a |
| 29 | .\" real vertical bar. \*(C+ will give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to |
| 30 | .\" do unbreakable dashes and therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' |
| 31 | .\" expand to `' in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. |
| 32 | .tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr |
| 33 | .ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p' |
| 34 | .ie n \{\ |
| 35 | . ds -- \(*W- |
| 36 | . ds PI pi |
| 37 | . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch |
| 38 | . if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch |
| 39 | . ds L" "" |
| 40 | . ds R" "" |
| 41 | . ds C` "" |
| 42 | . ds C' "" |
| 43 | 'br\} |
| 44 | .el\{\ |
| 45 | . ds -- \|\(em\| |
| 46 | . ds PI \(*p |
| 47 | . ds L" `` |
| 48 | . ds R" '' |
| 49 | 'br\} |
| 50 | .\" |
| 51 | .\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for |
| 52 | .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index |
| 53 | .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the |
| 54 | .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. |
| 55 | .if \nF \{\ |
| 56 | . de IX |
| 57 | . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" |
| 58 | .. |
| 59 | . nr % 0 |
| 60 | . rr F |
| 61 | .\} |
| 62 | .\" |
| 63 | .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes |
| 64 | .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. |
| 65 | .hy 0 |
| 66 | .if n .na |
| 67 | .\" |
| 68 | .\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2). |
| 69 | .\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts. |
| 70 | . \" fudge factors for nroff and troff |
| 71 | .if n \{\ |
| 72 | . ds #H 0 |
| 73 | . ds #V .8m |
| 74 | . ds #F .3m |
| 75 | . ds #[ \f1 |
| 76 | . ds #] \fP |
| 77 | .\} |
| 78 | .if t \{\ |
| 79 | . ds #H ((1u-(\\\\n(.fu%2u))*.13m) |
| 80 | . ds #V .6m |
| 81 | . ds #F 0 |
| 82 | . ds #[ \& |
| 83 | . ds #] \& |
| 84 | .\} |
| 85 | . \" simple accents for nroff and troff |
| 86 | .if n \{\ |
| 87 | . ds ' \& |
| 88 | . ds ` \& |
| 89 | . ds ^ \& |
| 90 | . ds , \& |
| 91 | . ds ~ ~ |
| 92 | . ds / |
| 93 | .\} |
| 94 | .if t \{\ |
| 95 | . ds ' \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\'\h"|\\n:u" |
| 96 | . ds ` \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\`\h'|\\n:u' |
| 97 | . ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'^\h'|\\n:u' |
| 98 | . ds , \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10)',\h'|\\n:u' |
| 99 | . ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu-\*(#H-.1m)'~\h'|\\n:u' |
| 100 | . ds / \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\z\(sl\h'|\\n:u' |
| 101 | .\} |
| 102 | . \" troff and (daisy-wheel) nroff accents |
| 103 | .ds : \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H+.1m+\*(#F)'\v'-\*(#V'\z.\h'.2m+\*(#F'.\h'|\\n:u'\v'\*(#V' |
| 104 | .ds 8 \h'\*(#H'\(*b\h'-\*(#H' |
| 105 | .ds o \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu+\w'\(de'u-\*(#H)/2u'\v'-.3n'\*(#[\z\(de\v'.3n'\h'|\\n:u'\*(#] |
| 106 | .ds d- \h'\*(#H'\(pd\h'-\w'~'u'\v'-.25m'\f2\(hy\fP\v'.25m'\h'-\*(#H' |
| 107 | .ds D- D\\k:\h'-\w'D'u'\v'-.11m'\z\(hy\v'.11m'\h'|\\n:u' |
| 108 | .ds th \*(#[\v'.3m'\s+1I\s-1\v'-.3m'\h'-(\w'I'u*2/3)'\s-1o\s+1\*(#] |
| 109 | .ds Th \*(#[\s+2I\s-2\h'-\w'I'u*3/5'\v'-.3m'o\v'.3m'\*(#] |
| 110 | .ds ae a\h'-(\w'a'u*4/10)'e |
| 111 | .ds Ae A\h'-(\w'A'u*4/10)'E |
| 112 | . \" corrections for vroff |
| 113 | .if v .ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H)'\s-2\u~\d\s+2\h'|\\n:u' |
| 114 | .if v .ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'\v'-.4m'^\v'.4m'\h'|\\n:u' |
| 115 | . \" for low resolution devices (crt and lpr) |
| 116 | .if \n(.H>23 .if \n(.V>19 \ |
| 117 | \{\ |
| 118 | . ds : e |
| 119 | . ds 8 ss |
| 120 | . ds o a |
| 121 | . ds d- d\h'-1'\(ga |
| 122 | . ds D- D\h'-1'\(hy |
| 123 | . ds th \o'bp' |
| 124 | . ds Th \o'LP' |
| 125 | . ds ae ae |
| 126 | . ds Ae AE |
| 127 | .\} |
| 128 | .rm #[ #] #H #V #F C |
| 129 | .\" ======================================================================== |
| 130 | .\" |
| 131 | .IX Title "PERL573DELTA 1" |
| 132 | .TH PERL573DELTA 1 "2006-01-07" "perl v5.8.8" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" |
| 133 | .SH "NAME" |
| 134 | perl573delta \- what's new for perl v5.7.3 |
| 135 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
| 136 | .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" |
| 137 | This document describes differences between the 5.7.2 release and the |
| 138 | 5.7.3 release. |
| 139 | .PP |
| 140 | (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 |
| 141 | release, see perl570delta. To view the differences between the |
| 142 | 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see perl571delta. To view |
| 143 | the differences between the 5.7.1 release and the 5.7.2 release, |
| 144 | see perl572delta.) |
| 145 | .SH "Changes" |
| 146 | .IX Header "Changes" |
| 147 | This is just a selected list of some of the more notable changes. |
| 148 | The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see |
| 149 | Changes58 (or Changes in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these |
| 150 | changes, lots of work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and |
| 151 | Unicode; general code cleanup; and last but not least porting to |
| 152 | non-UNIX lands such as Win32, \s-1VMS\s0, Cygwin, \s-1DJGPP\s0, \s-1VOS\s0, MacOS Classic, |
| 153 | and \s-1EBCDIC\s0. |
| 154 | .IP "11362" 4 |
| 155 | .IX Item "11362" |
| 156 | add \s-1LC_MESSAGES\s0 to \s-1POSIX\s0 :locale_h export tag |
| 157 | .IP "11371" 4 |
| 158 | .IX Item "11371" |
| 159 | add \s-1DEL\s0 to [:cntrl:] |
| 160 | .IP "11375" 4 |
| 161 | .IX Item "11375" |
| 162 | make h2ph understand constants like 1234L and 5678LL |
| 163 | .IP "11405" 4 |
| 164 | .IX Item "11405" |
| 165 | Win32: fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment |
| 166 | .IP "11410" 4 |
| 167 | .IX Item "11410" |
| 168 | fix a bug in the security taint checking of \fIopen()\fR |
| 169 | .IP "11423" 4 |
| 170 | .IX Item "11423" |
| 171 | make perl \fIfork()\fR safe even on platforms that don't have \fIpthread_atfork()\fR |
| 172 | .IP "11459" 4 |
| 173 | .IX Item "11459" |
| 174 | make switching optimization and debugging levels during Perl builds |
| 175 | easier via the \s-1OPTIMIZE\s0 environment variable |
| 176 | .IP "11475" 4 |
| 177 | .IX Item "11475" |
| 178 | make \fIsplit()\fR's unused captures to be undef, not '' |
| 179 | .IP "11485" 4 |
| 180 | .IX Item "11485" |
| 181 | Search::Dict: allow transforming lines before comparing |
| 182 | .IP "11490" 4 |
| 183 | .IX Item "11490" |
| 184 | allow installing extra modules or bundles when building Perl |
| 185 | .IP "11516" 4 |
| 186 | .IX Item "11516" |
| 187 | add \-Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed out dubious |
| 188 | C practices |
| 189 | .IP "11541" 4 |
| 190 | .IX Item "11541" |
| 191 | pluggable optimizer |
| 192 | .IP "11549" 4 |
| 193 | .IX Item "11549" |
| 194 | WinCE: integrate the port |
| 195 | .IP "11589" 4 |
| 196 | .IX Item "11589" |
| 197 | Win32: 4\-arg select was broken |
| 198 | .IP "11594" 4 |
| 199 | .IX Item "11594" |
| 200 | introduce the perlivp utility for verifying the Perl installation |
| 201 | (\s-1IVP\s0 = Installation Verification Procedure) |
| 202 | .IP "11623" 4 |
| 203 | .IX Item "11623" |
| 204 | rename lib/unicode to lib/unicore to avoid case-insensitivity problems |
| 205 | with lib/Unicode |
| 206 | .IP "111631" 4 |
| 207 | .IX Item "111631" |
| 208 | remove Time::Piece |
| 209 | .IP "11643" 4 |
| 210 | .IX Item "11643" |
| 211 | document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the time |
| 212 | .IP "11656" 4 |
| 213 | .IX Item "11656" |
| 214 | allow building perl with \-DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes \s-1UTF\-8\s0 |
| 215 | the default script encoding (not the default since that would |
| 216 | break all scripts having legacy eight-bit data in them) |
| 217 | .IP "11725" 4 |
| 218 | .IX Item "11725" |
| 219 | division preserving 64\-bit integers |
| 220 | .IP "11743" 4 |
| 221 | .IX Item "11743" |
| 222 | document the coderef\-in\-@INC feature |
| 223 | .IP "11794" 4 |
| 224 | .IX Item "11794" |
| 225 | modulo (%) preserving 64\-bit integers |
| 226 | .IP "11825" 4 |
| 227 | .IX Item "11825" |
| 228 | update to Unicode 3.1.1 |
| 229 | .IP "11865" 4 |
| 230 | .IX Item "11865" |
| 231 | add the \e[$@%&*] prototype support |
| 232 | .IP "11874" 4 |
| 233 | .IX Item "11874" |
| 234 | \&\fIoct()\fR and \fIhex()\fR in glorious 64 bit |
| 235 | .IP "11877" 4 |
| 236 | .IX Item "11877" |
| 237 | Class::Struct: allow recursive classes |
| 238 | .IP "11993" 4 |
| 239 | .IX Item "11993" |
| 240 | fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U |
| 241 | .IP "12056" 4 |
| 242 | .IX Item "12056" |
| 243 | \&\s-1VMS:\s0 waitpid enhancements |
| 244 | .IP "12180" 4 |
| 245 | .IX Item "12180" |
| 246 | unpack(\*(L"Z*Z*\*(R", pack(\*(L"Z*Z*\*(R", ..)) was broken |
| 247 | .IP "12243" 4 |
| 248 | .IX Item "12243" |
| 249 | Devel::Peek: display \s-1UTF\-8\s0 SVs also as \ex{...} |
| 250 | .IP "12288" 4 |
| 251 | .IX Item "12288" |
| 252 | Data::Dumper: option to sort hashes |
| 253 | .IP "12542" 4 |
| 254 | .IX Item "12542" |
| 255 | add perlpodspec |
| 256 | .IP "12652" 4 |
| 257 | .IX Item "12652" |
| 258 | threadsafe DynaLoader, re, Opcode, File::Glob, and B |
| 259 | .IP "12756" 4 |
| 260 | .IX Item "12756" |
| 261 | support BeOS better |
| 262 | .IP "12874" 4 |
| 263 | .IX Item "12874" |
| 264 | read-only hashes (user\-level interface is Hash::Util) |
| 265 | .IP "13162" 4 |
| 266 | .IX Item "13162" |
| 267 | add Devel::PPPort |
| 268 | .IP "13179" 4 |
| 269 | .IX Item "13179" |
| 270 | add the sort pragma |
| 271 | .IP "13326" 4 |
| 272 | .IX Item "13326" |
| 273 | \&\s-1VMS:\s0 fix perl \-P |
| 274 | .IP "13358" 4 |
| 275 | .IX Item "13358" |
| 276 | add perlpacktut |
| 277 | .IP "13452" 4 |
| 278 | .IX Item "13452" |
| 279 | \&\s-1SUPER\-UX:\s0 add hints file |
| 280 | .IP "13575" 4 |
| 281 | .IX Item "13575" |
| 282 | Win32: non-blocking waitpid(\-1,WNOHANG) |
| 283 | .IP "13684" 4 |
| 284 | .IX Item "13684" |
| 285 | introduce the \-t option for gentler taint checking |
| 286 | .IP "14694" 4 |
| 287 | .IX Item "14694" |
| 288 | add the if pragma |
| 289 | .IP "14832" 4 |
| 290 | .IX Item "14832" |
| 291 | implement IV/UV/NV/long double un/packing with j/J/F/D |
| 292 | .IP "14854" 4 |
| 293 | .IX Item "14854" |
| 294 | document the new taint behaviour of exec \s-1LIST\s0 and system \s-1LIST\s0 |
| 295 | .SH "Reporting Bugs" |
| 296 | .IX Header "Reporting Bugs" |
| 297 | If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles |
| 298 | recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl |
| 299 | bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be |
| 300 | information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. |
| 301 | .PP |
| 302 | If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the \fBperlbug\fR |
| 303 | program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down |
| 304 | to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the |
| 305 | output of \f(CW\*(C`perl \-V\*(C'\fR, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be |
| 306 | analysed by the Perl porting team. |
| 307 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 308 | .IX Header "SEE ALSO" |
| 309 | The \fIChanges\fR file for exhaustive details on what changed. |
| 310 | .PP |
| 311 | The \fI\s-1INSTALL\s0\fR file for how to build Perl. |
| 312 | .PP |
| 313 | The \fI\s-1README\s0\fR file for general stuff. |
| 314 | .PP |
| 315 | The \fIArtistic\fR and \fICopying\fR files for copyright information. |
| 316 | .SH "HISTORY" |
| 317 | .IX Header "HISTORY" |
| 318 | Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <\fIjhi@iki.fi\fR>, with many contributions |
| 319 | from The Perl Porters and Perl Users submitting feedback and patches. |
| 320 | .PP |
| 321 | Send omissions or corrections to <\fIperlbug@perl.org\fR>. |