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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>. |