Maintaining the Perl 5 Core (Zefram): Grant Report for Dec 2017
Wed, 17-Jan-2018 by
Makoto Nozaki
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<pre>The hours that I have worked in 2017-12 pursuant to my TPF core
maintenance grant are as follows.
22h40m [perl #130851] [PATCH] socket SOCK_CLOEXEC
21h58m review tickets
16h19m review mail
12h47m smartmatch
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11h19m [perl #125806] Perl segfaults in BEGIN, write to null
pointer, separate bug
10h52m [perl #132425] Suggested warning on attempt to 'use' with
arguments when no import() subroutine exists
4h13m [perl #132577] BBC Module::Install broken by
0301e899536a22752f40481d8a1d141b7a7dda82
3h46m [perl #2754] [BUG] can't exit 0 from CHECK{}
2h24m [perl #130076] readline argument list is messed up
2h19m [perl #105920] Perl parser sometimes tolerates stray nulls,
sometimes not
2h12m [perl #129888] null ptr deref, segfault in Perl_do_aexec5
(doio.c:1595)
2h12m [perl #110056] installhtml uses absolute paths in links
1h41m [perl #115814] open ${\$x} leaks
1h41m [perl #110520] pod2html 1.12 & 1.13 broken
1h39m [perl #119831] Data::Dumper: Useqq should apply to glob
names, too
1h38m [perl #92264] Freeing $a or $b during sort causes a double
free
1h38m grammar token typing
1h32m perldelta
1h32m [perl #132234] use-of-uninitialized-value in Perl_upg_version
(vutil.c:669)
1h32m [perl #132644] The 'each' function documentation is missing
some information.
1h25m [perl #132142] Bleadperl v5.27.3-34-gf6107ca24b breaks
MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-HTTP-2.23.tar.gz
1h25m [perl #132540] uninitialized variable and integer overrun in
pp.c and toke.c
1h25m [perl #132651] commit d2e38af7 exhausts swap space on FreeBSD
1h11m [perl #126042] Segmentation fault in Perl_pp_multiply (and
other functions)
1h09m [perl #132578] BBC List::MoreUtils::XS broken by
16ada235c332e017667585e1a5a00ce43a31c529
1h06m [perl #119829] usemymalloc cannot handle long strings
1h03m [perl #132633] [Win32] 5.27.7 fails all tests.
1h01m [perl #119367] Another 32-bit residual in 64-bit perl 5.18
1h00m create tickets
1h00m [perl #74142] provide a better c wrapper example in perlsec
59m [perl #131894] runtime error: shift exponent -2 is negative
(toke.c:10966:54)
55m [perl #4574] readpipe() broken: 2 bugs
54m [perl #113406] perldoc in 5.16.0 required groff upgrade but
now misdisplays asterisks
52m [perl #104060] Writing to $> and friends hide errors
49m [perl #132648] Cwd: different return values between pure perl
and XS variants
45m C++ dNOOP
45m [perl #130726] semicolons on *_DIAG_{IGNORE,RESTORE}
44m [perl #126150] Regex missing from perlref
41m perl_run() on Windows
40m [perl #132634] Strange bug in the new given/whereis/whereso
construct (perl-5.27.7)
38m [perl #119623] GDBM_FILE: gdbm_open requires a blocksize to
be a power of two
37m [perl #130958] inconsistent block/hash detection (again)
37m [perl #121105] During a system(), unquoted Perl vars are
evaluated _after_ the fork() call
37m [perl #121372] warn broken when operand is overloaded
34m [perl #128261] Assert fail in Perl_sv_2pv_flags: 'sub
MODIFY_HASH_ATTRIBUTES{}my(%o):s==0'
33m Devel::NYTProf BBC from fake-import change
32m [perl #113090] Data::Dumper -- undef not recognized as
"false" in config booleans
31m [perl #132544] heap-buffer-overflow (WRITE of size 8) in
Perl_pp_reverse
30m [perl #130578] op.c:10706: OP *Perl_ck_refassign(OP *):
Assertion `left->op_type == OP_SREFGEN' failed
30m PERL_EXIT_DESTRUCT_END on Windows
28m [perl #132527] Bleadperl v5.27.5-398-g19a8de4862 breaks
MLEHMANN/AnyEvent-HTTP-2.23.tar.gz
27m [perl #96538] Closures returned from threads don't wrap
around the right lexicals
26m [perl #125330] 'Masks earlier declaration' warning move from
misc to syntax
26m [perl #130818] [PATCH] Remove EPOC and MacOS Classic support
from PathTools
25m [perl #114316] '--splithead' option to 'installhtml' fails to
clean up after itself
23m [perl #131634] inline.h:147: I32 S_POPMARK(): Assertion
`(PL_markstack_ptr > PL_markstack) || !"MARK underflow"'
failed.
23m [perl #132626] perl5 sprintf: wrong output on format %a
23m [perl #124428] bless $x, undef to unbless
21m DATA handle encoding
21m [perl #126414] perl rounds inode in PP stat
20m [perl #124349] Sys::Hostname::hostname warn on spurious
arguments
19m [perl #74864] test suite failure on powerpc with
-Duselongdouble
19m [perl #122753] Docs on destructors are inaccurate
19m [perl #129347] null pointer deref S_ft_return_false
(pp_sys.c:3036)
18m [perl #132247] XSLoader and DynaLoader documentation bugs
17m [perl #117449] GDBM tied hash weirdness; deletion ends 'each'
loop
17m [perl #131762] perldoc output misbehaviour
17m [perl #132645] Array names starting with 'Inf' can be poorly
behaved.
16m [perl #131061] Documentation of backslash operator inducing
list context for its operand is missing
15m octal fp literals erroneously switching radix
15m [perl #6997] "Useless use of concatenation" warning not
triggered by multiple concatenations.
15m [perl #115754] sub refs returned from @INC hooks receive
wrong parameters
14m [perl #131893] runtime error: signed integer overflow: 1 +
9223372036854775807 cannot be represented in type 'long'
(regcomp.c:5935:23)
13m [perl #115252] Inconsistent treatment of nulls and newlines
in <...>
12m [perl #126085] Not expected arguments for $SIG{__WARN__}
handler
11m [perl #132638] I've discovered a segfault
11m [perl #119635] deprecate and remove qsort?
11m [perl #131518] [PATCH] -mpragma (eg strict) fail silent
blindsiding
10m [perl #131631] Segfault in Perl_cv_undef_flags
10m [perl #116080] Doc issues for system, exec, qx
8m [perl #127391] possible inconsistency in "perlop"
documentation on associativity of operators
5m [perl #131672] perldebguts documentation should be fixed
5m [perl #127712] defined on HashofHash defines an element in
the hash
4m [perl #131987] Heap Use After Free (READ of size 1) in
Perl_yylex (toke.c:5137)
160h46m TOTAL
At the end of the month there was 104h12m of authorised working time
remaining in this grant.
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