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- PATCH20. "$var{$foo'bar}" didn't scan subscript correctly
- PATCH20. "foo"x1024 now legal without space after x
- PATCH20. &ctime didn't handle $[ != 0
- PATCH20. &getcap eventually dumped core in bsdcurses
- PATCH20. &shellwords looped on bad input, and used inefficient regular exprs
- PATCH20. ($<,$>) = ... didn't work on some architectures
- PATCH20. -e 'cmd' no longer fails silently if /tmp runs out of space
- PATCH20. /^stuff/ wrongly assumed an implicit $* == 1
- PATCH20. /x{0}/ was wrongly interpreted as /x{0,}/
- PATCH20. 2. now eats the dot
- PATCH20. <@ARGV> now notices @ARGV
- PATCH20. @ in unpack failed too often
- PATCH20. Configure growing-library-list bug fixed
- PATCH20. Configure now allows optional continuation with files missing
- PATCH20. OSF/1 support added
- PATCH20. O_PIPE conflicted with Atari
- PATCH20. PERLLIB now supports multiple directories
- PATCH20. Perl now distinguishes overlapped copies from non-overlapped
- PATCH20. SH files didn't work well with symbolic links
- PATCH20. Tom's famous double-ended pipe opener, open2(), is now included
- PATCH20. a splice on non-existent array elements could dump core
- PATCH20. a2p was installed unexecutable
- PATCH20. added ... as variant on ..
- PATCH20. added Atari ST portability
- PATCH20. added \W, \S and \D inside /[...]/
- PATCH20. added explicit time_t support
- PATCH20. alternate config.h files upgraded
- PATCH20. an EXPR may now start with a bareword
- PATCH20. an eval block containing a null block or statement could dump core
- PATCH20. an expression may now start with a bareword
- PATCH20. bcopy() and memcpy() now tested for overlap safety
- PATCH20. better support in chat2 for multiple children
- PATCH20. big*.pl library files upgraded
- PATCH20. clarified debugging output for literals and double-quoted strings
- PATCH20. clarified that DATA may only be read from main script
- PATCH20. config.H updated to reflect more recent config.h
- PATCH20. couldn't require . files
- PATCH20. cray didn't give enough memory to /bin/sh
- PATCH20. dbmclose(%array) didn't work
- PATCH20. debugger sometimes displayed wrong source line
- PATCH20. delete could cause %array to give too low a count of buckets filled
- PATCH20. deleted some minor memory leaks
- PATCH20. disabled cpp test if cppstdin not yet installed
- PATCH20. documented PERLLIB and PERLDB
- PATCH20. documented limit on size of regexp
- PATCH20. documented need for 1; at the end of a required file
- PATCH20. documented that numbers may contain underline
- PATCH20. end of file latch not reset on reopen of STDIN
- PATCH20. eval "1 #comment" didn't work
- PATCH20. find.pl got confused by unreadable directories
- PATCH20. find2perl assumed . in PATH
- PATCH20. find2perl didn't always stat at the right time
- PATCH20. find2perl didn't output portable startup code
- PATCH20. fixed confusion between a *var's real name and its effective name
- PATCH20. fixed double debug break in foreach with implicit array assignment
- PATCH20. fixed memory leak in doube-quote interpretation
- PATCH20. fixed memory leak on system() for vfork() machines
- PATCH20. fixed some memory leaks in splice
- PATCH20. form feed for formats is now specifiable via $^L
- PATCH20. function key support added to curses.mus
- PATCH20. g pattern modifer sometimes returned extra values
- PATCH20. get*by* routines now return something useful in a scalar context
- PATCH20. h_errno now accessible via $?
- PATCH20. hash tables now split only if the memory is available to do so
- PATCH20. hints now auto selected on uname -s as well as uname -m
- PATCH20. if {block} {block} didn't work any more
- PATCH20. illegal lvalue message could be followed by core dump
- PATCH20. in a2p, do {...} while ... was missing some reconstruction code
- PATCH20. in a2p, getline should allow variable to be array element
- PATCH20. in a2p, made RS="" translate to $/ = "\n\n"
- PATCH20. in a2p, now allows [ to be backslashed in pattern
- PATCH20. in a2p, now allows numbers of the form 2.
- PATCH20. in a2p, now warns about spurious backslashes
- PATCH20. in a2p, simplified the filehandle model
- PATCH20. in some cases $` and $' didn't get set by match
- PATCH20. installperl didn't warn on failed manpage installation
- PATCH20. isascii() may now be supplied by a library routine
- PATCH20. join() now pre-extends target string to avoid excessive copying
- PATCH20. m/$pattern/g didn't work
- PATCH20. made /\$$foo/ look for literal '$foo'
- PATCH20. makefiles now display new shift/reduce expectations
- PATCH20. many more hints added
- PATCH20. many more hints files added
- PATCH20. modulus with highest bit in left operand set didn't always work
- PATCH20. new OS/2 support
- PATCH20. new version of newgetopt.pl
- PATCH20. new warning for ambiguous use of unary operators
- PATCH20. new warning for use of x with non-numeric right operand
- PATCH20. new warning on missing $ for foreach variable
- PATCH20. new warning on print accidentally used as function
- PATCH20. new warning on spurious backslash
- PATCH20. new warnings for failed use of stat operators on filenames with \n
- PATCH20. paragraph mode now skips extra newlines automatically
- PATCH20. pattern modifiers i and g didn't interact right
- PATCH20. pattern modifiers i and o didn't interact right
- PATCH20. perl - The perl programming language, Patch20
- PATCH20. perl -P now uses location of sed determined by Configure
- PATCH20. perldb couldn't debug file containing '-', such as STDIN designator
- PATCH20. print $fh EXPR can now expect term rather than operator in EXPR
- PATCH20. realloc(0, size) now does malloc in case library routines call it
- PATCH20. relaxed requirement for semicolon at the end of a block
- PATCH20. removed implicit int declarations on functions
- PATCH20. running taintperl explicitly now does checks even if $< == $>
- PATCH20. s()() and tr()()
- PATCH20. s2p didn't output portable startup code
- PATCH20. s2p didn't translate s/pat/\&/ or s/pat/\$/ or s/pat/\\1/ right
- PATCH20. scalar keys %array now counts keys for you
- PATCH20. seek(HANDLE, 0, 1) went to eof because of ancient Ultrix workaround
- PATCH20. seekdir(), telldir() and rewinddir() now checked for independently
- PATCH20. semantic compilation errors didn't abort execution
- PATCH20. slice on null list in scalar context returned random value
- PATCH20. some machines don't define ENOTSOCK in errno.h
- PATCH20. splice with negative offset didn't work with $[ = 1
- PATCH20. subroutines didn't localize $`, $&, $', $1 et al correctly
- PATCH20. support added to installperl for cross-compilation
- PATCH20. support added to pwd.pl to strip automounter crud
- PATCH20. support for MSDOS folded into perldb.pl
- PATCH20. termcap.pl didn't parse termcap terminal names right
- PATCH20. the debugger made perl forget the last pattern used by //
- PATCH20. the debugger now warns you on lines that can't set a breakpoint
- PATCH20. the switch optimizer didn't do anything in subroutines
- PATCH20. timelocal could loop on bad input
- PATCH20. timelocal now calculates DST itself
- PATCH20. tr/// now lets you say \-
- PATCH20. tr/stuff// wasn't working right
- PATCH20. usersub routines didn't reclaim temp values soon enough
- PATCH20. various error messages have been clarified
- PATCH20. wait failed when STDOUT or STDERR reopened to a pipe
- PATCH21. patch #20, continued
- PATCH21. perl - The perl programming language, Patch21
- PATCH22. patch #20, continued
- PATCH22. perl - The perl programming language, Patch22
- PATCH23. patch #20, continued
- PATCH23. perl - The perl programming language, Patch23
- PATCH24. patch #20, continued
- PATCH24. perl - The perl programming language, Patch24
- PATCH25. patch #20, continued
- PATCH25. perl - The perl programming language, Patch25
- PATCH26. patch #20, continued
- PATCH26. perl - The perl programming language, Patch26
- PATCH27. patch #20, continued
- PATCH27. perl - The perl programming language, Patch27
- PATCH28. patch #20, continued
- PATCH28. perl - The perl programming language, Patch28
- PATCH29. patch #20, continued
- PATCH29. perl - The perl programming language, Patch29
- PATCH30. patch #20, continued
- PATCH30. perl - The perl programming language, Patch30
- PATCH31. patch #20, continued
- PATCH31. perl - The perl programming language, Patch31
- PATCH32. patch #20, continued
- PATCH32. perl - The perl programming language, Patch32
- PATCH33. patch #20, continued
- PATCH33. perl - The perl programming language, Patch33
- PATCH34. boneheaded typo in my_bcopy()
- PATCH34. changed perlsh to use $/ = "\n\n"
- PATCH34. expectterm incorrectly set to indicate start of program or block
- PATCH34. join with null list attempted negative allocation
- PATCH34. library files were installed without guaranteed permissions
- PATCH34. perl - The perl programming language, Patch34
- PATCH34. pidgone() wasn't declared right
- PATCH34. quotes containing subscripts containing variables didn't parse right
- PATCH34. some systems don't declare h_errno extern in header files
- PATCH34. sprintf("%6.4s", "abcdefg") didn't print "abcd "
- PATCH34. tests for safe bcopy and memcpy sometimes needed libraries
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