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Devel-PPPort-3.12
River stage four • 73 direct dependents • 1315 total dependents
12 ++

Changes for version 3.12 - 2007-09-22

  • released without changes

Changes for version 3.11_06 - 2007-09-11

  • fix cpan #29302: Perl_croak_nocontext doesn't need aTHX_ (spotted by Jerry D. Hedden)
  • fix a Win32 VC++ compiler warning (thanks to Steve Hay for providing a patch)
  • don't generate redundant specs for provided Perl_ functions
  • fun with const and casts to avoid compiler warnings
  • bump max supported version to 5.10.0

Changes for version 3.11_05 - 2007-08-20

  • fix: PERL_HASH() was emitting a warning when passed in a const char pointer
  • fix: sv_magic_portable() was emitting a warning when passed in a const char pointer
  • fix: make sure arguments to sv_magic_portable() are only evaluated once

Changes for version 3.11_04 - 2007-08-20

  • fix: ignore strings and XS comments when scanning and patching files
  • added support for the following API newSVpvn_share PERL_HASH SvSHARED_HASH
  • use PERL_BCDREVISION for version checking to save some bytes in ppport.h
  • improve the --strip option
    • strip all C comments
    • strip most superfluous whitespace with these changes, the stripped ppport.h is now almost 30% smaller: 3.11_03 3.11_04 delta
      • uncompressed 87988 62573 -28.9% gzip'd 17985 12725 -29.2%

Changes for version 3.11_03 - 2007-08-14

  • fix an infinite recursion in ppport.h that could be triggered by circular dependencies
  • fix PERL_BCDREVISION, which wasn't BCD but simply shifted decimal (just in time for 5.10)
  • fix detection of macros that are not listed in the implementation/dontwarn sections

Changes for version 3.11_02 - 2007-08-13

  • fix cpan #25372: special case sv_magic(sv, obj, how, name, 0)
  • fix cpan #27906: [PATCH] add UTF8_MAXBYTES (thanks to Steve Peters for providing a patch)
  • added support for the following API sv_2pv_flags sv_2pvbyte_nolen SV_CONST_RETURN SV_COW_DROP_PV SV_COW_SHARED_HASH_KEYS SV_GMAGIC SV_HAS_TRAILING_NUL SV_IMMEDIATE_UNREF sv_magic_portable SV_MUTABLE_RETURN SV_NOSTEAL sv_pvn_force_flags SV_SMAGIC SV_UTF8_NO_ENCODING SvPV_const SvPV_flags SvPV_flags_const SvPV_flags_const_nolen SvPV_flags_mutable SvPV_force SvPV_force_flags SvPV_force_flags_mutable SvPV_force_flags_nolen SvPV_force_mutable SvPV_force_nolen SvPV_force_nomg_nolen SvPV_mutable SvPV_nolen_const SvPV_nomg_const SvPV_nomg_const_nolen SvUOK UTF8_MAXBYTES
  • provide compatibility macros for vanished variables PL_expect, PL_copline, PL_rsfp, PL_rsfp_filters
  • add warnings support to ppport.h
  • update ppport.h file searching logic
  • add -c.inc and -xs.inc to the list of supported extensions
  • document that --copy doesn't include the dot
  • improve soak script and devel/buildperl.pl

Changes for version 3.11_01 - 2007-03-23

  • added support for the following API PL_expect load_module vload_module (thanks to Nicholas Clark for providing a patch)

Documentation

HACKERS
Devel::PPPort internals for hackers
Devel::PPPort
Perl/Pollution/Portability
buildperl.pl
build/install perl distributions
regenerate
Automatically regeneate Devel::PPPort's API information
ppport.h
Perl/Pollution/Portability version __VERSION__
soak
Test Perl modules with multiple Perl releases

Modules

Devel::PPPort
Perl/Pollution/Portability

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