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Changes for version 2.136

  • Promote to stable release.
  • Drop some "register" declarations.

Changes for version 2.135_07

  • Use the new utf8 to code point functions - fixing a potential reading buffer overrun.
  • Data::Dumper: Sparseseen option to avoid building much of the seen hash: This has been measured to, in some cases, provide a 50% speed-up
  • Dumper.xs: Avoid scan_vstring on 5.17.3 and up
  • Avoid a warning from clang when compiling Data::Dumper
  • Fix DD's dumping of qr|\/|
  • Data::Dumper's Perl implementation was not working with overloaded blessed globs, which it thought were strings.
  • Allow Data::Dumper to load on miniperl

Changes for version 2.135_02

  • Makes DD dump *{''} properly.
  • [perl #101162] DD support for vstrings: Support for vstrings to Data::Dumper, in both Perl and XS implementations.

Changes for version 2.135_01

  • Make Data::Dumper UTF8- and null-clean with GVs.
  • In Dumper.xs, use sv_newmortal() instead of sv_mortalcopy(&PL_sv_undef) for efficiency.
  • Suppress compiler warning
  • Keep verbatim pod in Data::Dumper within 80 cols

Documentation

Modules

stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval