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source of perl for linux application,

3.13 - 2007-10-04

    * fix cpan #29748: ppport.h problems with perl5.005_05
      (spotted by Slaven Rezić)
    * fix a compiler warning

3.12 - 2007-09-22

    [released without changes]

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

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

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%

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

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

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)

3.11 - 2007-02-14

    * happy new year!

3.10_02 - 2006-12-02

    * add two missing files

3.10_01 - 2006-12-02

    * fix cpan #21239: Signals safe in Perl 5.8.0
    * fix PL_ppaddr and PL_no_modify support 5.005 perls
    * added dTHXR, aTHXR and aTHXR_ for API that need
      the context argument in pre-5.6.0 perls
    * added support for the following API
        PL_DBsignal
        PL_DBtrace
        PL_laststatval
        PL_statcache
    * added tests for all PL_* variables
    * added progress indicator to soak script
    * added --test-archives option to buildperl.pl script
    * added comments to all autogenerated files that
      clearly indicate their purpose and origin

3.10 - 2006-08-14

    * remove timestamp from generated ppport.h

3.09_02 - 2006-07-25

    * added support for the following API
        my_strlcat
        my_strlcpy
      (thanks to Steve Peters for providing a patch)

3.09_01 - 2006-07-21

    * avoid using 'glob' when running under miniperl

3.09 - 2006-07-08

    * fix Makefile.PL's c_o override
    * update API info
    * improve soak script
      - now counts warnings emitted during testing
      - output is colored (can be turned off)
    * add a section on integrating this module into
      the core to the HACKERS file

3.08_07 - 2006-07-03

    * fix cpan #20179: Licensing information for PPPort is
      unclear
    * only --unstrip a stripped ppport.h if an appropriate
      version of Devel::PPPort is installed
    * add a --version option to ppport.h

3.08_06 - 2006-06-25

    * fix breakage on MSWin32, where generating XS files on
      the fly doesn't seem to work the same way as under Linux
      (thanks to Sadahiro Tomoyuki for providing a patch)
    * load the shared files only when testing the module
    * remove PPPort.xs from CPAN distribution

3.08_05 - 2006-06-23

    * when in the core, generate PPPort.pm and PPPort.xs
      automatically
    * PPPort.pm can now be loaded by miniperl

3.08_04 - 2006-05-29

    * update API info
    * fix a bug in the automated API info generator that
      caused slightly wrong output
    * improve the speed of the automated API info generator;
      we're now down from several hours to a few minutes

3.08_03 - 2006-05-25

    * update API info
    * add devel/regenerate script to regenerate API info
    * improve and speed up the development tools

3.08_02 - 2006-05-22

    * fix a POD error
    * added POD test
    * changed hv_stores() to omit the hash parameter
    * improve soak script
      - can now search directories for perl executables
      - can use only perl binaries of at least a certain
        revision using the --min option
      - sorts tests by perl version
      - shows a summary of failed versions
    * added support for the following API
        PERL_USE_GCC_BRACE_GROUPS
        PoisonFree
        PoisonNew
        PoisonWith
        SvREFCNT_inc
        SvREFCNT_inc_NN
        SvREFCNT_inc_simple
        SvREFCNT_inc_simple_NN
        SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void
        SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void_NN
        SvREFCNT_inc_void
        SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN

3.08_01 - 2006-05-20

    * update NOOP and dNOOP to include lint directives
    * update API info (for 5.8.8 and 5.9.3)
    * added support for the following API
        ckWARN
        dVAR
        hv_fetchs
        hv_stores
        my_snprintf
        newSVpvs
        packWARN
        PERL_ABS
        PERL_UNUSED_ARG
        PERL_UNUSED_CONTEXT
        PERL_UNUSED_VAR
        STR_WITH_LEN
        sv_catpvs
        sv_setpvs
        SVf
        SvVSTRING_mg
        warner

3.08 - 2006-01-19

    * thanks to Craig Berry for fixing my broken ppphtest
    * add AUTHOR and ABSTRACT_FROM to Makefile.PL

3.07 - 2006-01-16

    * improve internals documentation in HACKERS
    * minor internal cleanups
    * thanks to Steve Peters for adding support for
      the following API
        SvMAGIC_set
        SvPVX_const
        SvPVX_mutable
        SvRV_set
        SvSTASH_set
        SvUV_set

3.06_04 - 2005-10-30

    * add --strip / --unstrip options
    * added support for the following API
        Newx
        Newxc
        Newxz
        XSRETURN

3.06_03 - 2005-10-18

    * fix extra ')' in PPPort_pm.PL
    * fix compiler warnings
    * fix test for PL_signals
    * fix API listing
    * more tests

3.06_02 - 2005-10-18

    * improve devel/buildperl.pl utility
    * added support for the following API
        dAXMARK
        PL_signals
        PERL_SIGNALS_UNSAFE_FLAG
        XSprePUSH

3.06_01 - 2005-06-25

    * fix --compat-version argument checking
    * filter files passed on the command line by default
      to make sure 'perl ppport.h *' does something useful
    * add --nofilter option to override the filtering
    * testsuite now hopefully supports MacOS Classic
    * check definedness of PERL_UNUSED_DECL
    * update API info

3.06 - 2005-02-02

    * fix cpan #11327: make fails with syntax error