Maintaining the Perl 5 Core: Report for Month 35
Wed, 28-Sep-2016 by
Karen Pauley
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_Dave Mitchell writes:_
I spent last month mainly working on "fuzzer" bug reports. Nothing really stands out as deserving special mention.
**Summary**
bq. 1:23 "Confused by eval behavior" thread
0:14 "perl #128940":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128940 "Use of uninitialized value $fh" mentions wrong variable
2:48 "perl #128951":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128951 heap-buffer-overflow in Perl_sv_vcatpvfn_flags
0:51 "perl #128952":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128952 stack-buffer-overflow in S_missingterm
1:41 "perl #128989":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128989 Bleadperl v5.25.3-266-g1d7e644 breaks VPIT/Variable-Magic-0.59.tar.gz
4:46 perl #129012 heap-buffer-overflow Perl_fbm_instr
2:04 "perl #129029":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129029 SIGBUS Perl_sv_peek
0:24 "perl #129038":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129038 Assertion Failure: *Perl_pp_subst *pp_hot.c:3203
3:45 "perl #129064":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129064 heap-buffer-overflow S_scan_heredoc
5:01 "perl #129099":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=129099 global-buffer-overflow S_finalize_op
4:02 "perl #27555":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=27555 TIED $x = \$y{z}; delete $y{z} -- behaves badly
4:10 "perl #39358":https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=39358 sort segfaults
1:28 fix Concise hints high bits display
0:48 fix build warnings and smoke failures
4:42 optimise av_fetch()
4:30 optimise leave_scope()
9:44 process p5p mailbox
**52:21 Total (HH::MM)**
As of 2016/08/31: since the beginning of the grant:
bq. 150.4 weeks
2041.0 total hours
13.6 average hours per week
There are 359 hours left on the grant
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