Maintaining Perl 5 Core (Dave Mitchell): December 2025
Wed, 14-Jan-2026 by
alh
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Dave writes:
During December, I fixed assorted bugs, and started work on another
tranche of ExtUtils::ParseXS fixups, this time focussing on:
- adding and rewording warning and error messages, and adding new tests
for them;
- improving test coverage: all XS keywords have tests now;
- reorganising the test infrastructure: deleting obsolete test files,
renaming the t/*.t files to a more consistent format; splitting a large
test file; modernising tests;
- refactoring and improving the length(str) pseudo-parameter
implementation.
By the end of this report period, that work was about half finished; it is
currently finished and being reviewed.
Summary:
* 10:25 GH #16197 re eval stack unwinding
* 1:39 GH #23903 BBC: bleadperl breaks ETHER/Package-Stash-XS-0.30.tar.gz
* 0:09 GH #23986 `Perl_rpp_popfree_to(SV sp**)` questionable design
* 3:02 fix Pod::Html stderr noise
* 27:47 improve Extutils::ParseXS
* 1:47 modernise perlxs.pod
Total:
* 44:49 (HH::MM)
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