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Tests done in cpan/ExtUtils-PL2Bat/t/make_executable.t are geared to work with cmd.exe; a user having something else as the COMSPEC (e.g. in my case, TCC (see [jpsoft.com](jpsoft.com)) may well get confusing errors....
Add testing dist/ modules against older perls. This currently uses the perldocker/perl-testers images rather than the official perl images since perl-testers includes the older versions, while the official perl images...
The instructions on what to do when a `git push` after a `git merge --no-ff` failed were missing/weren't clear. This PR adds a small section in perlgit.pod on what can...
In #20010 a user has asked that we do not list their name or email any of our latest files in the repo. This was a bit problematic as updateAUTHORS.pl...
Hi all, This is effectively a new fix for the issue #18025, merged in [https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/18026](url). As it happens, that fix can't ever have worked as I understand it as tests...
The idea of this env var is to provide consistent behavior to scripts that call `srand()` with no arguments, either implicitly or explicitly. This is implemented in such a way...
This commit introduces a new OP to replace cases of `OP_ANONLIST` and `OP_ANONHASH` where there are zero elements, which is very common in Perl code. As an example, `my $x...
This unused variable dates back to when the file was first added. The code was structured as a static C wrapper emulating the dlopen() API with the native APIs, and...
This should fix GH #19983. Some of the macros that extract a PV from an SV also will set a 'len' parameter to how many bytes long it is. The...
Evaluate the LHS expression giving the code ref, before evaluating the RHS expression giving the args. This change does introduce a new meaning of the `OPf_SPECIAL` flag to the `OP_ENTERSUB`...
