Revision history for Lexical-Types
+0.16 2017-11-04 17:15 UTC
+ + Fix : Test failures on perl 5.27.5 and above.
+
+0.15 2015-12-21 15:30 UTC
+ + Chg : The new environment variable to enable thread tests on older
+ perls is PERL_FORCE_TEST_THREADS. Note that this variable
+ should only be turned on by authors.
+ + Chg : A large chunk of boilerplate XS code, which is also used in
+ other XS modules, has been factored out of the main .xs file
+ to a collection of .h files in the xsh subdirectory.
+ + Fix : This module can once again be built with strict C89 compilers.
+ + Fix : Update the Windows ActivePerl + gcc 3.4 workaround for
+ ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.04. Thanks Christian Walde for reporting
+ and feedback on this issue.
+ + Fix : Segfaults when the module is loaded by several threads (or
+ Windows emulated processes) ran in parallel.
+ + Fix : Test failures of threads tests on systems with harsh resource
+ constraints causing the threads to exit() during run.
+
+0.14 2015-03-14 03:10 UTC
+ + Chg : perl 5.8.4 is now required (instead of 5.8.3).
+ + Fix : [RT #100202] : Fix for 5.21.6-to-be.
+ Thanks Father Chrysostomos for reporting and contributing a
+ patch.
+ + Fix : Be really compatible with the optional OP_PARENT feature.
+ + Tst : $ENV{$Config{ldlibpthname}} is now preserved on all platforms,
+ which will address failures of t/81-threads-teardown.t with
+ unusual compilers (like icc) that link all their compiled
+ objects to their own libraries.
+
+0.13 2014-10-04 23:25 UTC
+ + Add : Support for the PERL_OP_PARENT optional feature introduced in
+ perl 5.21.2.
+ + Doc : The CAVEATS section now warns about the global slowdown during
+ compilation caused by this pragma.
+ + Fix : [RT #86112] : Doesn't hook new PADRANGE op in Perl 5.18.
+ The PADRANGE optimization is now fully supported.
+ Thanks Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker for reporting.
+ + Fix : Segfaults in eval in an END block of a Win32 pseudo-fork.
+ + Fix : Segfaults during global destruction of a thread or a
+ pseudo-fork.
+ + Fix : Check functions are now replaced and restored in a thread-safe
+ manner, either by using the wrap_op_checker() function from perl
+ when it is available (starting from perl 5.16) or by taking the
+ OP_REFCNT mutex on older perls.
+ + Tst : Author tests are no longer bundled with this distribution.
+ They are only made available to authors in the git repository.
+ + Tst : Test failures of t/81-threads-teardown.t on Cygwin and Android
+ should have been addressed.
+ + Tst : Threads tests will not fail anymore if resources constraints
+ prevent the system from creating all the required threads.
+ + Upd : Metadata overhaul.
+
+0.12 2011-08-24 16:30 UTC
+ + Fix : The pragma no longer vivifies the "Lexical::Types" entry in the
+ hints hash %^H on perl 5.8.
+
+0.11 2011-02-26 22:00 UTC
+ + Fix : [RT #66164] : Lexical::Types hangs with PPI.
+ This was actually a regression introduced together with the new
+ peephole optimizer strategy, and that caused the pragma to hang
+ on constructs like "for (;;) { ... }".
+ Thanks Chisel Wright for reminding me about this issue.
+
+0.10 2011-01-03 20:35 UTC
+ + Add : The new constant LT_FORKSAFE can be tested to know whether the
+ module will behave nicely when fork()ing. It's currently always
+ true except on Windows where you need perl 5.10.1 for it to be
+ true.
+ + Chg : perl 5.8.3 is now required (instead of 5.8.0).
+ + Fix : Scope leaks under perl 5.8-5.10.0.
+ + Fix : Segmentation faults and misbehaviours in threaded applications.
+ + Fix : Compatibility with perl 5.13.1 and higher.
+ + Fix : Broken linkage on Windows with gcc 3.4, which appears in
+ particular when using ActivePerl's default compiler suite.
+ For those setups, the Lexical::Types shared library will now
+ be linked against the perl dll directly (instead of the import
+ library).
+ + Tst : Threads tests are now only run on perl 5.13.4 and higher.
+ They could segfault randomly because of what seems to be an
+ internal bug of Perl, which has been addressed in 5.13.4.
+ There is also an environment variable that allows you to
+ forcefully run those tests, but it should be set only for
+ author testing and not for end users.
+
+0.09 2010-01-03 00:00 UTC
+ + Fix : Building and testing with blead.
+ + Fix : Unbalanced scopes when skipping a typed declaration.
+ + Fix : Segfaults when Lexical::Types is loaded for the first time from
+ inside a thread.
+ + Fix : Leaks of memory associated with the root interpreter.
+ + Fix : Work around Kwalitee test misfailures.
+ + Opt : Less memory will be used for non-threaded perls version 5.10.0
+ and below, and for threaded perls from version 5.10.1.
+
+0.08 2009-07-04 19:35 UTC
+ + Fix : Don't leak the old op info when a pointer table entry is reused.
+ + Fix : Possibly missed constructs with eval STRING called in a thread.
+
0.07 2009-07-01 08:45 UTC
+ Chg : perl 5.8.x on MSWin32 is no longer considered as thread safe.
+ Fix : Work around a bug in perl 5.10.0 and lower that cause hints to
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