On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:57:52PM -0400, John E. Malmberg wrote: > What I do not have locally is an unpacked copy of unmodified 5.8.6 or > 5.8.7. The local copies on this system already have my ODS-5, UNIX, and > POSIX fixes, so I do not have a quick way to do a diff, and vms.c got > significant changes. And since then I have discovered a small buffer > highwater mark overrun in the original code. That fix is also only on > my work copy.
Might I suggest you check your local copies of Perl into a local version control system? I usually use RCS for small changes to small groups of files or I dump the whole thing into darcs for larger changes. Otherwise just keep a clean copy of the source code around to diff against. Disk is cheap. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern You are wicked and wrong to have broken inside and peeked at the implementation and then relied upon it. -- tchrist in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
