HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

Libraries and Programming
Perl
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Documentation
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Obsolescence
SDK/RTE 1.2 and 1.3 have reached end-of-life and are not included in this release. The
following products will remove them upon system update:
• ObsJava12 - Obsolescence for Java 1.2 (1.0)
• ObsJava13 - Obsolescence for Java 1.3 (1.0)
Perl
Perl is a high-level programming language created and enhanced by the Open Source
community. Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh,
and BASIC, among others and at least a dozen other tools and languages.
Summary of Change
Perl version 5.8.8 build 817 includes the following:
• chdir, chmod and chown can now work on filehandles as well as filenames, if the
system supports respectively fchdir, fchmod and fchown.
• h2xs implements new option --use-xsloader to force use of XSLoader even in
backwards compatible modules. Any enums with negative values are now skipped.
• perlivp implements new option -a and will not check for *.ph files by default any
more. Use the -a option to run all tests.
• Some of the module are upgraded to latest revisions.
• Some of the defect fixes done in this release are
— no warnings “category” works correctly with -w
— Remove over-optimization
— sprintf() fixes
— Debugger and Unicode slowdown
Impact
There are no impacts other than those previously listed.