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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 8918 Volume: 10
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 00:05:05 -0800 (PST)
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Perl-Users Digest Sat, 4 Feb 2006 Volume: 10 Number: 8918
Today's topics:
[ANNOUNCE] Emacs modules for Perl programming (Jari Aalto+mail.perl)
Re: Obscure utf8/"panic: malloc" bug <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
Re: Obscure utf8/"panic: malloc" bug <sisyphus1@nomail.afraid.org>
Perl device IO on Win <unnamed.netizen@invalid.com>
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Date: 04 Feb 2006 05:25:30 GMT
From: <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> (Jari Aalto+mail.perl)
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Emacs modules for Perl programming
Message-Id: <perl-faq/emacs-lisp-modules_1139030711@rtfm.mit.edu>
Archive-name: perl-faq/emacs-lisp-modules
Posting-Frequency: 2 times a month
Maintainer: Jari Aalto A T cante net
Announcement: "What Emacs lisp modules can help with programming Perl"
Preface
Emacs is your friend if you have to do anything comcerning software
development: It offers plug-in modules, written in Emacs lisp
(elisp) language, that makes all your programmings wishes come
true. Please introduce yourself to Emacs and your programming era
will get a new light.
Where to find Emacs/XEmacs
o Unix:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
http://www.xemacs.org/
o Unix Windows port (for Unix die-hards):
install http://www.cygwin.com/ which includes native Emacs 21.x.
and XEmacs port
o Pure Native Windows port
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/setup.exe
o More Emacs resources at
http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/ => Emacs resource page
Emacs Perl Modules
Cperl -- Perl programming mode
http://math.berkeley.edu/~ilya/software/emacs/
by Ilya Zakharevich
CPerl is major mode for editing perl files. Also included in
latest Emacs, but newest version is at Ilya's site. Note that
the directrory at CPAN is out of date:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/ILYAZ/cperl-mode/
Compared to default `perl-mode' that comes with Emacs, this
one has more features.
TinyPerl -- Perl related utilities
http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/
If you ever wonder how to deal with Perl POD pages or how to find
documentation from all perl manpages, this package is for you.
Couple of keystrokes and all the documentaion is in your hands.
o Instant function help: See documentation of `shift', `pop'...
o Show Perl manual pages in *pod* buffer
o Grep through all Perl manpages (.pod)
o Follow POD references e.g. [perlre] to next pod with RETURN
o Coloured pod pages with `font-lock'
o Separate `tiperl-pod-view-mode' for jumping topics and pages
forward and backward in *pod* buffer.
o Update `$VERSION' variable with YYYY.MMDD on save.
o Load source code into Emacs, like Devel::DProf.pm
o Prepare script (version numbering) and Upload it to PAUSE
o Generate autoload STUBS (Devel::SelfStubber) for you
Perl Module (.pm)
TinyIgrep -- Perl Code browsing and easy grepping
[TinyIgrep is included in Tiny Tools Kit]
To grep from all installed Perl modules, define database to
TinyIgrep. There is example file emacs-rc-tinyigrep.el that shows
how to set up dattabases for Perl5, Perl4 whatever you have
installed
TinyIgrep calls Igrep.el to to do the search, You can adjust
recursive grep options, set search case sensitivity, add user grep
options etc.
You can find latest `igrep.el' module at
<http://groups.google.com/groups?group=gnu.emacs.sources> The
maintainer is Jefin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>.
TinyCompile -- To Browse grep results in Emacs *compile* buffer
TinyCompile is a minor mode for *compile* buffer from where
you can collapse unwanted lines or shorten file URLs:
/asd/asd/asd/asd/ads/as/da/sd/as/as/asd/file1:NNN: MATCHED TEXT
/asd/asd/asd/asd/ads/as/da/sd/as/as/asd/file2:NNN: MATCHED TEXT
-->
cd /asd/asd/asd/asd/ads/as/da/sd/as/as/asd/
file1:NNN: MATCHED TEXT
file1:NNN: MATCHED TEXT
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 00:39:55 +0000 (UTC)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org>
Subject: Re: Obscure utf8/"panic: malloc" bug
Message-Id: <ds0t4r$q5m$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
kj
<socyl@987jk.com.invalid>], who wrote in article <ds02fu$jl2$1@reader2.panix.com>:
>
>
>
>
> I'm trying to find a workaround to bug that is causing me a lot of
> problems now. This bug surfaces under very rare conditions, but
> they happen to apply to me at the moment.
>
> I've traced the bug to the execution of line 49 of DBD/mysql.pm
> (v. 3.0002) (though I'm almost certain that the involvement of
> DBD/mysql.pm here is purely coincidental):
>
> if ($dsn =~ /([^:;]*)[:;](.*)/) {
>
> At the time of failure, the $dsn variable contains, as far as I
> can tell, the string "host=martdb.ebi.ac.uk;port=3306". If, within
> the Perl debugger, I turn on tracing when the program reaches the
> line shown above, but right before failure, I see that (somehow),
> the code being executed is from the function SWASHNEW in
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/utf8_heavy.pl.
With the current state of Perl internals (non-reenterable REx engine),
debugging into SWASH* functions can only lead to a disaster (although
I did not know this may be malloc()-related). I wrote about this here
about a year ago.
Hope this helps,
Ilya
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 19:02:32 +1100
From: "Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@nomail.afraid.org>
Subject: Re: Obscure utf8/"panic: malloc" bug
Message-Id: <43e46022$0$21423$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>
"kj" <socyl@987jk.com.invalid>
.
.
>
> I have tried to come up with a small script that reproduces this
> bug, but no avail. The only way I can reproduce this bug involves
> having a lot of other big stuff loaded.
If it's *core* stuff, then that's probably ok.
>
> I'm at wits' end about this. At this point I'm just looking for
> a workaround.
>
Looks to me that (probably) no-one here will be able to provide that
workaround unless you can provide a basic script that demonstrates the
problem.
My understanding of Ilya's response is that there's not much point in
resorting to the debugger for his particular problem.
Cheers,
Rob
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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 18:21:48 -0800
From: Jack Schmidt <unnamed.netizen@invalid.com>
Subject: Perl device IO on Win
Message-Id: <1139019708.755409@hp-sdd.sdd.hp.com>
I want to talk to a device through an RS232 port on a
PC running WinXP. Looks like I can use the POSIX::Termios
class, but I don't know what the file descriptors are for
the serial ports. Anybody?
Also, what about device IO via USB on the same PC?
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