From 8cbf54fa07c5b9cf28ac8e9bd8783367edd23bd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 01:48:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] perldelta tweaks. p4raw-id: //depot/perl@16775 --- pod/perldelta.pod | 25 +++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 0ba8a96..2bf605d 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -55,9 +55,10 @@ B (Pure Perl modules should continue to work.) The major reason for the discontinuity is the new IO architecture -called PerlIO. PerlIO is the default configuration because -without it many new features of Perl 5.8 cannot be used. In other -words: you just have to recompile your modules, sorry about that. +called PerlIO. PerlIO is the default configuration because without +it many new features of Perl 5.8 cannot be used. In other words: +you just have to recompile your modules containing XS code, sorry +about that. In future releases of Perl, non-PerlIO aware XS modules may become completely unsupported. This shouldn't be too difficult for module @@ -261,9 +262,10 @@ functionality, see pack('U0', ...) and pack('C0', ...). =item * Earlier Perls treated "sub foo (@bar)" as equivalent to "sub foo (@)". -The prototypes are now checked at compile-time for invalid characters. -An optional warning is generated ("Illegal character in prototype...") -but this may be upgraded to a fatal error in a future release. +The prototypes are now checked better at compile-time for invalid +syntax. An optional warning is generated ("Illegal character in +prototype...") but this may be upgraded to a fatal error in a future +release. =back @@ -389,7 +391,7 @@ to Unicode 3.2.0. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/ . For developers interested in enhancing Perl's Unicode capabilities: almost all the UCD files are included with the Perl distribution in -the F. The most notable omission, for space +the F subdirectory. The most notable omission, for space considerations, is the Unihan database. =item * @@ -1295,6 +1297,8 @@ perl.org, not perl.com. C has been rewritten and its user interface (that is, command line) is much more like that of the UNIX C compiler, cc. (The perlbc tools has been removed. Use C instead.) +B =item * @@ -2290,7 +2294,8 @@ Perl now works on post-3.0 FreeBSDs. HP-UX -README.hpux updated; C now works. +README.hpux updated; C now works; +now uses HP-UX malloc instead of Perl malloc. =item * @@ -2498,7 +2503,7 @@ concurrently. (Still 16M per thread.) =item * -C now prefers C:/temp over /tmp +C<< File::Spec->tmpdir() >> now prefers C:/temp over /tmp (works better when perl is running as service). =item * @@ -2870,7 +2875,7 @@ When Perl is built using the native build process on VOS Release 14.5.0 and GNU C++/GNU Tools 2.0.1, all attempted tests either pass or result in TODO (ignored) failures. -=head Term::ReadKey not working on Win32 +=head2 Term::ReadKey not working on Win32 Use Term::ReadKey 2.20 or later. -- 2.7.4