From 972690a16dbf2ea774f45e7c8d86b03cdfbfcfdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karl Williamson Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:12:28 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] perldelta for 3f40aba3 Merge branch 'ebcdic' into blead --- pod/perldelta.pod | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index e8529bd..72fd668 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ =for comment To do: -3f40aba3 Merge branch 'ebcdic' into blead df8c7dee Fix segfault in filehandle duplication b66f3475 Fix PerlIO_get_cnt and friends @@ -59,6 +58,16 @@ characters. [perl #112790, #116907] The new C<%hash{...}> and C<@array[...]> syntax returns a list of key/value (or index/value) pairs. +=head2 EBCDIC support + +Core Perl now mostly works on EBCDIC platforms. This is not true of +many modules, including some which are shipped with this release. If +you have resources to help continue this process, including test +machines, send email to L. + +As a result of this, certain C functions are now deprecated; see +L. + =head1 Security XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security @@ -975,6 +984,21 @@ The SV returned by HeSVKEY_force() now correctly reflects the UTF8ness of the underlying hash key when that key is not stored as a SV. [perl #79074] +=item * + +Certain rarely used functions and macros available to C code are +now, or are planned to be deprecated. These are: +C (use C instead), +C (use C instead), +C (use C instead), +C (use C instead), +C (this did not work properly anyway), +and C (this did not work properly anyway). + +Starting in this release, almost never does application code need to +distinguish between the platform's character set and Latin1, on which the +lowest 256 characters of Unicode are based. + =back =head1 Selected Bug Fixes -- 2.7.4