From e57f450050456f287e84ba9e5f14dcd1cf02f7f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Leon Timmermans Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:19:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perldelta: Explain stdio/sfio future deprecation. --- pod/perldelta.pod | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 9fef60c..b355569 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -648,6 +648,13 @@ ticket|https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=96212>. sfio, stdio +Perl supports being built without PerlIO proper, using a stdio or sfio +wrapper instead. A perl build like this will not support IO layers and +thus Unicode IO, making it rather handicapped. + +PerlIO supports a C layer if stdio use is desired, and similarly a +sfio layer could be produced. + =item * Unescaped literal C<< "{" >> in regular expressions. -- 2.7.4