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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-09-01 14:36:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-09-01 14:36:53 +0000 |
| commit | 33a87e586cda65bc1cb73e5531daf1795b227dda (patch) | |
| tree | 263e0d3778119f6b454580fdc79007d5b036f9b6 | |
| parent | a1ba9576c2b015a0eee76e46d01633c35ca2147a (diff) | |
| download | perl-33a87e586cda65bc1cb73e5531daf1795b227dda.tar.gz | |
Document known deficiencies.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6974
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 97addbfd68..c8f2a58499 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -796,6 +796,35 @@ made in other platforms. st-store.t and st-retrieve may fail with Compaq C 6.2 on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2. +=head2 Threads Are Still Experimental + +Multithreading is still an experimental feature. Some platforms +emit the following message for lib/thr5005 + + # + # This is a KNOWN FAILURE, and one of the reasons why threading + # is still an experimental feature. It is here to stop people + # from deploying threads in production. ;-) + # + +and another known warning is + + pragma/overload......Unbalanced saves: 3 more saves than restores + panic: magic_mutexfree during global destruction. + ok + lib/selfloader.......Unbalanced saves: 3 more saves than restores + panic: magic_mutexfree during global destruction. + ok + lib/st-dclone........Unbalanced saves: 3 more saves than restores + panic: magic_mutexfree during global destruction. + ok + +=head2 The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental + +The compiler suite is slowly getting better but is nowhere near yet. +The backend part that has seen perhaps the most progress is the +bytecode compiler. + =back =head1 Reporting Bugs |