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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-10-22 08:55:01 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-10-22 08:55:01 +0000
commitbcbaa2d5c12468541ffd08a271553ce01d1d7c15 (patch)
tree9b3d2b58658b72cebf23befccc3738faf3e85af5
parentde583ab0f85f663c91a350dcafa14b152cfdf5cc (diff)
downloadperl-bcbaa2d5c12468541ffd08a271553ce01d1d7c15.tar.gz
Add -Duse32bit* in perltodo
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32160
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diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod
index 3df57c510d..560f9e50e8 100644
--- a/pod/perltodo.pod
+++ b/pod/perltodo.pod
@@ -338,6 +338,14 @@ The way @INC is laid out by default, one cannot upgrade core (dual-life)
modules without overwriting files. This causes problems for binary
package builders.
+=head2 -Duse32bit*
+
+Natively 64-bit systems need neither -Duse64bitint nor -Duse64bitall.
+On these systems, it might be the default compilation mode, and there
+is currently no guarantee that passing no use64bitall option to the
+Configure process will build a 32bit perl. Implementing -Duse32bit*
+options would be nice for perl 5.12.
+
=head2 Make it clear from -v if this is the exact official release
Currently perl from C<p4>/C<rsync> ships with a F<patchlevel.h> file that