Add documentation for new GV_NOUNIVERSAL flag

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gv.c b/gv.c
index 4660003a53..10b729bf02 100644
--- a/gv.c
+++ b/gv.c
@@ -707,11 +707,15 @@ side-effect creates a glob with the given C<name> in the given C<stash>
 which in the case of success contains an alias for the subroutine, and sets
 up caching info for this glob.
 
-The only significant values for C<flags> are C<GV_SUPER> and C<SVf_UTF8>.
+The only significant values for C<flags> are C<GV_SUPER>, C<GV_NOUNIVERSAL>, and
+C<SVf_UTF8>.
 
 C<GV_SUPER> indicates that we want to look up the method in the superclasses
 of the C<stash>.
 
+C<GV_NOUNIVERSAL> indicates that we do not want to look up the method in
+the stash accessible by C<UNIVERSAL::>.
+
 The
 GV returned from C<gv_fetchmeth> may be a method cache entry, which is not
 visible to Perl code.  So when calling C<call_sv>, you should not use