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authorKaren Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>2021-08-20 18:00:30 -0700
committerKaren Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>2021-08-20 18:00:30 -0700
commit6521d5bbe3d0a959ce85a9e2f45c751b81047039 (patch)
tree480849f3ee362f93db2bfb4a241424058f6d20bb
parent9d0a5a08d53f968c4545f9b245c683c1dc4bf907 (diff)
downloadperl-6521d5bbe3d0a959ce85a9e2f45c751b81047039.tar.gz
add some missing perldelta entries
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod26
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index dc045f9b9a..034f3111af 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -202,7 +202,16 @@ Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:
=item *
-XXX Description of the change here
+L<perlop> now notes that an invocant only needs to be an object or class name
+for method calls, not for subroutine references.
+
+=item *
+
+L<perlexperiment> notes that the C<:win32> IO pseudolayer is removed (this happened in 5.35.2).
+
+=item *
+
+F<Porting/vote_admin_guide.pod> has been added.
=back
@@ -392,7 +401,12 @@ well.
=item *
-XXX
+Macros have been added F<perl.h> to facilitate version comparisons:
+C<PERL_GCC_VERSION_GE>, C<PERL_GCC_VERSION_GT>, C<PERL_GCC_VERSION_LE> and
+C<PERL_GCC_VERSION_LT>.
+
+Inline functions have been added to F<embed.h> to determine the position of
+the least significant 1 bit in a word: C<lsbit_pos32> and C<lsbit_pos64>.
=back
@@ -407,7 +421,13 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
=item *
-XXX
+Use of the C<mktables> debugging facility would cause perl to croak since
+v5.31.10; this problem has now been fixed.
+
+=item *
+
+C<makedepend> logic is now compatible with BSD make (fixes
+L<GH #19046|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19046>).
=back