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authorChip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>1998-02-03 04:16:50 -0500
committerMalcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>1998-02-06 14:56:30 +0000
commit85aff5773f2412a54180cc35f86370c56b65bf77 (patch)
tree58aa1481b34d450e99d317950157b92887658fa2 /Configure
parente1c148c28bf3335bbd0ad9a2070b0917265c00c3 (diff)
downloadperl-85aff5773f2412a54180cc35f86370c56b65bf77.tar.gz
Some Chip patches (some tweaked to match _5x source):
Subject: [PATCH] local leakage Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 09:16:50 -0500 (EST) Subject: [PATCH] NULs in patterns Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:33:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [PATCH] Configure on PerlIO Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 01:38:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: [PATCH] Avoid core dump on package alias Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:38:42 -0500 (EST) Subject: [PATCH] Fix name of $Foo::{'Bar::'} Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:37:51 -0500 (EST) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@462
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diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 6dcb640bdd..952a685c0b 100755
--- a/Configure
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@@ -5464,13 +5464,13 @@ fi
cat <<EOM
-Previous version of $package used the standard IO mechanisms as defined in
-<stdio.h>. Versions 5.003_02 and later of perl allow alternate IO
+Previous version of $package used the standard IO mechanisms as defined
+in <stdio.h>. Versions 5.003_02 and later of perl allow alternate IO
mechanisms via a "PerlIO" abstraction, but the stdio mechanism is still
-the default and is the only supported mechanism. This abstraction
-layer can use AT&T's sfio (if you already have sfio installed) or
-fall back on standard IO. This PerlIO abstraction layer is
-experimental and may cause problems with some extension modules.
+the default. This abstraction layer can use AT&T's sfio (if you already
+have sfio installed) or regular stdio. Using PerlIO with sfio may cause
+problems with some extension modules. Using PerlIO with stdio is safe,
+but it is slower than plain stdio and therefore is not the default.
If this doesn't make any sense to you, just accept the default 'n'.
EOM