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| author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1996-11-30 05:31:00 +1200 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1996-11-30 05:31:00 +1200 |
| commit | ff68c7194e176ca1907544a3a65684b76834d0fe (patch) | |
| tree | 4124d603a6b2a937f4ce1d9469426f84421f93e0 /INSTALL | |
| parent | eff9c6e2f5bda63e4dc69fc15e237a9843954369 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ff68c7194e176ca1907544a3a65684b76834d0fe.tar.gz | |
[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_09 to perl5.003_10]
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Allow &{sub {...}} without warning
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c
Subject: Make parens optional on [gs]ethost and [gs]et{pw,gr} function
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c
Subject: Fix syntax error with "$x [0]" and "$x {y}" and "@x {y}"
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: toke.c
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Improve documentation for sysread() and syswrite()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Subject: Document how to use $SIG{ALRM} and alarm()
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:42:49 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@ibcinc.com>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
Msg-ID: <5898.849026569@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 5fa5e7dfc2abaaadd377c97cd1ebe78ea844da88)
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Hash key memory corruption fix and naming cleanup
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hv.c hv.h perl.h
Subject: Undo broken perf. patch (PADTMP stealing)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: sv.c
Subject: Make SV unstudied in sv_gets()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: sv.c
Subject: Better support for UVs
From: Paul Marquess <pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk>
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h pp.c pp.h proto.h sv.c sv.h
Subject: Minor locale cleanups
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/posix.t util.c
Accept "POSIX" locale as standard like "C". Reset locale to
'C' when testing strtod() in t/lib/posix.t.
Subject: Always taint result of sprintf() on float
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c
Subject: Fix spurious warning from bitwise string ops
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c
Subject: Eliminate warning on {,sys}read(,$newvar,)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: doop.c pp_sys.c
Subject: Namespace cleanup
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: global.sym old_global.sym perl.h
Subject: Modify perl_exp.SH; create old_perl_exp.SH; document old_*
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure INSTALL MANIFEST old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
PORTABILITY
Subject: Reliable signal patch
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 05:40:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
Files: global.sym mg.c old_global.sym perl.h pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961126053209.294J-100000@kjahds.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 679728958e74b0ccd6d61567d84851f1ef994e1f)
Subject: Emulate missing flock() with either fcntl() or lockf()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp_sys.c
Subject: 3_09: minor patches for OS/2
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 03:30:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: doio.c global.sym malloc.c old_global.sym os2/Makefile.SHs os2/OS2/ExtAttr/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/PrfDB/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/Process/Makefile.PL os2/OS2/REXX/Makefile.PL os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h perl.h
Subject: 3_09: minor patches
This patches mostly enable commpilation under OS/2, and fix malloc.c.
Enjoy,
p5p-msgid: <199611270830.DAA04985@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: 5.003_09 and QNX
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 96 13:36:06 est
From: Norton Allen <nort@bottesini.harvard.edu>
Files: Configure MANIFEST README.qnx hints/qnx.sh qnx/ar qnx/cpp t/TEST toke.c util.c x2p/proto.h
Msg-ID: <9611271836.AA14460@bottesini.harvard.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit c5117498be098729dc2af28089bd130c88c8d42b)
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -641,6 +641,23 @@ various other operating systems. =back +=head1 Binary Compatibility With 5.003 + +Perl 5.003 turned on the EMBED feature by default, which tries to +avoid possible symbol name conflict by prefixing all global symbols +with "Perl_". However, its list of global symbols was incomplete. +This error has been rectified in Perl 5.004. + +However, some sites may need to maintain complete binary compatibility +with Perl 5.003. If you are building Perl for such a site, then after +B<Configure> you should run these two commands: + + perl old_embed.pl + sh old_perl_exp.SH + +These commands will make your new Perl as binary-compatible with +version 5.003 as possible. + =head1 make depend This will look for all the includes. |