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| author | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> | 2000-11-20 19:55:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-11-21 18:54:41 +0000 |
| commit | 2cc61e15d3dcd28f355bee01f2fb06b42ba7309f (patch) | |
| tree | 4d0343022362710db62a1bb35c8b420cb55fc3ad /Porting/Glossary | |
| parent | f2b2c1a7ed42395a69ab0bb3b739cdbd8d214137 (diff) | |
| download | perl-2cc61e15d3dcd28f355bee01f2fb06b42ba7309f.tar.gz | |
Re: Not OK: perl5.7.0 +DEVEL7706 +Duseperlio on AIX4.[23]
Message-Id: <p04320403b63b2c750dce@[192.168.1.4]>
va_copy() and the need of it.
See <http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n907.ps>.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@7793
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diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 2233779fdb..c4ce3de565 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -2740,6 +2740,15 @@ n (n.U): command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". +need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U): + This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores + the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format + that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some + other means must be used when copying is required. + As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision) + of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform- + independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job. + netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U): This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned. |