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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2011-01-19 10:03:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2011-01-19 10:03:56 +0000 |
| commit | 8d698ea9b59e8c25210dfeddf4f2257f658cf543 (patch) | |
| tree | cb5e175f2b8b7f00b7edcaaa5569749a2243eacd /Porting/pumpkin.pod | |
| parent | 57fa0b87babe854012bc4fef52b9c3b3604f1e9e (diff) | |
| download | perl-8d698ea9b59e8c25210dfeddf4f2257f658cf543.tar.gz | |
Remove references to compat3.sym and interp.sym, deleted over 10 years ago.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/pumpkin.pod b/Porting/pumpkin.pod index 6d31dcce50..f674b9cf4e 100644 --- a/Porting/pumpkin.pod +++ b/Porting/pumpkin.pod @@ -450,14 +450,14 @@ and effort by manually running C<make regen_headers> myself rather than answering all the questions and complaints about the failing command. -=head2 global.sym, interp.sym and perlio.sym +=head2 global.sym, and perlio.sym Make sure these files are up-to-date. Read the comments in these files and in perl_exp.SH to see what to do. =head2 Binary compatibility -If you do change F<global.sym> or F<interp.sym>, think carefully about +If you do change F<global.sym> think carefully about what you are doing. To the extent reasonable, we'd like to maintain source and binary compatibility with older releases of perl. That way, extensions built under one version of perl will continue to work with @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ conflicting needs of dynamic loading and namespace protection. For dynamic loading to work on AIX (and VMS) we need to provide a list of symbols to be exported. This is done by the script F<perl_exp.SH>, -which reads F<global.sym> and F<interp.sym>. Thus, the C<pause> +which reads F<global.sym>. Thus, the C<pause> symbol would have to be added to F<global.sym> So far, so good. On the other hand, one of the goals of Perl5 is to make it easy to @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ means we have to be careful to keep the visible namespace "clean". That is, we don't want perl's global variables to conflict with those in the other application library. Although this work is still in progress, the way it is currently done is via the F<embed.h> file. -This file is built from the F<global.sym> and F<interp.sym> files, +This file is built from the F<global.sym> file, since those files already list the globally visible symbols. If we had added C<pause> to global.sym, then F<embed.h> would contain the line |