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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2007-11-27 07:34:47 +0200
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-11-27 10:01:54 +0000
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perl5100delta.pod: do not confess bondage :-) and mention compiler flag tightening
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=head1 Changed Internals
-In general, the source code of perl has been refactored, tied up, and
-optimized in many places. Also, memory management and allocation has been
-improved in a couple of points.
+In general, the source code of perl has been refactored, tidied up,
+and optimized in many places. Also, memory management and allocation
+has been improved in several points.
+
+When compiling the perl core with gcc, as many gcc warning flags are
+turned on as is possible on the platform. (This quest for cleanliness
+doesn't extend to XS code because we cannot guarantee the tidiness of
+code we didn't write.) Similar strictness flags have been added or
+tightened for various other C compilers.
=head2 Reordering of SVt_* constants