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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-07-12 16:58:11 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-07-12 16:58:11 +0000
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AIX doc update.
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@@ -38,9 +38,11 @@ for such large memory models than the Perl malloc.
=head2 AIX Dynaloading
-The AIX dynaloading now uses the native dlopen interface of AIX,
-(given the AIX is recent enough) instead of the old emulated interface.
-This will probably break backward compatibility with compiled modules.
+The AIX dynaloading now uses in AIX releases 4.3 and newer the native
+dlopen interface of AIX instead of the old emulated interface. This
+change will probably break backward compatibility with compiled
+modules. The change was made to make Perl more compliant with other
+applications like modperl which are using the AIX native interface.
=head2 Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
@@ -362,8 +364,8 @@ gprofiled Perl executable.
=item *
-AIX should now work better with gcc. Also longdouble support in AIX
-should be better now. See L<perlaix>.
+AIX should now work better with gcc, threads, and 64-bitnes. Also the
+long doubles support in AIX should be better now. See L<perlaix>.
=item *