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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-02-18 14:04:11 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2004-02-18 14:04:11 +0000
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Document the removal of PERL_XS_APIVERSION and PERL_PM_APIVERSION.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22341
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@@ -171,6 +171,14 @@ difference unless you have code that explicitly makes assumptions about that
ordering. (The inheritance hierarchy of C<B::*> objects has been changed
to reflect this.)
+=head2 Removal of CPP symbols
+
+The C preprocessor symbols C<PERL_PM_APIVERSION> and
+C<PERL_XS_APIVERSION>, which were supposed to give the version number of
+the oldest perl binary-compatible (resp. source-compatible) with the
+present one, were not used, and sometimes had misleading values. They have
+been removed.
+
=head1 Configuration and Building
C<Configure> now invokes callbacks regardless of the value of the variable