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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-07-26 20:36:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-07-26 20:36:19 +0000 |
| commit | ddc61b51e463f539ef028633b10df2573c1022c5 (patch) | |
| tree | a52ea2d93ab3bfb1f0686bbcb9480f7fc3b09ff0 /pod/perl594delta.pod | |
| parent | 1749ea0d81e275f5160a584ab9e554a4acc871e8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ddc61b51e463f539ef028633b10df2573c1022c5.tar.gz | |
Some notes in perl594delta.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@28621
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1 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl594delta.pod b/pod/perl594delta.pod index 89d5c4428c..ef374ee008 100644 --- a/pod/perl594delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl594delta.pod @@ -15,14 +15,30 @@ and L<perl593delta> for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.3. A bareword argument to chdir is now recognized as a file handle. Earlier releases interpreted the bareword as a directory name. +=head2 Handling of pmc files + +TODO XXX explain what are pmc files + +.pmc files are always loaded, even if they are older than a matching .pm +file. (This trick is used by Pugs.) + +=head2 @- and @+ in patterns + +The special arrays C<@-> and C<@+> are no longer interpolated in regular +expressions. + =head1 Core Enhancements =head2 state() variables +=head2 UNIVERSAL:DOES() + =head1 Modules and Pragmata C<encoding::warnings> is now a lexical pragma. +C<threads> + =head2 New Core Modules =over 4 @@ -33,11 +49,14 @@ C<Module::Build> has been added. =item * -C<Hash::Util::FieldHash> has been added. +C<Hash::Util::FieldHash> has been added. This module provides support for +I<field hashes>: hashes that maintain an association of a reference with a +value, in a thread-safe garbage-collected way. =item * -C<Win32API::File> has been added. +C<Win32API::File> has been added (for Windows builds). This module +provides low-level access to Win32 system API calls for files/dirs. =back @@ -59,8 +78,22 @@ Regular expressions (Yves) =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements +=head2 Ports + Perl has been reported to work on DragonFlyBSD. +=head2 Compilation improvements + +All F<ppport.h> files in the XS modules bundled with perl are now +autogenerated at build time. + +=head2 New probes + +The configuration process now detects whether strlcat and strlcpy are +available. When they are not available, perl's own version is used (from +Russ Allbery's public domain implementation). Various places in the perl +interpreter now uses them. + =head1 Selected Bug Fixes =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics |