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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-05-24 08:25:52 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-05-24 08:25:52 +0000
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@@ -346,6 +346,12 @@ ben Jore)
=for p5p XXX document this in B.pm too
+=item C<Thread>
+
+As the old 5005thread threading model has been removed, in favor of the
+ithreads scheme, the C<Thread> module is now a compatibility wrapper, to
+be used in old code only.
+
=back
=head1 Utility Changes
@@ -378,12 +384,22 @@ Efforts have been made to make perl and the core XS modules compilable
with various C++ compilers (although the situation is not perfect with
some of the compilers on some of the platforms tested.)
+=head2 Visual C++
+
+Perl now can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
+
=head2 Static build on Win32
It's now possible to build a C<perl-static.exe> that doesn't depend
on C<perl59.dll> on Win32. See the Win32 makefiles for details.
(Vadim Konovalov)
+=head2 C<d_pseudofork>
+
+A new configuration variable, available as C<$Config{d_pseudofork}> in
+the L<Config> module, has been added, to distinguish real fork() support
+from fake pseudofork used on Windows platforms.
+
=head2 Ports
Perl has been reported to work on MidnightBSD.