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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-05-24 08:25:52 +0000 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2007-05-24 08:25:52 +0000 |
commit | ab4e622174cae840d56daa4628ba01d160b5d67b (patch) | |
tree | 816a0f504851c095cec7dcfaec38c3e21eb9abd4 /pod/perl595delta.pod | |
parent | f38680ff5da7445556a1a958872817d9baf61af1 (diff) | |
download | perl-ab4e622174cae840d56daa4628ba01d160b5d67b.tar.gz |
perldelta additions suggested by Steve Hay
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@31263
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diff --git a/pod/perl595delta.pod b/pod/perl595delta.pod index 034a9274ae..4d19409212 100644 --- a/pod/perl595delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl595delta.pod @@ -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. |