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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000
commit87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876 (patch)
tree3f8e18dd43f70fe33e25ec58f37ac2a0bea79a51 /pod/perldelta.pod
parentfa9c2ea87c89382fe822598450654e31bdb24ee0 (diff)
downloadperl-87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876.tar.gz
pod fixes (with minor edits) from Abigail, Ronald Kimball, Jon
Waddington, Tuomas Lukka, Steven Tolkin, Ian Phillipps, and Steve Lidie p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3676
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 0a33e3d5b5..dc697e6929 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what's new for perl5.006 (as of 5.005_56)
+perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.5.58)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ None known at this time.
=item C<PERL_POLLUTE>
Release 5.005 grandfathered old global symbol names by providing preprocessor
-macros for extension source compatibility. As of release 5.006, these
+macros for extension source compatibility. As of release 5.6, these
preprocessor definitions are not available by default. You need to explicitly
compile perl with C<-DPERL_POLLUTE> to get these definitions. For
extensions still using the old symbols, this option can be
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ be called in programs that used Perl's malloc. Previous versions of Perl
have allowed this behaviour to be suppressed with the HIDEMYMALLOC and
EMBEDMYMALLOC preprocessor definitions.
-As of release 5.006, Perl's malloc family of functions have default names
+As of release 5.6, Perl's malloc family of functions have default names
distinct from the system versions. You need to explicitly compile perl with
C<-DPERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC> to get the older behaviour. HIDEMYMALLOC
and EMBEDMYMALLOC have no effect, since the behaviour they enabled is now