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| author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1997-04-17 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-04-17 00:00:00 +0000 |
| commit | 96e4d5b14cf2dfb0235faa8bc3f701c15b15bb05 (patch) | |
| tree | 573ae82e0e6a92c453a5b5cec1b10dc2f99362fe /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | 6877a1cf6ff3f0f711772ea75e579e2e7219cc46 (diff) | |
| download | perl-96e4d5b14cf2dfb0235faa8bc3f701c15b15bb05.tar.gz | |
[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_97e to perl-5.003_97f]
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: New operator systell()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c
Subject: Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: toke.c
Subject: Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Subject: Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pp.c
Subject: VMS update
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl
Subject: Win32 update (three patches)
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Document size restrictions for packed integers
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Subject: Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldelta.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index b1e11f414b..5132b49ae2 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -299,10 +299,12 @@ provides seven bits of the total value, with the most significant first. Bit eight of each byte is set, except for the last byte, in which bit eight is clear. -=item sysseek() +=item sysseek() and systell() -This is a variant of seek() that works on the system file pointer. -It is the only reliable way to seek before sysread() or syswrite(). +These are new. The sysseek() operator is a variant of seek() that works +on the system file pointer. It is the only reliable way to seek before +using sysread() or syswrite(). Its companion operator systell() reports +the current position of the system file pointer. =item use VERSION |