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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-29 04:53:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-02-29 04:53:00 +0000 |
| commit | ba869debd80c55cfae8e9d4de0991d62f9efcb9b (patch) | |
| tree | 73f5810de88203f0df413aee0bc7f3c94d686329 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
| parent | d5c3ff09f505a33428a0772c6e16c91e1df4ce85 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ba869debd80c55cfae8e9d4de0991d62f9efcb9b.tar.gz | |
support fetching current interpreter from TLS under useithreads
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5342
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 3df6f558e9..c6361ba707 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -319,12 +319,12 @@ Interfaces and implementation are subject to sudden and drastic changes. The -Dusethreads flag now enables the experimental interpreter-based thread support by default. To get the flavor of experimental threads that was in -5.005 instead, you need to ask for -Duse5005threads. +5.005 instead, you need to run Configure with "-Dusethreads -Duse5005threads". As of v5.5.640, interpreter-threads support is still lacking a way to create new threads from Perl (i.e., C<use Thread;> will not work with interpreter threads). C<use Thread;> continues to be available when you -ask for -Duse5005threads, bugs and all. +ask for use5005threads, bugs and all. =head2 New Configure flags @@ -332,15 +332,16 @@ The following new flags may be enabled on the Configure command line by running Configure with C<-Dflag>. usemultiplicity - use5005threads + usethreads useithreads (new interpreter threads: no Perl API yet) + usethreads use5005threads (threads as they were in 5.005) - use64bitint (equal to now deprecated 'use64bits') + use64bitint (equal to now deprecated 'use64bits') use64bitall uselongdouble usemorebits uselargefiles - usesocks (only SOCKS v5 supported) + usesocks (only SOCKS v5 supported) =head2 Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring |