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author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-01-28 16:36:13 +0000 |
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committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-01-28 16:36:13 +0000 |
commit | ed09ebcd233be9c9ff535eb632b2f11760c24bca (patch) | |
tree | eb0730e59db300107592240e0bc6397e21c66152 /pod/perldelta.pod | |
parent | e4c519787a5a2a90a795676695fe4c190e9314b5 (diff) | |
download | perl-ed09ebcd233be9c9ff535eb632b2f11760c24bca.tar.gz |
perldelta note about export list changes
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 1339b04b46..6fc7d8f4f5 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -250,12 +250,24 @@ change#3386, also needs perlguts documentation =head2 Binary Incompatibilities -The default build of this release is binary compatible with the 5.005 -release or its maintenance versions. +In general, the default build of this release is expected to be binary +compatible for extensions built with the 5.005 release or its maintenance +versions. However, specific platforms may have broken binary compatibility +due to changes in the defaults used in hints files. Therefore, please be +sure to always check the platform-specific README files for any notes to +the contrary. The usethreads or usemultiplicity builds are B<not> binary compatible with the corresponding builds in 5.005. +On platforms that require an explicit list of exports (AIX, OS/2 and Windows, +among others), purely internal symbols such as parser functions and the +run time opcodes are not exported by default. Perl 5.005 used to export +all functions irrespective of whether they were considered part of the +public API or not. + +For the full list of public API functions, see L<perlapi>. + =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements =head2 New Configure flags |