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| author | Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> | 2008-05-18 00:37:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2008-05-18 06:28:49 +0000 |
| commit | 5f1da31cc3010163aa29135d0c83706ab31118b8 (patch) | |
| tree | ca71a5e0e7c45295092ccb0e06a68ac9618b2cf2 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 09782346ff1f47d913bef106d29466f3d41825c8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-5f1da31cc3010163aa29135d0c83706ab31118b8.tar.gz | |
Re: eval "require Foo" with binary-incompatible XS modules
Message-ID: <20080517183730.GA4440@rebekka>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33848
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 764deb07a5..864699d98b 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1562,6 +1562,10 @@ determining whether a particular feature (such as C<socket> or C<symlink>) is implemented. It is also Perl's exception trapping mechanism, where the die operator is used to raise exceptions. +If you want to trap errors when loading an XS module, some problems with +the binary interface (such as Perl version skew) may be fatal even with +C<eval> unless C<$ENV{PERL_DL_NONLAZY}> is set. See L<perlrun>. + If the code to be executed doesn't vary, you may use the eval-BLOCK form to trap run-time errors without incurring the penalty of recompiling each time. The error, if any, is still returned in C<$@>. |