[inseparable changes from match from perl-5.003_96 to perl-5.003_97]

 CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES

Subject: Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t

 CORE PORTABILITY

Subject: Win32 update
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC- 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak
Msg-ID: 199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu

    (applied based on p5p patch as commit 8d0ff1118aaee510902477e928a660803304346c)

 DOCUMENTATION

Subject: Clean up some poddities, and make C<make html> work again
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perltrap.pod

Subject: Eliminate pod warnings in libs
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm

 LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS

Subject: Eliminate warning in CGI.pm
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: lib/CGI.pm

 OTHER CORE CHANGES

Subject: Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlguts.pod b/pod/perlguts.pod
index c14e17d0bd..382c6c2e00 100644
--- a/pod/perlguts.pod
+++ b/pod/perlguts.pod
@@ -1400,24 +1400,34 @@ method's CV, which can be obtained from the GV with the C<GvCV> macro.
 
 =item gv_fetchmethod
 
+=item gv_fetchmethod_autoload
+
 Returns the glob which contains the subroutine to call to invoke the
-method on the C<stash>. In fact in the presense of autoloading this may
-be the glob for "AUTOLOAD".  In this case the corresponing variable
+method on the C<stash>.  In fact in the presense of autoloading this may
+be the glob for "AUTOLOAD".  In this case the corresponding variable
 $AUTOLOAD is already setup.
 
-Note that if you want to keep this glob for a long time, you need to
-check for it being "AUTOLOAD", since at the later time the call
+The third parameter of C<gv_fetchmethod_autoload> determines whether AUTOLOAD
+lookup is performed if the given method is not present: non-zero means
+yes, look for AUTOLOAD; zero means no, don't look for AUTOLOAD.  Calling
+C<gv_fetchmethod> is equivalent to calling C<gv_fetchmethod_autoload> with a
+non-zero C<autoload> parameter.
+
+These functions grant C<"SUPER"> token as a prefix of the method name.
+
+Note that if you want to keep the returned glob for a long time, you
+need to check for it being "AUTOLOAD", since at the later time the call
 may load a different subroutine due to $AUTOLOAD changing its value.
 Use the glob created via a side effect to do this.
 
-This function grants C<"SUPER"> token as a prefix of the method name.
-
-Has the same side-effects and as C<gv_fetchmeth> with C<level==0>.
-C<name> should be writable if contains C<':'> or C<'\''>.
+These functions have the same side-effects and as C<gv_fetchmeth> with
+C<level==0>.  C<name> should be writable if contains C<':'> or C<'\''>.
 The warning against passing the GV returned by C<gv_fetchmeth> to
-C<perl_call_sv> apply equally to C<gv_fetchmethod>.
+C<perl_call_sv> apply equally to these functions.
 
         GV*     gv_fetchmethod _((HV* stash, char* name));
+        GV*     gv_fetchmethod_autoload _((HV* stash, char* name,
+                                           I32 autoload));
 
 =item gv_stashpv
 
@@ -2920,4 +2930,4 @@ API Listing by Dean Roehrich <F<roehrich@cray.com>>.
 
 =head1 DATE
 
-Version 31.4: 1997/3/30
+Version 31.5: 1997/4/1