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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-09-18 11:07:51 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-09-18 11:07:51 +0000
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Tidying up the unused or unneeded global variables would be good.
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@@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ such that it's trivial for the Pumpking to flag "this is an official release"
when making a tarball, yet leave the default source saying "I'm not the
official release".
+=head2 Tidy up global variables
+
+There's a note in F<intrpvar.h>
+
+ /* These two variables are needed to preserve 5.8.x bincompat because
+ we can't change function prototypes of two exported functions.
+ Probably should be taken out of blead soon, and relevant prototypes
+ changed. */
+
+So doing this, and removing any of the unused variables still present would
+be good.
+
=head2 Ordering of "global" variables.
F<thrdvar.h> and F<intrpvarh> define the "global" variables that need to be