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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-02-28 23:11:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-02-28 23:11:00 +0000 |
| commit | 1c1c7f20b839aeb1c04942d0884c3efb087d3e4a (patch) | |
| tree | 520fab1019a7e34a8d8090c712af7aa799736d00 /pod/perlvar.pod | |
| parent | 0bfcb09dbc8a8333a31bc4ed39ebc944580fd2fe (diff) | |
| download | perl-1c1c7f20b839aeb1c04942d0884c3efb087d3e4a.tar.gz | |
[win32] misc small tweaks
- AutoLoader fix for long::pack::names
- d_mymalloc can be set from makefiles now
- make search.pl actually work on win32
- revert podoc about $^E on OS/2 (per Ilya's wishes)
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@606
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlvar.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 3ab11ef2ae..221947b508 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -453,11 +453,8 @@ system error. This is more specific information about the last system error than that provided by C<$!>. This is particularly important when C<$!> is set to B<EVMSERR>. -Under OS/2, C<$^E> is set based on the value returned by the OS/2 -call C<_syserrno()> only when a call into the OS/2 API generates -an error. In this case, C<$!> is set to a special value to -indicate that C<$^E> should be checked. Otherwise, C<$^E> is -just the same as C<$!>. +Under OS/2, C<$^E> is set to the error code of the last call to +OS/2 API either via CRT, or directly from perl. Under Win32, C<$^E> always returns the last error information reported by the Win32 call C<GetLastError()> which describes |