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| author | Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl@gmx.net> | 2004-07-26 17:14:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Marcus Holland-Moritz <mhx-perl@gmx.net> | 2004-07-26 17:14:37 +0000 |
| commit | 7a4d29052c3419a899eda557f978391707f60fc0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b85bcb39aea0776e86e6a19c2986dc4e71df2d1 /pod | |
| parent | dbb93a7d5454dc18d0fc96ebe58941858ddf7bcb (diff) | |
| download | perl-7a4d29052c3419a899eda557f978391707f60fc0.tar.gz | |
The byte-order modifiers won't go into 5.8.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23163
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlport.pod | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index f23c8a2192..8708313051 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3587,7 +3587,7 @@ and C<'87654321'> are big-endian. If you want portable packed integers you can either use the formats C<n>, C<N>, C<v>, and C<V>, or you can use the C<E<gt>> and C<E<lt>> -modifiers. These modifiers are only available as of perl 5.8.5. +modifiers. These modifiers are only available as of perl 5.9.2. See also L<perlport>. =item * diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod index 8b8062ce2b..e7fcde79bb 100644 --- a/pod/perlport.pod +++ b/pod/perlport.pod @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ them in big-endian mode. To avoid this problem in network (socket) connections use the C<pack> and C<unpack> formats C<n> and C<N>, the "network" orders. These are guaranteed to be portable. -As of perl 5.8.5, you can also use the C<E<gt>> and C<E<lt>> modifiers +As of perl 5.9.2, you can also use the C<E<gt>> and C<E<lt>> modifiers to force big- or little-endian byte-order. This is useful if you want to store signed integers or 64-bit integers, for example. |