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| author | Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> | 2011-08-12 19:13:09 +0200 |
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| committer | Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> | 2011-08-21 13:31:40 +0200 |
| commit | 7ec04da5b5eb2040fcb41f623e7779acd16563b4 (patch) | |
| tree | f7342d95f82e6985370c1063130fb467a5d1fb32 /pod | |
| parent | ab1478f7146843f73af03fea79b380f501564e86 (diff) | |
| download | perl-7ec04da5b5eb2040fcb41f623e7779acd16563b4.tar.gz | |
Perldelta for static XSUBs
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 5a3d24e688..98f8c207d7 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: [ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ] +=head2 XSUBs are now 'static' + +XSUB C functions are now 'static', that is, they are not visible from +outside the compilation unit. For the exceedingly rare case where +this is not desired, a new public macro C<XS_EXTERNAL(name)> can be +used in place of C<XS(name)>. C<ExtUtils::ParseXS> (C<xsubpp>) +can be made to declare XSUBs with C<XS_EXTERNAL> using the +C<EXPORT_XSUB_SYMBOLS> keyword, see L<perlxs> for details. + =head1 Deprecations XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here. |