Small doc and whitespace edits.

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4143

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index f77ab5d9b4..de5a718a25 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ use "quads" (64-integers) as follows:
 
 =item printed as such
 
-=item pack() and unpack() "q" and "Q" formatS
+=item pack() and unpack() "q" and "Q" formats
 
 =item in basic arithmetics: + - * / %
 
@@ -169,8 +169,9 @@ use "quads" (64-integers) as follows:
 Note that unless you have the case (a) you will have to configure
 and compile Perl using the -Duse64bits Configure flag.
 
-Unfortunately bit arithmetics (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>) are not 64-bit clean,
-they are explictly forced to be 32-bit.
+Unfortunately bit arithmetics (&, |, ^, ~, <<, >>) for numbers are not
+64-bit clean, they are explictly forced to be 32-bit.  Bit arithmetics
+for bit vectors (created by vec()) are not limited in their width.
 
 Last but not least: note that due to Perl's habit of always using
 floating point numbers the quads are still not true integers.
@@ -185,17 +186,17 @@ If you have filesystems that support "large files" (files larger than
 2 gigabytes), you may now also be able to create and access them from Perl.
 
 Note that in addition to requiring a proper file system to do this you
-may also need to adjust your per-process (or even your per-system)
-maximum filesize limits before running Perl scripts that try to handle
-large files, especially if you intend to write such files.
+may also need to adjust your per-process (or your per-system, or per-user-group)
+maximum filesize limits before running Perl scripts that try to handle large
+files, especially if you intend to write such files.
 
 Adjusting your file system/system limits is outside the scope of Perl.
 For process limits, you may try to increase the limits using your
 shell's limit/ulimit command before running Perl.  The BSD::Resource
 extension (not included with the standard Perl distribution) may also
-be of use.
+be of use, it contains getrlimit/setrlimit calls.
  
-(Large file support is also related to 64-bit support, for obvious reasons)
+(Large file support is related to 64-bit support, for obvious reasons.)
 
 =head2 Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
 
@@ -753,6 +754,13 @@ because many scripts assume to find Perl in /usr/bin/perl.
 You can use "Configure -Dusesocks" which causes Perl to probe
 for the SOCKS proxy protocol library, http://www.socks.nec.com/
 
+=head2 -A flag
+
+You can "post-edit" the Configure variables using the Configure -A
+flag.  The editing happens immediately after the platform specific
+hints files have been processed but before the actual configuration
+process starts.  Run Configure -h to find out the full -A syntax.
+
 =head1 BUGS
 
 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the headers of