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author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-01-17 16:15:15 +0000 |
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committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2006-01-17 16:15:15 +0000 |
commit | 0acca065f2163b13d30515802579360fd8fa9d4a (patch) | |
tree | 1cd5c172c99615fc573979b03b3aef4d2239c436 /pod | |
parent | e30a8c0c6e0087de01552c4bf69ced9f4f2756db (diff) | |
download | perl-0acca065f2163b13d30515802579360fd8fa9d4a.tar.gz |
Make the description of $^M in perlvar a bit more clear
w.r.t. cross-references to the INSTALL document. (spotted
by Stas Bekman)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@26878
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index d2558a76b5..30d28888f5 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1012,15 +1012,16 @@ inplace editing. (Mnemonic: value of B<-i> switch.) By default, running out of memory is an untrappable, fatal error. However, if suitably built, Perl can use the contents of C<$^M> as an emergency memory pool after die()ing. Suppose that your Perl -were compiled with -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK and used Perl's malloc. +were compiled with C<-DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK> and used Perl's malloc. Then $^M = 'a' x (1 << 16); would allocate a 64K buffer for use in an emergency. See the F<INSTALL> file in the Perl distribution for information on how to -enable this option. To discourage casual use of this advanced -feature, there is no L<English|English> long name for this variable. +add custom C compilation flags when compiling perl. To discourage casual +use of this advanced feature, there is no L<English|English> long name for +this variable. =item $OSNAME |