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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-22 18:41:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-03-22 18:41:50 +0000 |
| commit | 23d2500b2b45b1beddc8de6ccd7c60068286d061 (patch) | |
| tree | 0568232e7941f12ccc860d57af12bae8e16d1436 /pod | |
| parent | 2c20ed41a3360f03ffb7f6708714c106fdee7344 (diff) | |
| download | perl-23d2500b2b45b1beddc8de6ccd7c60068286d061.tar.gz | |
make unloading of extension shared objects (change#5381) a build
option (use "Configure -Accflags=-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT" to enable)
p4raw-link: @5381 on //depot/perl: abb9e9dca5a5f1213886f2e81a42c9a565def727
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5885
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index df1e68d56e..610e84b8c7 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -1484,6 +1484,16 @@ L<Devel::DProf> and L<dprofpp>. The Dumpvalue module provides screen dumps of Perl data. +=item DynaLoader + +DynaLoader now supports a dl_unload_file() function on platforms that +support unloading shared objects using dlclose(). + +Perl can also optionally arrange to unload all extension shared objects +loaded by Perl. To enable this, build Perl with the Configure option +C<-Accflags=-DDL_UNLOAD_ALL_AT_EXIT>. (This maybe useful if you are +using Apache with mod_perl.) + =item Benchmark Overall, Benchmark results exhibit lower average error and better timing @@ -1852,6 +1862,11 @@ pathname for FILENAME in scalar context. In list context it returns a two-element list containing the fully qualified directory name and the filename. See L<Win32>. +=item XSLoader + +The XSLoader extension is a simpler alternative to DynaLoader. +See L<XSLoader>. + =item DBM Filters A new feature called "DBM Filters" has been added to all the |