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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-17 04:58:39 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>2000-03-17 04:58:39 +0000
commit200f06d0560bb35c44d4f11900efe1b9030aadea (patch)
treeda305b37acd289e6ab58d63e753a98b459541366 /pod
parent27f9d8f3098a41d6bcd7d561e3deabbf17bc0dd6 (diff)
downloadperl-200f06d0560bb35c44d4f11900efe1b9030aadea.tar.gz
documentation fixes from p5p
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5779
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perlcompile.pod5
-rw-r--r--pod/perldebug.pod2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlcompile.pod b/pod/perlcompile.pod
index 8f31fc6032..697cb80d40 100644
--- a/pod/perlcompile.pod
+++ b/pod/perlcompile.pod
@@ -306,8 +306,9 @@ I<assemble> program that produces bytecode.
=item B::Bblock
-This module is used by the B::CC back end. It walks "basic blocks",
-whatever they may be.
+This module is used by the B::CC back end. It walks "basic blocks".
+A basic block is a series of operations which is known to execute from
+start to finish, with no possiblity of branching or halting.
=item B::Bytecode
diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod
index 5b7a2bdbb0..ead5414ccf 100644
--- a/pod/perldebug.pod
+++ b/pod/perldebug.pod
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ specified in the C<TTY> option at startup, or to a tty found at
runtime using the C<Term::Rendezvous> module of your choice.
This module should implement a method named C<new> that returns an object
-with two methods: C<IN> and C<OUT. These should return filehandles to use
+with two methods: C<IN> and C<OUT>. These should return filehandles to use
for debugging input and output correspondingly. The C<new> method should
inspect an argument containing the value of C<$ENV{PERLDB_NOTTY}> at
startup, or C<"/tmp/perldbtty$$"> otherwise. This file is not