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| author | Sherm Pendley <sherm@dot-app.org> | 2006-01-16 11:53:23 -0500 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2006-01-18 19:00:58 +0000 |
| commit | ee82095d746f973b65ab5951a3ad4dbe4f6d0640 (patch) | |
| tree | 955695752e8043fca70f491e7ef8924fd7658f27 /pod | |
| parent | bf23606b46df39ae0e2102e036a0c61188788022 (diff) | |
| download | perl-ee82095d746f973b65ab5951a3ad4dbe4f6d0640.tar.gz | |
Integrate:
[ 26877]
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Updated README.macosx
Message-Id: <619C9A5D-972F-4B90-A99A-B4B6D04C584D@dot-app.org>
[ 26878]
Make the description of $^M in perlvar a bit more clear
w.r.t. cross-references to the INSTALL document. (spotted
by Stas Bekman)
p4raw-link: @26878 on //depot/perl: 0acca065f2163b13d30515802579360fd8fa9d4a
p4raw-link: @26877 on //depot/perl: e30a8c0c6e0087de01552c4bf69ced9f4f2756db
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@26906
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/perl@26905 'copy in' README.macosx
(@26038..) 'merge in' pod/perlvar.pod (@26797..)
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlvar.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index acb35a94b7..9a10bc4014 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -1016,15 +1016,16 @@ inplace editing. (Mnemonic: value of B<-i> switch.) By default, running out of memory is an untrappable, fatal error. However, if suitably built, Perl can use the contents of C<$^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 |