diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/Glossary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/Glossary | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index 2233779fdb..c4ce3de565 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -2740,6 +2740,15 @@ n (n.U): command to suppress newline. Otherwise it is null. Correct usage is $echo $n "prompt for a question: $c". +need_va_copy (need_va_copy.U): + This symbol, if defined, indicates that the system stores + the variable argument list datatype, va_list, in a format + that cannot be copied by simple assignment, so that some + other means must be used when copying is required. + As such systems vary in their provision (or non-provision) + of copying mechanisms, handy.h defines a platform- + independent macro, Perl_va_copy(src, dst), to do the job. + netdb_hlen_type (netdbtype.U): This variable holds the type used for the 2nd argument to gethostbyaddr(). Usually, this is int or size_t or unsigned. |