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diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index da02084b31..58f2cac2f6 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ bin (bin.U): is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution. +bincompat3 (bincompat3.U): + This variable contains y if Perl 5.004 should be binary-compatible + with Perl 5.003. + byteorder (byteorder.U): This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits indicate more significance. The variable byteorder is either 4321 @@ -133,6 +137,11 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings. +d_bincompat3 (bincompat3.U): + This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT3 so that embed.h + can take special action if Perl 5.004 should be binary-compatible + with Perl 5.003. + d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U): This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none. @@ -272,10 +281,20 @@ d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is available to set the file position indicator. +d_ftime (d_ftime.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which + indicates that the ftime() routine exists. The ftime() routine is + basically a sub-second accuracy clock. + d_gethent (d_gethent.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is available to dup file descriptors. +d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which + indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a + sub-second accuracy clock). + d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available @@ -312,6 +331,11 @@ d_index (d_strchr.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and rindex() are available for string searching. +d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available + to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings. + d_isascii (d_isascii.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant, which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available. @@ -483,6 +507,11 @@ d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U): This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies. +d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if + the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative + magnitudes of chars with their high bits set. + d_seekdir (d_readdir.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is available. @@ -643,6 +672,21 @@ d_strerror (d_strerror.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is available to translate error numbers to strings. +d_strtod (d_strtod.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available + to provide better numeric string conversion than atof(). + +d_strtol (d_strtol.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available + to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends. + +d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U): + This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which + indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available + to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long. + d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U): This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is available to transform strings. @@ -1175,6 +1219,11 @@ path_sep (Unix.U): perladmin (perladmin.U): Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator. +perlpath (perlpath.U): + This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol, + which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in + shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom. + prefix (prefix.U): This variable holds the name of the directory below which the user will install the package. Usually, this is /usr/local, and |