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Diffstat (limited to 'dist/XSLoader')
| -rw-r--r-- | dist/XSLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/dist/XSLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL b/dist/XSLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL index 47492e1da8..66afa8e6e0 100644 --- a/dist/XSLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL +++ b/dist/XSLoader/XSLoader_pm.PL @@ -274,18 +274,22 @@ in F<YourPackage.pm>) and XS code (defined in F<YourPackage.xs>). If this Perl code makes calls into this XS code, and/or this XS code makes calls to the Perl code, one should be careful with the order of initialization. -The call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>) has three side effects: +The call to C<XSLoader::load()> (or C<bootstrap()>) calls the module's +bootstrap code. For modules build by F<xsubpp> (nearly all modules) this +has three side effects: =over =item * -if C<$VERSION> was specified, a sanity check is done to ensure that the -versions of the F<.pm> and the (compiled) F<.xs> parts are compatible; +A sanity check is done to ensure that the versions of the F<.pm> and the +(compiled) F<.xs> parts are compatible. If C<$VERSION> was specified, this +is used for the check. If not specified, it defaults to +C<$XS_VERSION // $VERSION> (in the module's namespace) =item * -the XSUBs are made accessible from Perl; +the XSUBs are made accessible from Perl =item * |