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| -rw-r--r-- | globals.c | 18 |
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@@ -12,6 +12,24 @@ * Elves, Dwarves, and Men." --Elrond */ +/* This file exists to #include "perl.h" _ONCE_ with + * PERL_IN_GLOBALS_C defined. That causes various global varaiables + * in perl.h and other files it includes to be _defined_ (and initialized) + * rather than just declared. + * + * There is a #include "perlapi.h" which makes use of the fact + * that the object file created from this file will be included by linker + * (to resolve global variables). perlapi.h mention various other "API" + * functions not used by perl itself, but the functions get + * pulled into the perl executable via the refrerence here. + * + * Two printf() like functions have also found their way here. + * Most likely by analogy to the API scheme above (as perl doesn't + * use them) but they probably belong elsewhere the obvious place + * being in perlio.c + * +*/ + #include "INTERN.h" #define PERL_IN_GLOBALS_C #include "perl.h" |