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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perl.pod | 70 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlhist.pod | 2 |
3 files changed, 83 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index ecdaac71cd..db4508700f 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -245,6 +245,76 @@ optimized C code. Okay, that's I<definitely> enough hype. +=head1 AVAILABILITY + +Perl is available for the vast majority of operating system platforms, +including most Unix-like platforms. The following situation is as of +February 1999 and Perl 5.005_03. + +The following platforms are able to build Perl from the standard +source code distribution available at +F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/index.html> + + AIX IRIX SCO ODT/OSR + A/UX Linux Solaris + BeOS MachTen SunOS + BSD/OS MPE/iX SVR4 + DG/UX NetBSD Ultrix + Digital UNIX NextSTEP UNICOS + DOS DJGPP 1) OpenBSD VMS + DYNIX/ptx OpenSTEP Windows 3.1 1) + FreeBSD OS/2 Windows 95 1) 3) + HP-UX OS390 2) Windows 98 1) 3) + Hurd PowerUX Windows NT 1) 3) + QNX VOS + + 1) in DOS mode either the DOS or OS/2 ports can be used + 2) formerly known as MVS + 3) compilers: Borland, Cygwin32, Mingw32 EGCS/GCC, VC++ + +The following platforms have been known to build Perl from the source +but for the Perl release 5.005_03 we haven't been able to verify them, +either because the hardware/software platforms are rather rare or +because we don't have an active champion on these platforms. + + 3b1 FPS Plan 9 + AmigaOS GENIX RISC/os + ConvexOS Greenhills Stellar + CX/UX ISC SVR2 + DC/OSx MachTen 68k TI1500 + DDE SMES MiNT TitanOS + DomainOS MPC UNICOS/mk + DOS EMX NEWS-OS Unisys Dynix + Dynix Opus Unixware + EP/IX + ESIX + +The following platforms are planned to be supported in the standard +source distribution of the Perl release 5.006 but are not +supported in the Perl release 5.005_03: + + BS2000 + VM/ESA + +The following platforms have their own source code distributions and +binaries available via F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html>. + + Perl release + + AS/400 5.003 + MacOS 5.004_04 + Tandem Guardian 5.004 + +The following platforms have only binaries available via +F<http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ports/index.html>. + + Perl release + + Acorn RISCOS 5.001 + AOS 5.002 + LynxOS 5.004_02 + Netware 5.003_07 + =head1 ENVIRONMENT See L<perlrun>. diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 07e2361def..1297e714ea 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -2592,19 +2592,25 @@ C<"P"> is C<undef>. =item * The integer types C<"s">, C<"S">, C<"l">, and C<"L"> may be -immediately followed by a C<"_"> to signify a native short or long--as +immediately followed by a C<"_"> to signify native shorts or longs--as you can see from above for example a bare C<"l"> does mean exactly 32 bits, the native C<long> (as seen by the local C compiler) may be -larger. This is an issue mainly in 64-bit platforms. +larger. This is an issue mainly in 64-bit platforms. You can see +whether using C<"_"> makes any difference by + + print length(pack("s")), " ", length(pack("s_")), "\n"; + print length(pack("l")), " ", length(pack("l_")), "\n"; C<"i_"> and C<"I_"> also work but only because of completeness; they are identical to C<"i"> and C<"I">. -The actual size (in bytes) of native shorts, ints, and longs on -the platform where Perl was built are available from L<Config>: +The actual sizes (in bytes) of native shorts, ints, and longs on +the platform where Perl was built are available via L<Config>: use Config; print $Config{shortsize}, "\n"; + print $Config{intsize}, "\n"; + print $Config{longsize}, "\n"; =item * @@ -2632,8 +2638,8 @@ You can see your system's preference with print join(" ", map { sprintf "%#02x", $_ } unpack("C*",pack("L",0x12345678))), "\n"; -The actual byteorder on the platform where Perl was built are available -from L<Config>: +The actual byteorder on the platform where Perl was built is available +via L<Config>: use Config; print $Config{byteorder}, "\n"; diff --git a/pod/perlhist.pod b/pod/perlhist.pod index 1be042d9bf..40aa83c1f2 100644 --- a/pod/perlhist.pod +++ b/pod/perlhist.pod @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ the strings?). 5.005_52 1998-Sep-25 5.005_53 1998-Oct-31 5.005_54 1998-Nov-30 - 5.005_55 1999-Feb-15 + 5.005_55 1999-Feb-16 =head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES |