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cb50131a 1=head1 NAME
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22d4bb9c 3perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
cb50131a 4 Perl functions
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6=head1 DESCRIPTION
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22d4bb9c 8This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the
ee8c7f54 9Perl interpreter that are documented using Perl's internal documentation
22d4bb9c 10format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words,
cb50131a 11B<they are not for use in extensions>!
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13=over 8
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4b19af01 15=item is_gv_magical
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17Returns C<TRUE> if given the name of a magical GV.
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19Currently only useful internally when determining if a GV should be
20created even in rvalue contexts.
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22C<flags> is not used at present but available for future extension to
23allow selecting particular classes of magical variable.
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25 bool is_gv_magical(char *name, STRLEN len, U32 flags)
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27=for hackers
28Found in file gv.c
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cb50131a 30=back
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32=head1 AUTHORS
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22d4bb9c 34The autodocumentation system was originally added to the Perl core by
35Benjamin Stuhl. Documentation is by whoever was kind enough to
cb50131a 36document their functions.
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38=head1 SEE ALSO
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40perlguts(1), perlapi(1)
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