=head1 NAME
perldelta - what's new for perl v5.8.0
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This document describes differences between the 5.6 release and this one.
=head1 Core Enhancements
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=head1 Utility Changes
=head1 Improved Documentation
=head1 Performance enhancements
=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
=head2 gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
In many platforms the vendor-supplied 'cc' is too stripped-down to
build Perl (basically, the 'cc' doesn't do ANSI C). If this seems
to be the case and the 'cc' does not seem to be the GNU C compiler
'gcc', an automatic attempt is made to find and use 'gcc' instead.
=head1 Platform specific changes
=head1 Significant bug fixes
=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
=over 4
=item (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?)
(F) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message
"Can't locate object method \"%s\" via package \"%s\"". It often means
that a method requires a package that has not been loaded.
=item Ambiguous range in transliteration operator
(F) You wrote something like C
which doesn't mean anything at
all. To include a C<-> character in a transliteration, put it either
first or last. (In the past, C
was synonymous with
C
, which was probably not what you would have expected.)
=back
=head1 New tests
=head1 Incompatible Changes
=head1 Known Problems
=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics
=head1 Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the
articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.
There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl
Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
output of C, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.com to be
analysed by the Perl porting team.
=head1 SEE ALSO
The F file for exhaustive details on what changed.
The F file for how to build Perl.
The F file for general stuff.
The F and F files for copyright information.
=head1 HISTORY
Written by Gurusamy Sarathy >, with many
contributions from The Perl Porters.
Send omissions or corrections to >.
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