[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_12 to perl5.003_13]

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / Porting / Glossary

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index da02084..58f2cac 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ bin (bin.U):
        is most often a local directory such as /usr/local/bin. Programs using
        this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
 
+bincompat3 (bincompat3.U):
+       This variable contains y if Perl 5.004 should be binary-compatible
+       with Perl 5.003.
+
 byteorder (byteorder.U):
        This variable holds the byte order. In the following, larger digits
        indicate more significance.  The variable byteorder is either 4321
@@ -133,6 +137,11 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_BCOPY symbol if
        the bcopy() routine is available to copy strings.
 
+d_bincompat3 (bincompat3.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT3 so that embed.h
+       can take special action if Perl 5.004 should be binary-compatible
+       with Perl 5.003.
+
 d_bsdgetpgrp (d_getpgrp.U):
        This variable conditionally defines USE_BSD_GETPGRP if
        getpgrp needs one arguments whereas USG one needs none.
@@ -272,10 +281,20 @@ d_fsetpos (d_fsetpos.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_FSETPOS if fsetpos() is
        available to set the file position indicator.
 
+d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_FTIME symbol, which
+       indicates that the ftime() routine exists.  The ftime() routine is
+       basically a sub-second accuracy clock.
+
 d_gethent (d_gethent.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_GETHOSTENT if gethostent() is
        available to dup file descriptors.
 
+d_gettimeod (d_ftime.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETTIMEOFDAY symbol, which
+       indicates that the gettimeofday() system call exists (to obtain a
+       sub-second accuracy clock).
+
 d_getlogin (d_getlogin.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETLOGIN symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that the getlogin() routine is available
@@ -312,6 +331,11 @@ d_index (d_strchr.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_INDEX if index() and
        rindex() are available for string searching.
 
+d_inetaton (d_inetaton.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_INET_ATON symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the inet_aton() function is available
+       to parse IP address "dotted-quad" strings.
+
 d_isascii (d_isascii.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_ISASCII constant,
        which indicates to the C program that isascii() is available.
@@ -483,6 +507,11 @@ d_safemcpy (d_safemcpy.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SAFE_MEMCPY symbol if
        the memcpy() routine can do overlapping copies.
 
+d_sanemcmp (d_sanemcmp.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SANE_MEMCMP symbol if
+       the memcpy() routine is available and can be used to compare relative
+       magnitudes of chars with their high bits set.
+
 d_seekdir (d_readdir.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_SEEKDIR if seekdir() is
        available.
@@ -643,6 +672,21 @@ d_strerror (d_strerror.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRERROR if strerror() is
        available to translate error numbers to strings.
 
+d_strtod (d_strtod.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOD symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the strtod() routine is available
+       to provide better numeric string conversion than atof().
+
+d_strtol (d_strtol.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOL symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the strtol() routine is available
+       to provide better numeric string conversion than atoi() and friends.
+
+d_strtoul (d_strtoul.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_STRTOUL symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the strtoul() routine is available
+       to provide conversion of strings to unsigned long.
+
 d_strxfrm (d_strxfrm.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_STRXFRM if strxfrm() is
        available to transform strings.
@@ -1175,6 +1219,11 @@ path_sep (Unix.U):
 perladmin (perladmin.U):
        Electronic mail address of the perl5 administrator.
 
+perlpath (perlpath.U):
+       This variable contains the eventual value of the PERLPATH symbol,
+       which contains the name of the perl interpreter to be used in
+       shell scripts and in the "eval 'exec'" idiom.
+
 prefix (prefix.U):
        This variable holds the name of the directory below which the
        user will install the package.  Usually, this is /usr/local, and