For 5.12: saner behaviour for `length`

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

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 4c6fc60..5b3c99b 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -244,10 +244,6 @@ cf_time (cf_who.U):
        Holds the output of the "date" command when the configuration file was
        produced. This is used to tag both config.sh and config_h.SH.
 
-charsize (charsize.U):
-       This variable contains the value of the CHARSIZE symbol, which
-       indicates to the C program how many bytes there are in a character.
-
 chgrp (Loc.U):
        This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
        The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
@@ -1937,6 +1933,11 @@ d_sigaction (d_sigaction.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGACTION symbol, which
        indicates that the Vr4 sigaction() routine is available.
 
+d_signbit (d_signbit.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the HAS_SIGNBIT symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that the signbit() routine is available
+       and safe to use with perl's intern NV type.
+
 d_sigprocmask (d_sigprocmask.U):
        This variable conditionally defines HAS_SIGPROCMASK
        if sigprocmask() is available to examine or change the signal mask
@@ -2417,6 +2418,9 @@ dynamic_ext (Extensions.U):
        This variable holds a list of XS extension files we want to
        link dynamically into the package.  It is used by Makefile.
 
+dtrace (dtrace.U):
+       This variable holds the location of the dtrace executable.
+
 eagain (nblock_io.U):
        This variable bears the symbolic errno code set by read() when no
        data is present on the file and non-blocking I/O was enabled (otherwise,
@@ -2823,6 +2827,11 @@ i_arpainet (i_arpainet.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the I_ARPA_INET symbol,
        and indicates whether a C program should include <arpa/inet.h>.
 
+i_assert (i_assert.U):
+       This variable conditionally defines the I_ASSERT symbol, which
+       indicates to the C program that <assert.h> exists and could be
+       included.
+
 i_bsdioctl (i_sysioctl.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the I_SYS_BSDIOCTL symbol, which
        indicates to the C program that <sys/bsdioctl.h> exists and should
@@ -4101,6 +4110,10 @@ rm (Loc.U):
        full pathname (if any) of the rm program.  After Configure runs,
        the value is reset to a plain "rm" and is not useful.
 
+rm_try (Unix.U):
+       This is a cleanup variable for try test programs.
+       Internal Configure use only.
+
 rmail (Loc.U):
        This variable is defined but not used by Configure.
        The value is a plain '' and is not useful.
@@ -4778,6 +4791,10 @@ usedl (dlsrc.U):
        This variable indicates if the system supports dynamic
        loading of some sort.  See also dlsrc and dlobj.
 
+usedtrace (trace.U):
+       This variable indicates whether we are compiling with dtrace support.
+       See also dtrace.
+
 usefaststdio (usefaststdio.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the USE_FAST_STDIO symbol,
        and indicates that Perl should be built to use 'fast stdio'.