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

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index e00110c..cc66d70 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ bin (bin.U):
        this variable must be prepared to deal with ~name substitution.
 
 bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U):
-       This variable contains y if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible
-       with Perl 5.005.
+       This variable contains y if this version of Perl should be
+       binary-compatible with Perl 5.005.
 
 binexp (bin.U):
        This is the same as the bin variable, but is filename expanded at
@@ -194,6 +194,8 @@ ccflags (ccflags.U):
 
 ccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
        The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler alone.
+       The symbols defined by cpp or by cc when it calls cpp are not in
+       this list, see cppsymbols and cppccsymbols.
        The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
 
 cf_by (cf_who.U):
@@ -267,9 +269,9 @@ cpp_stuff (cpp_stuff.U):
        used by the C preprocessor.
 
 cppccsymbols (Cppsym.U):
-       The variable contains the symbols defined by both
-       the bare C compiler and during a compilation that
-       includes stdio.h.
+       The variable contains the symbols defined by the C compiler
+       when it calls cpp.  The symbols defined by the cc alone or cpp
+       alone are not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppsymbols.
        The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
 
 cppflags (ccflags.U):
@@ -301,8 +303,9 @@ cppstdin (cppstdin.U):
        preprocessor symbols.
 
 cppsymbols (Cppsym.U):
-       The variable contains the symbols during a compilation
-       that includes stdio.h.
+       The variable contains the symbols defined by the C preprocessor
+       alone.  The symbols defined by cc or by cc when it calls cpp are
+       not in this list, see ccsymbols and cppccsymbols.
        The list is a space-separated list of symbol=value tokens.
 
 crosscompile (crosscompile.U):
@@ -360,9 +363,10 @@ d_bcopy (d_bcopy.U):
 
 d_bincompat5005 (bincompat5005.U):
        This variable conditionally defines BINCOMPAT5005 so that embed.h
-       can take special action if Perl 5.006 should be binary-compatible
-       with Perl 5.005.  This is impossible for builds that use features
-       like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef for those versions.
+       can take special action if this version of Perl should be
+       binary-compatible with Perl 5.005.  This is impossible for builds
+       that use features like threads and multiplicity it is always $undef
+       for those versions.
 
 d_bsd (Guess.U):
        This symbol conditionally defines the symbol BSD when running on a
@@ -3094,6 +3098,9 @@ siteprefixexp (siteprefix.U):
        This variable holds the full absolute path of the directory below
        which the user will install add-on packages.  Derived from siteprefix.
 
+sizesize (sizesize.U):
+       This variable contains the size of a sizetype in bytes.
+
 sizetype (sizetype.U):
        This variable defines sizetype to be something like size_t, 
        unsigned long, or whatever type is used to declare length