this port does support dynamic loading but it's not had much testing
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Don't turn on the compiler optimization flag "-O". There's
a bug in the compiler (APAR PQ18812) that generates some bad code
the optimizer is on.
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As VM/ESA doesn't fully support the fork() API programs relying on
this call will not work. I've replaced fork()/exec() with spawn()
and the standalone exec() with spawn(). This has a side effect when
[the list of failures being compiled]
=head2 Usage Hints
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When using perl on VM/ESA please keep in mind that the EBCDIC and ASCII
character sets are different. Perl builtin functions that may behave
differently under EBCDIC are mentioned in the perlport.pod document.