this port does support dynamic loading but it's not had much testing
=item *
- - 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.
+
+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.
=item *
- - 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
- opening unnamed pipes in a shell script: there is no child process
- generated under.
+
+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
+opening unnamed pipes in a shell script: there is no child process
+generated under.
=item *
[the list of failures being compiled]
=head2 Usage Hints
-
+
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.