Re: XS-assisted SWASHGET (esp. for t/uni/class.t speedup)

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlhack.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod
index 1a88b52..15c8d5c 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlhack.pod
+++ b/pod/perlhack.pod
@@ -877,9 +877,9 @@ retrieves the return op from it, and returns it.
 
 =item Exception handing
 
-Perl's exception handing (ie C<die> etc) is built on top of the low-level
+Perl's exception handing (i.e. C<die> etc) is built on top of the low-level
 C<setjmp()>/C<longjmp()> C-library functions. These basically provide a
-way to capture the current PC and SP registers and later restore them; ie
+way to capture the current PC and SP registers and later restore them; i.e.
 a C<longjmp()> continues at the point in code where a previous C<setjmp()>
 was done, with anything further up on the C stack being lost. This is why
 code should always save values using C<SAVE_FOO> rather than in auto
@@ -1858,6 +1858,9 @@ the module maintainer (with a copy to p5p).  This will help the module
 maintainer keep the CPAN version in sync with the core version without
 constantly scanning p5p.
 
+The list of maintainers of core modules is usefully documented in
+F<Porting/Maintainers.pl>.
+
 =head2 Adding a new function to the core
 
 If, as part of a patch to fix a bug, or just because you have an
@@ -2079,7 +2082,7 @@ F<testname.valgrind>.
 
 (Only in Tru64)  Run all the tests using the memory leak + naughty
 memory access tool "Third Degree".  The log files will be named
-F<perl3.log.testname>.
+F<perl.3log.testname>.
 
 =item test.torture torturetest
 
@@ -2479,7 +2482,7 @@ file and line number (and C function name, if supported by the C compiler).
 
 This logging is somewhat similar to C<-Dm> but independent of C<-DDEBUGGING>,
 and at a higher level (the C<-Dm> is directly at the point of C<malloc()>,
-while the C<PERL_MEMLOG> is at the level of C<New()>>.
+while the C<PERL_MEM_LOG> is at the level of C<New()>).
 
 =head2 Profiling