Provide infrastructure for PERL_ASYNC_CHECK() style safe signals.

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

diff --git a/pod/perlintern.pod b/pod/perlintern.pod
index 6d8d67d..6af18b5 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlintern.pod
+++ b/pod/perlintern.pod
@@ -1,17 +1,29 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal> 
+perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
                 Perl functions
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the 
+This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the
 Perl interpreter that are documented using Perl's internal documentation
-format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words, 
+format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words,
 B<they are not for use in extensions>!
 
 =over 8
 
+=item djSP
+
+Declare Just C<SP>. This is actually identical to C<dSP>, and declares
+a local copy of perl's stack pointer, available via the C<SP> macro.
+See C<SP>.  (Available for backward source code compatibility with the
+old (Perl 5.005) thread model.)
+
+               djSP;
+
+=for hackers
+Found in file pp.h
+
 =item is_gv_magical
 
 Returns C<TRUE> if given the name of a magical GV.
@@ -24,12 +36,34 @@ allow selecting particular classes of magical variable.
 
        bool    is_gv_magical(char *name, STRLEN len, U32 flags)
 
+=for hackers
+Found in file gv.c
+
+=item LVRET
+
+True if this op will be the return value of an lvalue subroutine
+
+=for hackers
+Found in file pp.h
+
+=item start_glob
+
+Function called by C<do_readline> to spawn a glob (or do the glob inside
+perl on VMS). This code used to be inline, but now perl uses C<File::Glob>
+this glob starter is only used by miniperl during the build proccess.
+Moving it away shrinks pp_hot.c; shrinking pp_hot.c helps speed perl up.
+
+       PerlIO* start_glob(SV* pattern, IO *io)
+
+=for hackers
+Found in file doio.c
+
 =back
 
 =head1 AUTHORS
 
-The autodocumentation system was originally added to the Perl core by 
-Benjamin Stuhl. Documentation is by whoever was kind enough to 
+The autodocumentation system was originally added to the Perl core by
+Benjamin Stuhl. Documentation is by whoever was kind enough to
 document their functions.
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO