X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperl572delta.pod;h=0dc191f91f0136e42b3db8ad98a9e35f8a1c6d7e;hb=d7d85e3907e77682e4c8fc4a08694cd2fc999056;hp=199802deea478b9977d0866949ae91dfdba414d6;hpb=d0c93ae95d925e05df5353ae7c3d57a09e757774;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perl572delta.pod b/pod/perl572delta.pod index 199802d..0dc191f 100644 --- a/pod/perl572delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl572delta.pod @@ -546,12 +546,13 @@ problems for all the 5.7 releases. =item * -If Perl is configured to use long doubles the op/int subtests 13 and -14 and the ext/POSIX subtest 14 may fail. - -=item * - -If Perl is configured to use threads the op/magic subtest 28 may fail. +In AIX 4.2 Perl extensions that use C++ functions that use statics +may have problems in that the statics are not getting initialized. +In newer AIX releases this has been solved by linking Perl with +the libC_r library, but unfortunately in AIX 4.2 the said library +has an obscure bug where the various functions related to time +(such as time() and gettimeofday()) return broken values, and +therefore in AIX 4.2 Perl is not linked against the libC_r. =item *