Regen Glossary.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14788

diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary
index 2b59210..200200b 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/Glossary
+++ b/Porting/Glossary
@@ -685,16 +685,23 @@ d_ftime (d_ftime.U):
 
 d_Gconvert (d_gconvert.U):
        This variable holds what Gconvert is defined as to convert
-       floating point numbers into strings. It could be 'gconvert'
-       or a more complex macro emulating gconvert with gcvt() or sprintf.
-       Possible values are:
-       d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))'
-       d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))'
-       d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))'
-       If you are not content with these choices, use gconvert_preference
-       and gconvert_ld_preference, which if present are space-separated
-       lists of functions to try with calling convention of gcvt,
-       respectively for doubles and long doubles.
+       floating point numbers into strings.  By default, Configure
+       sets this macro to use the first of gconvert, gcvt, or sprintf
+       that pass sprintf-%g-like behaviour tests.  If perl is using
+       long doubles, the macro uses the first of the following
+       functions that pass Configure's tests: qgcvt, sprintf (if
+       Configure knows how to make sprintf format long doubles--see
+       sPRIgldbl), gconvert, gcvt, and sprintf (casting to double).  
+       The gconvert_preference and gconvert_ld_preference variables   
+       can be used to alter Configure's preferences, for doubles and
+       long doubles, respectively.  If present, they contain a       
+       space-separated list of one or more of the above function       
+       names in the order they should be tried.
+               d_Gconvert may be set to override Configure with a platform-
+       specific function.  If this function expects a double, a
+       different value may need to be set by the uselongdouble.cbu
+       call-back unit so that long doubles can be formatted without
+       loss of precision.
 
 d_getcwd (d_getcwd.U):
        This variable conditionally defines the HAS_GETCWD symbol, which

diff --git a/Porting/config.sh b/Porting/config.sh
index e2aca12..917b825 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/config.sh
+++ b/Porting/config.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 # Package name      : perl5
 # Source directory  : .
-# Configuration time: Sun Feb 17 04:40:47 EET 2002
+# Configuration time: Wed Feb 20 18:00:39 EET 2002
 # Configured by     : jhi
 # Target system     : osf1 alpha.hut.fi v4.0 878 alpha 
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ ccsymbols='__alpha=1 __LANGUAGE_C__=1 __osf__=1 __unix__=1 _LONGLONG=1 _SYSTYPE_
 ccversion='V5.6-082'
 cf_by='jhi'
 cf_email='yourname@yourhost.yourplace.com'
-cf_time='Sun Feb 17 04:40:47 EET 2002'
+cf_time='Wed Feb 20 18:00:39 EET 2002'
 charsize='1'
 chgrp=''
 chmod='chmod'
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ patchlevel='7'
 path_sep=':'
 perl5='perl'
 perl=''
-perl_patchlevel='14709'
+perl_patchlevel='14752'
 perladmin='yourname@yourhost.yourplace.com'
 perllibs='-lm -lutil'
 perlpath='/opt/perl/bin/perl5.7.2'
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ vendorlibexp=''
 vendorprefix=''
 vendorprefixexp=''
 version='5.7.2'
-version_patchlevel_string='version 7 subversion 2 patch 14709'
+version_patchlevel_string='version 7 subversion 2 patch 14752'
 versiononly='define'
 vi=''
 voidflags='15'
@@ -886,7 +886,7 @@ PERL_SUBVERSION=2
 PERL_API_REVISION=5
 PERL_API_VERSION=5
 PERL_API_SUBVERSION=0
-PERL_PATCHLEVEL=14709
+PERL_PATCHLEVEL=14752
 PERL_CONFIG_SH=true
 # Variables propagated from previous config.sh file.
 pp_sys_cflags='ccflags="$ccflags -DNO_EFF_ONLY_OK"'

diff --git a/Porting/config_H b/Porting/config_H
index 536c66e..88d26c4 100644 (file)
--- a/Porting/config_H
+++ b/Porting/config_H
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 /*
  * Package name      : perl5
  * Source directory  : .
- * Configuration time: Sun Feb 17 04:40:47 EET 2002
+ * Configuration time: Wed Feb 20 18:00:39 EET 2002
  * Configured by     : jhi
  * Target system     : osf1 alpha.hut.fi v4.0 878 alpha 
  */
@@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@
  *     a macro using sprintf("%g") is used. Arguments for the Gconvert
  *     macro are: value, number of digits, whether trailing zeros should
  *     be retained, and the output buffer.
- *     Possible values are:
+ *     The usual values are:
  *             d_Gconvert='gconvert((x),(n),(t),(b))'
  *             d_Gconvert='gcvt((x),(n),(b))'
  *             d_Gconvert='sprintf((b),"%.*g",(n),(x))'