From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:34:47 +0000 (+0200) Subject: perl5100delta.pod: do not confess bondage :-) and mention compiler flag tightening X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16993b2ed0a76775ce7f05d2ec3e05d3d80b45a4;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git perl5100delta.pod: do not confess bondage :-) and mention compiler flag tightening Message-Id: <200711270334.lAR3YlOm295065@kosh.hut.fi> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@32519 --- diff --git a/pod/perl5100delta.pod b/pod/perl5100delta.pod index f416b7f..cc92173 100644 --- a/pod/perl5100delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5100delta.pod @@ -1388,9 +1388,15 @@ details. =head1 Changed Internals -In general, the source code of perl has been refactored, tied up, and -optimized in many places. Also, memory management and allocation has been -improved in a couple of points. +In general, the source code of perl has been refactored, tidied up, +and optimized in many places. Also, memory management and allocation +has been improved in several points. + +When compiling the perl core with gcc, as many gcc warning flags are +turned on as is possible on the platform. (This quest for cleanliness +doesn't extend to XS code because we cannot guarantee the tidiness of +code we didn't write.) Similar strictness flags have been added or +tightened for various other C compilers. =head2 Reordering of SVt_* constants