From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 04:58:39 +0000 (+0000) Subject: documentation fixes from p5p X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=200f06d0560bb35c44d4f11900efe1b9030aadea;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git documentation fixes from p5p p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5779 --- diff --git a/ext/B/B/Bblock.pm b/ext/B/B/Bblock.pm index b914bc6..fe7fc52 100644 --- a/ext/B/B/Bblock.pm +++ b/ext/B/B/Bblock.pm @@ -169,7 +169,9 @@ B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks =head1 DESCRIPTION -See F. +This module is used by the B::CC back end. It walks "basic blocks". +A basic block is a series of operations which is known to execute from +start to finish, with no possiblity of branching or halting. =head1 AUTHOR diff --git a/lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm b/lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm index 0cbc8c7..2305b75 100644 --- a/lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm +++ b/lib/File/Spec/Unix.pm @@ -242,11 +242,13 @@ $directories must be only the directory portion of the path on systems that have the concept of a volume or that have path syntax that differentiates files from directories. -Unlike just splitting the directories on the separator, leading empty and -trailing directory entries can be returned, because these are significant -on some OSs. So, +Unlike just splitting the directories on the separator, empty +directory names (C<''>) can be returned, because these are significant +on some OSs (e.g. MacOS). - File::Spec->splitdir( "/a/b/c" ); +On Unix, + + File::Spec->splitdir( "/a/b//c/" ); Yields: diff --git a/pod/perlcompile.pod b/pod/perlcompile.pod index 8f31fc6..697cb80 100644 --- a/pod/perlcompile.pod +++ b/pod/perlcompile.pod @@ -306,8 +306,9 @@ I program that produces bytecode. =item B::Bblock -This module is used by the B::CC back end. It walks "basic blocks", -whatever they may be. +This module is used by the B::CC back end. It walks "basic blocks". +A basic block is a series of operations which is known to execute from +start to finish, with no possiblity of branching or halting. =item B::Bytecode diff --git a/pod/perldebug.pod b/pod/perldebug.pod index 5b7a2bd..ead5414 100644 --- a/pod/perldebug.pod +++ b/pod/perldebug.pod @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ specified in the C option at startup, or to a tty found at runtime using the C module of your choice. This module should implement a method named C that returns an object -with two methods: C and C and C. These should return filehandles to use for debugging input and output correspondingly. The C method should inspect an argument containing the value of C<$ENV{PERLDB_NOTTY}> at startup, or C<"/tmp/perldbtty$$"> otherwise. This file is not