From: Gurusamy Sarathy Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:36:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: perldelta note about export list changes X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed09ebcd233be9c9ff535eb632b2f11760c24bca;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git perldelta note about export list changes p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4922 --- diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 2ede1c4..496de51 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -79,6 +79,185 @@ Version v5.5.640 Development release working toward 5.6 ---------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4921] By: gsar on 2000/01/28 15:49:04 + Log: alias realpath() to abs_path() (from Tom Christiansen) + Branch: perl + ! lib/Cwd.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4920] By: jhi on 2000/01/28 09:52:47 + Log: Cppsym fixup from Andy. + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure config_h.SH + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/modified/Cppsym.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4919] By: jhi on 2000/01/28 09:52:22 + Log: In HP-UX no largefiles if no 64 bits. + Branch: cfgperl + ! hints/hpux.sh +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4918] By: jhi on 2000/01/28 09:03:37 + Log: The #4880 was too eager, the $n test is useful too. + Branch: cfgperl + ! lib/Benchmark.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4917] By: jhi on 2000/01/28 06:27:50 + Log: Integrate with Sarathy. + Branch: cfgperl + +> pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod + !> (integrate 39 files) +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4916] By: gsar on 2000/01/28 05:29:37 + Log: more exported symbols needed for build on windows + Branch: perl + ! embed.pl global.sym objXSUB.h perlapi.c pod/perlapi.pod + ! pod/perlintern.pod t/lib/thread.t win32/win32.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4915] By: gsar on 2000/01/28 03:43:52 + Log: autogenerate API listing from comments in the source (from Benjamin + Stuhl ); fix the markup format to be more + flexible for better readability; add missing docs in sv.c; regenerate + perltoc + Branch: perl + + pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod + ! MANIFEST XSUB.h av.c av.h cop.h cv.h embed.pl global.sym gv.c + ! gv.h handy.h hv.c hv.h intrpvar.h makedef.pl mg.c objXSUB.h + ! op.c op.h perl.c perlapi.c pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc + ! pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod + ! pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall pp.h scope.h sv.c sv.h thrdvar.h + ! universal.c util.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4914] By: gsar on 2000/01/27 19:43:35 + Log: document unimplemented status of forking pipe open() on windows + Branch: perl + ! pod/perlfork.pod t/op/fork.t +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4913] By: jhi on 2000/01/27 11:18:51 + Log: Integrate with Sarathy. + Branch: cfgperl + !> (integrate 51 files) +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4912] By: jhi on 2000/01/27 10:35:48 + Log: Cppsym update continues. + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure config_h.SH + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/modified/Cppsym.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4911] By: gsar on 2000/01/27 08:04:17 + Log: add missing flag in change#4892 + Branch: perl + ! win32/win32.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4910] By: gsar on 2000/01/27 03:56:48 + Log: various pod nits identified by installhtml (all fixed except + unresolved links) + Branch: perl + ! ext/B/B/C.pm ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm + ! ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket/INET.pm ext/IPC/SysV/SysV.pm + ! ext/Thread/Thread.pm lib/Class/Struct.pm lib/File/Find.pm + ! lib/File/Spec/VMS.pm lib/Pod/Html.pm lib/UNIVERSAL.pm + ! pod/buildtoc pod/perlcompile.pod pod/perlfork.pod + ! pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltodo.pod +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4909] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 22:45:28 + Log: typo + Branch: perl + ! Porting/p4desc +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4908] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 22:41:18 + Log: update p4 tool + Branch: perl + ! Porting/p4desc +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4907] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 21:45:41 + Log: revised attribute syntax: C, C + and C are all valid (from Spider Boardman) + Branch: perl + ! lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/SelfLoader.pm lib/attributes.pm + ! pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsub.pod + ! t/op/attrs.t toke.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4906] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 20:16:39 + Log: pod typos and warnings (from Abigail ) + Branch: perl + ! README.win32 ext/B/B/Deparse.pm lib/Class/Struct.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4905] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 19:10:26 + Log: s/STOP/CHECK/ blocks + Branch: perl + ! embedvar.h ext/B/B/Stash.pm ext/B/NOTES ext/B/O.pm intrpvar.h + ! keywords.h keywords.pl lib/constant.pm op.c perl.c perlapi.h + ! perly.c perly.y pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + ! pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlrun.pod + ! pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltodo.pod sv.c t/op/misc.t toke.c + ! vms/perly_c.vms +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4904] By: jhi on 2000/01/26 13:58:18 + Log: In UNICOS and UNICOS/mk after a successful fcntl F_SETFL + of O_NONBLOCK a subsequent fcntl F_GETFL will return O_NDELAY. + Branch: cfgperl + ! ext/IO/IO.xs +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4903] By: jhi on 2000/01/26 11:16:34 + Log: Continue cpp symbol update. + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure config_h.SH + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/modified/Cppsym.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4902] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 09:28:37 + Log: tweak exports list on Windows + Branch: perl + ! makedef.pl t/op/fork.t win32/win32.h +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4901] By: jhi on 2000/01/26 08:05:57 + Log: Integrate with Sarathy. + Branch: cfgperl + !> Changes README.win32 lib/File/Path.pm lib/Getopt/Std.pm op.c + !> pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/grep.t + !> t/pragma/strict-vars toke.c win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk + !> win32/win32.c win32/win32.h +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4900] By: jhi on 2000/01/26 07:59:05 + Log: s/d_nvpresuv/d_nv_preserves_uv/; + plus cosmetic change for #4899. + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure Porting/Glossary Porting/config.sh Porting/config_H + ! config_h.SH + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/modified/Cppsym.U + Branch: metaconfig/U/perl + ! perlxv.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4899] By: jhi on 2000/01/26 07:46:56 + Log: Update the scan of the cpp symbols. + Branch: cfgperl + ! Configure config_h.SH + Branch: metaconfig + ! U/modified/Cppsym.U +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4898] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 04:49:45 + Log: allow '--' to terminate argument processing (suggested by + Marc Espie ) + Branch: perl + ! lib/Getopt/Std.pm +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4897] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 02:42:38 + Log: change#3744 should have made grep more like map instead of the + other way around + Branch: perl + ! t/op/grep.t toke.c +____________________________________________________________________________ +[ 4896] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 00:56:14 + Log: integrate cfgperl contents into mainline + Branch: perl + +> vos/config.def vos/config.pl + ! Changes + !> Configure MANIFEST config_h.SH hints/unicosmk.sh + !> lib/Benchmark.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlhist.pod pp.c + !> vos/config.h vos/config_h.SH_orig +____________________________________________________________________________ [ 4895] By: gsar on 2000/01/26 00:45:45 Log: fix parse failure of (my $foo : bar) and similar (from Spider Boardman) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 1339b04..6fc7d8f 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -250,12 +250,24 @@ change#3386, also needs perlguts documentation =head2 Binary Incompatibilities -The default build of this release is binary compatible with the 5.005 -release or its maintenance versions. +In general, the default build of this release is expected to be binary +compatible for extensions built with the 5.005 release or its maintenance +versions. However, specific platforms may have broken binary compatibility +due to changes in the defaults used in hints files. Therefore, please be +sure to always check the platform-specific README files for any notes to +the contrary. The usethreads or usemultiplicity builds are B binary compatible with the corresponding builds in 5.005. +On platforms that require an explicit list of exports (AIX, OS/2 and Windows, +among others), purely internal symbols such as parser functions and the +run time opcodes are not exported by default. Perl 5.005 used to export +all functions irrespective of whether they were considered part of the +public API or not. + +For the full list of public API functions, see L. + =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements =head2 New Configure flags