Change 16120 by jhi@alpha on 2002/04/23 23:41:52
Go on record about the binary backward incompatibility.
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.... //depot/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#357 edit
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==== //depot/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#357 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod.~1~ Tue Apr 23 17:45:06 2002
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Tue Apr 23 17:45:06 2002
@@ -46,6 +46,21 @@
=head1 Incompatible Changes
+=head2 Binary Incompatibility
+
+Perl 5.8 has not been designed to be binary compatible with earlier
+releases of Perl. While the compatibility has not been intentionally
+broken, it has not been intentionally protected, either. The major
+reason for the discontinity is the new IO architecture called PerlIO.
+The PerlIO is the default configuration because without it many new
+features of Perl 5.8 cannot be used. In other words: you just have
+to recompile your modules, sorry about that.
+
+In future releases of Perl non-PerlIO aware XS modules may become
+completely unsupported. This shouldn't be too difficult for module
+authors, however: PerlIO has been designed as a drop-in replacement
+(at the source code level) for the stdio interface.
+
=head2 64-bit platforms and malloc
If your pointers are 64 bits wide, the Perl malloc is no longer being
End of Patch.
