Change 18000 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2002/10/11 22:30:36
Subject: [PATCH] perl573delta delinting
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 16:19:31 +0300
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Index: perl/pod/perl573delta.pod
--- perl/pod/perl573delta.pod#1~17966~ Wed Oct 2 07:46:52 2002
+++ perl/pod/perl573delta.pod Fri Oct 11 15:30:36 2002
@@ -16,11 +16,12 @@
=head1 Changes
This is just a selected list of some of the more notable changes.
-The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see L<Changes58>
-(or L<Changes> in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these changes, lots of
-work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and Unicode; and general
-code cleanup; and last but not least and porting to non-UNIX lands like
-Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, and EBCDIC.
+The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see
+L<Changes58> (or L<Changes> in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these
+changes, lots of work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and
+Unicode; and general code cleanup; and last but not least and porting
+to non-UNIX lands like Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic,
+and EBCDIC.
=over 4
@@ -34,11 +35,11 @@
=item 11375
-make h2ph understand constants like 1234L
+make h2ph understand constants like 1234L and 5678LL
=item 11405
-fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment under Win32
+Win32: fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment
=item 11410
@@ -50,8 +51,8 @@
=item 11459
-make switching optimization levels during Perl builds easier via
-the OPTIMIZE environment variable
+make switching optimization and debugging levels during Perl builds
+easier via the OPTIMIZE environment variable
=item 11475
@@ -67,7 +68,8 @@
=item 11516
-add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed our dubious C practices
+add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed out dubious
+C practices
=item 11541
@@ -75,15 +77,16 @@
=item 11549
-integrate to WinCE port
+WinCE: integrate the port
=item 11589
-4-arg select was broken on windows
+Win32: 4-arg select was broken
=item 11594
-introduce the perlivp utility
+introduce the perlivp utility for verifying the Perl installation
+(IVP = Installation Verification Procedure)
=item 11623
@@ -100,8 +103,9 @@
=item 11656
-allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8 the
-default script encoding
+allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8
+the default script encoding (not the default since that would
+break all scripts having legacy eight-bit data in them)
=item 11725
@@ -113,7 +117,7 @@
=item 11794
-modulu preserving 64-bit integers
+modulo (%) preserving 64-bit integers
=item 11825
@@ -137,7 +141,7 @@
=item 12056
-waitpid enchancements for VMS
+VMS: waitpid enhancements
=item 12180
End of Patch.
