Change 20149 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/07/11 06:08:27
Add perldelta about the SIGFPE change.
Affected files ...
... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#37 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#37 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#36~20140~ Thu Jul 10 17:25:36 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Thu Jul 10 23:08:27 2003
@@ -447,6 +447,12 @@
FETCH etc may now safely access tied values (ie resulting in a recursive
call to FETCH etc).
+At startup Perl blocks the SIGFPE signal away since there isn't much
+Perl can do about it. Previously this blocking was in effect also for
+programs executed from within Perl. Now Perl restores the original
+SIGFPE handling routine, whatever it was, before running external
+programs.
+
Linenumbers in Perl scripts may now be greater than 65536, or 2**16.
(Perl scripts have always been able to be larger than that, it's just
that the linenumber for reported errors and warnings have "wrapped
End of Patch.
