Change 20150 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/07/11 08:07:55
Some known problems.
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... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#38 edit
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==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#38 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#37~20149~ Thu Jul 10 23:08:27 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Fri Jul 11 01:07:55 2003
@@ -677,6 +677,11 @@
=head1 Platform Specific Problems
+=head2 EBCDIC Platforms
+
+IBM z/OS and other EBCDIC platforms continue to be problematic
+regarding Unicode support.
+
=head2 (FreeBSD)
The choice of malloc (the C-level memory management interface)
@@ -699,6 +704,21 @@
A decision was made to stick with the system malloc, regardless
of the performance problems.
+=head2 (HP-UX) HP cc warnings about sendfile
+
+With certain HP C compiler releases (e.g. B.11.11.02) you will
+get many warnings like this:
+
+ cc: "/usr/include/sys/socket.h", line 504: warning 562: Redeclaration of
"sendfile" with a different storage class specifier: "sendfile" will have internal
linkage.
+
+This warning, however, is not serious and can be ignored.
+
+=head2 (Tru64) No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
+
+In the latest Tru64 releases (e.g. v5.1B) the gcc (3.3) cannot be
+used to compile a threaded Perl (-Duseithreads) because the system
+<pthread.h> file doesn't know about gcc.
+
=head2 (Win32) sysopen, sysread, syswrite
As of the 5.8.0 release, sysopen()/sysread()/syswrite() do not behave
@@ -711,11 +731,6 @@
compatible behavior may be re-introduced in a future release. Until
then, the use of sysopen(), sysread() and syswrite() is not supported
for "text" mode operations.
-
-=head2 EBCDIC Platforms
-
-IBM z/OS and other EBCDIC platforms continue to be problematic
-regarding Unicode support.
=head1 Future Directions
End of Patch.
