Change 23195 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2004/08/04 18:16:47
Comment describing purpose.
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/globals.c#35 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/globals.c#35 (text) ====
Index: perl/globals.c
--- perl/globals.c#34~19242~ Wed Apr 16 13:14:01 2003
+++ perl/globals.c Wed Aug 4 11:16:47 2004
@@ -12,6 +12,24 @@
* Elves, Dwarves, and Men." --Elrond
*/
+/* This file exists to #include "perl.h" _ONCE_ with
+ * PERL_IN_GLOBALS_C defined. That causes various global varaiables
+ * in perl.h and other files it includes to be _defined_ (and initialized)
+ * rather than just declared.
+ *
+ * There is a #include "perlapi.h" which makes use of the fact
+ * that the object file created from this file will be included by linker
+ * (to resolve global variables). perlapi.h mention various other "API"
+ * functions not used by perl itself, but the functions get
+ * pulled into the perl executable via the refrerence here.
+ *
+ * Two printf() like functions have also found their way here.
+ * Most likely by analogy to the API scheme above (as perl doesn't
+ * use them) but they probably belong elsewhere the obvious place
+ * being in perlio.c
+ *
+*/
+
#include "INTERN.h"
#define PERL_IN_GLOBALS_C
#include "perl.h"
End of Patch.
