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diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/perl/5.8.4/distrib/pod/perl573delta.pod b/usr/src/cmd/perl/5.8.4/distrib/pod/perl573delta.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 1121eb5ca9..0000000000 --- a/usr/src/cmd/perl/5.8.4/distrib/pod/perl573delta.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,246 +0,0 @@ -=head1 NAME - -perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3 - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -This document describes differences between the 5.7.2 release and the -5.7.3 release. - -(To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 -release, see L<perl570delta>. To view the differences between the -5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see L<perl571delta>. To view -the differences between the 5.7.1 release and the 5.7.2 release, -see L<perl572delta>.) - -=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; general code cleanup; and last but not least porting to -non-UNIX lands such as Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, -and EBCDIC. - -=over 4 - -=item 11362 - -add LC_MESSAGES to POSIX :locale_h export tag - -=item 11371 - -add DEL to [:cntrl:] - -=item 11375 - -make h2ph understand constants like 1234L and 5678LL - -=item 11405 - -Win32: fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment - -=item 11410 - -fix a bug in the security taint checking of open() - -=item 11423 - -make perl fork() safe even on platforms that don't have pthread_atfork() - -=item 11459 - -make switching optimization and debugging levels during Perl builds -easier via the OPTIMIZE environment variable - -=item 11475 - -make split()'s unused captures to be undef, not '' - -=item 11485 - -Search::Dict: allow transforming lines before comparing - -=item 11490 - -allow installing extra modules or bundles when building Perl - -=item 11516 - -add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed out dubious -C practices - -=item 11541 - -pluggable optimizer - -=item 11549 - -WinCE: integrate the port - -=item 11589 - -Win32: 4-arg select was broken - -=item 11594 - -introduce the perlivp utility for verifying the Perl installation -(IVP = Installation Verification Procedure) - -=item 11623 - -rename lib/unicode to lib/unicore to avoid case-insensitivity problems -with lib/Unicode - -=item 111631 - -remove Time::Piece - -=item 11643 - -document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the time - -=item 11656 - -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 - -division preserving 64-bit integers - -=item 11743 - -document the coderef-in-@INC feature - -=item 11794 - -modulo (%) preserving 64-bit integers - -=item 11825 - -update to Unicode 3.1.1 - -=item 11865 - -add the \[$@%&*] prototype support - -=item 11874 - -oct() and hex() in glorious 64 bit - -=item 11877 - -Class::Struct: allow recursive classes - -=item 11993 - -fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U - -=item 12056 - -VMS: waitpid enhancements - -=item 12180 - -unpack("Z*Z*", pack("Z*Z*", ..)) was broken - -=item 12243 - -Devel::Peek: display UTF-8 SVs also also as \x{...} - -=item 12288 - -Data::Dumper: option to sort hashes - -=item 12542 - -add perlpodspec - -=item 12652 - -threadsafe DynaLoader, re, Opcode, File::Glob, and B - -=item 12756 - -support BeOS better - -=item 12874 - -read-only hashes (user-level interface is Hash::Util) - -=item 13162 - -add Devel::PPPort - -=item 13179 - -add the sort pragma - -=item 13326 - -VMS: fix perl -P - -=item 13358 - -add perlpacktut - -=item 13452 - -SUPER-UX: add hints file - -=item 13575 - -Win32: non-blocking waitpid(-1,WNOHANG) - -=item 13684 - -introduce the -t option for gentler taint checking - -=item 14694 - -add the if pragma - -=item 14832 - -implement IV/UV/NV/long double un/packing with j/J/F/D - -=item 14854 - -document the new taint behaviour of exec LIST and system LIST - -=back - -=head1 Reporting Bugs - -If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles -recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl -bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be -information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. - -If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> -program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down -to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the -output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be -analysed by the Perl porting team. - -=head1 SEE ALSO - -The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed. - -The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. - -The F<README> file for general stuff. - -The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. - -=head1 HISTORY - -Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>, with many contributions -from The Perl Porters and Perl Users submitting feedback and patches. - -Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.org>>. - -=cut |