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microperl is supposed to be able a really minimal perl, even more
minimal than miniperl.  No Configure is needed to build microperl,
on the other hand this means that interfaces between Perl and your
operating system are left very -- minimal.

All this is experimental.  If you don't know what to do with microperl
you probably shouldn't.  Do not report bugs in microperl; fix the bugs.

We assume ANSI C89 plus the following:
- <stdlib.h>
- rename()
- opendir(), readdir(), closedir() (via dirent.h)
- memchr (via string.h)
- (a safe) putenv() (via stdlib.h)
- strtoul() (via stdlib.h)
(grep for 'define' in uconfig.sh.)
Also, Perl times() is defined to always return zeroes.

If you are still reading this and you are itching to try out microperl:

	make -f Makefile.micro
Commit	Line	Data
12ae5dfc JH	1	microperl is supposed to be able a really minimal perl, even more
	2	minimal than miniperl. No Configure is needed to build microperl,
	3	on the other hand this means that interfaces between Perl and your
	4	operating system are left very -- minimal.
	5
	6	All this is experimental. If you don't know what to do with microperl
a83b6f46 JH	7	you probably shouldn't. Do not report bugs in microperl; fix the bugs.
a83b6f46 JH	8
75bd9dfb	9	We assume ANSI C89 plus the following:
2f42fcb0 JH	10	- <stdlib.h>
	11	- rename()
	12	- opendir(), readdir(), closedir() (via dirent.h)
	13	- memchr (via string.h)
	14	- (a safe) putenv() (via stdlib.h)
	15	- strtoul() (via stdlib.h)
	16	(grep for 'define' in uconfig.sh.)
	17	Also, Perl times() is defined to always return zeroes.
	18
a83b6f46 JH	19	If you are still reading this and you are itching to try out microperl:
	20
	21	make -f Makefile.micro
	22
	23
12ae5dfc JH	24
12ae5dfc JH	25