Describe the effects of the migration of dual life modules from lib to ext.

[perl5.git] / pod / perlguts.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlguts.pod b/pod/perlguts.pod
index 6d64c13..afc69ae 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlguts.pod
+++ b/pod/perlguts.pod
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ have "magic".  See L<Magic Virtual Tables> later in this document.
 If you know the name of a scalar variable, you can get a pointer to its SV
 by using the following:
 
-    SV*  get_sv("package::varname", FALSE);
+    SV*  get_sv("package::varname", 0);
 
 This returns NULL if the variable does not exist.
 
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ then nothing is done.
 If you know the name of an array variable, you can get a pointer to its AV
 by using the following:
 
-    AV*  get_av("package::varname", FALSE);
+    AV*  get_av("package::varname", 0);
 
 This returns NULL if the variable does not exist.
 
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ The most useful types that will be returned are:
     SVt_PVGV  Glob (possible a file handle)
     SVt_PVMG  Blessed or Magical Scalar
 
-    See the sv.h header file for more details.
+See the F<sv.h> header file for more details.
 
 =head2 Blessed References and Class Objects
 
@@ -667,8 +667,8 @@ to write:
 To create a new Perl variable with an undef value which can be accessed from
 your Perl script, use the following routines, depending on the variable type.
 
-    SV*  get_sv("package::varname", TRUE);
-    AV*  get_av("package::varname", TRUE);
+    SV*  get_sv("package::varname", GV_ADD);
+    AV*  get_av("package::varname", GV_ADD);
     HV*  get_hv("package::varname", GV_ADD);
 
 Notice the use of TRUE as the second parameter.  The new variable can now
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ following code:
     extern int  dberror;
     extern char *dberror_list;
 
-    SV* sv = get_sv("dberror", TRUE);
+    SV* sv = get_sv("dberror", GV_ADD);
     sv_setiv(sv, (IV) dberror);
     sv_setpv(sv, dberror_list[dberror]);
     SvIOK_on(sv);
@@ -985,9 +985,9 @@ routine types:
 
 
 This MGVTBL structure is set at compile-time in F<perl.h> and there are
-currently 19 types (or 21 with overloading turned on).  These different
-structures contain pointers to various routines that perform additional
-actions depending on which function is being called.
+currently 32 types.  These different structures contain pointers to various
+routines that perform additional actions depending on which function is
+being called.
 
     Function pointer    Action taken
     ----------------    ------------
@@ -1038,7 +1038,7 @@ The current kinds of Magic Virtual Tables are:
     e  PERL_MAGIC_envelem        vtbl_envelem    %ENV hash element
     f  PERL_MAGIC_fm             vtbl_fm         Formline ('compiled' format)
     g  PERL_MAGIC_regex_global   vtbl_mglob      m//g target / study()ed string
-    H  PERL_MAGIC_hints          vtbl_sig        %^H hash
+    H  PERL_MAGIC_hints          vtbl_hints      %^H hash
     h  PERL_MAGIC_hintselem      vtbl_hintselem  %^H hash element
     I  PERL_MAGIC_isa            vtbl_isa        @ISA array
     i  PERL_MAGIC_isaelem        vtbl_isaelem    @ISA array element