Change core_prototype to take a keyword num

[perl5.git] / pod / perl594delta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perl594delta.pod b/pod/perl594delta.pod
index b6136a1..aa4358b 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perl594delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl594delta.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.4
+perl594delta - what is new for perl v5.9.4
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -83,13 +83,13 @@ until now. See L<perlfunc/require> for details. (Nicholas Clark)
 =head2 MAD
 
 MAD, which stands for I<Misc Attribute Decoration>, is a
-still-in-development work leading to a Perl 5 to Perl 6 convertor. To
+still-in-development work leading to a Perl 5 to Perl 6 converter. To
 enable it, it's necessary to pass the argument C<-Dmad> to Configure. The
 obtained perl isn't binary compatible with a regular perl 5.9.4, and has
 space and speed penalties; moreover not all regression tests still pass
 with it. (Larry Wall, Nicholas Clark)
 
-=head1 Modules and Pragmata
+=head1 Modules and Pragmas
 
 =over 4
 
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ D. Hedden)
 C<Hash::Util::FieldHash>, by Anno Siegel, has been added. This module
 provides support for I<field hashes>: hashes that maintain an association
 of a reference with a value, in a thread-safe garbage-collected way.
+Such hashes are useful to implement inside-out objects.
 
 =item *
 
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ files/dirs.
 C<config_data> is a new utility that comes with C<Module::Build>. It
 provides a command-line interface to the configuration of Perl modules
 that use Module::Build's framework of configurability (that is,
-C<*::ConfigData> modules, that contain local configuration information for
+C<*::ConfigData> modules that contain local configuration information for
 their parent modules.)
 
 =head1 Documentation
@@ -194,7 +195,7 @@ The UTF-8 caching code is now more efficient, and used more often.
 
 =over 4
 
-=item Engine de-recursiveised
+=item Engine de-recursivised
 
 The regular expression engine is no longer recursive, meaning that
 patterns that used to overflow the stack will either die with useful
@@ -232,6 +233,13 @@ matching to find the start point. (Yves Orton)
 
 =back
 
+=head2 Sloppy stat on Windows
+
+On Windows, perl's stat() function normally opens the file to determine
+the link count and update attributes that may have been changed through
+hard links. Setting ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT} to a true value speeds up
+stat() by not performing this operation. (Jan Dubois)
+
 =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
 
 =head2 Relocatable installations
@@ -266,12 +274,29 @@ available.  When they are not available, perl's own version is used (from
 Russ Allbery's public domain implementation).  Various places in the perl
 interpreter now use them. (Steve Peters)
 
+=head2 Windows build improvements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Building XS extensions
+
+Support for building XS extension modules with the free MinGW compiler has
+been improved in the case where perl itself was built with the Microsoft
+VC++ compiler. (ActiveState)
+
+=item Support for 64-bit compiler
+
+Support for building perl with Microsoft's 64-bit compiler has been
+improved. (ActiveState)
+
+=back
+
 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
 
 =head2 PERL5SHELL and tainting
 
-On Windows, PERL5SHELL is now checked for taintedness. (Rafael
-Garcia-Suarez)
+On Windows, the PERL5SHELL environment variable is now checked for
+taintedness. (Rafael Garcia-Suarez)
 
 =head2 Using *FILE{IO}
 
@@ -290,6 +315,18 @@ always have been. (Nicholas Clark)
 A few bugs related to UTF-8 handling with objects that have
 stringification overloaded have been fixed. (Nicholas Clark)
 
+=head2 eval memory leaks fixed
+
+Traditionally, C<eval 'syntax error'> has leaked badly. Many (but not all)
+of these leaks have now been eliminated or reduced. (Dave Mitchell)
+
+=head2 Random device on Windows
+
+In previous versions, perl would read the file F</dev/urandom> if it
+existed when seeding its random number generator.  That file is unlikely
+to exist on Windows, and if it did would probably not contain appropriate
+data, so perl no longer tries to read it on Windows. (Alex Davies)
+
 =head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
 
 =over 4
@@ -304,7 +341,7 @@ declared as a sub-part of a list assignment. See L<perldiag>.
 =head1 Changed Internals
 
 A new file, F<mathoms.c>, contains functions that aren't used anymore in
-the perl core, but that remain around because modules out there might
+the perl core, but remain around because modules out there might
 still use them. They come from a factorization effort: for example, many
 PP functions are now shared for several ops.
 
@@ -319,11 +356,6 @@ locales.
 Bytecode tests fail under several platforms. We are considering removing
 support for byteloader and compiler before the 5.10.0 release.
 
-=head2 Platform-specific Problems
-
-The test F<ext/Socket/t/socketpair.t> crashes after completing all tests
-successfully when built with USE_ITHREADS and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS on Win32.
-
 =head1 Reporting Bugs
 
 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles