Fix another Win32 breakage caused by change 23554

[perl5.git] / run.c

diff --git a/run.c b/run.c
index 2a204e9..a2059e2 100644 (file)
--- a/run.c
+++ b/run.c
@@ -1,12 +1,26 @@
 /*    run.c
  *
- *    Copyright (c) 1991-2001, Larry Wall
+ *    Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
+ *    2000, 2001, by Larry Wall and others
  *
  *    You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
  *    License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file.
  *
  */
 
+/* This file contains the main Perl opcode execution loop. It just
+ * calls the pp_foo() function associated with each op, and expects that
+ * function to return a pointer to the next op to be executed, or null if
+ * it's the end of the sub or program or whatever.
+ *
+ * There is a similar loop in dump.c, Perl_runops_debug(), which does
+ * the same, but also checks for various debug flags each time round the
+ * loop.
+ *
+ * Why this function requires a file all of its own is anybody's guess.
+ * DAPM.
+ */
+
 #include "EXTERN.h"
 #define PERL_IN_RUN_C
 #include "perl.h"