Note the demise of global.sym in perldelta.

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 8224fd1..63d9bd5 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -271,7 +271,15 @@ L</Platform Support> section, instead.
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
+The file F<global.sym> is no longer needed, and has been removed. It
+contained a list of all exported functions, one of the files generated by
+F<regen/embed.pl> from data in F<embed.fnc> and F<regen/opcodes>. The code
+has been refactored so that the only user of F<global.sym>, F<makedef.pl>,
+now reads F<embed.fnc> and F<regen/opcodes> directly, removing the need to
+store the list of exported functions in an intermediate file.
+
+As F<global.sym> was never installed, this change will not be visible
+outside the build process.
 
 =back