From 7df6ffa3fb2efaa96f5e6001f1cc311ad9f8b185 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Clark Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 21:40:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Notes in perldelta for the tiny XS-visible changes of the pack refactoring. --- pod/perldelta.pod | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index cb99f64..cb7ab03 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -310,9 +310,12 @@ L section. =over 4 -=item XXX-some-platform +=item Mixed-endian platforms -XXX +The code supporting C and C operations on mixed endian +platforms has been removed. We believe that Perl has long been unable to +build on mixed endian architectures (such as PDP-11s), so we don't think +that this change will affect any platforms which are able to build v5.18.0. =back @@ -328,7 +331,10 @@ well. =item * -XXX +The functions C, C and C have been removed. +It is unclear why these functions were ever marked as I, part of the +API. XS code can't call them directly, as it can't rely on them being +compiled. Unsurprisingly, no code on CPAN references them. =back -- 1.8.3.1