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authorPeter Prymmer <PPrymmer@factset.com>2001-07-12 09:38:00 -0700
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2001-07-12 22:56:09 +0000
commitd5f2cb0394311535fe07391b68b9427017224012 (patch)
tree21d164100891b2a94b531cc0d0a67f895137e752
parent4e83176dc97b70fd8935f6665dde17ce46d5f85f (diff)
downloadperl-d5f2cb0394311535fe07391b68b9427017224012.tar.gz
informational tweaks to perl572delta.pod
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.10107121633340.219875-100000@aspara.forte.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@11331
-rw-r--r--pod/perl572delta.pod12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl572delta.pod b/pod/perl572delta.pod
index 6ed0973ff1..13d5690113 100644
--- a/pod/perl572delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl572delta.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
=head1 NAME
-perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
+perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -314,6 +314,7 @@ less lossy (it uses integers for integer constant, as opposed to the
old code that used floating point numbers even for integer constants),
and slightly faster, you might want to consider regenerating your
extension code (the new scheme makes regenerating easy).
+L<h2xs> now also supports C trigraphs.
=item *
@@ -377,6 +378,10 @@ DG/UX platform now supports the 5.005-style threads. See L<perldgux>.
=item *
+DYNIX/ptx platform (a.k.a. dynixptx) is supported at or near osvers 4.5.2.
+
+=item *
+
Several MacOS (Classic) portability patches have been applied. We
hope to get a fully working port by 5.8.0. (The remaining problems
relate to the changed IO model of Perl.) See L<perlmacos>.
@@ -635,7 +640,7 @@ The op/sprintf tests 129 and 130 are known to fail on some platforms.
Examples include any platform using sfio, and Compaq/Tandem's NonStop-UX.
The failing platforms do not comply with the ANSI C Standard, line
19ff on page 134 of ANSI X3.159 1989 to be exact. (They produce
-something else than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using
+something other than "1" and "-1" when formatting 0.6 and -0.6 using
the printf format "%.0f", most often they produce "0" and "-0".)
=head2 Failure of Thread tests
@@ -700,7 +705,8 @@ DEC C V5.3-006 on OpenVMS VAX V6.2
[.op]sprintf............................FAILED on test 12
Failed 8/399 tests, 91.23% okay.
-DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1
+DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.2-1 and
+Compaq C V6.2-008 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.1
[-.ext.list.util.t]tainted..............FAILED on test 3
[-.lib.file.find]taint..................FAILED on test 17