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| author | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> | 2001-11-16 12:11:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> | 2001-11-16 12:11:14 +0000 |
| commit | 210b36aa2e9e009554be8970c3315c2658c0384f (patch) | |
| tree | 71bb13e291837569d86a3f2f5c17515ccc1b9610 /README.os2 | |
| parent | d7ceb7fc1159206a67f149394fc7aa55f6b4f7dd (diff) | |
| download | perl-210b36aa2e9e009554be8970c3315c2658c0384f.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] Doc spellcheck + podcheck
From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@egb.elixus.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:49:05 -0800
Message-Id: <20011116064905.GA44092@egb.elixus.org>
Subject: [PATCH] podcheck+spellcheck, the rest of the story
From: Autrijus Tang <autrijus@egb.elixus.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 00:42:20 -0800
Message-Id: <20011116084220.GA44295@egb.elixus.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] podcheck+spellcheck, the rest of the story
From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 10:32:01 +0000
Message-Id: <20011116103200.F62891@plum.flirble.org>
(Applied after suitable de-mangling.)
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@13041
Diffstat (limited to 'README.os2')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.os2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README.os2 b/README.os2 index f2c4a12bdf..ab501ba28c 100644 --- a/README.os2 +++ b/README.os2 @@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ same as for Perl 5.005_53 (same as in a popular binary release). Thus new Perls will be able to I<resolve the names> of old extension DLLs if @INC allows finding their directories. -However, this still does not guarantie that these DLL may be loaded. +However, this still does not guarantee that these DLL may be loaded. The reason is the mangling of the name of the I<Perl DLL>. And since the extension DLLs link with the Perl DLL, extension DLLs for older versions would load an older Perl DLL, and would most probably @@ -1872,7 +1872,7 @@ Old perl executable is started when a new executable is running has loaded an extension compiled for the old executable (ouph!). In this case the old executable will get a forwarder DLL instead of the old perl DLL, so would link with the new perl DLL. While not directly -fatal, it will behave the same as new excutable. This beats the whole +fatal, it will behave the same as new executable. This beats the whole purpose of explicitly starting an old executable. =item * |