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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-14 23:11:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-05-14 23:11:05 +0000 |
| commit | 7b8d334a971230040a212bc5038097b3f600a094 (patch) | |
| tree | e0fd6231e06e9b8f7e54aae4cec4ead51585219a /pod/perlxs.pod | |
| parent | 6ee623d521a149edc6574c512fa951a192cd086a (diff) | |
| download | perl-7b8d334a971230040a212bc5038097b3f600a094.tar.gz | |
[win32] merge change#897 from maintbranch
p4raw-link: @897 on //depot/maint-5.004/perl: f06f9b6fc5a686f0169ee2a91b32d5e7125a44ae
p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@974
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlxs.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlxs.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlxs.pod b/pod/perlxs.pod index d065b94425..2f4be67a1e 100644 --- a/pod/perlxs.pod +++ b/pod/perlxs.pod @@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ linked. See L<perlxstut> for a tutorial on the whole extension creation process. +Note: For many extensions, Dave Beazley's SWIG system provides a +significantly more convenient mechanism for creating the XS glue +code. See L<http://www.cs.utah.edu/~beazley/SWIG> for more +information. + =head2 On The Road Many of the examples which follow will concentrate on creating an interface @@ -598,7 +603,7 @@ of $timep will either be undef or it will be a valid time. $timep = rpcb_gettime( "localhost" ); -The following XSUB uses the C<SV *> return type as a mneumonic only, +The following XSUB uses the C<SV *> return type as a mnemonic only, and uses a CODE: block to indicate to the compiler that the programmer has supplied all the necessary code. The sv_newmortal() call will initialize the return value to undef, making that |