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commit 36c4d3a022e7b44aa60805dfca138d283592c14f
Author: Tony Cook <t...@develop-help.com>
Date: Thu May 15 13:38:42 2014 +1000
document the API signature change for Perl_regexec_flags()
and its related plugin structure pointer
inspired by https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121868 which was
also broken by ea3daa5d5f60389b105c00d4f7d05b5c2f2155f2
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Summary of changes:
pod/perldelta.pod | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 7a0f8a0..4897b26 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -1795,6 +1795,13 @@ the string from the passed SV (if any), and would
sometimes get it wrong
=item *
+The signature of the C<Perl_regexec_flags()> regex function has
+changed; the function pointer C<exec> in the regex engine plugin
+structure has also changed to match. The C<minend> parameter now has
+type C<SSize_t> to better support 64-bit systems.
+
+=item *
+
XS code may use various macros to change the case of a character or code
point (for example C<toLOWER_utf8()>). Only a couple of these were
documented until now;
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