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On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:58:54PM -0500, Todd Rinaldo wrote: > I may have this wrong so I'm asking. > > I can find nothing referring to PL_revision, PL_version, or > PL_subversion anywhere in perl or CPAN. I don't think there are > circumstances where you can reference them as > revsion/version/subversion. Does this mean they are unused and could be > removed? From the comments in perl.h added by Nicholas C in 2011: /* These are baked at compile time into any shared perl library. In future releases this will allow us in main() to sanity test the library we're linking against. */ So I guess we could potentially make use of them in future. -- Lear: Dost thou call me fool, boy? Fool: All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with.Thread Previous | Thread Next