PERLINTERN(1)

NAME
perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely internal
         Perl functions

DESCRIPTION
This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the Perl interpreter that are documented using Perl's internal documentation format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words, they are not for use in extensions! Returns "TRUE" if given the name of a magical GV.

Currently only useful internally when determining if a GV should be created even in rvalue contexts.

"flags" is not used at present but available for future extension to allow selecting particular classes of magical variable.

        bool    is_gv_magical(char *name, STRLEN len, U32 flags)
True if this op will be the return value of an lvalue subroutine When Perl is run in debugging mode, with the -d switch, this SV is a boolean which indicates whether subs are being single-stepped. Single-stepping is automatically turned on after every step. This is the C variable which corresponds to Perl's $DB::single variable. See "PL_DBsub".

        SV *    PL_DBsingle
When Perl is run in debugging mode, with the -d switch, this GV contains the SV which holds the name of the sub being debugged. This is the C variable which corresponds to Perl's $DB::sub variable. See "PL_DBsingle".

        GV *    PL_DBsub
Trace variable used when Perl is run in debugging mode, with the -d switch. This is the C variable which corresponds to Perl's $DB::trace variable. See "PL_DBsingle".

        SV *    PL_DBtrace
The C variable which corresponds to Perl's $^W warning variable.

        bool    PL_dowarn
The GV which was last used for a filehandle input operation. ("<FH>")

        GV*     PL_last_in_gv
The output field separator - "$," in Perl space.

        SV*     PL_ofs_sv
The input record separator - "$/" in Perl space.

        SV*     PL_rs

AUTHORS
The autodocumentation system was originally added to the Perl core by Benjamin Stuhl. Documentation is by whoever was kind enough to document their functions.

SEE ALSO
perlguts(1), perlapi(1)