ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes
Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3)Updated: 2001-09-21
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NAME
ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes - Version-agnostic bytes.pmSYNOPSIS
use just like bytes.pm
DESCRIPTION
bytes.pm was introduced with 5.6. This means any code which has 'use bytes' in it won't even compile on 5.5.X. Since bytes is a lexical pragma and must be used at compile time we can't simply wrap it in a BEGIN { eval 'use bytes' } block.ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes is just a very thin wrapper around bytes which works just like it when bytes.pm exists and everywhere else it does nothing.
