Perl 5 Internals - Table of Contents
Introduction
Development
Perl 5 Porters
Pumpkins and Pumpkings
Source control
/usr/bin/perl Overview
Tokenizer
Parser
Variable Handling
Runtime Operations
IO Subsystem
Libraries
Perl Variables in C
SV
Reference Counts
Reference Counts Again
Flags
References
Welcome to Hell
Hell This Way
Hell That Way
Hell In a Handbasket
Hell's Bells
Using the Reference
Inside an SV: Integers
Devel::Peek
SvIV code
Inside an SV: Strings
cur vs len
PVIV
String Length Hack
String Length Hack 2
C strings vs Perl strings
Functions for Perl Strings
Floating Point Numbers
PVNV
Arrays
Your Brain Has Exploded
Array Functions
Hashes
Structures
Hash structure
Dump of hash
Objects
sv_bless
Magic
Typeglobs and Symbol tables
Stashes Continued
Code Values
Private Variables
Fundamental Operations
Inside an OP
opcode enum
Different types of op
PP codes
PP definitions
Stack
THE END
See also
Table of Contents
YAPC 19101
, June 2001
Perl 5 Internals
Simon Cozens