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Declare Just SP. This is actually identical to dSP, and declares a local copy of perl's stack pointer, available via the SP macro. See "SP" in perlapi. (Available for backward source code compatibility with the old (Perl 5.005) thread model.)

TARG is short for "target". It is an entry in the pad that an OPs op_targ refers to. It is scratchpad space, often used as a return value for the OP, but some use it for other purposes.