Subject: Missing diagnostics

   Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:56:42 +0000 (BST)
   Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202261754170.23317-100000@muinntiarach.roe.ac.uk>

   Subject: [PATCH] Better wording for the lvalue vec diagnostic
   From: Simon Glover <scog@roe.ac.uk>
   Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:08:04 +0000 (BST)
   Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10202261756560.23317-100000@muinntiarach.roe.ac.uk>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@14887

3 files changed, 24 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/doop.c b/doop.c
index d59dba6a28..7a8f883d78 100644
--- a/doop.c
+++ b/doop.c
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ Perl_do_vecset(pTHX_ SV *sv)
     lval = SvUV(sv);
     offset = LvTARGOFF(sv);
     if (offset < 0)
-	Perl_croak(aTHX_ "Assigning to negative offset in vec");
+	Perl_croak(aTHX_ "Negative offset to vec in lvalue context");
     size = LvTARGLEN(sv);
     if (size < 1 || (size & (size-1))) /* size < 1 or not a power of two */
 	Perl_croak(aTHX_ "Illegal number of bits in vec");
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 56c843e08e..9db2807b59 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+//depot/perl/pod/perldiag.pod#272 - edit change 14824 (text)
 =head1 NAME
 
 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
@@ -182,11 +183,6 @@ spots.  This is now heavily deprecated.
 must either both be scalars or both be lists.  Otherwise Perl won't
 know which context to supply to the right side.
 
-=item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context
-
-(F) When C<vec> is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be
-greater than or equal to zero.
-
 =item Attempt to access key '%_' in fixed hash
 
 (F) A hash has been marked as READONLY at the C level to turn it
@@ -1351,6 +1347,10 @@ Perl identifier.  If you're just trying to glob a long list of
 filenames, try using the glob() operator, or put the filenames into a
 variable and glob that.
 
+=item exec? I'm not *that* kind of operating system
+
+(F) The C<exec> function is not implemented in MacPerl. See L<perlport>.
+
 =item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors
 
 (F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails.
@@ -2030,6 +2030,13 @@ couldn't be created for some peculiar reason.
 you omitted the name of the module.  Consult L<perlrun> for full details
 about C<-M> and C<-m>.
 
+=item More than one argument to open
+
+(F) The C<open> function has been asked to open multiple files. This
+can happen if you are trying to open a pipe to a command that takes a
+list of arguments, but have forgotten to specify a piped open mode.
+See L<perlfunc/open> for details.
+
 =item msg%s not implemented
 
 (F) You don't have System V message IPC on your system.
@@ -2079,6 +2086,11 @@ provided for this purpose.
 (F) You tried to do a read/write/send/recv operation with a buffer
 length that is less than 0.  This is difficult to imagine.
 
+=item Negative offset to vec in lvalue context
+
+(F) When C<vec> is called in an lvalue context, the second argument must be
+greater than or equal to zero.
+
 =item Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
 
 (F) You can't quantify a quantifier without intervening parentheses. So
@@ -2926,6 +2938,11 @@ in L<perlos2>.
 (S prototype) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been
 declared or defined with a different function prototype.
 
+=item Prototype not terminated
+
+(F) You've omitted the closing parenthesis in a function prototype 
+definition.
+
 =item Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d in regex;
 
 marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
diff --git a/t/op/vec.t b/t/op/vec.t
index 4b8934d7a2..67d7527412 100755
--- a/t/op/vec.t
+++ b/t/op/vec.t
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ $x = eval { vec $foo, 0, -13 };
 print "not " if defined $x or $@ !~ /^Illegal number of bits in vec/;
 print "ok 21\n";
 $x = eval { vec($foo, -1, 4) = 2 };
-print "not " if defined $x or $@ !~ /^Assigning to negative offset in vec/;
+print "not " if defined $x or $@ !~ /^Negative offset to vec in lvalue context/;
 print "ok 22\n";
 print "not " if vec('abcd', 7, 8);
 print "ok 23\n";