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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-12-06 14:38:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-12-06 14:38:59 +0000 |
| commit | a30ac1520b1f2865b12dda3a3ca7d9715cb02229 (patch) | |
| tree | ad7eb3394c9e96757a20a62fadfc4f7891d731df /pod/perl.pod | |
| parent | 0f31cffe78d3a5cfa348eb1c3208e5daec5777d9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a30ac1520b1f2865b12dda3a3ca7d9715cb02229.tar.gz | |
mention limit on line numbers reported by diagnostics
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2457
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 8bc94faaf4..1b886d01e0 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -298,7 +298,10 @@ and syswrite().) While none of the built-in data types have any arbitrary size limits (apart from memory size), there are still a few arbitrary limits: a -given variable name may not be longer than 251 characters. +given variable name may not be longer than 251 characters. Line numbers +displayed by diagnostics are internally stored as short integers, +so they are limited to a maximum of 65535 (higher numbers usually being +affected by wraparound). You may mail your bug reports (be sure to include full configuration information as output by the myconfig program in the perl source tree, |