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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-12-06 13:35:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-12-06 13:35:31 +0000 |
| commit | 0f31cffe78d3a5cfa348eb1c3208e5daec5777d9 (patch) | |
| tree | c9c2a9068c94d6f51785102caabd99baed4a564d /pod/perl5005delta.pod | |
| parent | 0cc1d052f2b5aa0a485e4a60aabe91829ddbe78c (diff) | |
| download | perl-0f31cffe78d3a5cfa348eb1c3208e5daec5777d9.tar.gz | |
fix outdated/incorrect info about arbitrary limits
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2454
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diff --git a/pod/perl5005delta.pod b/pod/perl5005delta.pod index 23bf0f3d91..205c6af78b 100644 --- a/pod/perl5005delta.pod +++ b/pod/perl5005delta.pod @@ -884,6 +884,14 @@ a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. (F) The create routine failed for some reason while trying to process a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. +=item regexp too big + +(F) The current implementation of regular expressions uses shorts as +address offsets within a string. Unfortunately this means that if +the regular expression compiles to longer than 32767, it'll blow up. +Usually when you want a regular expression this big, there is a better +way to do it with multiple statements. See L<perlre>. + =back =head1 BUGS |