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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1998-12-08 08:11:27 +0000
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>1998-12-08 08:11:27 +0000
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Integrate from mainperl.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2460
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@@ -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