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author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1998-12-08 08:11:27 +0000 |
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committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 1998-12-08 08:11:27 +0000 |
commit | f2b52f348dbc295b553473d1499a3cb8ae7c7ba4 (patch) | |
tree | 86951395a5971a1722d48cfbc347e657f16c5eb8 /pod/perl5005delta.pod | |
parent | 3c90161d4bd7f4664ad1fd91d4b4471a3fa0790c (diff) | |
parent | acba1d67a98a60de898ada2fc3df1e9efc92b76d (diff) | |
download | perl-f2b52f348dbc295b553473d1499a3cb8ae7c7ba4.tar.gz |
Integrate from mainperl.
p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@2460
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diff --git a/pod/perl5005delta.pod b/pod/perl5005delta.pod index 62787f5028..89088b2b03 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 |