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author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1997-01-25 15:58:00 +1200 |
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committer | Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> | 1997-01-25 15:58:00 +1200 |
commit | 774d564bb7dd1ed64ca0d7e534aa67e93f991f02 (patch) | |
tree | 2e8fac95be59aed598a9217a2911632612d07854 /pod/perldiag.pod | |
parent | 9e3a2af888982d0a201149cbcdbf3feb6771acb4 (diff) | |
parent | bbad36071d5a6d4be3588f0f10c88247439076d8 (diff) | |
download | perl-774d564bb7dd1ed64ca0d7e534aa67e93f991f02.tar.gz |
[inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_22 to perl5.003_23]perl-5.003_23
BUILD PROCESS
Subject: Make configure.gnu a copy of configure; make configure writea
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST configure.gnu
Subject: Regen Configure with metaconfig: +ARCHNAME, -FILE_filbuf
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH hints/lynxos.sh os2/diff.configure os2/os2ish.h plan9/config.plan9 sv.c utils/perlbug.PL vms/config.vms vms/fndvers.com
Subject: Compile with optimization when testing memory functions
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: Configure
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Subject: Disallow changing $_[0] in __DIE__ handlers
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod util.c
Subject: Fix overloading with inheritance and AUTOLOAD
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:26:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: gv.c lib/diagnostics.pm lib/overload.pm pod/perldebug.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlxs.pod
Msg-ID: <199701202226.RAA05072@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit e7ea3e70155d0bea30720ba41eb6bb6742aac0d1)
Subject: Nested here-docs
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:13:42 -0800
From: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Files: toke.c
Msg-ID: <199701202313.PAA11693@wall.org>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit fd2d0953290ddd46f0820dbd6c87245486b7ab28)
Subject: Revert $^X to old behavior (plus HP-UX bug fix)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: hints/hpux.sh toke.c
Subject: Protect against '0' in 'stmt while <HANDLE>'
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c
Subject: Don't warn when closure uses var at file scope
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: op.c
CORE PORTABILITY
Subject: VMS patches for _22
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:50:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp lib/Test/Harness.pm toke.c vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms
private-msgid: <01IEGBJ2TMYS003PCL@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Subject: Plan9 update
From: Luther Huffman <lutherh@stratcom.com>
Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/mkfile
Subject: hints & Configure changes to build perl on DC/OSx
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 16:43:52 -0800
From: Stephen Zander <stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com>
Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/dcosx.sh
Msg-ID: <199701170043.QAA25985@wsbip1.mckesson.com>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 23f8769697279d7912be5943de9fdf93f6aa3013)
DOCUMENTATION
Subject: Additional docs for __DIE__ and __WARN__
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlrun.pod pod/perlvar.pod
Subject: Document #line directive
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 04:08:44 -0500
From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltoc.pod
private-msgid: <199701240908.EAA23846@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
Subject: delta for perldelta
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 07:57:43 -0800
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
private-msgid: <804.854121463@jinete>
Subject: Updates to perldelta
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod pod/perltoc.pod
private-msgid: <199701211610.LAA06227@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: perlnews.pod diff for the Fcntl
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 18:00:56 +0200 (EET)
From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
Files: pod/perlnews.pod
private-msgid: <199701211600.SAA30117@alpha.hut.fi>
Subject: Rename perlnews -> perldelta per Tom's request
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/roffitall
LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
Subject: Refresh IO to 1.15 (plus DESTROY and new_tmpfile fixes)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_pipe.t
Subject: Allow IO.xs to remain at 1.15 while $VERSION is 1.1501
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: XSUB.h ext/IO/Makefile.PL ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm
Subject: Add E* and SA_* constants
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:36:07 -0500
From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
private-msgid: <23338.853986967@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
OTHER CORE CHANGES
Subject: Make PERL5LIB and -I work like C<use lib>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:23:27 +0000
From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
Files: lib/lib.pm perl.c
private-msgid: <9701231523.AA26613@toad.ig.co.uk>
Subject: Fix /\G.a/
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: regcomp.c regcomp.h regexec.c regexp.h toke.c
Subject: Extend stack in pp_undef (!)
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c
Subject: Allow for sub to be redefined while executing
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cop.h pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
Subject: Eliminate redundant flag CVf_FORMAT
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: cv.h op.c perl.c perly.c perly.y proto.h sv.c toke.c
Subject: Generate IVs when possible in abs() and int()
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pp.c
Subject: Efficiency patchlet for pp_aassign()
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 22:05:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: pp_hot.c
Msg-ID: <199701210305.WAA05451@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit 7e42bd57a6867e174bc3bc555c3268b485940a98)
Subject: Remove "suidperl security patch" message
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: perl.c
TESTS
Subject: Fix tests of $^X and $0 to work with QNX
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/magic.t
Subject: Patch tests for systems without fork()
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 23:51:28 +0100
From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Files: t/io/pipe.t t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_pipe.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/open2.t t/lib/open3.t t/op/fork.t
private-msgid: <77724697@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
Subject: Test patches for OS/2
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:48:18 -0500 (EST)
From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Files: os2/OS2/ExtAttr/t/os2_ea.t os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_cmprt.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_dllld.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_objcall.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_sql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tiesql.test os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tievar.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_tieydb.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_varset.t os2/OS2/REXX/t/rx_vrexx.t t/README t/cmd/while.t t/comp/colon.t t/comp/multiline.t t/io/argv.t t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t t/op/cmp.t t/op/magic.t
Msg-ID: <199701170448.XAA28948@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
(applied based on p5p patch as commit bbad36071d5a6d4be3588f0f10c88247439076d8)
UTILITIES
Subject: Translate \200 to È in pod2html
From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Files: pod/pod2html.PL
Subject: VMS patches: '.com' extension on scripts
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 18:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
Files: pod/checkpods.PL pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL utils/splain.PL vms/Makefile vms/descrip.mms x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
private-msgid: <01IELNPDLYJM003E7J@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perldiag.pod')
-rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 86 |
1 files changed, 58 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index d08d2dc452..0f204a868a 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -799,6 +799,12 @@ Perhaps you need to copy the value to a temporary, and repeat that. (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 Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' + +(F|P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as +opposed to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the +package. If method name is C<???>, this is an internal error. + =item chmod: mode argument is missing initial 0 (W) A novice will sometimes say @@ -823,6 +829,10 @@ the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/connect>. inlining. See L<perlsub/"Constant Functions"> for commentary and workarounds. +=item Copy method did not return a reference + +(F) The method which overloads "=" is buggy. See L<overload/Copy Constructor>. + =item Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%lx at 0x%lx (P) The malloc package that comes with Perl had an internal failure. @@ -1177,7 +1187,7 @@ assume that an unbackslashed @ interpolates an array.) =item Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that -doesn't somehow point to a valid method. See L<overload>. +doesn't resolve to a valid subroutine. See L<overload>. =item Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting on line %d @@ -1420,7 +1430,7 @@ subroutine), but found a reference to something else instead. You can use the ref() function to find out what kind of ref it really was. See also L<perlref>. -=item Not a subroutine reference in %OVERLOAD +=item Not a subroutine reference in overload table (F) An attempt was made to specify an entry in an overloading table that doesn't somehow point to a valid subroutine. See L<overload>. @@ -1487,21 +1497,13 @@ will extend the buffer and zero pad the new area. (S) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up. -=item Operation `%s' %s: no method found, - -(F) An attempt was made to use an entry in an overloading table that -somehow no longer points to a valid method. See L<overload>. - -=item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' - -(P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importing stubs. -Stubs should never be implicitely created, but explicit calls to C<can> -may break this. - -=item Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `s' +=item Operation `%s': no method found,%s -(P) Internal error trying to resolve overloading specified by a method -name (as opposed to a subroutine reference). +(F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which +no handler was defined. While some handlers can be autogenerated in +terms of other handlers, there is no default handler for any +operation, unless C<fallback> overloading key is specified to be +true. See L<overload>. =item Operator or semicolon missing before %s @@ -1714,27 +1716,49 @@ the BSD version, which takes a pid. =item Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list -(W) You probably wrote something like this: +(W) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; as with literal +strings, comment characters are not ignored, but are instead treated +as literal data. (You may have used different delimiters than the +exclamation marks parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently +used.) - qw( a # a comment +You probably wrote something like this: + + @list = qw( + a # a comment b # another comment - ) ; + ); when you should have written this: - qw( a + @list = qw( + a b - ) ; + ); + +If you really want comments, build your list the +old-fashioned way, with quotes and commas: + + @list = ( + 'a', # a comment + 'b', # another comment + ); =item Possible attempt to separate words with commas -(W) You probably wrote something like this: +(W) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; therefore commas +aren't needed to separate the items. (You may have used different +delimiters than the parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently +used.) - qw( a, b, c ); +You probably wrote something like this: -when you should have written this: + qw! a, b, c !; + +which puts literal commas into some of the list items. Write it without +commas if you don't want them to appear in your data: - qw( a b c ); + qw! a b c !; =item Possible memory corruption: %s overflowed 3rd argument @@ -2002,6 +2026,12 @@ there was a failure. You probably wanted to use system() instead, which does return. To suppress this warning, put the exec() in a block by itself. +=item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' + +(P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation stubs. +Stubs should never be implicitely created, but explicit calls to C<can> +may break this. + =item Subroutine %s redefined (W) You redefined a subroutine. To suppress this warning, say @@ -2558,10 +2588,10 @@ streams, such as } close OUT; -=item Got an error from DosAllocMem: +=item Got an error from DosAllocMem -(P) An error peculiar to OS/2. Most probably you use an obsolete version -of perl, and this should not happen anyway. +(P) An error peculiar to OS/2. Most probably you're using an obsolete +version of Perl, and this should not happen anyway. =item Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX |