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| author | Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.berkeley.edu> | 1998-06-20 00:38:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-06-21 07:06:10 +0000 |
| commit | 1b979e0af6d73985fab5b12b2e2d182e270d6642 (patch) | |
| tree | caa49d95e9749da29812c4945058fba4d758c13c /pod | |
| parent | fa423c5bdc4b72005f8624af7825acfbde0c572e (diff) | |
| download | perl-1b979e0af6d73985fab5b12b2e2d182e270d6642.tar.gz | |
applied patch, tweaked wording
Message-Id: <199806200838.EAA13992@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 5.004_67] Documentation patch for malloc
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1177
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index 8dd2f823a0..7d39630240 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -188,10 +188,6 @@ the return value of your socket() call? See L<perlfunc/accept>. (X) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine. -=item Allocation too large - -(F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes. - =item Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s) (W) The pattern match (//), substitution (s///), and transliteration (tr///) @@ -1754,7 +1750,7 @@ if you said "*foo * 'foo'". (F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it could continue parsing, but realloc() wouldn't give it more memory, virtual or otherwise. -=item Out of memory! +=item Out of memory during request for %s (X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. @@ -1765,13 +1761,19 @@ However, if compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of C<$^M> as an emergency pool after die()ing with this message. In this case the error is trappable I<once>. -=item Out of memory during request for %s +=item Out of memory during "large" request for %s (F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. However, the request was judged large enough (compile-time default is 64K), so a possibility to shut down by trapping this error is granted. +=item Out of memory during ridiculously large request + +(F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes. This error +is most likely to be caused by a typo in the Perl program. e.g., C<$arr[time]> +instead of C<$arr[$time]>. + =item page overflow (W) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a page. |