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authorChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1996-11-29 10:14:24 +1200
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1996-11-30 05:31:00 +1200
commiteff9c6e2f5bda63e4dc69fc15e237a9843954369 (patch)
tree40fb9241409b585f85ebd50484323f5ab59fb0a9 /pod
parent5a556d178903eb73ed2e240fee34fcfc607b2bb3 (diff)
downloadperl-eff9c6e2f5bda63e4dc69fc15e237a9843954369.tar.gz
Diagnostic cleanup
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldiag.pod20
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 402761db6f..20f4fbd585 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1480,9 +1480,12 @@ but realloc() wouldn't give it more memory, virtual or otherwise.
=item Out of memory!
(X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient
-remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. Depending
-on the way perl was compiled it may use the contents of C<$^M> as an
-emergency pool after die()ing with this message. In this case the
+remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request.
+
+The request was judged to be small, so the possibility to trap it
+depends on the way perl was compiled. By default it is not trappable.
+However, if compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of C<$^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
@@ -1492,17 +1495,6 @@ 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!
-
-(X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient
-remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request.
-
-The request was judged to be small, so the possibility to trap it
-depends on the way perl was compiled. By default it is not
-trappable. 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 page overflow
(W) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a page.