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| -rw-r--r-- | malloc.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldiag.pod | 14 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ emergency_sbrk(size) if (size >= BIG_SIZE) { /* Give the possibility to recover: */ MUTEX_UNLOCK(&malloc_mutex); - croak("Out of memory during request for %i bytes", size); + croak("Out of memory during \"large\" request for %i bytes", size); } if (!emergency_buffer) { 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. |