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diff --git a/pod/perl5005delta.pod b/pod/perl5005delta.pod index 23bf0f3d91..205c6af78b 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 |