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@@ -2929,6 +2929,13 @@ as a list, you need to look into how references work, because Perl will
not magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See
L<perlref>.
+=item Scalars leaked: %d
+
+(P) Something went wrong in Perl's internal bookkeeping of scalars:
+not all scalar variables were deallocated by the time Perl exited.
+What this usually indicates is a memory leak, which is of course bad,
+especially if the Perl program is intended to be long-running.
+
=item Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl
(F) Oddly, the suidperl program was invoked on a script without a setuid