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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 3ab11ef2ae..221947b508 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -453,11 +453,8 @@ system error. This is more specific information about the last system error than that provided by C<$!>. This is particularly important when C<$!> is set to B<EVMSERR>. -Under OS/2, C<$^E> is set based on the value returned by the OS/2 -call C<_syserrno()> only when a call into the OS/2 API generates -an error. In this case, C<$!> is set to a special value to -indicate that C<$^E> should be checked. Otherwise, C<$^E> is -just the same as C<$!>. +Under OS/2, C<$^E> is set to the error code of the last call to +OS/2 API either via CRT, or directly from perl. Under Win32, C<$^E> always returns the last error information reported by the Win32 call C<GetLastError()> which describes |