UCD 5.1.0

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perldiag.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 29d3cd6..05a082c 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -2258,6 +2258,15 @@ L<perlfunc/listen>.
 (F) There is currently a limit on the length of string which lookbehind can
 handle. This restriction may be eased in a future release. 
 
+=item Lost precision when %s %f by 1
+
+(W) The value you attempted to increment or decrement by one is too large
+for the underlying floating point representation to store accurately,
+hence the target of C<++> or C<--> is unchanged. Perl issues this warning
+because it has already switched from integers to floating point when values
+are too large for integers, and now even floating point is insufficient.
+You may wish to switch to using L<Math::BigInt> explicitly.
+
 =item lstat() on filehandle %s
 
 (W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle.  What did you mean
@@ -3294,11 +3303,6 @@ fine from VMS' perspective, it's probably not what you intended.
 
 (F) The unpack format P must have an explicit size, not "*".
 
-=item B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script
-
-(F) The script would have to be opened by the C preprocessor by name,
-which provides a race condition that breaks security.
-
 =item POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
 
 (F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown.  The <-- HERE