Don't reuse temp files in tests

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

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index caa3915..14f1368 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ for example, turn C<-w -U> into C<-wU>.
 
 (F) msgsnd() requires a string at least as long as sizeof(long).
 
-=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element
+=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or a subroutine
 
 (F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element or a
 subroutine with an ampersand, such as:
@@ -902,13 +902,6 @@ method, nor does any of its base classes.  See L<perlobj>.
 (W syntax) The @ISA array contained the name of another package that
 doesn't seem to exist.
 
-=item Can't locate package %s for the parents of %s
-
-(W syntax) You did not define (or require/use) the first package,
-which is named as a (possibly indirect) parent of the second by
-C<@ISA> inheritance.  Perl will treat this as if the undefined
-package had an empty C<@ISA>.
-
 =item Can't locate PerlIO%s
 
 (F) You tried to use in open() a PerlIO layer that does not exist,
@@ -2258,6 +2251,15 @@ 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
@@ -3180,6 +3182,11 @@ then discovered it wasn't a subroutine or eval context.
 
 (P) scan_num() got called on something that wasn't a number.
 
+=item panic: sv_chop %s
+
+(P) The sv_chop() routine was passed a position that is not within the
+scalar's string buffer.
+
 =item panic: sv_insert
 
 (P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there
@@ -3405,6 +3412,20 @@ but there was no array C<@foo> in scope at the time. If you wanted a
 literal @foo, then write it as \@foo; otherwise find out what happened
 to the array you apparently lost track of.
 
+=item Possible unintended interpolation of $\ in regex
+
+(W ambiguous) You said something like C<m/$\/> in a regex.
+The regex C<m/foo$\s+bar/m> translates to: match the word 'foo', the output
+record separartor (see L<perlvar/$\>) and the letter 's' (one time or more)
+followed by the word 'bar'.
+
+If this is what you intended then you can silence the warning by using 
+C<m/${\}/> (for example: C<m/foo${\}s+bar/>).
+
+If instead you intended to match the word 'foo' at the end of the line
+followed by whitespace and the word 'bar' on the next line then you can use
+C<m/$(?)\/> (for example: C<m/foo$(?)\s+bar/>).
+
 =item pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead
 
 (D deprecated) You have written something like this:
@@ -3460,6 +3481,11 @@ port.  One can easily disable this by appropriate sighandlers, see
 L<perlipc/"Signals">.  See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT"
 in L<perlos2>.
 
+=item Prototype after '%c' for %s : %s
+
+(W syntax) A character follows % or @ in a prototype. This is useless,
+since % and @ gobble the rest of the subroutine arguments.
+
 =item Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s
 
 (S prototype) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been