modglobal w/ spelling fixes

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

diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 29ed897..e0e9b12 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ no useful value.  See L<perlmod>.
 checksumming process loses information, and you can't go the other
 way.  See L<perlfunc/unpack>.
 
+=item /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through
+
+(W) You used a backslash-character combination which is not recognized
+by Perl.  This combination appears in an interpolated variable or a 
+C<'>-delimited regular expression.
+
 =item %s (...) interpreted as function
 
 (W) You've run afoul of the rule that says that any list operator followed
@@ -1428,7 +1434,7 @@ architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest octal literal is
 (S) A warning peculiar to VMS.  Perl keeps track of the number
 of times you've called C<fork> and C<exec>, to determine
 whether the current call to C<exec> should affect the current
-script or a subprocess (see L<perlvms/exec>).  Somehow, this count
+script or a subprocess (see L<perlvms/"exec LIST">).  Somehow, this count
 has become scrambled, so Perl is making a guess and treating
 this C<exec> as a request to terminate the Perl script
 and execute the specified command.
@@ -2241,14 +2247,6 @@ expression compiler gave it.
 
 (P) A "can't happen" error, because safemalloc() should have caught it earlier.
 
-=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>.
-
 =item Reversed %s= operator
 
 (W) You wrote your assignment operator backwards.  The = must always
@@ -2778,6 +2776,11 @@ an underbar into it.  You might also declare it as a subroutine.
 in your Perl script (or eval).  Perhaps you tried to run a compressed
 script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.
 
+=item Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through
+
+(W) You used a backslash-character combination which is not recognized
+by Perl.
+
 =item Unrecognized signal name "%s"
 
 (F) You specified a signal name to the kill() function that was not recognized.