Re: Bug in perlguts documentation?

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

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index c131ad0..0bfcaff 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -322,6 +322,8 @@ equivalent to B<-Dtls>):
     16384  X  Scratchpad allocation
     32768  D  Cleaning up
     65536  S  Thread synchronization
+   131072  T  Tokenising
+   262144  R  Include reference counts of dumped variables (eg when using -Ds)
 
 All these flags require B<-DDEBUGGING> when you compile the Perl
 executable.  See the F<INSTALL> file in the Perl source distribution 
@@ -449,8 +451,7 @@ specified in the extension then it will skip that file and continue on
 with the next one (if it exists).
 
 For a discussion of issues surrounding file permissions and B<-i>,
-see L<perlfaq5/Why does Perl let me delete read-only files?  Why
-does -i clobber protected files?  Isn't this a bug in Perl?>.
+see L<perlfaq5/Why does Perl let me delete read-only files?  Why does -i clobber protected files?  Isn't this a bug in Perl?>.
 
 You cannot use B<-i> to create directories or to strip extensions from
 files.
@@ -569,9 +570,23 @@ the implicit loop, just as in B<awk>.
 =item B<-P>
 
 causes your program to be run through the C preprocessor before
-compilation by Perl.  (Because both comments and B<cpp> directives begin
+compilation by Perl.  Because both comments and B<cpp> directives begin
 with the # character, you should avoid starting comments with any words
-recognized by the C preprocessor such as "if", "else", or "define".)
+recognized by the C preprocessor such as C<"if">, C<"else">, or C<"define">.
+Also, in some platforms the C preprocessor knows too much: it knows
+about the C++ -style until-end-of-line comments starting with C<"//">.
+This will cause problems with common Perl constructs like
+
+    s/foo//;
+
+because after -P this will became illegal code
+
+    s/foo
+
+The workaround is to use some other quoting separator than C<"/">,
+like for example C<"!">:
+
+    s!foo!!;
 
 =item B<-s>
 
@@ -815,7 +830,7 @@ after compilation.
 
 Relevant only if your perl executable was built with B<-DDEBUGGING>,
 this controls the behavior of global destruction of objects and other
-references.
+references.  See L<perlhack/PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL> for more information.
 
 =item PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port)