X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperldiag.pod;h=eb84876d4e83ce59f0e5a3015d7946d5ee3d9e6f;hb=c8984b0bd19897e6e30588055ac0338326f20a34;hp=a4d9356977147525a415ff3dc05f02cf032f84f7;hpb=90248788f819cf7b59aabb5259fdd6d66bc4632b;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index a4d9356..eb84876 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ The symbols C<"%(-?@> sort before the letters, while C<[> and C<\> sort after. to try to declare one with a package qualifier on the front. Use local() if you want to localize a package variable. -=item "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope +=item "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s -(S) A lexical variable has been redeclared in the same scope, effectively -eliminating all access to the previous instance. This is almost always -a typographical error. Note that the earlier variable will still exist +(W) A lexical variable has been redeclared in the current scope or statement, +effectively eliminating all access to the previous instance. This is almost +always a typographical error. Note that the earlier variable will still exist until the end of the scope or until all closure referents to it are destroyed. @@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ no useful value. See L. checksumming process loses information, and you can't go the other way. See L. +=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 @@ -143,6 +149,18 @@ Perl yourself. instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. +=item (in cleanup) %s + +(W) This prefix usually indicates that a DESTROY() method raised +the indicated exception. Since destructors are usually called by +the system at arbitrary points during execution, and often a vast +number of times, the warning is issued only once for any number +of failures that would otherwise result in the same message being +repeated. + +Failure of user callbacks dispatched using the C flag +could also result in this warning. See L. + =item (Missing semicolon on previous line?) (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s @@ -188,13 +206,9 @@ the return value of your socket() call? See L. (X) You can't allocate more than 64K on an MS-DOS machine. -=item Allocation too large - -(F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes. - =item Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s) -(W) The pattern match (//), substitution (s///), and translation (tr///) +(W) The pattern match (//), substitution (s///), and transliteration (tr///) operators work on scalar values. If you apply one of them to an array or a hash, it will convert the array or hash to a scalar value -- the length of an array, or the population info of a hash -- and then work on @@ -211,6 +225,22 @@ L and L for alternatives. you thought. Normally it's pretty easy to disambiguate it by supplying a missing quote, operator, parenthesis pair or declaration. +=item Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use & + +(W) A subroutine you have declared has the same name as a Perl keyword, +and you have used the name without qualification for calling one or the +other. Perl decided to call the builtin because the subroutine is +not imported. + +To force interpretation as a subroutine call, either put an ampersand +before the subroutine name, or qualify the name with its package. +Alternatively, you can import the subroutine (or pretend that it's +imported with the C pragma). + +To silently interpret it as the Perl operator, use the C prefix +on the operator (e.g. C) or by declaring the subroutine +to be an object method (see L). + =item Args must match #! line (F) The setuid emulator requires that the arguments Perl was invoked @@ -320,6 +350,12 @@ system malloc(). (P) One of the internal hash routines was passed a null HV pointer. +=item Bad index while coercing array into hash + +(F) The index looked up in the hash found as the 0'th element of a +pseudo-hash is not legal. Index values must be at 1 or greater. +See L. + =item Bad name after %s:: (F) You started to name a symbol by using a package prefix, and then didn't @@ -361,6 +397,12 @@ Perl yourself. subroutine identifier, in curly braces or to the left of the "=>" symbol. Perhaps you need to predeclare a subroutine? +=item Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package + +(W) You used a qualified bareword of the form C, but +the compiler saw no other uses of that namespace before that point. +Perhaps you need to predeclare a package? + =item BEGIN failed--compilation aborted (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing a BEGIN subroutine. @@ -453,7 +495,17 @@ an object reference until it has been blessed. See L. (F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the object reference or package name contains an expression that returns -neither an object reference nor a package name. (Perhaps it's null?) +a defined value which is neither an object reference nor a package name. +Something like this will reproduce the error: + + $BADREF = 42; + process $BADREF 1,2,3; + $BADREF->process(1,2,3); + +=item Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value + +(F) You used the syntax of a method call, but the slot filled by the +object reference or package name contains an undefined value. Something like this will reproduce the error: $BADREF = undef; @@ -465,6 +517,10 @@ Something like this will reproduce the error: (F) You called C, but C is not a directory that you can chdir to, possibly because it doesn't exist. +=item Can't check filesystem of script "%s" + +(P) For some reason you can't check the filesystem of the script for nosuid. + =item Can't coerce %s to integer in %s (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries @@ -490,6 +546,12 @@ but then $foo no longer contains a glob. (F) Certain types of SVs, in particular real symbol table entries (typeglobs), can't be forced to stop being what they are. +=item Can't coerce array into hash + +(F) You used an array where a hash was expected, but the array has no +information on how to map from keys to array indices. You can do that +only with arrays that have a hash reference at index 0. + =item Can't create pipe mailbox (P) An error peculiar to VMS. The process is suffering from exhausted quotas @@ -594,7 +656,11 @@ for us to go to. See L. the closing delimiter was omitted. Because bracketed quotes count nesting levels, the following is missing its final parenthesis: - print q(The character '(' starts a side comment.) + print q(The character '(' starts a side comment.); + +If you're getting this error from a here-document, you may have +included unseen whitespace before or after your closing tag. A good +programmer's editor will have a way to help you find these characters. =item Can't fork @@ -634,6 +700,11 @@ call for another. It can't manufacture one out of whole cloth. In general you should be calling it out of only an AUTOLOAD routine anyway. See L. +=item Can't goto subroutine from an eval-string + +(F) The "goto subroutine" call can't be used to jump out of an eval "string". +(You can use it to jump out of an eval {BLOCK}, but you probably don't want to.) + =item Can't localize through a reference (F) You said something like C, which Perl can't currently @@ -648,6 +719,13 @@ lexical variable using "my". This is not allowed. If you want to localize a package variable of the same name, qualify it with the package name. +=item Can't localize pseudo-hash element + +(F) You said something like C{'key'}>, where $ar is +a reference to a pseudo-hash. That hasn't been implemented yet, but +you can get a similar effect by localizing the corresponding array +element directly -- C[$ar-E[0]{'key'}]>. + =item Can't locate auto/%s.al in @INC (F) A function (or method) was called in a package which allows autoload, @@ -678,11 +756,6 @@ to exist. (F) List assignment to %ENV is not supported on some systems, notably VMS. -=item Can't mktemp() - -(F) The mktemp() routine failed for some reason while trying to process -a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. - =item Can't modify %s in %s (F) You aren't allowed to assign to the item indicated, or otherwise try to @@ -778,13 +851,16 @@ of suidperl. =item Can't take log of %g -(F) Logarithms are defined on only positive real numbers. +(F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the logarithm of a +negative number or zero. There's a Math::Complex package that comes +standard with Perl, though, if you really want to do that for +the negative numbers. =item Can't take sqrt of %g (F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the square root of a -negative number. There's a Complex package available for Perl, though, -if you really want to do that. +negative number. There's a Math::Complex package that comes standard +with Perl, though, if you really want to do that. =item Can't undef active subroutine @@ -810,6 +886,12 @@ message indicates that such a conversion was attempted. of upgradability. Upgrading to undef indicates an error in the code calling sv_upgrade. +=item Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available + +(F) The first time the %! hash is used, perl automatically loads the +Errno.pm module. The Errno module is expected to tie the %! hash to +provide symbolic names for C<$!> errno values. + =item Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison (F) The global variables $a and $b are reserved for sort comparisons. @@ -818,6 +900,12 @@ and the variable had earlier been declared as a lexical variable. Either qualify the sort variable with the package name, or rename the lexical variable. +=item Bad evalled substitution pattern + +(F) You've used the /e switch to evaluate the replacement for a +substitution, but perl found a syntax error in the code to evaluate, +most likely an unexpected right brace '}'. + =item Can't use %s for loop variable (F) Only a simple scalar variable may be used as a loop variable on a foreach. @@ -865,21 +953,16 @@ weren't. subscript. But to the left of the brackets was an expression that didn't look like an array reference, or anything else subscriptable. -=item Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s - -(F) The write routine failed for some reason while trying to process -a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. - =item Can't x= to read-only value (F) You tried to repeat a constant value (often the undefined value) with an assignment operator, which implies modifying the value itself. Perhaps you need to copy the value to a temporary, and repeat that. -=item Cannot open temporary file +=item Cannot find an opnumber for "%s" -(F) The create routine failed for some reason while trying to process -a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. +(F) A string of a form C was given to prototype(), but +there is no builtin with the name C. =item Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' @@ -887,6 +970,30 @@ a B<-e> switch. Maybe your /tmp partition is full, or clobbered. opposed to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the package. If method name is C, this is an internal error. +=item Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions + +(W) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax beginning +with "[." and ending with ".]" is reserved for future extensions. +If you need to represent those character sequences inside a regular +expression character class, just quote the square brackets with the +backslash: "\[." and ".\]". + +=item Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions + +(W) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax beginning +with "[:" and ending with ":]" is reserved for future extensions. +If you need to represent those character sequences inside a regular +expression character class, just quote the square brackets with the +backslash: "\[:" and ":\]". + +=item Character class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions + +(W) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax +beginning with "[=" and ending with "=]" is reserved for future extensions. +If you need to represent those character sequences inside a regular +expression character class, just quote the square brackets with the +backslash: "\[=" and "=\]". + =item chmod: mode argument is missing initial 0 (W) A novice will sometimes say @@ -906,11 +1013,31 @@ to 01411. Octal constants are introduced with a leading 0 in Perl, as in C. Perl uses this generic message when none of the errors that it encountered were severe enough to halt compilation immediately. +=item Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d) exceeded + +(W) The regular expression engine uses recursion in complex situations +where back-tracking is required. Recursion depth is limited to 32766, +or perhaps less in architectures where the stack cannot grow +arbitrarily. ("Simple" and "medium" situations are handled without +recursion and are not subject to a limit.) Try shortening the string +under examination; looping in Perl code (e.g. with C) rather +than in the regular expression engine; or rewriting the regular +expression so that it is simpler or backtracks less. (See L +for information on I.) + =item connect() on closed fd (W) You tried to do a connect on a closed socket. Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call? See L. +=item Constant is not %s reference + +(F) A constant value (perhaps declared using the C pragma) +is being dereferenced, but it amounts to the wrong type of reference. The +message indicates the type of reference that was expected. This usually +indicates a syntax error in dereferencing the constant value. +See L and L. + =item Constant subroutine %s redefined (S) You redefined a subroutine which had previously been eligible for @@ -1005,6 +1132,11 @@ unlikely to be what you want. (F) An untrapped exception was raised while executing an END subroutine. The interpreter is immediately exited. +=item entering effective %s failed + +(F) While under the C pragma, switching the real and +effective uids or gids failed. + =item Error converting file specification %s (F) An error peculiar to VMS. Because Perl may have to deal with file @@ -1013,6 +1145,27 @@ single form when it must operate on them directly. Either you've passed an invalid file specification to Perl, or you've found a case the conversion routines don't handle. Drat. +=item %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression + +(F) Perl detected tainted data when trying to compile a regular expression +that contains the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion, which is unsafe. +See L, and L. + +=item %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval' + +(F) A regular expression contained the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion, +but that construct is only allowed when the C pragma is +in effect. See L. + +=item %s: Eval-group not allowed at run time + +(F) Perl tried to compile a regular expression containing the C<(?{ ... })> +zero-width assertion at run time, as it would when the pattern contains +interpolated values. Since that is a security risk, it is not allowed. +If you insist, you may still do this by explicitly building the pattern +from an interpolated string at run time and using that in an eval(). +See L. + =item Excessively long <> operator (F) The contents of a <> operator may not exceed the maximum size of a @@ -1045,6 +1198,13 @@ a goto, or a loop control statement. (W) You are exiting a substitution by unconventional means, such as a return, a goto, or a loop control statement. +=item Explicit blessing to '' (assuming package main) + +(W) You are blessing a reference to a zero length string. This has +the effect of blessing the reference into the package main. This is +usually not what you want. Consider providing a default target +package, e.g. bless($ref, $p || 'MyPackage'); + =item Fatal VMS error at %s, line %d (P) An error peculiar to VMS. Something untoward happened in a VMS system @@ -1139,7 +1299,6 @@ Did you forget to check the return value of your socket() call? (S) A warning peculiar to VMS. The call to C underlying the C operator returned an invalid UIC. - =item Glob not terminated (F) The lexer saw a left angle bracket in a place where it was expecting @@ -1223,6 +1382,12 @@ don't take to this kindly. (W) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in a octal number. Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9. +=item Illegal hex digit ignored + +(W) You may have tried to use a character other than 0 - 9 or A - F in a +hexadecimal number. Interpretation of the hexadecimal number stopped +before the illegal character. + =item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s (X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the @@ -1254,10 +1419,11 @@ for more information. script if C<$ENV{PATH}> contains a directory that is writable by the world. See L. -=item Insecure PATH +=item Insecure $ENV{%s} while running %s (F) You can't use system(), exec(), or a piped open in a setuid or -setgid script if C<$ENV{PATH}> is derived from data supplied (or +setgid script if any of C<$ENV{PATH}>, C<$ENV{IFS}>, C<$ENV{CDPATH}>, +C<$ENV{ENV}> or C<$ENV{BASH_ENV}> are derived from data supplied (or potentially supplied) by the user. The script must set the path to a known value, using trustworthy data. See L. @@ -1278,7 +1444,7 @@ 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 and C, to determine whether the current call to C should affect the current -script or a subprocess (see L). Somehow, this count +script or a subprocess (see L). Somehow, this count has become scrambled, so Perl is making a guess and treating this C as a request to terminate the Perl script and execute the specified command. @@ -1287,16 +1453,19 @@ and execute the specified command. (P) Something went badly wrong in the regular expression parser. -=item internal error: glob failed +=item glob failed (%s) -(P) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for C -and C*.cE>. This may mean that your csh (C shell) is -broken. If so, you should change all of the csh-related variables in -config.sh: If you have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it -were csh (e.g. C); otherwise, make them all -empty (except that C should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will -think csh is missing. In either case, after editing config.sh, run -C<./Configure -S> and rebuild Perl. +(W) Something went wrong with the external program(s) used for C +and C*.cE>. Usually, this means that you supplied a C +pattern that caused the external program to fail and exit with a nonzero +status. If the message indicates that the abnormal exit resulted in a +coredump, this may also mean that your csh (C shell) is broken. If so, +you should change all of the csh-related variables in config.sh: If you +have tcsh, make the variables refer to it as if it were csh (e.g. +C); otherwise, make them all empty (except that +C should be C<'undef'>) so that Perl will think csh is missing. +In either case, after editing config.sh, run C<./Configure -S> and +rebuild Perl. =item internal urp in regexp at /%s/ @@ -1315,10 +1484,14 @@ See L. =item Invalid type in pack: '%s' (F) The given character is not a valid pack type. See L. +(W) The given character is not a valid pack type but used to be silently +ignored. =item Invalid type in unpack: '%s' (F) The given character is not a valid unpack type. See L. +(W) The given character is not a valid unpack type but used to be silently +ignored. =item ioctl is not implemented @@ -1347,6 +1520,11 @@ L. that name, not even if you count where you were called from. See L. +=item leaving effective %s failed + +(F) While under the C pragma, switching the real and +effective uids or gids failed. + =item listen() on closed fd (W) You tried to do a listen on a closed socket. Did you forget to check @@ -1378,6 +1556,11 @@ one line to the next. (F) While certain functions allow you to specify a filehandle or an "indirect object" before the argument list, this ain't one of them. +=item Missing command in piped open + +(W) You used the C or C +construction, but the command was missing or blank. + =item Missing operator before %s? (S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s @@ -1400,15 +1583,15 @@ catches that. But an easy way to do the same thing is: Another way is to assign to a substr() that's off the end of the string. -=item Modification of noncreatable array value attempted, subscript %d +=item Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript %d (F) You tried to make an array value spring into existence, and the subscript was probably negative, even counting from end of the array backwards. -=item Modification of noncreatable hash value attempted, subscript "%s" +=item Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, subscript "%s" -(F) You tried to make a hash value spring into existence, and it couldn't +(P) You tried to make a hash value spring into existence, and it couldn't be created for some peculiar reason. =item Module name must be constant @@ -1549,6 +1732,19 @@ your system. (F) The argument to B<-I> must follow the B<-I> immediately with no intervening space. +=item No such array field + +(F) You tried to access an array as a hash, but the field name used is +not defined. The hash at index 0 should map all valid field names to +array indices for that to work. + +=item No such field "%s" in variable %s of type %s + +(F) You tried to access a field of a typed variable where the type +does not know about the field name. The field names are looked up in +the %FIELDS hash in the type package at compile time. The %FIELDS hash +is usually set up with the 'fields' pragma. + =item No such pipe open (P) An error peculiar to VMS. The internal routine my_pclose() tried to @@ -1560,6 +1756,14 @@ an attempt to close an unopened filehandle. (W) You specified a signal name as a subscript to %SIG that was not recognized. Say C in your shell to see the valid signal names on your system. +=item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC + +(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Per was unable to find the local +timezone offset, so it's assuming that local system time is equivalent +to UTC. If it's not, define the logical name F +to translate to the number of seconds which need to be added to UTC to +get local time. + =item Not a CODE reference (F) Perl was trying to evaluate a reference to a code value (that is, a @@ -1658,10 +1862,10 @@ about 250 characters. You've exceeded that length. Future versions of Perl are likely to eliminate this arbitrary limitation. In the meantime, try using scientific notation (e.g. "1e6" instead of "1_000_000"). -=item Odd number of elements in hash list +=item Odd number of elements in hash assignment -(S) You specified an odd number of elements to a hash list, which is odd, -because hash lists come in key/value pairs. +(S) You specified an odd number of elements to initialize a hash, which +is odd, because hashes come in key/value pairs. =item Offset outside string @@ -1678,7 +1882,7 @@ will extend the buffer and zero pad the new area. (S) An internal warning that the grammar is screwed up. -=item Operation `%s': no method found,%s +=item Operation `%s': no method found, %s (F) An attempt was made to perform an overloaded operation for which no handler was defined. While some handlers can be autogenerated in @@ -1699,7 +1903,7 @@ if you said "*foo * 'foo'". (F) The yacc parser wanted to grow its stack so it could continue parsing, but realloc() wouldn't give it more memory, virtual or otherwise. -=item Out of memory! +=item Out of memory during request for %s (X|F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. @@ -1710,13 +1914,19 @@ However, if compiled for this, Perl may use the contents of C<$^M> as an emergency pool after die()ing with this message. In this case the error is trappable I. -=item Out of memory during request for %s +=item Out of memory during "large" request for %s (F) The malloc() function returned 0, indicating there was insufficient remaining memory (or virtual memory) to satisfy the request. However, the request was judged large enough (compile-time default is 64K), so a possibility to shut down by trapping this error is granted. +=item Out of memory during ridiculously large request + +(F) You can't allocate more than 2^31+"small amount" bytes. This error +is most likely to be caused by a typo in the Perl program. e.g., C<$arr[time]> +instead of C<$arr[$time]>. + =item page overflow (W) A single call to write() produced more lines than can fit on a page. @@ -1866,7 +2076,7 @@ was string. (P) The lexer got into a bad state while processing a case modifier. -=item Pareneses missing around "%s" list +=item Parentheses missing around "%s" list (W) You said something like @@ -1888,7 +2098,7 @@ anyway? See L. (F) The setuid emulator in suidperl decided you were up to no good. -=item pid %d not a child +=item pid %x not a child (W) A warning peculiar to VMS. Waitpid() was asked to wait for a process which isn't a subprocess of the current process. While this is fine from VMS' @@ -1904,8 +2114,7 @@ the BSD version, which takes a pid. (W) qw() lists contain items separated by whitespace; as with literal strings, comment characters are not ignored, but are instead treated as literal data. (You may have used different delimiters than the -exclamation marks parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently -used.) +parentheses shown here; braces are also frequently used.) You probably wrote something like this: @@ -1990,6 +2199,13 @@ last argument of the previous construct, for example: (S) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been declared or defined with a different function prototype. +=item Range iterator outside integer range + +(F) One (or both) of the numeric arguments to the range operator ".." +are outside the range which can be represented by integers internally. +One possible workaround is to force Perl to use magical string +increment by prepending "0" to your numbers. + =item Read on closed filehandle E%sE (W) The filehandle you're reading from got itself closed sometime before now. @@ -2005,16 +2221,38 @@ Check your logic flow. desired output is compiled into Perl, which entails some overhead, which is why it's currently left out of your copy. -=item Recursive inheritance detected +=item Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s' (F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were used. Probably indicates an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy. +=item Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method '%s' in package '%s' + +(F) More than 100 levels of inheritance were encountered while invoking a +method. Probably indicates an unintended loop in your inheritance hierarchy. + +=item Reference found where even-sized list expected + +(W) You gave a single reference where Perl was expecting a list with +an even number of elements (for assignment to a hash). This +usually means that you used the anon hash constructor when you meant +to use parens. In any case, a hash requires key/value B. + + %hash = { one => 1, two => 2, }; # WRONG + %hash = [ qw/ an anon array / ]; # WRONG + %hash = ( one => 1, two => 2, ); # right + %hash = qw( one 1 two 2 ); # also fine + =item Reference miscount in sv_replace() (W) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with a reference count of other than 1. +=item regexp *+ operand could be empty + +(F) The part of the regexp subject to either the * or + quantifier +could match an empty string. + =item regexp memory corruption (P) The regular expression engine got confused by what the regular @@ -2024,14 +2262,6 @@ 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. - =item Reversed %s= operator (W) You wrote your assignment operator backwards. The = must always @@ -2082,6 +2312,7 @@ or setgid bit set. This doesn't make much sense. (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a // or m{} construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. +Missing the leading C<$> from a variable C<$m> may cause this error. =item %sseek() on unopened file @@ -2112,6 +2343,7 @@ or possibly some other missing operator, such as a comma. Check your logic flow. =item Sequence (? incomplete + (F) A regular expression ended with an incomplete extension (?. See L. @@ -2226,6 +2458,14 @@ there was a failure. You probably wanted to use system() instead, which does return. To suppress this warning, put the exec() in a block by itself. +=item Strange *+?{} on zero-length expression + +(W) You applied a regular expression quantifier in a place where it +makes no sense, such as on a zero-width assertion. +Try putting the quantifier inside the assertion instead. For example, +the way to match "abc" provided that it is followed by three +repetitions of "xyz" is C, not C. + =item Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s' (P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation stubs. @@ -2252,11 +2492,13 @@ L. (F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a s/// or s{}{} construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. +Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error. =item Substitution replacement not terminated (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a s/// or s{}{} construct. Remember that bracketing delimiters count nesting level. +Missing the leading C<$> from variable C<$s> may cause this error. =item substr outside of string @@ -2271,6 +2513,11 @@ of an assignment or as a subroutine argument for example). (F) Your Perl was compiled with B<-D>SETUID_SCRIPTS_ARE_SECURE_NOW, but a version of the setuid emulator somehow got run anyway. +=item switching effective %s is not implemented + +(F) While under the C pragma, we cannot switch the +real and effective uids or gids. + =item syntax error (F) Probably means you had a syntax error. Common reasons include: @@ -2298,10 +2545,12 @@ if the error went away. Sort of the cybernetic version of S<20 questions>. instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. -=item System V IPC is not implemented on this machine +=item System V %s is not implemented on this machine -(F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem", "shm", -or "msg". See L, for example. +(F) You tried to do something with a function beginning with "sem", +"shm", or "msg" but that System V IPC is not implemented in your +machine. In some machines the functionality can exist but be +unconfigured. Consult your system support. =item Syswrite on closed filehandle @@ -2410,12 +2659,13 @@ Perl yourself. (F) The regular expression ends with an unbackslashed backslash. Backslash it. See L. -=item Translation pattern not terminated +=item Transliteration pattern not terminated (F) The lexer couldn't find the interior delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][] -construct. +or y/// or y[][] construct. Missing the leading C<$> from variables +C<$tr> or C<$y> may cause this error. -=item Translation replacement not terminated +=item Transliteration replacement not terminated (F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a tr/// or tr[][] construct. @@ -2434,8 +2684,13 @@ certain type. Arrays must be @NAME or C<@{EXPR}>. Hashes must be =item umask: argument is missing initial 0 -(W) A umask of 222 is incorrect. It should be 0222, because octal literals -always start with 0 in Perl, as in C. +(W) A umask of 222 is incorrect. It should be 0222, because octal +literals always start with 0 in Perl, as in C. + +=item umask not implemented + +(F) Your machine doesn't implement the umask function and you tried +to use it to restrict permissions for yourself (EXPR & 0700). =item Unable to create sub named "%s" @@ -2491,6 +2746,11 @@ have been defined yet. See L. (F) The format indicated doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps it's really in another package? See L. +=item Undefined value assigned to typeglob + +(W) An undefined value was assigned to a typeglob, a la C<*foo = undef>. +This does nothing. It's possible that you really mean C. + =item unexec of %s into %s failed! (F) The unexec() routine failed for some reason. See your local FSF @@ -2531,6 +2791,11 @@ 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. @@ -2562,7 +2827,7 @@ the name you call Perl by to C, C, and so on. =item Unsupported function %s -(F) This machines doesn't implement the indicated function, apparently. +(F) This machine doesn't implement the indicated function, apparently. At least, Configure doesn't think so. =item Unsupported socket function "%s" called @@ -2577,18 +2842,6 @@ a term, so it's looking for the corresponding right angle bracket, and not finding it. Chances are you left some needed parentheses out earlier in the line, and you really meant a "less than". -=item Use of "$$" to mean "${$}" is deprecated - -(D) Perl versions before 5.004 misinterpreted any type marker followed -by "$" and a digit. For example, "$$0" was incorrectly taken to mean -"${$}0" instead of "${$0}". This bug is (mostly) fixed in Perl 5.004. - -However, the developers of Perl 5.004 could not fix this bug completely, -because at least two widely-used modules depend on the old meaning of -"$$0" in a string. So Perl 5.004 still interprets "$$" in the -old (broken) way inside strings; but it generates this message as a -warning. And in Perl 5.005, this special treatment will cease. - =item Use of $# is deprecated (D) This was an ill-advised attempt to emulate a poorly defined B feature. @@ -2622,7 +2875,7 @@ a split() explicitly to an array (or list). (D) As an (ahem) accidental feature, C subroutines are looked up as methods (using the C<@ISA> hierarchy) even when the subroutines to be autoloaded were called as plain functions (e.g. C), not -as methods (e.g. Cbar()> or C<$obj->bar()>). +as methods (e.g. Cbar()> or C<$obj-Ebar()>). This bug will be rectified in Perl 5.005, which will use method lookup only for methods' Cs. However, there is a significant base @@ -2635,6 +2888,19 @@ non-methods. The simple fix for old code is: In any module that used to depend on inheriting C for non-methods from a base class named C, execute C<*AUTOLOAD = \&BaseClass::AUTOLOAD> during startup. +In code that currently says C you +should remove AutoLoader from @ISA and change C to +C. + +=item Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated + +(D) The indicated bareword is a reserved word. Future versions of perl +may use it as a keyword, so you're better off either explicitly quoting +the word in a manner appropriate for its context of use, or using a +different name altogether. The warning can be suppressed for subroutine +names by either adding a C<&> prefix, or using a package qualifier, +e.g. C<&our()>, or C. + =item Use of %s is deprecated (D) The construct indicated is no longer recommended for use, generally @@ -2647,6 +2913,10 @@ bad side effects. interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this warning assign an initial value to your variables. +=item Useless use of "re" pragma + +(W) You did C without any arguments. That isn't very useful. + =item Useless use of %s in void context (W) You did something without a side effect in a context that does nothing @@ -2749,6 +3019,27 @@ variables. of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into Perl yourself. +=item perl: warning: Setting locale failed. + +(S) The whole warning message will look something like: + + perl: warning: Setting locale failed. + perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: + LC_ALL = "En_US", + LANG = (unset) + are supported and installed on your system. + perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). + +Exactly what were the failed locale settings varies. In the above the +settings were that the LC_ALL was "En_US" and the LANG had no value. +This error means that Perl detected that you and/or your system +administrator have set up the so-called variable system but Perl could +not use those settings. This was not dead serious, fortunately: there +is a "default locale" called "C" that Perl can and will use, the +script will be run. Before you really fix the problem, however, you +will get the same error message each time you run Perl. How to really +fix the problem can be found in L section B. + =item Warning: something's wrong (W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C) or