From: Robert Spier <rspier@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 09:49:35 +0000 (-0400) Subject: [ID 19990709.002] [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] perldiag X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9ea8bc6dd1bb1b6c7fcffc05230d810901c5c954;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git [ID 19990709.002] [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] perldiag Message-ID: <14720.15855.787664.424783@rls.cx> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6455 --- diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod index baa088c..9522c1f 100644 --- a/pod/perldiag.pod +++ b/pod/perldiag.pod @@ -261,9 +261,9 @@ open(), or did it in another package. (S malloc) An internal routine called free() on something that had never been malloc()ed in the first place. Mandatory, but can be disabled by -setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 1. +setting environment variable C<PERL_BADFREE> to 0. -This message can be quite often seen with DB_File on systems with "hard" +This message can be seen quite often with DB_File on systems with "hard" dynamic linking, like C<AIX> and C<OS/2>. It is a bug of C<Berkeley DB> which is left unnoticed if C<DB> uses I<forgiving> system malloc().