From: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:52:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: In perldiag.pod add an entry for the error message that change 27155
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In perldiag.pod add an entry for the error message that change 27155
introduced.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@27162
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diff --git a/pod/perldiag.pod b/pod/perldiag.pod
index 8509f6c..f8cd5df 100644
--- a/pod/perldiag.pod
+++ b/pod/perldiag.pod
@@ -1976,6 +1976,16 @@ transparently promotes all numbers to a floating point representation
 internally--subject to loss of precision errors in subsequent
 operations.
 
+=item Integer overflow in division
+
+(F) In the scope of the C<use integer;> pragma division would have overflowed.
+This will happen if attempt to divide the largest negative integer by -1,
+as on a twos complement system the result cannot be represented as a signed
+integer. This division is trapped as a Perl level exception because on some
+architectures the integer divide operation will trigger a CPU exception
+causing program exit, rather than merely returning a mathematically wrong
+answer.
+
 =item Integer overflow in format string for %s
 
 (F) The indexes and widths specified in the format string of printf()