(F) msgsnd() requires a string at least as long as sizeof(long).
-=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element
+=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or a subroutine
-(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element, such as:
+(F) The argument to exists() must be a hash or array element or a
+subroutine with an ampersand, such as:
$foo{$bar}
$ref->{"susie"}[12]
+ &do_something
=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice
literals or global values as arguments to the "p" pack() template to
avoid this warning.
+=item Attempt to reload %s aborted.
+
+(F) You tried to load a file with C<use> or C<require> that failed to
+compile once already. Perl will not try to compile this file again
+unless you delete its entry from %INC. See L<perlfunc/require> and
+L<perlvar/%INC>.
+
=item Attempt to set length of freed array
(W) You tried to set the length of an array which has been freed. You
used as an lvalue, which is pretty strange. Perhaps you forgot to
dereference it first. See L<perlfunc/substr>.
-=item Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should be %s
+=item Attribute "locked" is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragam to modify the "locked"
+attribute on a code reference. The :locked attribute is obsolete, has had no
+effect since 5005 threads were removed, and will be removed in the next major
+release of Perl 5.
+
+=item Attribute "unique" is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated) You have used the attributes pragam to modify the "unique"
+attribute on an array, hash or scalar reference. The :unique attribute has
+had no effect since Perl 5.8.8, and will be removed in the next major
+release of Perl 5.
+
+=item Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should be %d
(F) You passed a buffer of the wrong size to one of msgctl(), semctl()
or shmctl(). In C parlance, the correct sizes are, respectively,
regexp to match something 0 times, just put {0}. The <-- HERE shows in the
regular expression about where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.
-=item Can't do setegid!
-
-(P) The setegid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of
-suidperl.
-
-=item Can't do seteuid!
-
-(P) The setuid emulator of suidperl failed for some reason.
-
-=item Can't do setuid
-
-(F) This typically means that ordinary perl tried to exec suidperl to do
-setuid emulation, but couldn't exec it. It looks for a name of the form
-sperl5.000 in the same directory that the perl executable resides under
-the name perl5.000, typically /usr/local/bin on Unix machines. If the
-file is there, check the execute permissions. If it isn't, ask your
-sysadmin why he and/or she removed it.
-
=item Can't do waitpid with flags
(F) This machine doesn't have either waitpid() or wait4(), so only
by C<\\p> (just the C<\p>) or by C<\Q\p> (the rest of the string, until
possible C<\E>).
-=item Can't fork
+=item Can't fork: %s
(F) A fatal error occurred while trying to fork while opening a
pipeline.
+=item Can't fork, trying again in 5 seconds
+
+(W pipe) A fork in a piped open failed with EAGAIN and will be retried
+after five seconds.
+
=item Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer?
(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. This arises because of the difference
situation typically indicates that the parent program under which Perl
may be running (e.g. cron) is being very careless.
+=item Can't kill a non-numeric process ID
+
+(F) Process identifiers must be (signed) integers. It is a fatal error to
+attempt to kill() an undefined, empty-string or otherwise non-numeric
+process identifier.
+
=item Can't "last" outside a loop block
(F) A "last" statement was executed to break out of the current block,
(W syntax) The @ISA array contained the name of another package that
doesn't seem to exist.
-=item Can't locate package %s for the parents of %s
-
-(W syntax) You did not define (or require/use) the first package,
-which is named as a (possibly indirect) parent of the second by
-C<@ISA> inheritance. Perl will treat this as if the undefined
-package had an empty C<@ISA>.
-
=item Can't locate PerlIO%s
(F) You tried to use in open() a PerlIO layer that does not exist,
(P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl thought stdin was a pipe, and tried
to reopen it to accept binary data. Alas, it failed.
-=item Can't resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s'
+=item Can't resolve method "%s" overloading "%s" in package "%s"
(F|P) Error resolving overloading specified by a method name (as opposed
to a subroutine reference): no such method callable via the package. If
method name is C<???>, this is an internal error.
-=item Can't reswap uid and euid
-
-(P) The setreuid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of
-suidperl.
-
=item Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine
(F) Perl detected an attempt to return illegal lvalues (such as
(P) For some reason you can't fstat() the script even though you have it
open already. Bizarre.
-=item Can't swap uid and euid
-
-(P) The setreuid() call failed for some reason in the setuid emulator of
-suidperl.
-
=item Can't take log of %g
(F) For ordinary real numbers, you can't take the logarithm of a
For example you cannot force little-endianness on a type that
is inside a big-endian group.
+=item Can't use keyword '%s' as a label
+
+(F) You attempted to use a reserved keyword, such as C<print> or C<BEGIN>,
+as a statement label. This is disallowed since Perl 5.11.0.
+
=item Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison
(F) The global variables $a and $b are reserved for sort comparisons.
infinite recursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in
which case it indicates something else.
+This threshold can be changed from 100, by recompiling the F<perl> binary,
+setting the C pre-processor macro C<PERL_SUB_DEPTH_WARN> to the desired value.
+
=item defined(@array) is deprecated
(D deprecated) defined() is not usually useful on arrays because it
expression that contains the C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion, which
is unsafe. See L<perlre/(?{ code })>, and L<perlsec>.
-=item %s: Eval-group not allowed at run time
+=item %s: Eval-group not allowed at runtime, use re 'eval'
(F) Perl tried to compile a regular expression containing the
C<(?{ ... })> zero-width assertion at run time, as it would when the
(F) The C<exec> function is not implemented in MacPerl. See L<perlport>.
-=item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors
+=item Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors.
(F) The final summary message when a Perl compilation fails.
supposed to follow something: a template character or a ()-group.
See L<perlfunc/pack>.
-=item %s had compilation errors
+=item %s had compilation errors.
(F) The final summary message when a C<perl -c> fails.
(W digit) You may have tried to use an 8 or 9 in an octal number.
Interpretation of the octal number stopped before the 8 or 9.
-=item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s
+=item Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: -%c
(X) The PERL5OPT environment variable may only be used to set the
-following switches: B<-[CDIMUdmtwA]>.
+following switches: B<-[CDIMUdmtw]>.
=item Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s"
(W unopened) You tried ioctl() on a filehandle that was never opened.
Check you control flow and number of arguments.
-=item IO layers (like "%s") unavailable
+=item IO layers (like '%s') unavailable
(F) Your Perl has not been configured to have PerlIO, and therefore
you cannot use IO layers. To have PerlIO Perl must be configured
=item $* is no longer supported
(S deprecated, syntax) The special variable C<$*>, deprecated in older perls, has
-been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported. You should use the
-C<//m> and C<//s> regexp modifiers instead.
+been removed as of 5.9.0 and is no longer supported. In previous versions of perl the use of
+C<$*> enabled or disabled multi-line matching within a string.
+
+Instead of using C<$*> you should use the C</m> (and maybe C</s>) regexp
+modifiers. (In older versions: when C<$*> was set to a true value then all regular
+expressions behaved as if they were written using C</m>.)
=item $# is no longer supported
(F) There is currently a limit on the length of string which lookbehind can
handle. This restriction may be eased in a future release.
+=item Lost precision when %s %f by 1
+
+(W) The value you attempted to increment or decrement by one is too large
+for the underlying floating point representation to store accurately,
+hence the target of C<++> or C<--> is unchanged. Perl issues this warning
+because it has already switched from integers to floating point when values
+are too large for integers, and now even floating point is insufficient.
+You may wish to switch to using L<Math::BigInt> explicitly.
+
=item lstat() on filehandle %s
(W io) You tried to do an lstat on a filehandle. What did you mean
=item Malformed UTF-16 surrogate
-Perl thought it was reading UTF-16 encoded character data but while
+(F) Perl thought it was reading UTF-16 encoded character data but while
doing it Perl met a malformed Unicode surrogate.
=item Malformed UTF-8 string in pack
(F) You tried to unpack something that didn't comply with UTF-8 encoding
rules and perl was unable to guess how to make more progress.
-=item Maximal count of pending signals (%s) exceeded
+=item Maximal count of pending signals (%d) exceeded
-(F) Perl aborted due to a too important number of signals pending. This
+(F) Perl aborted due to a too high number of signals pending. This
usually indicates that your operating system tried to deliver signals
too fast (with a very high priority), starving the perl process from
resources it would need to reach a point where it can process signals
=item Missing right brace on %s
-(F) Missing right brace in C<\p{...}> or C<\P{...}>.
+(F) Missing right brace in C<\x{...}>, C<\p{...}> or C<\P{...}>.
=item Missing right curly or square bracket
you omitted the name of the module. Consult L<perlrun> for full details
about C<-M> and C<-m>.
-=item More than one argument to open
+=item More than one argument to '%s' open
(F) The C<open> function has been asked to open multiple files. This
can happen if you are trying to open a pipe to a command that takes a
(F) You provided a class qualifier in a "my", "our" or "state" declaration, but
this class doesn't exist at this point in your program.
+=item No such hook: %s
+
+(F) You specified a signal hook that was not recognized by Perl. Currently, Perl
+accepts C<__DIE__> and C<__WARN__> as valid signal hooks
+
=item No such pipe open
(P) An error peculiar to VMS. The internal routine my_pclose() tried to
(P) scan_num() got called on something that wasn't a number.
+=item panic: sv_chop %s
+
+(P) The sv_chop() routine was passed a position that is not within the
+scalar's string buffer.
+
=item panic: sv_insert
(P) The sv_insert() routine was told to remove more string than there
you run Perl. How to really fix the problem can be found in
L<perllocale> section B<LOCALE PROBLEMS>.
-=item Permission denied
-
-(F) The setuid emulator in suidperl decided you were up to no good.
-
=item pid %x not a child
(W exec) A warning peculiar to VMS. Waitpid() was asked to wait for a
(F) The unpack format P must have an explicit size, not "*".
-=item B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script
-
-(F) The script would have to be opened by the C preprocessor by name,
-which provides a race condition that breaks security.
-
=item POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
(F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown. The <-- HERE
literal @foo, then write it as \@foo; otherwise find out what happened
to the array you apparently lost track of.
-=item pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead
+=item Possible unintended interpolation of $\ in regex
-(D deprecated) You have written something like this:
+(W ambiguous) You said something like C<m/$\/> in a regex.
+The regex C<m/foo$\s+bar/m> translates to: match the word 'foo', the output
+record separator (see L<perlvar/$\>) and the letter 's' (one time or more)
+followed by the word 'bar'.
- sub doit
- {
- use attrs qw(locked);
- }
+If this is what you intended then you can silence the warning by using
+C<m/${\}/> (for example: C<m/foo${\}s+bar/>).
-You should use the new declaration syntax instead.
-
- sub doit : locked
- {
- ...
-
-The C<use attrs> pragma is now obsolete, and is only provided for
-backward-compatibility. See L<perlsub/"Subroutine Attributes">.
+If instead you intended to match the word 'foo' at the end of the line
+followed by whitespace and the word 'bar' on the next line then you can use
+C<m/$(?)\/> (for example: C<m/foo$(?)\s+bar/>).
=item Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s)
L<perlipc/"Signals">. See also "Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT"
in L<perlos2>.
+=item Prototype after '%c' for %s : %s
+
+(W syntax) A character follows % or @ in a prototype. This is useless,
+since % and @ gobble the rest of the subroutine arguments.
+
=item Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s
(S prototype) The subroutine being declared or defined had previously been
(F) You used C<\g0> or similar in a regular expression. You may refer to
capturing parentheses only with strictly positive integers (normal
-backreferences) or with stricly negative integers (relative
+backreferences) or with strictly negative integers (relative
backreferences), but using 0 does not make sense.
=item Reference to nonexistent group in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
numeric field that will never go blank so that the repetition never
terminates. You might use ^# instead. See L<perlform>.
+=item Replacement list is longer than search list
+
+(W misc) You have used a replacement list that is longer than the
+search list. So the additional elements in the replacement list
+are meaningless.
+
=item Reversed %s= operator
(W syntax) You wrote your assignment operator backwards. The = must
not magically convert between scalars and lists for you. See
L<perlref>.
-=item Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl
-
-(F) Oddly, the suidperl program was invoked on a script without a setuid
-or setgid bit set. This doesn't make much sense.
-
=item Search pattern not terminated
(F) The lexer couldn't find the final delimiter of a // or m{}
(W signal) The signal handler named in %SIG doesn't, in fact, exist.
Perhaps you put it into the wrong package?
+=item Smart matching a non-overloaded object breaks encapsulation
+
+(F) You should not use the C<~~> operator on an object that does not
+overload it: Perl refuses to use the object's underlying structure for
+the smart match.
+
=item sort is now a reserved word
(F) An ancient error message that almost nobody ever runs into anymore.
But before sort was a keyword, people sometimes used it as a filehandle.
-=item Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value
-
-(F) A sort comparison routine must return a number. You probably blew
-it by not using C<< <=> >> or C<cmp>, or by not using them correctly.
-See L<perlfunc/sort>.
-
=item Sort subroutine didn't return single value
(F) A sort comparison subroutine may not return a list value with more
(W unopened) You tried to use the stat() function on a filehandle that
was either never opened or has since been closed.
-=item Stub found while resolving method "%s" overloading "%s"
+=item Stub found while resolving method "%s" overloading "%s" in package "%s"
(P) Overloading resolution over @ISA tree may be broken by importation
stubs. Stubs should never be implicitly created, but explicit calls to
substr is used in an lvalue context (as the left hand side of an
assignment or as a subroutine argument for example).
-=item suidperl is no longer needed since %s
-
-(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 sv_upgrade from type %d down to type %d
(P) Perl tried to force the upgrade an SV to a type which was actually
=item "-T" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line
(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the
-B<-T> option, but Perl was not invoked with B<-T> in its command line.
+B<-T> option (or the B<-t> option), but Perl was not invoked with B<-T> in its command line.
This is an error because, by the time Perl discovers a B<-T> in a
script, it's too late to properly taint everything from the environment.
So Perl gives up.
If the Perl script is being executed as a command using the #!
mechanism (or its local equivalent), this error can usually be fixed by
-editing the #! line so that the B<-T> option is a part of Perl's first
-argument: e.g. change C<perl -n -T> to C<perl -T -n>.
+editing the #! line so that the B<-%c> option is a part of Perl's first
+argument: e.g. change C<perl -n -%c> to C<perl -%c -n>.
If the Perl script is being executed as C<perl scriptname>, then the
-B<-T> option must appear on the command line: C<perl -T scriptname>.
+B<-%c> option must appear on the command line: C<perl -%c scriptname>.
=item To%s: illegal mapping '%s'
=item Too late for "-%s" option
(X) The #! line (or local equivalent) in a Perl script contains the
-B<-M>, B<-m> or B<-C> option. This is an error because those options
-are not intended for use inside scripts. Use the C<use> pragma instead.
+B<-M>, B<-m> or B<-C> option.
+
+In the case of B<-M> and B<-m>, this is an error because those options are
+not intended for use inside scripts. Use the C<use> pragma instead.
+
+The B<-C> option only works if it is specified on the command line as well
+(with the same sequence of letters or numbers following). Either specify
+this option on the command line, or, if your system supports it, make your
+script executable and run it directly instead of passing it to perl.
=item Too late to run %s block
somehow, or insert an underbar into it. You might also declare it as a
subroutine.
-=item Unrecognized character %s in column %d
+=item Unrecognized character %s; marked by <-- HERE after %s near column %d
(F) The Perl parser has no idea what to do with the specified character
-in your Perl script (or eval) at the specified column. Perhaps you tried
+in your Perl script (or eval) near the specified column. Perhaps you tried
to run a compressed script, a binary program, or a directory as a Perl program.
=item Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/
The <-- HERE shows in the regular expression about
where the problem was discovered. See L<perlre>.
+=item Useless use of /d modifier in transliteration operator
+
+(W misc) You have used the /d modifier where the searchlist has the
+same length as the replacelist. See L<perlop> for more information
+about the /d modifier.
+
=item Useless use of %s in void context
(W void) You did something without a side effect in a context that does
(F) The "use" keyword is recognized and executed at compile time, and
returns no useful value. See L<perlmod>.
+=item Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated) The C<$[> variable (index of the first element in an array)
+is deprecated. See L<perlvar/"$[">.
+
=item Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated
-(D deprecated) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted form
-if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document.
+(D deprecated, W syntax) You are now encouraged to use the explicitly quoted
+form if you wish to use an empty line as the terminator of the here-document.
+
+=item Use of comma-less variable list is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated, W syntax) The values you give to a format should be
+separated by commas, not just aligned on a line.
=item Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() deprecated
operator. Since C<split> always tries to match the pattern
repeatedly, the C</g> has no effect.
-=item Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated
-
-(D deprecated) It makes a lot of work for the compiler when you clobber
-a subroutine's argument list, so it's better if you assign the results
-of a split() explicitly to an array (or list).
-
=item Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated
(D deprecated) As an (ahem) accidental feature, C<AUTOLOAD> subroutines
you should remove AutoLoader from @ISA and change C<use AutoLoader;> to
C<use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';>.
+=item Use of octal value above 377 is deprecated
+
+(D deprecated, W regexp) There is a constant in the regular expression whose
+value is interpeted by Perl as octal and larger than 377 (255 decimal, 0xFF
+hex). Perl may take this to mean different things depending on the rest of
+the regular expression. If you meant such an octal value, convert it to
+hexadecimal and use C<\xHH> or C<\x{HH}> instead. If you meant to have
+part of it mean a backreference, use C<\g> for that. See L<perlre>.
+
=item Use of %s in printf format not supported
(F) You attempted to use a feature of printf that is accessible from
If you really do mean it, explicitly numify your reference, like so:
C<$array[0+$ref]>. This warning is not given for overloaded objects,
either, because you can overload the numification and stringification
-operators and then you assumedly know what you are doing.
+operators and then you assumably know what you are doing.
=item Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated
(W misc) The version string contains invalid characters at the end, which
are being ignored.
-=item v-string in use/require is non-portable
-
-(W portable) The use of v-strings is non-portable to older, pre-5.6, Perls.
-If you want your scripts to be backward portable, use the floating
-point version number: for example, instead of C<use 5.6.1> say
-C<use 5.006_001>. This of course won't help: the older Perls
-won't suddenly start understanding newer features, but at least
-they will show a sensible error message indicating the required
-minimum version.
-
=item Warning: something's wrong
(W) You passed warn() an empty string (the equivalent of C<warn "">) or
=item Wide character in %s
-(W utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
+(S utf8) Perl met a wide character (>255) when it wasn't expecting
one. This warning is by default on for I/O (like print). The easiest
way to quiet this warning is simply to add the C<:utf8> layer to the
output, e.g. C<binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'>. Another way to turn off the
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