(F) You had a pack template that specified an absolute position outside
the string being unpacked. See L<perlfunc/pack>.
+=item <> should be quotes
+
+(F) You wrote C<require E<lt>fileE<gt>> when you should have written
+C<require 'file'>.
+
=item accept() on closed fd
(W) You tried to do an accept on a closed socket. Did you forget to check
SvREFCNT_inc() was called too few times, or that the SV was mortalized
when it shouldn't have been, or that memory has been corrupted.
+=item Attempt to join self
+
+(F) You tried to join a thread from within itself, which is an
+impossible task. You may be joining the wrong thread, or you may
+need to move the join() to some other thread.
+
=item Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value
(W) You tried to pass a temporary value (like the result of a
=item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
(F) With "strict subs" in use, a bareword is only allowed as a
-subroutine identifier, in curly braces or to the left of the "=>" symbol.
+subroutine identifier, in curly brackets or to the left of the "=>" symbol.
Perhaps you need to predeclare a subroutine?
=item Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package
(P) Perl detected an attempt to copy an internal value that is not copiable.
+=item Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s
+
+(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. While Perl was preparing to iterate over
+%ENV, it encountered a logical name or symbol definition which was too long,
+so it was truncated to the string shown.
+
+=item Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s
+
+(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. While Perl was preparing to iterate over
+%ENV, it encountered a logical name or symbol definition which was too long,
+so it was truncated to the string shown.
+
=item Callback called exit
(F) A subroutine invoked from an external package via perl_call_sv()
usually double the curlies to get the same effect though, because the inner
curlies will be considered a block that loops once. See L<perlfunc/next>.
+=item Can't read CRTL environ
+
+(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read an element of %ENV
+from the CRTL's internal environment array and discovered the array was
+missing. You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ
+or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not searched.
+
+=item Can't read CRTL environ
+
+(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read an element of %ENV
+from the CRTL's internal environment array and discovered the array was
+missing. You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ
+or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not searched.
+
+=item Can't read CRTL environ
+
+(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read an element of %ENV
+from the CRTL's internal environment array and discovered the array was
+missing. You need to figure out where your CRTL misplaced its environ
+or define F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see L<perlvms>) so that environ is not searched.
+
=item Can't "redo" outside a block
(F) A "redo" statement was executed to restart the current block, but
in a function/method name or a failure to C<AutoSplit> the file, say, by
doing C<make install>.
-=item Can't locate %s in @INC
+=item Can't locate %s
-(F) You said to do (or require, or use) a file that couldn't be found
-in any of the libraries mentioned in @INC. Perhaps you need to set the
-PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where the extra library
-is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name to @INC. Or maybe
-you just misspelled the name of the file. See L<perlfunc/require>.
+(F) You said to C<do> (or C<require>, or C<use>) a file that couldn't be
+found. Perl looks for the file in all the locations mentioned in @INC,
+unless the file name included the full path to the file. Perhaps you need
+to set the PERL5LIB or PERL5OPT environment variable to say where the extra
+library is, or maybe the script needs to add the library name to @INC. Or
+maybe you just misspelled the name of the file. See L<perlfunc/require>
+and L<lib>.
=item Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s"
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 weaken a nonreference
+
+(F) You attempted to weaken something that was not a reference. Only
+references can be weakened.
+
=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 find an opnumber for "%s"
+=item Can't find an opnumber for "%s"
(F) A string of a form C<CORE::word> was given to prototype(), but
there is no builtin with the name C<word>.
-=item Cannot 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 Character class [:%s:] unknown
+
+(F) The class in the character class [: :] syntax is unknown.
+
+=item Character class syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes
+
+(W) The character class constructs [: :], [= =], and [. .] go
+I<inside> character classes, the [] are part of the construct,
+for example: /[012[:alpha:]345]/. Note that the last two constructs
+are not currently implemented, they are placeholders for future extensions.
+
=item Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions
(W) Within regular expression character classes ([]) the syntax beginning
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
recursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in which
case it indicates something else.
+=item defined(@array) is deprecated
+
+(D) defined() is not usually useful on arrays because it checks for an
+undefined I<scalar> value. If you want to see if the array is empty,
+just use C<if (@array) { # not empty }> for example.
+
+=item defined(%hash) is deprecated
+
+(D) defined() is not usually useful on hashes because it checks for an
+undefined I<scalar> value. If you want to see if the hash is empty,
+just use C<if (%hash) { # not empty }> for example.
+
=item Delimiter for here document is too long
(F) In a here document construct like C<E<lt>E<lt>FOO>, the label
You need to do an open() or a socket() call, or call a constructor from
the FileHandle package.
-=item Filehandle %s opened for only input
+=item Filehandle %s opened only for input
(W) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle. If you
intended it to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with
you intended only to write the file, use "E<gt>" or "E<gt>E<gt>". See
L<perlfunc/open>.
-=item Filehandle opened for only input
+=item Filehandle %s opened only for output
-(W) You tried to write on a read-only filehandle. If you
+(W) You tried to read from a filehandle opened only for writing. If you
intended it to be a read-write filehandle, you needed to open it with
"+E<lt>" or "+E<gt>" or "+E<gt>E<gt>" instead of with "E<lt>" or nothing. If
-you intended only to write the file, use "E<gt>" or "E<gt>E<gt>". See
+you intended only to read from the file, use "E<lt>". See
L<perlfunc/open>.
=item Final $ should be \$ or $name
(W) You redefined a format. To suppress this warning, say
{
- local $^W = 0;
+ no warning;
eval "format NAME =...";
}
names (like C<$A::B>). You've exceeded Perl's limits. Future
versions of Perl are likely to eliminate these arbitrary limitations.
-=item Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter
+=item Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s"
+
+(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the CRTL's internal
+environ array, and encountered an element without the C<=> delimiter
+used to spearate keys from values. The element is ignored.
+
+=item Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|
-(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. A logical name was encountered when preparing
-to iterate over %ENV which violates the syntactic rules governing logical
-names. Because it cannot be translated normally, it is skipped, and will not
-appear in %ENV. This may be a benign occurrence, as some software packages
-might directly modify logical name tables and introduce nonstandard names,
-or it may indicate that a logical name table has been corrupted.
+(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read a logical name
+or CLI symbol definition when preparing to iterate over %ENV, and
+didn't see the expected delimiter between key and value, so the
+line was ignored.
=item Illegal character %s (carriage return)
(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 %s ignored
+=item Illegal hexadecimal digit %s 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
=item Integer overflow in %s number
-(S) The literal hex, octal or binary number you have specified is
-too big for your architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest
+(S) The literal hexadecimal, octal or binary number you have specified
+is too big for your architecture. On a 32-bit architecture the largest
literal hex, octal or binary number representable without overflow
is 0xFFFFFFFF, 037777777777, or 0b11111111111111111111111111111111
respectively. Note that Perl transparently promotes decimal literals
(S) This is an educated guess made in conjunction with the message "%s
found where operator expected". Often the missing operator is a comma.
-=item Missing right bracket
+=item Missing right curly or square bracket
-(F) The lexer counted more opening curly brackets (braces) than closing ones.
-As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place you were last
-editing.
+(F) The lexer counted more opening curly or square brackets than
+closing ones. As a general rule, you'll find it's missing near the place
+you were last editing.
=item Modification of a read-only value attempted
=item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC
+(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl 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<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL>
+to translate to the number of seconds which need to be added to UTC to
+get local time.
+
+=item no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC
+
+(S) A warning peculiar to VMS. Per was unable to find the local
+timezone offset, so it's assuming that local system time is equivalent
+to UTC. If it's not, define the logical name F<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL>
+to translate to the number of seconds which need to be added to UTC to
+get local time.
+
+=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<SYS$TIMEZONE_DIFFERENTIAL>
(P) The savestack was requested to restore more localized values than there
are in the savestack.
+=item panic: del_backref
+
+(P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset a weak
+reference.
+
=item panic: die %s
(P) We popped the context stack to an eval context, and then discovered
(P) The lexer got into a bad state parsing a string with brackets.
+=item panic: kid popen errno read
+
+(F) forked child returned an incomprehensible message about its errno.
+
=item panic: last
(P) We popped the context stack to a block context, and then discovered
(P) Something requested a negative number of bytes of malloc.
+=item panic: magic_killbackrefs
+
+(P) Failed an internal consistency check while trying to reset all weak
+references to an object.
+
=item panic: mapstart
(P) The compiler is screwed up with respect to the map() function.
One possible workaround is to force Perl to use magical string
increment by prepending "0" to your numbers.
-=item Read on closed filehandle E<lt>%sE<gt>
+=item Read on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're reading from got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.
%hash = ( one => 1, two => 2, ); # right
%hash = qw( one 1 two 2 ); # also fine
+=item Reference is already weak
+
+(W) You have attempted to weaken a reference that is already weak.
+Doing so has no effect.
+
=item Reference miscount in sv_replace()
(W) The internal sv_replace() function was handed a new SV with a
(W) You redefined a subroutine. To suppress this warning, say
{
- local $^W = 0;
+ no warning;
eval "sub name { ... }";
}
if the last stat that wrote to the stat buffer already went past
the symlink to get to the real file. Use an actual filename instead.
+=item This Perl can't reset CRTL eviron elements (%s)
+
+=item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s)
+
+(W) Warnings peculiar to VMS. You tried to change or delete an element
+of the CRTL's internal environ array, but your copy of Perl wasn't
+built with a CRTL that contained the setenv() function. You'll need to
+rebuild Perl with a CRTL that does, or redefine F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see
+L<perlvms>) so that the environ array isn't the target of the change to
+%ENV which produced the warning.
+
+=item This Perl can't reset CRTL eviron elements (%s)
+
+=item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s)
+
+(W) Warnings peculiar to VMS. You tried to change or delete an element
+of the CRTL's internal environ array, but your copy of Perl wasn't
+built with a CRTL that contained the setenv() function. You'll need to
+rebuild Perl with a CRTL that does, or redefine F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see
+L<perlvms>) so that the environ array isn't the target of the change to
+%ENV which produced the warning.
+
+=item This Perl can't reset CRTL eviron elements (%s)
+
+=item This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s)
+
+(W) Warnings peculiar to VMS. You tried to change or delete an element
+of the CRTL's internal environ array, but your copy of Perl wasn't
+built with a CRTL that contained the setenv() function. You'll need to
+rebuild Perl with a CRTL that does, or redefine F<PERL_ENV_TABLES> (see
+L<perlvms>) so that the environ array isn't the target of the change to
+%ENV which produced the warning.
+
=item times not implemented
(F) Your version of the C library apparently doesn't do times(). I suspect
(F) There are no byte-swapping functions for a machine with this byte order.
+=item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s
+
+(P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl was reading values for %ENV before
+iterating over it, and someone else stuck a message in the stream of
+data Perl expected. Someone's very confused, or perhaps trying to
+subvert Perl's population of %ENV for nefarious purposes.
+
+=item Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s
+
+(P) An error peculiar to VMS. Perl was reading values for %ENV before
+iterating over it, and someone else stuck a message in the stream of
+data Perl expected. Someone's very confused, or perhaps trying to
+subvert Perl's population of %ENV for nefarious purposes.
+
=item unmatched () in regexp
(F) Unbackslashed parentheses must always be balanced in regular
expressions. If you're a vi user, the % key is valuable for finding
the matching parenthesis. See L<perlre>.
-=item Unmatched right bracket
+=item Unmatched right %s bracket
-(F) The lexer counted more closing curly brackets (braces) than opening
-ones, so you're probably missing an opening bracket. As a general
-rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the place you were
-last editing.
+(F) The lexer counted more closing curly or square brackets than
+opening ones, so you're probably missing a matching opening bracket.
+As a general rule, you'll find the missing one (so to speak) near the
+place you were last editing.
=item unmatched [] in regexp
(W) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was
interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress this
-warning assign an initial value to your variables.
+warning assign a defined value to your variables.
=item Useless use of "re" pragma
probably not what you intended. When using these constructs in conditional
expressions, test their values with the C<defined> operator.
+=item Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long
+
+(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the value of an %ENV
+element from a CLI symbol table, and found a resultant string longer
+than 1024 characters. The return value has been truncated to 1024
+characters.
+
+=item Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long
+
+(W) A warning peculiar to VMS. Perl tried to read the value of an %ENV
+element from a CLI symbol table, and found a resultant string longer
+than 1024 characters. The return value has been truncated to 1024
+characters.
+
=item Variable "%s" is not imported%s
(F) While "use strict" in effect, you referred to a global variable
So put in parentheses to say what you really mean.
-=item Write on closed filehandle
+=item Write on closed filehandle %s
(W) The filehandle you're writing to got itself closed sometime before now.
Check your logic flow.