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From:
rspier
Date:
July 27, 2000 06:49
Subject:
[ID 19990709.002] [DOCUMENTATION PATCH] perldiag
Message ID:
14720.15855.787664.424783@rls.cx

fixing old bugs....  

http://bugs.perl.org/admin/perlbug.cgi?req=tid&tid=19990709.002

for rationale.

-R

[against perl-current]
--- perldiag.pod.1      Thu Jul 27 09:43:43 2000
+++ perldiag.pod        Thu Jul 27 09:47:46 2000
@@ -261,9 +261,9 @@
 
 (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().


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