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().Thread Next