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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-02-16 12:14:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2019-02-16 12:15:33 -0700 |
| commit | 2cbd034e1cb70cf9cb1ae2a83967a24dd90ecc53 (patch) | |
| tree | b1a485bd28da41c4f4a5575d5045c45903f889a9 | |
| parent | f966a6e60c5062904734d261eea96ba070f47fdb (diff) | |
| download | perl-2cbd034e1cb70cf9cb1ae2a83967a24dd90ecc53.tar.gz | |
perldelta: perldelta for previous commit
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 346d917faf..2ef4f09a15 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -279,7 +279,10 @@ well. =item * -XXX +It is now forbidden to malloc more than C<PTRDIFF_T_MAX> bytes. Much +code (including C optimizers) assumes that all data structures will not +be larger than this, so this catches such attempts before overflow +happens. =back |