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=item C<malformed integer data at %s>

Your data contained something that was supposed to be an integer but didn't
make sense.

=item C<dict key not in sort order at %s>

Your data violates the I<bencode> format constaint that dict keys must appear
in lexical sort order.

=item C<duplicate dict key at %s>

Your data violates the I<bencode> format constaint that all dict keys must be
unique.

=item C<dict key is not a string at %s>

Your data violates the I<bencode> format constaint that all dict keys be
strings.

=item C<dict key is missing value at %s>

Your data contains a dictionary with an odd number of elements.

=item C<nesting depth exceeded at %s>

Your data contains dicts or lists that are nested deeper than the $max_depth
passed to C<bdecode()>.

=item C<unhandled data type>

You are trying to serialise a data structure that consists of data types other
than

=over

=item *

scalars

=item *

references to arrays

=item *

references to hashes

=item *

references to scalars

=back

The format does not support this.

=back

=head1 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Strings and numbers are practically indistinguishable in Perl, so C<bencode()>
has to resort to a heuristic to decide how to serialise a scalar. This cannot
be fixed.

=head1 AUTHOR

Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Aristotle Pagaltzis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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