From 34e90fc7792cf54d0e1eab630a340d8ddb1f8310 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 14:07:03 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] perlrun: document the exit status for the -c option

Fixes #21686
---
 pod/perlrun.pod | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
index 3b8ab535ef73..1a553f966777 100644
--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -355,6 +355,10 @@ or C<CHECK> blocks and any C<use> statements: these are considered as
 occurring outside the execution of your program.  C<INIT> and C<END>
 blocks, however, will be skipped.
 
+If the syntax check is successful perl will exit with a status of zero
+and report C<I<yourprogram> syntax OK>.  On failure perl will print
+any detected errors and exit with a non-zero status.
+
 =item B<-d>
 X<-d> X<-dt>