Update pod for Perl_form() and kin

This fixes GH Perl#22170, and includes several corrections.

pod/perldelta.pod

@@ -176,6 +176,22 @@ XXX Description of the change here
 
 =back
 
+=head3 L<perlapi/form>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Corrected the documentation for C<Perl_form>, C<form_nocontext>, and
+C<vform>, which claimed that any later call to one of them will destroy
+the previous returns from any.  This hasn't been true since 5.6.0,
+except it does remain true if these are called during global
+destruction.  With that caveat, the return of each of these is a fresh
+string in a temporary that will automatically be freed by a call to
+L<perlapi/C<FREETMPS>> or at at places such as statement boundaries.
+
+=back
+
 =head1 Diagnostics
 
 The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,

util.c

@@ -1419,22 +1419,29 @@ Perl_form_nocontext(const char* pat, ...)
 These take a sprintf-style format pattern and conventional
 (non-SV) arguments and return the formatted string.
 
-    (char *) Perl_form(pTHX_ const char* pat, ...)
+    (char *) Perl_form(aTHX_ const char* pat, ...)
 
-can be used any place a string (char *) is required:
+They can be used any place a string (char *) is required:
 
-    char * s = Perl_form("%d.%d",major,minor);
+    char * s = form_nocontext("%d.%d", major, minor);
 
-They use a single (per-thread) private buffer so if you want to format several
-strings you must explicitly copy the earlier strings away (and free the copies
-when you are done).
+They each return a temporary that will be freed "soon", automatically by the
+system, at the same time that SVs operated on by C<L</sv_2mortal>> are freed.
+
+Use the result immediately, or copy to a stable place for longer retention.
+This is contrary to the incorrect previous documentation of these that claimed
+that the return was a single per-thread buffer.  That was (and is) actually
+true only when these are called during global destruction.
 
 The two forms differ only in that C<form_nocontext> does not take a thread
 context (C<aTHX>) parameter, so is used in situations where the caller doesn't
 already have the thread context.
 
+C<L</vform>> is the same except the arguments are an encapsulated argument list.
+
 =for apidoc vform
-Like C<L</form>> but but the arguments are an encapsulated argument list.
+
+Like C<L</form>> except the arguments are an encapsulated argument list.
 
 =cut
 */