Subject: Re: perl cygwin weird thing ..
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:16:22 -0800

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:53:16AM +0800, pokley <[email-masked]> wrote:
> im using latest cygwin 1.5.6 on windows 2000 server ia32.
> doing
> $ perl -e 'print "a" x 0xffffffff' will display weird result
> 
> perl will core dump when parsing file contain
> printf "%s",'a' x 0xffffffff;
> 
> does anybody got the same problem ?

This is a bug in perl.  It's taking the (size_t) length of the string
(1) times the (long long) repeat count (2**32-1), adding 1, and
casting it to a size_t, resulting in 0, thus bypassing realloc'ing the
string buffer for the result of the x.  Then it gleefully tromps all
over other things in memory.

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