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Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:21:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Bug identified [was RE: perl - segfault on "free unused scalar"]
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> At least we figured that perl crashes when it uses more than 384 MB RAM,
> similar C programs don't crash.

The fact that perl crashes is, IMO, a perl bug, which still needs to be
fixed.  Perl shouldn't *crash* (i.e., segfault).  It could report an out
of memory error and die gracefully, though.

> This could be fixed with setting the heap size in te registry to a
> suitable maximum.

No, it could be *worked around* by setting the heap size in the registry
to a suitable maximum.
	Igor
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