On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:57 PM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
> cc:  [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Large typeset -L value makes ast-ksh.20120229+patches crash
> --------
>
>> ksh -c 'compound c ; typeset -a -L7000000 c.al=( 2 3 4 ) ; print -v c'
>
>
> The largest size permittd for L, R, and Z is 32K.  I will add an error
> message so that it doesn't core dump.

OK, this brings back the fond memories of Amiga REXX with it's 32k
string limit :)

Seriously, could we not have such a limit, please? Or use at least
64k on 32bit platforms and 4G on 64bit platforms? Thanks.

Irek
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