On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:19 AM, I. Szczesniak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Sigh. The 32k limit is there. Well, all hail REXX from 1984 :) Irek _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
