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

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