On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:24:12AM -0000, Piotr Fusik wrote: > The "x" operator gives an unexpected result (i.e. null string) > with large right side operands. > > perl580 -le "print 1x1e8 ne '' ? 'ok' : 'not ok'" > ok > > perl580 -le "print 1x1e9 ne '' ? 'ok' : 'not ok'" > (crash)
I believe the issue is you're trying to allocate a string of 1 billion characters, consuming about a gig of memory, and simply running out. This falls under the "don't do that" category. > perl580 -le "print 1x1e10 ne '' ? 'ok' : 'not ok'" > not ok Though I can't explain why this doesn't crash, too. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Ahh email, my old friend. Do you know that revenge is a dish that is best served cold? And it is very cold on the Internet!
