On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:31:11AM -0700, Nicholas Clark wrote: > (gdb) up > #1 0x00065390 in Perl_sv_catpvn_flags (my_perl=0x800200, dsv=0x815060, > sstr=0x409870 "\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x15", > slen=4235230, flags=2) at sv.c:4723 > 4723 Move(sstr, SvPVX(dsv) + dlen, slen, char); > (gdb) p sstr > $1 = 0x409870 "\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x55\\x15" > (gdb) p slen > $2 = 4235230 > > I suspect that this "length" has something to do with the "out of memory" on > FreeBSD. I've no idea what the pattern in the memory pointed to by sstr > represents.
The pattern is the bits for which warning categories are set, or WARN_ALLstring. The length should be WARNsize (12). -- Rick Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
