[perl #77170] 'maximum recursion depth exceeded' comes with complete stack trace

[Father Chrysostomos via RT]

On Tue Aug 17 21:46:38 2010, coke wrote:
> Here's a simple program if you're lazy and want to cut and paste
> something to test:
> 
> 
> 
> sub recursion($a) {
>   recursion($a)
> }
> 
> recursion("see also");
> 

That example (with the bad prototype stripped) just gives me:

perl(5674) malloc: *** mmap(size=1541115904) failed (error code=12)
*** error: can't allocate region
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
Out of memory!

in 5.10.1.

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Father Chrysostomos