[perl #116691] [BUG] Segmentation fault when string-repeating (infix:) ridiculously long strings in Rakudo

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Thu Apr 16 09:22:35 2015, FROGGS.de wrote:
> On MoarVM we get an error message instead:
> m: (1, 3, *x* ... 233)[1..4]
> rakudo-moar 67df04: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤repeat count > 1073741824
> arbitrarily unsupported...␤»

The JVM runs out of memory instead:

15:51 <[Coke]> r: (1, 3, *x* ... 233)[1..4]
15:51 <camelia> rakudo-moar a38b59: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤repeat count >
                1073741824 arbitrarily unsupported...␤»
15:51 <camelia> ..rakudo-jvm a38b59: OUTPUT«java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java
                heap space␤  in block <unit> at /tmp/tmpfile:1␤␤»

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Will "Coke" Coleda