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Similar to your second one... 

$ echo -e 'foo\n' | perl -e'print sort{*a=$b,0} <>'
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0812dcdc ***
Aborted

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Re^2: How to kill perl?
by ioannis (Abbot) on Nov 07, 2005 at 02:54 UTC
    I could claim that gnu malloc(3) was able to prevent the segfault. Here it is choosing a graceful abort to the crash. 
    $ export MALLOC_CHECK_=2
$ perl -e 'print sort{*a=$b,0} <>'
a
b
Aborted

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