in reply to Out of memory! without system errors

As BrowserUk says, the message you’re getting is a Perl runtime error. To confirm this for yourself, use the block form of eval:

13:38 >perl -Mstrict -wE "eval { my $s = '*' x 1e12; say $s; }; warn q
+q[\nPerl runtime error: $@] if $@;"

Perl runtime error: Out of memory during string extend at -e line 1.

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Hope that helps,

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Re^2: Out of memory! without system errors
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 05, 2013 at 08:09 UTC
    :) I can't actually trigger that error with that code on my win32 perl ... and its an old machine with 500mb
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      I bet you're running a pre-5.10 version of Perl.

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