in reply to Re^4: Out of memory! without system errors
in thread Out of memory! without system errors

Ah! 32-bit. Get the 64-bit version and you'll get the message:

C:\test>perl -we"print $]; $x = chr(0); $x x= $ARGV[0]" 1e12
Out of memory!
5.010001

C:\test>\Perl64-16\bin\perl -we"print $]; $x = chr(0); $x x= $ARGV[0]"
+ 1e12
Out of memory!
5.016001

C:\test>\Perl5.18\bin\perl -we"print $]; $x = chr(0); $x x= $ARGV[0]" 
+1e12
Out of memory!
5.018001

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