in reply to Re: (Golf) Segfault Perl
in thread (Golf) Segfault Perl

perl -e'$^M=1;$x[1<<30]=2'

Segfaults without setting $^M too.

#2345678901 $x[1<<30]=2

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Re: Re: Re: (Golf) Segfault Perl
by japhy (Canon) on Apr 05, 2002 at 14:52 UTC
    Shave another byte: $x[~0/2]=1

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      Interesting:
        
      . . (root@tiger:~)$ perl -e'$x[2147483645]++' Out of memory! (root@tiger:~)$ perl -e'$x[2147483646]++' Out of memory! (root@tiger:~)$ perl -e'$x[2147483647]++' Segmentation fault (root@tiger:~)$ perl -e'$x[2147483648]++' Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -214748 +3648 at -e line 1. (root@tiger:~)$ perl -e'$x[2147483649]++' Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -214748 +3647 at -e line 1. . .
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