RE (tilly) 2 (you got it!): Core Dumping with Arrays

You are right! Here is a patch:

--- /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/Data/Dumper.pm Fri May 28 18:34:02 19
+99
+++ Dumper.pm   Fri Sep  8 19:55:37 2000
@@ -204,7 +204,9 @@
 # and recurse, of course.
 #
 sub _dump {
-  my($s, $val, $name) = @_;
+  my $s = shift;
+  my $val = shift;
+  my $name = shift;
   my($sname);
   my($out, $realpack, $realtype, $type, $ipad, $id, $blesspad);
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In Perl 5.6.0 the code was not patched, instead they made this line work properly. Does anyone know the exact bug that is being tripped across here?

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RE: RE (tilly) 2 (you got it!): Core Dumping with Arrays by runrig (Abbot) on Sep 12, 2000 at 00:58 UTC
I not sure if it has anything to do with it, but there is a bug where if perl tries to create an array of a certain range of very large sizes, it core dumps instead of a nice 'Out of memory' error. You can search p5p for 'pseudohash' because at first I thought it had to do with pseudo hash arrays, but later found it could happen with any array.	[reply]