Intriguing. All these crash AS809 

perl -e"$c='A'x256; system $x;"
perl -e"$c='A'x256; `$x;`"
perl -e"$c='A'x256; qx[$x;]"

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with The instruction at '0x........' referenced memory at "0x41414141". The memory could not be written. Which makes look like an CRT or OS problem.

But then, if you replace the variable containing the 256 'A's with a constant string. perl -e"system 'AAA...AAA'" etc.

None of them crash, they just report 

'AAA...AAA' 
is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program
+ or batch file.

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Which would tend to indicate that the segfault is a perl (build) problem.

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In reply to Re: ActivePerl crasher by BrowserUk
in thread ActivePerl crasher by zude

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