I cannot find an old discussion about the misterious $^M special variable but I found this:


$^M

By default, running out of memory is an untrappable, fatal error. 

However, if suitably built, Perl can use the contents of $^M as an eme
+rgency memory pool after die()ing.

 Suppose that your Perl were compiled with -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK and u
+sed Perl's malloc. 

Then

    $^M = 'a' x (1 << 16);

would allocate a 64K buffer for use in an emergency.
See the INSTALL file in the Perl distribution for information on how t
+o add custom C compilation flags when compiling perl.

To discourage casual use of this advanced feature, there is no English
+ long name for this variable.

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ah ok is this: 287850

Hope some sage can tell how to use this!!
HTH Lor*

In reply to Re: How to capture out of memory excpetion in perl? by Discipulus
in thread How to capture out of memory excpetion in perl? by mihirjha

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