Dear monks,
I wrote a recursive program but as it turned out, the program will potentially be using quite a lot of data. Thus the tendancy to go too deep in recursion loop and run out of memory.
So, I used the simple work around of using goto &func_name; It worked quite well until I ran an actual load test. The program ran out of memory.
After some tests, I managed to pin point the error to following. In the process I found a work around to the problem. But I can't figure out what's happening here. It looks like a memory leak in Perl to me.

Program that crashes:
=====================

use strict; 
test1();

sub test1 {
    my $v=0;
    if ($v = get_true()) {
        goto &test1;
    }
}

sub get_true {
    return 1;
}
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Program that does NOT crash:
=====================

use strict; 
test1();

sub test1 {
    my $v=0;
    $v = get_true();
    if ($v) {
        goto &test1;
    }
}

sub get_true {
    return 1;
}
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The proglem lies in the 'if' with assigment statement. As I have solved the problem, it's not urgent. But I am very much interested to know what's going on here.
Thanks,
Thushan

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