in reply to Reality checking a win32 perl bug

Confirmed on WinXP VanillaPerl 5.8.8. Prints the two lines then has the application error dialog box.

> perl -e "sub { @_ = 3; fork ? die 5 : die 6 }->()"
5 at -e line 1.
6 at -e line 1.

# App Error here #

> perl --version

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

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