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But if I try to substr that scalar with an offset > 2**31, it bellyaches about "substr outside of string"

Heh ... on the x64 build of ActivePerl (perl-5.10.1, build 1006): 
C:\>perl -we "print substr 'hello', (2 ** 32)+$_, 1 for 0..4"
hello

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Cheers,
Rob

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Re^4: PV limits on 64-bit perls?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 23, 2009 at 03:25 UTC

    You 'ad me goin' there for a sec :) A very neat demo of the problem!

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