Re: [FWP] beauty vs. brains

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:32:42PM +0000, Fergal Daly wrote:
> fergal@zeus:~> perl -e 'open(FILE, "conc");read(FILE, $file, 1e10);print $file'
> Negative length at -e line 1.
> 
> 
> and file conc is only 748 bytes. It looks like it tries to allocate a 
> buffer big enough before doing it,

Looks like it.  Here's something even more fun:

$ perl-devel -wle 'open(FILE, "/usr/share/dict/words");  read(FILE, $buf, 1e10) or die $!;  print $buf'
Out of memory during "large" request for -2147479552 bytes at -e line 1.

That's 5.6 RC1 compiled under Linux with 64 bit and large file support.

-- 

Michael G Schwern      http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/	   schwern@pobox.com
I'm successful because I'm lucky.   The harder I work, the luckier I get.

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