From: Axel Beckert (beckertecos.de)
Date: Tue May 18 2004 - 04:03:40 CDT

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Hi!

Am Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:23:56PM +0200, Olivergreyhat.de schrieb:
> i played around with ActiveState's ActivePerl for Win32, and crashed
> Perl.exe with the following command:
>
> perl -e "$a="A" x 256; system($a)"
>
> I wonder if this bug isnt known?!? Because system() is a very common
> command....
> Can anybody reproduce this?

I can confirm this for Perl v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(Binary build 805 provided by ActiveState Corp.) on W2K.

My first thought was that the nested double-quotes maybe the reason,
but even

  perl -e "$a='A' x 256; system($a)"

crashes.

  perl -e "system('A'x256)"

chrashes also btw.

            Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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