Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!alias!chk
From: chk@alias.UUCP (C. Harald Koch)
Subject: Re: problem with "out of memory" in perl debugger
Message-ID: <edirks.661014169@dino>
Keywords: perl, debugger, bug, out of memory
Sender: news@alias.uucp (USENET News)
Organization: Alias Research, Inc. Toronto ON Canada
References: <40012@genrad.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 15:02:49 GMT

In <40012@genrad.UUCP> rep@genrad.com (Pete Peterson) writes:

>On the sun3, things the following fail when you try to step into the
>"while" loop:

>Actually, any "while" or equivalent "for" seems to do the same thing; it
>doesn't seem to relate to array references

>Note that the programs work fine when not running under the debugger.

>Has anybody seen and fixed this problem?

I have seen it on SGI 4D series machines (mips processor) running IRIX3.3,
and I have seen it fail intermittently on IBM RS/6000 machines running the
latest version of their UNIX. I haven't tracked down a cause yet (busy
tracking down a bizarre fileio/regexp bug...)

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