Re: I can crash perl

and "crashes" means (more precisely, please) what ?

blue screen of death
'puter hangs forever and ever, world without end
some crash, error or warning data (beyond what you (rightly: ++) included)
or,
in the words on a long-gone, less-then-revered penitent, "shat blue flames^*1"

... and, yes, this is a serious question, despite what's intended to be a humorous tone.

Update: ^*1 Monsignor MidLifeXis points out that "less than revered" might, depending on your reading, be less appropriate than "IT comedy gold ;-)" and gave me the link, My computer broked down after perl install, (which also reminds me that I misquoted the original by interpolating "blue" into the phrase.)

check Ln42!

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Re^2: I can crash perl by mark4 (Acolyte) on Mar 29, 2015 at 23:57 UTC
Crash means: I get a pop-up saying "Perl Command Line Interperter Has Stopped Working... Windows can check for an online solution... bla bla blah.." and the program freezes. When you close the pop-up the cmd prompt comes back. "How large is the data base"? Good question. The porgram (basically) recursavly tarverces a directory tree. and stores information about each file (and directory). For each file it stores: `@deleted_file ----- bit flag: 1 or 0 @uenc_file_name -- string, just filename.ext @dir_and_file_name- full path to file: like "c:\user\mark\adir\anotherdir\file.ext" @date_time_mod -- 32 bit number (or 64?) @file_size ------ 32 bit number (or 64?) @encpd ------------ bit flag: 1 or 0) @has_iden --------- bit flag: 1 or 0)` [download] For each directory it stors: `@deleted_file[$i] --- bit 1 or 0 uenc_path_file ------ string, Same lenghth as @the_dir @the_dir[$i] -------- String like c:\users\mark\adir\" @first_pointer[$i] -- Porinter to the above list for the location of the first file in this dir @last_pointer[$i] -- Pointer .... of the last file @has_subdir[$i] ---- bit 1 or 0 @has_iden[$i] ------ bit 1 or 0` [download] In this instance, the number of files (entries) in the array is: 1776655 The number of directories is: 2105 So OVER ESTIMATING say 256 bytes per entry. With 1,776,655 is 454,823,680. Then we have 2105 * 256 = 538,880 so that brings us to ~500 Megabyts. Now times 4 because I use 4 different variables to store the database in so GRAND TOTAL IS: 2GB. (Wow, conicedence? Is there a cut-off of 2GB virtual memory with Windows?) As I said, there is 48GB Installed. I don't know how efficent perl is at using memory?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: I can crash perl by Anonymous Monk on Mar 30, 2015 at 02:29 UTC
the blahblah parts can be informative, for example see these Perl Crash attempting to run Tcl code / depends.exe /c /f:1 /pb /ot:temp.txt ... ...\perl.exe ...\foo.pl ... Re^2: WMI query with Threads (Perl command line interpreter has stopped working due to Win32::OLE)	[reply]
Re^4: I can crash perl by mark4 (Acolyte) on Mar 30, 2015 at 12:53 UTC
The blah blah blah part is included in my original post: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: perl.exe Application Version: 5.8.8.820 Application Timestamp: 45b6a114 Fault Module Name: perl58.dll Fault Module Version: 5.8.8.820 Fault Module Timestamp: 45b6a113 Exception Code: c0000005 Exception Offset: 00085bc1 OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.274.10 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: f538 Additional Information 2: f538d60ae007f756c6454955fe93e7d0 Additional Information 3: 24d2 Additional Information 4: 24d2d8331230585cafa9b0f2f2190f63 Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our priv +acy statement offline: C:\windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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