Force Perl Executable to Crash

WAmaro has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I need to do some special case error checking.

In Perl 5.8 I can use the following to cause the perl executable to crash perl -e"$x = 'x' x 1e11" (Thanks BrowserUK).

I need to force a crash of a 5.6 perl executable, however, the above command doesn't seem to do it.

Anyone have a command that will cause a 5.6 perl executable to crash? Not the script to fail, but the actual perl executable

Thanks in advance for your help

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Re: Force Perl Executable to Crash by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 06, 2006 at 22:09 UTC
This should probably work for 5.6? `perl -edump` [download] If not, take a look at How to kill perl?, something there should. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Force Perl Executable to Crash by WAmaro (Acolyte) on Dec 06, 2006 at 22:19 UTC
Thanks for the pointer.. perl -e dump didn't but perl -e "()= sort {a=b, 1} 2,3" did	[reply]
Re^3: Force Perl Executable to Crash by geekphilosopher (Friar) on Dec 07, 2006 at 01:11 UTC
perl -e dump works for me in 5.6 - what kind of output are you looking for?	[reply]
Re^4: Force Perl Executable to Crash by WAmaro (Acolyte) on Dec 07, 2006 at 15:43 UTC
Re^5: Force Perl Executable to Crash by BUU (Prior) on Dec 07, 2006 at 20:23 UTC


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