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: 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...) -- C. Harald Koch VE3TLA Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada chk%alias@csri.utoronto.ca chk@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu chk@chk.mef.org "Open the Zamboni! We're coming out!" - Kathrin Garland and Anson James, 2299