[perl #21585] perl -e '$x[2**30]=1' dumps core

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This is a bug report for perl from dt@vosat.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0.


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	danielt@knast:~> perl -e '$x[2**29]=1'                
	Out of memory!
	zsh: exit 1     perl -e '$x[2**29]=1'

This error is expected.

	danielt@knast:~> perl -e '$x[2**30]=1'
	zsh: bus error (core dumped)  perl -e '$x[2**30]=1'

But this isn't.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.0:

Configured by danielt at Mon Mar 10 00:25:29 CET 2003.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.7-release-p2, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd knast 4.7-release-p2 freebsd 4.7-release-p2 #2: fri nov 15 10:24:08 cet 2002 knarf@knast:usrsrcsyscompileklagenfurt i386 '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/home/danielt/src/perl-5.8.0/test -Dcc=/home/danielt/unix/egcs/bin/gcc'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='/home/danielt/unix/egcs/bin/gcc', ccflags ='-DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)', gccosandvers='freebsdelf4.7'
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared  -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.0:
    /home/danielt/unix/perl/i386-freebsd
    /home/danielt/unix/perl
    /home/danielt/unix/perl/i386-freebsd
    /home/danielt/unix/perl58/lib/5.8.0/i386-freebsd
    /home/danielt/unix/perl58/lib/5.8.0
    /home/danielt/unix/perl58/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-freebsd
    /home/danielt/unix/perl58/lib/site_perl/5.8.0
    /home/danielt/unix/perl58/lib/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.0:
    HOME=/home/danielt
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO_8859-1
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/danielt/unix/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/danielt/unix/perl:/home/danielt/unix/perl/i386-freebsd
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/usr/local/bin/zsh

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