out of memmory error? about perl5 HOT 3 CLOSED

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# perl -v

This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for i386-linux
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-1998, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the
Internet, point your browser at http​://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.

# perl -e ' for $a(aaaaaaaa..zzzzzzzz){for $b(AAAAAAAA..ZZZZZZZZ){for $c($a..$b){print "$c \n";}}}'
Out of memory!

It's not clear to me why this should take so much memmory ...

This does work btw on a dual 266mhz pentium system with 256meg ram, slackware, a 2.0.36 kernel and perl version 5.005_02
built for i586-linux5.002.

--Ray

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

fixed in 5.00503

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From The RT System itself

fixed in 5.00503

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