Big strings => panic

• Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 11:53:04 PDT
• From:
  m.sanderson@student.anu.edu.au (Matthew Sanderson)
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It seems MOO server 1.7.8p4 panics when a string gets extremely long (I'm
not sure exactly how long, but I would guess LONG long).
Code something like:

foo = " ";
while(1)
  foo = foo + foo;
  $command_utils:suspend_if_needed(0);
endwhile

will panic the MOO.
I've seen this happen both on an HP 9000 and on a SPARCstation 20, both
running sysVr4.
I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.8.0. Spose I should have posted
this before now... <shrug>
For what it's worth...

Matthew Sanderson
m.sanderson@student.anu.edu.au
The Australian National University, Canberra.

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