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#!perl
BEGIN {
chdir 't' if -d 't';
@INC = "../lib";
}
use strict;
require './test.pl';
use Config qw(%Config);
# memory usage checked with top
$ENV{PERL_TEST_MEMORY} >= 2
or skip_all("Need ~2GB for this test");
$Config{ptrsize} >= 8
or skip_all("Need 64-bit pointers for this test");
plan(tests => 4);
my $space = " "; # avoid constant folding from doubling memory usage
# concatenation here increases memory usage significantly
my $work = $space x 0x80000002;
substr($work, 0x80000000) = "\n\n";
# this would SEGV
is(index($work, "\n"), 0x80000000, "test index() over 2G mark");
# this would simply fail
is(rindex($work, "\n"), 0x80000001, "test rindex() over 2G mark");
utf8::upgrade($work);
# this would SEGV
is(index($work, "\n"), 0x80000000, "test index() over 2G mark (utf8-ish)");
# this would simply fail
is(rindex($work, "\n"), 0x80000001, "test rindex() over 2G mark (utf8-ish)");