I'm not sure if this is closable. The regression is no longer there, so I'll remove the tag, but here's a problem:
Code: say (4,5,6).tail(-2**63+4) Result: () Code: say (4,5,6,7).tail(-2**63+4) Result: Cannot unbox 64 bit wide bigint into native integer in block <unit> at -e line 1 It feels like something is wrong? I am not sure. On 2017-07-22 12:44:53, elizabeth wrote: > I’m inclined to WONTFIX, as other, much more common, indexing > operation suffer from the same issue: > > $ 6 'my @a; say @a[9999999999999999999]' > Cannot unbox 64 bit wide bigint into native integer > > $ 6 'my @a[9999999999999999999]' > Illegal dimension in shape: 9999999999999999999. All dimensions must > be integers bigger than 0 > > etc etc etc. > > > On 7 Dec 2016, at 01:37, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev (via RT) > > <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > > > > # New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev > > # Please include the string: [perl #130285] > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130285 > > > > > > > Code: > > say (4,5,6).tail(-9999999999999999999) > > > > Result HEAD: > > MoarVM panic: Memory allocation failed; could not allocate > > 12233720368547758088 bytes > > > > Result (2016.09): > > () > > > > > > Code: > > say (4,5,6).head(-9999999999999999999) > > > > Result HEAD: > > (4 5 6) > > > > Result (2016.09): > > () > > > > > > Bisectable points to these commits: > > * > > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/a3406cba841cd9ecdd3bda49b9a415381615961c > > * > > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/6996512e3c994fafa2d34e8c5c9bf9d25f0a0810
