"new ['FixedStringArray'], -5" core dumps

[dukeleto]

parrot_shell 4> $P0 = new ['FixedStringArray'], -5
.
sh: line 1:  9679 Quit                    ./parrot /var/folders/B3/B3qJ-edQFWKuziEWXxoYbU+++TI/-Tmp-/k5AekXs1Fr > /var/folders/B3/B3qJ-edQFWKuziEWXxoYbU+++TI/-Tmp-/LozzrEQEY6 2>&1
Error: child exited with value 131
Time: 0.264151 wallclock secs 
Output:
Failed allocation of 4294967276 bytes
Parrot VM: PANIC: Out of mem!
C file src/gc/gc_ms.c, line 1163
Parrot file (not available), line (not available)

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Version     : 2.1.0-devel
Configured  : Thu Mar 11 07:29:49 2010 GMT
Architecture: ppc-darwin
JIT Capable : No
Interp Flags: (no interpreter)
Exceptions  : (missing from core)

Dumping Core...

[dukeleto]

This was fixed by chromatic++ in r44872. Adding tests shortly.

[dukeleto]

I added the same guards for all the other fixed array PMC's in r44877 as well as tests for all of them.