IO - On Win32, huge strings printed by Parrot do not appear in the console output.

[Util]

On r39029, the following PASM code should print a multi-line string of 1MB total length, followed by the numerical value of 1MB (1048576).

set    I1, 16384   # fails when >= 832
repeat S0, "0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDEF0123456789ABCDE\n", I1
print  S0

length I0, S0
say    I0

end

When run in a command prompt window on Win32, the long string does not appear. Instead, only the length prints. Redirecting to a file causes all the output to show up correctly. Running the test on non-Win32 also causes all the output to show up correctly.

NotFound found that a call to the Win32 API "WriteFile" was failing with errorcode 8 [ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY].

In src/io/win32.c, sub Parrot_io_write_win32 calls WriteFile(), and fails silently on error. It is marked with FIXME. Fixing this will keep the failure from being silent, but will not resolve the failure by itself.

[NotFound]

Attempt to fix this failure commited in r39181. The FIXME still wants to ge fixed, though.

[whiteknight]

I just did a test on Windows, and this bug appears to be resolved. I am closing this ticket. If somebody else is seeing a problem on this platform or other platforms we can open a new ticket.