Parrot dumps core when attempting to create a FixedPMCArray with negative length

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This code:

.sub main
    new $P0, ['FixedPMCArray']     
    set $P0, -1
.end

Failed allocation of 4294967292 bytes
Parrot VM: PANIC: Out of mem!
C file src/gc/alloc_memory.c, line 61
Parrot file (not available), line (not available)

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Version     : 1.5.0-devel
Configured  : Mon Sep  7 20:01:36 2009 GMT
Architecture: nojit
JIT Capable : No
Interp Flags: (no interpreter)
Exceptions  : (missing from core)

Dumping Core...