Indeed, the common discovery mode for an impossibly 
    large buffer error is that your program seems to be 
    working fine, and then it tries to display a string 
    that should say “Hello world,” but instead it prints 
    “#a[5]:3!” or another syntactically correct Perl 
    script, and you’re like WHAT THE HOW THE, and then 
    you realize that your prodigal memory accesses have 
    been stomping around the heap like the Incredible Hulk 
    when asked to write an essay entitled “Smashing 
    Considered Harmful.”