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fun with JS arrays
var a = [];
a[Math.pow(2, 32) - 2] = "max index"; // highest non-expando indexed property
console.log(a.length === Math.pow(2, 32) - 1); // true
try {
a.push("whoa", "EVEN MOAR WHOA");
} catch (e) {
console.log(e instanceof RangeError); // true
}
console.log(a.length === Math.pow(2, 32) - 1); // true
console.log(a[Math.pow(2, 32) - 1] === "whoa"); // true
console.log(a[Math.pow(2, 32)] === "EVEN MOAR WHOA"); // true
@erikcorry
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It's an out of memory error. The attempt to format the exception string means you call 'toString' on the array, but the string representation is around 2 billion commas which isn't going to work. I filed http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2431 for you

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As for the initial comment, see https://bugs.ecmascript.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131

@floriancargoet
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@erikcorry Thank you for the bug report, I should have done that immediately.

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