JuliaLang/julia — pull request #8241 by danluu (2014-09-05 01:20:58+00:00)
Title: Fix hangs and segfaults when egregiously long symbol is used

Julia hangs when I have a program with a symbol of length 2**19. It then segfaults when I ^C. Longer symbols segfault immediately. Oddly, a symbol of length 2**19 causes julia to segfault immediately when I run it under gdb.

This causes an julia to error out instead hanging or segfaulting.