We perhaps ought to make the list allocator less inclined to panic() on a failed allocation of the main array, but that's a more disruptive change. (Added an arbitrary limit instead: [lrepeat] won't try to allocate more than 2GB on 32-bit machines now.)
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We perhaps ought to make the list allocator less inclined to panic() on a failed allocation of the main array, but that's a more disruptive change. (Added an arbitrary limit instead: [lrepeat] won't try to allocate more than 2GB on 32-bit machines now.)