Finally found (at least one) reason of perl.exe hang under Windows.

Try out following tests separately:
1) print STDERR "aaa"; # Works
2) print STDERR "a"x10000; # Hangs Perl.exe
3) print STDERR "a"x4096; # Works
4) print STDERR "a"x4097; # Hangs Perl.exe

This means that there was some buffering problem.

In ActiveState Perl v5.6.1 build 633, this causes perl.exe hang.
I asked somebody to try these tests under build 635 and reported it works.
So if the info is correct, installing latest perl version is the solution.

Paul, what's your exact perl version (build)?
Could you try out a newer one?

Best regards,
Webmaster33

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