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(absvector <huge>) OOM-aborts the process instead of a catchable error (no size cap) #4

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Summary

(absvector <huge>) is not size-capped in the interpreter path, so an absurd size triggers an out-of-memory process abort (SIGKILL) instead of a catchable Shen error. This is the shen-rust analogue of pyrex41/shen-cl#3; shen-go already caps.

Repro

(absvector 100000000000)   # tries to allocate ~100 billion slots -> OOM / SIGKILL

Observed vs expected

How it was found

The port-authored reader_fuzz::corpus_never_panics test includes (absvector 100000000000). It passes under cargo test --release (optimized) but the debug cargo test --workspace CI gate (Gate 3) was OOM-killed on it — surfacing the missing cap.

Fix

Cap absvector at 2^24 slots (~800× the largest vector the kernel itself allocates) and raise a catchable error above it, mirroring shen-go and shen-cl#3.

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