Re: lynx-dev Lynx 2.8.3.dev8: CPU problems connecting to a site

[T.E.Dickey]

> It is nothing very mysterious (no need to assume anything is wrong with 
> malloc).   From Tom's CHANGES 
>  
>       Add configure option --with-charsets to specify list 
>       of charsets which are not suppressed 
>  
> Apparently, the way that lynx was compiled, "windows-1252" is not a 
> directly known charset.  In previous code version, it always[*] was 
> (unless one tweaked UCdomap and/or .tbl files by hand). 

sorry - I didn't consider the problem of runaway recursion, but had in mind
that there would be a lot of potentially dead code to prune away (ifdef'd).

The with-charsets option is intended to address the concerns of some people
about the runtime size of lynx as well as to get a handle on what it would
take to provide runtime-loadable charsets.
  
>   Klaus 

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