Memory allocation problem with latest gawk

[Stanislav Ievlev]

Hello friends!

Latest gawk (3.1.2) have a problem with big files processing. Previous version
works well on my system , but new can't.

Instructions how to reproduce it you can find below:
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$ gawk --version|grep Awk
GNU Awk 3.1.2
$dd if=/dev/zero of=lll1 bs=1024 count=70
$cat lll1 |gawk '/.*/ {;}'
gawk: cmd. line:2: fatal: grow_iop_buffer: iop->buf: can't allocate 1073741826 
bytes of memory (Cannot allocate memory)


With previous version:
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gawk --version|grep Awk
GNU Awk 3.1.1
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=lll1 bs=1024 count=70
$ cat lll1 |gawk '/.*/ {;}'
(all works well)


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With best regards
Stanislav Ievlev

ALT Linux Team.