Re: Memory allocation problem with latest gawk

[Stanislav Ievlev]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 03:54:20PM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> I can't reproduce this under RH Linux 8.0. What system and
> compiler are you using?

I'm using system (ALT Linux Sisyphus) _with memory limits_ for processes.
Compiller gcc-3.2.1.

I'm sure you need more big file to reproduce it.

Try like this(or create 100M file):
 
gawk '/.*/ {;}' /dev/zero

New version eats more memory instead old (memory leak?). It's very bad.

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With best regards
Stanislav Ievlev