Re: odd awk memory leak?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> (On 5.2, it blows past its soft datasize limit and just keeps on
>> growing, whereas on 4.0.1 it fails with an out-of-memory error when
>> it hits its datasize limit.)
> That's an effect of the changed malloc implementation that no longer
> takes memory from the 'data segment'.

That strikes me as a bit of a bug, or at least a regression, if the
data size limit is no longer an effective way to bound the memory used
by a naïve program that just malloc()s.

But, at least, it explains the behaviour.

>> So, I'm tentatively considering this a bug in awk.
> The memory leak seems to be in gensub().

Ah!  Thank you very much; that's a substantial narrowing-down.  I'll go
a-chasing.

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