[BusyBox 0000663]: awk has a limitation of 32767 chars, "memory exhaustion"

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The following issue has been CLOSED 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=663 
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Reported By:                Kent_Sandvik
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   663
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     closed
Resolution:                 open
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             01-27-2006 14:12 PST
Last Modified:              02-14-2006 08:08 PST
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Summary:                    awk has a limitation of 32767  chars, "memory
exhaustion"
Description: 
If you run busybox awk with a file bigger than 32767 chars, i.e.

$ awk -f bigFile.awk
you get
awk: memory exhausted

after a while.


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---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 landley - 02-14-06 08:08  
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The awk maintainer (Dmitry Zakharov) couldn't reproduce this one.  He
tweaked the allocation code to do one big malloc on seekable files rather
than multiple reallocs, which might help, but he thinks it's your
platform. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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01-27-06 14:12  Kent_Sandvik   New Issue                                    
01-27-06 14:12  Kent_Sandvik   Status                   new => assigned     
01-27-06 14:12  Kent_Sandvik   Assigned To               => BusyBox         
02-14-06 08:08  landley        Status                   assigned => closed  
02-14-06 08:08  landley        Note Added: 0001098                          
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