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

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Fri Jan 27 22:12:14 UTC 2006


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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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:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             01-27-2006 14:12 PST
Last Modified:              01-27-2006 14:12 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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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         
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