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

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0000663

[BusyBox] Other

major

always

01-27-06 14:12

02-14-06 08:08

Reporter

Kent_Sandvik

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public

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BusyBox

Priority

normal

Resolution

unable to reproduce

Status

closed

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svn

Summary

0000663: 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.

Additional Information

Could this limitation of string indexing be increased to a bigger value?

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Notes
(0001098) landley 02-14-06 08:08	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.