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[PATCH] cut: use only one data strucutre

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Message #20 received at 13127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Alexandru Cojocaru" <xojoc <at> gmx.com>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 13127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13127: [PATCH] cut: use only one data strucutre
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:52:35 +0200

Hi,
sorry for the delay.

From: Pádraig Brady
> Sent: 04/26/13 04:07 PM
> To: xojoc <at> gmx.com
> Subject: Re: bug#13127: [PATCH] cut: use only one data strucutre

> The rebase wasn't trivial so I might have messed up.
Hum, I had problems only with `cut.pl'.

> The cut.pl test is now failing on master. Could you have a look.
I had no problems. Could you show me your output?

> Also could you add a test (or just a bit of shell) to demonstrate
> which options the memory is not allocated for example.
> Ideally some pathological option combo that no longer
> allocates huge amounts of RAM.
$ echo a | cut -b1-$(echo '2^32-1'|bc)
cut: memory exhausted

Could you please write the test? It seems that I should use $limits
but I don't know how exactly :-). Thanks.

> thanks,
> Pádraig.

Best regards,
Cojocaru Alexandru

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