GNU bug report logs - #16662
Libtool execute mode is DOSing my system

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Package: libtool;

Reported by: Nick Bowler <nbowler <at> draconx.ca>

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 02:08:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Peter Rosin <peda <at> lysator.liu.se>
To: bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16662: Libtool execute mode is DOSing my system
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:30:54 +0100

On 2014-02-06 03:06, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was surprised to discover that in one of my test cases, running the
> program via libtool --mode=execute is consuming huge amounts of memory,
> apparently because of a runaway sed program it runs on my program's
> input files.  This is a problem because these input files are not plain
> text files, are several gigabytes in size and GNU sed balloons out to
> consume all available memory.

Dup of bug#13472, please see

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13472

Cheers,
Peter
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