Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx hangs II: the return

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Paul B. Mahol wrote:

> Trying to view this message inside lynx
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2007-08/msg00000.html
>
> lynx "hangs" - actually starts using >1GB of memory (pointless)
>
> I remember that vieweing it before have different results. So what
> could trigger this behavior. This have something to do with tables.
>
> At least I need to know is this lynx problem, gcc bug, ncurses bug or
> something else.

I'd assume "lynx".  However, I'm not seeing a problem in a quick check -
lynx rapidly displays the page (using dev.8 which I compiled, or dev.7 
from Debian/testing).  valgrind indicates that it allocated about 4Mb.

> tested with lynx dev7 and dev8 (but I remember that dev7 was OK) And
> recent changes have nothing to do with this.
>
> So please test it with your lynx version(s) and if problem arise send
> full lynx version, gcc used to build it, ncurses version, libc
> implementation ...
>
> Lynx Version 2.8.7dev.8 (17 Feb 2008)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e, ncurses 5.6.20080209
> Built on freebsd8.0 Feb 18 2008 23:51:20
>
> Lynx Version 2.8.7dev.7 (02 Aug 2007)
> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e, ncurses 5.6.20080209
> Built on freebsd7.0 Sep 25 2007 14:00:16
>
> gcc version 4.2.1 20070719
>
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