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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> 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.

That is, it doesn't appear in the default configuration.  If you turn off
color-style, there's some problem.

(Some of the table-rendering logic is intertwined with the color-style 
code)

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