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>Number:         25707
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       dc & memory leak?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 11 09:10:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stefan `Sec` Zehl
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3

Copyright 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
to the extent permitted by law.

	
>Description:

dc eats memory like hell in a recursion. Other dc's (like solaris and
irix dc) don't do this
>How-To-Repeat:

echo '[ p lb 2 + d sb + lax]sa 1sb 1 lax'|dc

This soon exhausts grows to > 60Mb, and then core dumps.

	
>Fix:

None known
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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