Re: "Select All" Memory Bug?

[David Mitchell <mitchell ucar edu>]

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 09:54, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:07:30PM -0700, David Mitchell wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've encountered what certainly seems to be a bug in Gnumeric. It's
> > reproducible under v1.0.5/RedHat7.3 and v1.0.8/Gentoo, and quite simple.
> > Choosing "Select All" and then "Copy" causes Gnumeric to begin
> > allocating memory until it crashes. My record is about 1.2GB of memory
> > allocated via this simple exercise before my swap partition filled up.
> > Is this a known bug? I've searched via google and in the list archives
> > and didn't find any mention of it. Thanks in advance,
>
> I can't replicate that.
> Do you have some content in the spreadsheet ?

It seems to happen whether or not I have anything in the spreadsheet. I
first noticed it when trying to copy a whole worksheet out of an
existing spreadsheet. However, I can easily reproduce it in the new
blank worksheet which is created when Gnumeric first starts up. Perhaps
it has to do with the fact that I'm running KDE? Since this happens to
me 100% of the time on two different versions of Gnumeric on two
different distributions, I figured it would be easy to replicate.

I'm not well versed in X11 clipboard protocols, but is it possible my
running KDE exercises a different code path when I select "Copy"? On the
RedHat machine I'm running KDE 3.0.0-10 and on the Gentoo box I'm
running 3.0.4. Are there any debugging flags I could set on Gnumeric to
get some useful output for tracking this down?


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