Reading a file eats whole memory

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Emil Wojak wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Could someone please explain why this code tries to eat my 1 GB memory 
> and gets killed by the kernel afterwards? Eventually it prints "Error: 
> Out of memory" when I set ulimit on memory prior to launching the program.
> 
> The code:
> import std.stream;
> 
> int main(char [][] args) {
>     Stream input=new File(args[0]);
> 
>     char[] data;
>     input.read(data);
>     input.close();
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> My intention was to read the executable itself, which is about 444 kB.
> I'm running Linux, compiling with Digital Mars D Compiler v1.022

You are trying to read a string in, so I guess the routine is using the 
1st four bytes as a string length count. That's how tango works anyway IIRC.

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