dmd thrashes fedora

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/10/2012 08:38 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>
> when I run
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> dmd -gc -oftopo topo.d multi_index.d replace.d
>
> on the contents of
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> http://personal.utulsa.edu/~ellery-newcomer/bad.zip
>
> in fedora 16 x86_64 with dmd 2.057 64 bit
>
> dmd starts thrashing like there is no tomorrow and generally locks up my
> entire system. Can anyone confirm this behavior?

I seem to have more RAM than you. The behavior is apparently caused by a 
Phobos bug:

/usr/include/d/dmd/phobos/std/functional.d(185): Error: template 
instance 
std.functional.binaryFunImpl!(pred,parm1Name,parm2Name).Body!(dchar,string) 
recursive expansion