std.zip expand: memory allocation failed

[bauss]

On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 22:38:38 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Monday, 25 October 2021 at 20:50:40 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 10/24/21 8:00 AM, Selim Ozel wrote:
>>
>>> It turns out my computer was literally running out of memory 
>>> as the file was getting unzipped. For some reason  to 
>>> uncompress a 1-gig file with uncompressed size of 4-gig, Zip 
>>> Archive of D-Lang tries to use more than 16 gig of RAM. I 
>>> don't know why. Maybe I missed something. I use a Windows 10, 
>>> DMD v2.091 with x86_mscoff.
>>
>> Wait, x86 is 32-bit. Max address space is 4GB. So maybe it was 
>> just trying to use 4GB and running out of memory?
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Good catch, but still, should it use so much memory?

Definitely not. It shouldn't use a lot of memory when unzipping 
as it should be done in chunks!