std.zip expand: memory allocation failed

[Imperatorn]

On Tuesday, 26 October 2021 at 13:43:36 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 10/26/21 2:32 AM, bauss wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> 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!
>
> You guys aren't getting it:
>
> ```
> ubyte[] expand(ArchiveMember de);
> Decompress the contents of a member.
> Fills in properties extractVersion, flags, compressionMethod, 
> time, crc32, compressedSize, expandedSize, expandedData[], 
> name[], extra[].
> ```
>
> Where is it supposed to store that `ubyte[]`?
>
> -Steve

That's the current implementation.

I don't know about *nix, but my Windows machine can easily 
extract a file bigger than my RAM.

It ofc also depends on the dictionary.