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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 16:40:01 +0800
From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: zsh-user <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: argv subscript range uses too many memory
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Hi,

This script on my laptop uses so much memory so that being killed by
oom-killer:

arr=(~/**/*)
set -- "${(@)arr}"

while ((ARGC))
do
   print -- "${argv[1,3]}"
   shift 3
done

But if change the subscript range to single array elements, it works
just fine. So I suspect there is something wrong with the subscript
range.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.