On Friday, April 22, 2016 at 8:13:21 PM UTC+12, Lekare wrote:

> When entering something really big, like
> 
> :put =range(30000000000,300000000000000000000)
> 
> Vim quits with message
> 
> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
> Vim: Finished.
> [1]    75479 segmentation fault  \vim

On my x86-64 with 16 GiB of RAM, that causes vim to gallop through memory at 
about 2 GiB/s, then linux is in strife, until 

[ 4382.649514 ] Out of memory: Kill process 2965 (gvim) score 917 or sacrifice 
child
[ 4382.650036 ] killed process 2965 (gvim) total-vm:30326512kB, 
anon-rss:15751236kB, file-rss:160kB

The point I'm trying to make is that if you ask vim to do stuff beyond the 
resources of the system it's running on, vim will try, and the failure depends 
on that system.  IMO it would be very difficult to code vim to reliably catch 
all the ways it can fail like this.

Regards, John Little

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