Posted by Andy Hassall on 10/06/06 00:01

On 5 Oct 2006 15:00:35 -0700, "comp.lang.php" <phillip.s.powell@gmail.com>
wrote:

>re:
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=swedish+flag&btnG=Google+Search

Re what page from this search?

>I am trying only this:
>
>[PHP]
>$image = @imagecreatefromgif('/path/to/this/image.gif');
>[/PHP]
>
>This line alone causes a segfault on my machine; when I measured how
>much memory it took to process this, it literally required up to 100+mb
>of memory to process a GIF image that is only 953 bytes!!!

If it segfaults, get a backtrace and report it as a bug.

http://bugs.php.net/bugs-generating-backtrace.php

>Is this normal behavior for imagecreatefromgif()? I am using PHP 4.3.9
>with GD 2.0.1, this shouldn't happen but it does

Given this isn't the first GD memory-related post you've made then there's
either something badly wrong with your installation or you're doing something
other than what you're describing.

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