vim consumes huge memory with stty rows/columns set to 64K

Developers,

On Linux (64 bit), the following tty settings will can cause vi to consume 40G, and can cause system to run out of memory:

stty rows 65535
stty columns 65535
vi foo

This need to be fixed (e.g., restrict columns to 512). Any comments.


Regards
Jieming

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