[Gnuplot-bugs] big mxtics values crash gnuplot_x11 4.2

[<rom...@ar...>]

The following commands cause GNUPLOT (version see below) to occupy the CPU for a
few minutes with more than 90% and then gnuplot_x11 crashes; the process gnuplot
runs on using more than 90% of the CPU.
The culprit is the command 'set mxtics'; without it everythings runs fine. If
all the x-values, in the commands and in the file, are divided by 100 GNUPLOT is
a little bit sluggish producing the plot, but everything is ok.
The same script worked without problems with version 4.0

In case you wonder, this is a boiled down version of a script which plots multi
  year time series and the commands produce tics at year start and minor tics at
  the start of each quarter


-- commands
set xtics 31557600
set mxtics 7889400
plot [][0:] 'test.tbl' us 1:2
-- End of commands

-- content of test.tbl
 624284064      165.09
 627071328    -2285.77
-- end of test.tbl


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Regards
Heinz Rommerskirchen