E342, E323, E293, E316, and ??? when using gqq on large file

[Ben Fritz]

File size is ~6.5MB. It's a binary file with no line breaks, so Vim
sees it as one huge line.

I tried to use gqq to allow myself to view the content, and got
unrecoverable errors (either lockup, unresponsive to keyboard input,
even though GUI menus work, or continual cycle of errors; either way I
needed to kill Vim with the task manager).

My normal gvim configuration gave:

E342: Out of memory! (allocating 6496256 bytes)
E323: line count wrong in block 1
E293: block was not locked
Press ENTER or type command to continue

???
Press ENTER or type command to continue
E293: block was not locked
Press ENTER or type command to continue
???
???
???
E293...

Here, a cycle of ??? and E293 messages popped up and never stopped
popping up. The ??? got error highlighting.

gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE gave, after:

:set nowrite
:set tw=80
:set nowrap
gqq

E342: Out of memory! (allocating 6463488 bytes)
E323: line count wrong in block 1
Press ENTER or type command to continue
E316: ml_get: cannot find line 637


Finally, after looking at :help E342, I tried in addition to the above
options on gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE, these:

:set undolevels=-1
:set undoreload=0

I get:

E342: Out of memory! (allocating 6463488 bytes)
E323: line count wrong in block 1
Press ENTER or type command to continue
E323: line count wrong in block 1
Press ENTER or type command to continue
...

This time, with CTRL-C, I can eventually get to the point where :q!
succeeds in killing Vim.


"Vim without Cream" gvim.exe, on 64-bit Windows XP:

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 13 2011 13:41:38)
MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support
Included patches: 1-338
Compiled by digit...@SPAMdancingpaper.com
Huge version with GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):