Description of problem:
 When I compile a small C++ program with templates and <iostream>
 with g++ 3.2 and debug it with Kdbg, then when stepping through the 
 program at some moment Kdbg hangs, and with "top" i can see that gdb is  
 acquiring all the RAM it can get.

 Compiling exactly the same source with g++ 2.96 does not lead to
 any problems.

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
 1. Type: 
 cat > test.cpp
 #include <string>
 #include <iostream> 

 using namespace std;

 template<class X> void out (ostream& in, X& x)
 {
        // Here gdb starts allocating as much memory as it can get
        // eventually leading to system freeze
        cout << x;
 }

 int main()
 {
         cout << "This works fine!";
         out(cout, "aaa");
 }

2. Compile
 g++ -g test.cpp

3. [IMPORTANT] Be ready to kill gdb process or the system will 
freeze quite fast (thrashing).

4. Debug "a.out"
 kdbg a.out

5. Step through the program. 

Actual Results:  
 When stepping through function body:
  template<class X> void out (ostream& in, X& x)
  {
         cout << x;
  }
 gdb will start acuquiring immence amounts of memory. 
 [Be ready to kill the process!]

Additional info: 
* The same behaviour also occurs when replacing
    cout << x;
  with something similar like
    vector<X> v;
    v.push_back(x);
* My system is upgraded from Redhat 7.3, but the same resutls were
  also reproduced with clean Redhat 8 install.