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From: forsyth@terzarima.net (Charles Forsyth)
Subject: [9fans] problem with rminnich's 9vx
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:25:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4307b78fc1fcc360d4f36f59265be2ec@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik7bsYuA1bG72zWtA-1x6dxMtP8rmBLxuy=NReh@mail.gmail.com>

>I'm still not sure a length limit on the string of 1 Gbyte makes
>sense, and I have no idea if 64K is too low, but the 64k-limit patch
>does make it all work. I'm going to try to apply it tomorrow and see
>what shakes.

at some point, a value
	ep = bp + lim
will be formed. if bp+lim is too big, ep will be too small,
which will be bad, because the formatting functions will stop too soon.
that's why the test is there. one question is: why does the 9vx environment
make the original version of sprint fail?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-29 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29  9:00 Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29  9:18 ` Noah Evans
2011-03-29  9:25   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29  9:33     ` Noah Evans
2011-03-29  9:47 ` yy
2011-03-29 11:49   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 15:06 ` Christoph Lohmann
2011-03-29 15:42   ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 16:09     ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 16:20       ` Mathieu Lonjaret
2011-03-29 17:16         ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 20:25           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2011-03-29 20:16             ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 16:46       ` yy
2011-03-29 15:16 ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 16:44   ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 17:00     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 19:05       ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-29 19:50         ` ron minnich
2011-03-29 20:20         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-03-29 20:55           ` erik quanstrom

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