From: "Eric C. Cooper" <ecc@cmu.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Buffer.add error
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:02:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108170246.GC28695@stratocaster.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15899.63661.698094.412051@hector.lesours>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:08:45AM +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> >>>>> "Mikkel" == Mikkel Christiansen <mixxel@cs.auc.dk> writes:
> Mikkel> When generating a rather large string I get the following
> Mikkel> error:
> Mikkel> Fatal error: exception Failure("Buffer.add: cannot
> Mikkel> grow buffer")
> ...
> So basically, you are hitting the limits of maximal string size (which
> is 2^24 = 16777216 on 32 bits plateform).
>
> Hence you cannot avoid it, except by switching to a 64 bits plateform.
Another possibility is to write a Buffer implementation on top of
Bigarrays. That way your application wouldn't have to change much.
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Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 9:53 Mikkel Christiansen
2003-01-08 10:08 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2003-01-08 17:02 ` Eric C. Cooper [this message]
2003-01-09 20:34 ` Xavier Leroy
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