From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: question about mplib/mkiv
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:20:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4810EBA0.10404@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E75E5D25-E9D1-4163-8446-E7B44F39897F@uni-bonn.de>
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>> That error indeed comes from mplib, but from the overflow test in
>> realloc(), not the memory array "overflow" function. You get this
>> error when you attempt to allocate more than 2^31 bytes. Since that
>> clearly should not happen, there is a bug somewhere in MPlib. But
>> I'll need your source to dig it out. (likely you do something we
>> have never tested yet).
>>
>
> Just for the record: Taco found and squished this bug; the new luatex
> trunk doesn't have it anymore. Thanks for the swift action!
the next mkiv upload will have a bit better reporter for such cases
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 20:03 Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-04-23 23:44 ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-24 4:40 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-04-24 6:38 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-24 8:30 ` Thomas Schmitz
2008-04-24 19:41 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2008-04-24 20:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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