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From: Ivica Ico Bukvic ico@vt.edu To: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: 'Hans-Christoph Steiner' hans@at.or.at; "pd-list@iem.at" pd-list@iem.at Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [PD] enhance pd-extended with pd-l2ork featues ?
On 01/20/2013 01:35 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
On the flip-side pd-l2ork provides a solid, bug-free environment on Linux and looks a lot more contemporary than the aged default tk iteration. In other words, it is a targeted Linux distribution of pd (something that can be easily lost in a cross-platform effort with inadequate developer
support,
as I am sure Hans can attest to). At this point I would go as far as challenge you to find something that does not work or exhibits a buggy behavior $@ in msg box probably still crashes when incoming args > 1000 (same
with pd-extended)
-Jonathan
Can you try latest git? I think I fixed this so now the message size can be as large as your memory allows. That said, the fix is a bit baffling. Every so often there is an A_SEMI or A_COMMA mis-detected at location 220 inside the binbuf that is to be evaluated, so one simply ignores the check whenever $@ is involved. This naturally requires further testing to see if there are any regressions. I tested it up to several thousand arguments without a crash with a patch batinste posted.
Interesting, I'll have a go at it.
I think I said I'd pay you if you were able to fix this. Or maybe that was matju. Either way if it's fixed I'll pay you for it.
To be honest, I have no earthly idea why I care so much about this feature. Perhaps it's from going through the hamster-wheel of externals all written just to get the args list when this is all that is needed to solve all but the exotic cases.
-Jonathan
So, the lingering question is why is 220 the golden number? Is this the maximum width for a pd script file formatting?
Please test and report (m_binbuf.c is the relevant file). Latest git also provides fixes for UTF inconsistency as well as the other problem with list objects Roman reported (basically both were patches I missed).
So, as of right now this should cover everything that was reported...
Cheers!
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