On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, marius schebella wrote:
textfile can handle bigger files than msgfile, but there seems to
be a limit, too. I tried to open a >250MB file, and Pd crashed.
marius.If you measure bytes using an int32, the limit is 2GB, but if you
measure it in bits, the limit is 256MB. [textfile] does read all
the file into a buffer as big as the file. I didn't find anything
that counts memory in bits, so perhaps it's just a coïncidence and
the bug was something else, but I did fix another 256MB limit bug
recently by adding parentheses in something like:num_entries * bits_per_entry / 8
When crossing the limit, the numbers become negative, and trying to
allocate a negative amount causes the allocator to either abort the
process or return NULL or corrupt memory...
If this is a bug in Pd, it would be great if you submitting a patch,
or at least posted more info here.
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