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Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why.
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why. |
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Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:26:55 +0200 (CEST) |
> > Hmm, groff has an unlimited amount of string space. ...
>
> Surely not. Certainly it may not *explicitly* set such a limit, but
> it uses dynamic memory allocation, when creating the string objects.
I've meant that implicitly.
> Thus, groff's string space allocation must be satisfied from the
> process heap memory, which *does* have a limited size. When too
> many strings are defined, then the available heap memory will be
> exhausted, resulting in the condition I have described as 'string
> space overflow'.
Aah, the error message then comes from the operating system and is
completely out of groff's control. Honestly, I've never encountered
such a situation with any GNU/Linux program, given that I have
256MByte RAM and 512MByte swap space...
> I do not think I can demonstrate this with a *small* test case.
> However, if you examine pdfmark.ms, included in the preview tarball
> I posted earlier,
I haven't checked it, but there is a chance that it is no longer
possible to send attachments to the list since I haven't seen your
bundle. Or is it too big? Can you retry, appending an uuencoded,
compressed tarball?
> you will notice a cross reference commented out at line 1726;
> uncommenting this will produce the 'input stack limit exceeded'
> error in the final formatting pass (at least it does on both my
> GNU/Linux and Win2K boxes, but YMMV).
Will test it, thanks.
Werner
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- Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Jon Snader, 2004/09/23
- Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Robert Goulding, 2004/09/23
- Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Pete Phillips, 2004/09/23
- Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Keith Marshall, 2004/09/23
Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Peter Schaffter, 2004/09/24
Re: <OK> [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., M Bianchi, 2004/09/24
Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Tadziu Hoffmann, 2004/09/28
Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Larry Kollar, 2004/09/23
Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why., Keith MARSHALL, 2004/09/24