Export buffers borking?

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Fri Sep 7 21:41:03 PDT 2007


Quoting Walter Vaughan (Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:00:43 -0400):
[...]
>> Out of curiosity...
>>
>> What were you doing in filePro that legitimately caused an out of memory?
>>
>> What sort of loop allowed filePro to use all available memory?
>
> In the code I posted line 22 the "dloop" could be entered and would   
> never exit if "fd" was greater than "ld". The error's been in our
> database since 2003 or so, based upon seeing it printed wrong in our
> paper catalog as well as @ud timestamp.
[...]

Ah.  Duplicated.

If you have an uncast dummy field, and keep appending to it so that the
length would exceed 32,767 characters, it will crash with an out-of-memory
error.

(Adding fpsupport to CC list.)

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