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Re: Input line length
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Input line length |
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Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:32:17 -0400 |
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On 6/5/10 10:52 AM, Jan Schampera wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> somebody in chat just asked about the maximum input line length, I know
> (and told him) that this might be very platform dependent, but I did
> some tests.
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> The result of these tests was a SEGV (after some 78K line length).
> Shouldn't this be sanely catched somehow by the parser? I didn't look
> deeper, but it looks like a blindly filled buffer or something like that.
How about a stack traceback?
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