Re: LilyPond can't engrave 16 pages of music

[Thomas Morley]

Am Sa., 22. Dez. 2018 um 00:48 Uhr schrieb Reggie <address@hidden>:
>
> I am trying to understand theoretically why this is failing. It's only 16
> pages. I am a minimalist composer so as a test I tried this extreme
> situation. But yet I don't quite agree rather that it's that extreme. It's
> only 16 pages and LilyPond crashes.
>
> \version "2.19.82"
> {
>   \time 4/4
>   \repeat unfold 1000 { c4 d e f } % TEN PAGES of music
>   \repeat unfold 1000 { f1 } % + SIX MORE PAGES of music
>   \repeat unfold 1000 { c4 d e f } % BUT WHEN ADDING MORE PAGES, fail NOW
> }
>
> wHY?
>
> Preprocessing graphical objects...terminate called after throwing an
> instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  std::bad_alloc
> Exited with return code 6.

Works here, returning a 25-pages pdf.

I'm on Ubuntu-18.04 64-bit

Cheers,
  Harm