[PD-dev] d_soundfile.c MAXBUFSIZE

[David Plans Casal]

On 28 Feb 2006, at 18:29, Miller Puckette wrote:

> On some OSes (I needn't name names:) the system can hang if one asks
> to malloc too much space.  This was a major cause of headaches for
> people trying to use Pd to read large soundfiles.  Anyway, as you  
> already
> found, this doesn't affect the "soundfiler" object which has a  
> settable
> maximum.

Thank you for that clarification. I understand the original  
limitation now.

However, I am wondering whether it wouldn't be better to pre-empt  
large soundfile loading, as opposed to making people who need to use  
large soundfile arrays use custom compilation?

Just a thought, I realise there's history at play here.

d

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