[PD-dev] d_soundfile.c MAXBUFSIZE

[Miller Puckette]

I think that, with "soundfiler" there's no problem (you just have to
specify a bigger maximum in a Pd message).  

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 05:24:35PM +0000, David Plans Casal wrote:
> 
> 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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> David Plans Casal
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