[PD] big files with textfile

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, marius schebella wrote:

> textfile can handle bigger files than msgfile, but there seems to be a 
> limit, too. I tried to open a >250MB file, and Pd crashed. marius.

If you measure bytes using an int32, the limit is 2GB, but if you measure 
it in bits, the limit is 256MB. [textfile] does read all the file into a 
buffer as big as the file. I didn't find anything that counts memory in 
bits, so perhaps it's just a coïncidence and the bug was something else, 
but I did fix another 256MB limit bug recently by adding parentheses in 
something like:

   num_entries * bits_per_entry / 8

When crossing the limit, the numbers become negative, and trying to 
allocate a negative amount causes the allocator to either abort the 
process or return NULL or corrupt memory...

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