Re: [ID 20000127.002] 5.005_63 `Out of memory' on trivial program with

[Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 16:11:14 EST, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>> I think av_fill() doesn't know about 'D' magic, as don't many other
>> functions in av.c.
>
>Why should they know about particular magic-type letters?  Why would
>not they just use mg_len?

I should have said mg_size(), not av_fill().  mg_size() just returns
AvFILLp() if there's no vtbl->svt_len.

It's not clear why regular 'P' magic wasn't used for this.  I'm beginning
to form a sense of forboding that this is just the beginning of all
manner of problems with 'D' magic. :-(


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

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