POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : crash with string writing : Re: crash with string writing Server Time
29 Jul 2024 22:21:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: crash with string writing  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 27 Feb 2002 16:09:42
Message: <3c7d4b16@news.povray.org>

Skiba <abx### [at] babilonorg>  wrote:

>        #local S=concat(S,chr(f(X,Y,Z)));

The string you produce is too long and causes a buffer overflow.  While it
will work in the next beta, it will only work at a significant performance
penalty (by internally writing long strings character by character).

    Thorsten

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