Re: [icon-users] EasiWriter crash

  • From: Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:04:15 +0100

In article <e107852d4f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4f2d816323riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery
>           <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>> In message <4f2afc35d1riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery
> >>>>           <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote thus:

> >>>>> EasiWriter crashes (reset required) when converting a document
> >
> > OK - I think I have solved the problem.

> > I have an annoying habit of placing my EasiWriter documents deep
> > into the directory structure (the document that crashed the M/C
> > when converting it to HTML was 5 levels deep). Although this
> > doesn't seem to have any effect when writing a standard document
> > when it is converted to HTML it results in a fatal crash or if
> > converted from 4-levels depth a re-coverable error message of the
> > form:

> > Internal error, trap while in trap handler: Internal error: abort
> > on data transfer at FC146300, pc = FC1462F8: registers at 124C38

> > (Incidentally...... David Ruck's where reports a SharedCLibrary
> > error - I don't know if this is relevant).

> > May be someone can explain this.

> Yes, that is a typical error. It is most probably a buffer overflow
> because some buffer on the stack is not large enough to hold the
> long pathname. In particular, this occurs when command lines have
> to be constructed - as in this case, for InterGIF, which is used
> to export the graphics. That should be easy to fix.

Does that mean a modification to InterGIF.

This would certainly explain my problems.

Regards

Richard

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