[Radiance-dev] Re: [Radiance-general] Problems with Ubuntu's radiance distribution on amd64 platform

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Lars,

The code in oconv checks modifier and string lengths, though there  
may be problems in xform with long names.  That shouldn't crash  
oconv, however.  It's difficult to guess without a traceback.

-Greg

> From: "Lars O. Grobe" <grobe at gmx.net>
> Date: July 25, 2009 9:15:45 AM PDT
>
> Hi Greg!
>
>> Your backtrace is missing symbolic information telling what call was
>> last made in Radiance.  It seems to have crashed in a sprintf()
>> statement, which means it could have bombed while trying to print an
>> error message.  You should recompile with the -g option and crash  
>> it again.
>
> Well, this is the ONE time that I had not compiled myself, so I  
> will see
> whether I can reproduce this.
>
>> Just as a guess, you wouldn't happen to have any strings longer  
>> than 127
>> characters in your material descriptions, would you?
>
> No, but possibly in file names included by xform, in mesh objects and
> such. Errrrr does your question mean that there is no overflow
> protection for modifier names that exceed the maximum string length?
>
> Currently downloading the latest snapshot for a -g build ;-)
>
> Cheers, Lars.