On Thu Jan 19 18:33:42 EST 2012, lyn...@orthanc.ca wrote: > > On 2012-01-19, at 2:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > that seems a bit ... goofy. it would seem better for > > bio to do this internally? surely there isn't code that > > relies on this behavior? > > Or maybe realloc() a larger buffer and try to carry on? There's no guarantee > of buffer pointer consistency across B* calls, is there? Default to 8K (or > whatever), and place an adjustable cap of, say, 128K, on the dynamic bsize.
sizing the buffer has been considered (putting in a cap puts the caller in the same position as before). it's probablly the best option, if the goal is to rehabilitate Brdline(). i'm wondering if it shouldn't just be considered depricated. - erik
