What is your resolution?  If you can't reproduce it at, say, 1600x1200 or
higher, i think I will close the bug in our tracker.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> J.B. Langston III wrote:
> > I replied to this on our sourceforge tracker a few weeks ago, but you
> probably
> > didn't notice if you weren't subscribed to the bug.
> >
> > My hunch is that this is due to using a very high resolution with the
> alloca
> > function.  I had this problem on Mac OS X.  Alloca is normally fine, but
> when
> > you have a really large monitor or try to render a very high resolution
> png, it
> > crashes.  This is because alloca allocates storage on the stack, and
> really
> > large images blow out the stack space.  You can disable alloca and use
> malloc/
> > calloc instead by editing aconfig.h and commenting out the
> HAVE_ALLOCA_H,
> > HAVE_ALLOCA, and C_ALLOCA defines (do this after running configure).  We
> should
> > probably add this as an autoconf option.
> >
> > Can you still reproduce this issue in 3.3?  If so please try commenting
> out the
> > alloca defines as described above and recompiling XaoS, and let me know
> if it
> > fixes the problem.
>
> I ran the tutorials in full screen and cannot reproduce it in 3.3.
>
> --
> see shy jo
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