On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:08:45AM +0100, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> >>>>> "Mikkel" == Mikkel Christiansen <mixxel@cs.auc.dk> writes:
>     Mikkel> When generating a rather large string I get the following
>     Mikkel> error:
>     Mikkel>     Fatal error: exception Failure("Buffer.add: cannot
>     Mikkel> grow buffer")
> ... 
> So basically, you are hitting the limits of maximal string size (which
> is 2^24 = 16777216 on 32 bits plateform).
> 
> Hence you cannot avoid it, except by switching to a 64 bits plateform.

Another possibility is to write a Buffer implementation on top of
Bigarrays.  That way your application wouldn't have to change much.

-- 
Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u
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