Re: Error gnumeric 1.0.4

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 01:43:25PM +0200, ludiel wrote:
> Sir
> when you copy a calcolated cell draging it up to two thousend cells in
> one time, the program crashes and it close with no error message.
> best regards 
> bruper
>
> ps the program gnumeric 1.0.4 is installed on linux Mandrake 8.2 CPU
> Pentium III 550Mhz - ram 256 Mb

Hmm, sounds like a problem that crops up sometimes with really deep
recalculation queues.  Gnumeric uses a recursive descent recalc
engine and in a situation where there are alot of nested recalcs
in exactly the wrong order

    eg
            A20000 -> A19999 -> ...

the stack can get so deep that things crash.  We're working on a fix
in 1.1.x.  For now the work around is to unlimit the stacksize
and/or to do the initial fill in smaller chunks.