Re: [xml] xmlReadMemory limitation

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:26:51AM +0100, Espen Ekeroth wrote:
> On RedHat 9 i do get a problem using xmlReadMemory(). It seems like if the 
> memory buffer size is set to a value larger than 600000 it do fail. (no 
> coredump or anything, but the application just dies). Is this a limit of 
> xmlReadMemory ?

  xmllint.c uses xmlReadMemory() for processing with --memory

paphio:~/XML -> ls -l dba100000.xml
-rw-rw-r--  1 veillard www 14282040 Jan  4 16:06 dba100000.xml
paphio:~/XML -> xmllint --noout --memory dba100000.xml
paphio:~/XML -> echo $?
0
paphio:~/XML ->

  i.e. I cannot reproduce your problem on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

> or is it the infamous 640kb problem of x86 also affecting 
> linux?

  Certainly not, linux uses flat 32bit addressing and not 16bit
segmented memory accesses !!!

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