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From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm crashes on long "To:" lines + fix
Message-ID: <6631@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Feb 91 15:52:10 GMT
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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I recently discovered that Elm crashes on long "To:" lines (of a
few lines) which though rare do occur.  The crash occurs when
replying to or copying a message with a long "To:" line, the 
segmentation violation coming in src/returnadd.c, line 337.
This was with 2.3PL11, but may occur in previous versions.

Syd's comment on this was that Elm as implemented uses fixed length
strings and a major rewrite would be needed to get round this.

As an alternative, I suggest that when compiling Elm you use
a value of at least 1024 for SLEN in hdrs/defs.h, rather than
the default of 256.

I don't believe there are any ill effects from this.  Perhaps Syd
can comment publicly ??

Tim