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I know about the much discussed maximum list length of 256, but is there

an official hard-coded maximum symbol length?

Printing a symbol 1032 characters long crashes for me, where a 1031

My system: OS X alumnium powerbook, OS 10.4.6, Max 4.5.7.

I know about the much discussed maximum list length of 256, but is there
an official hard-coded maximum symbol length?

Printing a symbol 1032 characters long crashes for me, where a 1031
character symbol does not crash.

My system:  OS X alumnium powerbook, OS 10.4.6, Max 4.5.7.

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> I know about the much discussed maximum list length of 256, but is 

> an official hard-coded maximum symbol length?

Someone asked about this just a few weeks ago. I don't know that 

there was an official answer. It would be useful if there were one.

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On 5-Apr-2006, at 20:55, Charlie wrote:
> I know about the much discussed maximum list length of 256, but is  
> there
> an official hard-coded maximum symbol length?

Someone asked about this just a few weeks ago. I don't know that  
there was an official answer. It would be useful if there were one.

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Happy to say, I can't reproduce... both prints fine here.

if I add a lot more characters, I get crashes too :(

> Printing a symbol 1032 characters long crashes for me, where a 1031

The forums add spaces to the long symbols, and the email from the list

seems to be hard-wrapped at 1000 characters... so you might have to

remove the spaces to the patch I sent to get a crash. Or, just add a

This may be just a "print" related bug, rather than something more

> Printing a symbol 1032 characters long crashes for me, where a 1031
> character symbol does not crash.

The forums add spaces to the long symbols, and the email from the list
seems to be hard-wrapped at 1000 characters... so you might have to
remove the spaces to the patch I sent to get a crash.  Or, just add a
lot more characters.

This may be just a "print" related bug, rather than something more
fundamental to max...

i heard from well informed sources (ddz) that the maximum length for 

a symbol is 1999 (or was it 2000?) chars...

i heard from well informed sources (ddz) that the maximum length for  
a symbol is 1999 (or was it 2000?) chars...

> i heard from well informed sources (ddz) that the maximum length 

> for a symbol is 1999 (or was it 2000?) chars...

From what you wrote, probably the buffer is 2000 chars, one of which 

is the null terminator byte. So effectively 1999 charlen.

It might be a Good Thing if there were a #define somewhere in the SDK 

headers so that all objects used the same bufsize. That said, text 

parsing is usually handled by binbufs, so should be transparent to 

Another Good Thing might be if Max wouldn't croak on Excessively 

Enthusiastic Typing. Truncating strings is one thing, crashing another.

And Charlie's crash was at a mere 1032 chars. Strange. Maybe the 

print object has a different sized buffer? Unusual choice.

On 5-Apr-2006, at 23:51, /*j wrote:
> i heard from well informed sources (ddz) that the maximum length  
> for a symbol is 1999 (or was it 2000?) chars...

 From what you wrote, probably the buffer is 2000 chars, one of which  
is the null terminator byte. So effectively 1999 charlen.

It might be a Good Thing if there were a #define somewhere in the SDK  
headers so that all objects used the same bufsize. That said, text  
parsing is usually handled by binbufs, so should be transparent to  
external objects.

Another Good Thing might be if Max wouldn't croak on Excessively  
Enthusiastic Typing. Truncating strings is one thing, crashing another.

And Charlie's crash was at a mere 1032 chars. Strange. Maybe the  
print object has a different sized buffer? Unusual choice.