Re: Lilypond crashes in Windows with Gregorian music

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:16 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> \include "gregorian.ly"
>> \score {
>>  <<
>>    \new VaticanaVoice = "cantus" {
>>      c'
>>    }
>>  >>
>> }
>>
>> Windows Vista 64 bit.
>>
>> Lilypond allocates memory like it's going out of fashion, getting to
>> about a Gig after 14 seconds.  It then crashes.  The output is:
>>
>> GNU LilyPond 2.14.2
>> Processing `D:/Music/BAMusic/Gregorian.ly'
>> Parsing...
>> D:/Music/BAMusic/gregorian.ly:1:9: error: out of dynamic memory in
>> yy_create_buffer()
>> \include
>>         "gregorian.ly"
>>
>> Crashes 2.12, 2.14 and 2.15.10 on my Windows system.
>
> That would appear to explode even before getting to the \score, so
> likely a file just consisting of
> \include "gregorian.ly"
> would trigger the problem.
>
> While my executable (Linux 32bit) is not quite the one from master, it
> does fine on that file.
>
> Likely a useful point for comparison would be a Linux 64bit executable,
> if someone is running that.

Here's a run from my 64-bit Ubuntu install:


$ lilypond lytest.ly
GNU LilyPond 2.14.1
Processing `lytest.ly'
Parsing...
Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
Finding the ideal number of pages...
Fitting music on 1 page...
Drawing systems...
Layout output to `lytest.ps'...
Converting to `./lytest.pdf'...
success: Compilation successfully completed

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