texlive[50517] Build/source/texk/makeindexk: increase ARGUMENT_MAX to
commits+karl at tug.org
commits+karl at tug.org
Thu Mar 21 23:38:30 CET 2019
Revision: 50517
http://tug.org/svn/texlive?view=revision&revision=50517
Author: karl
Date: 2019-03-21 23:38:30 +0100 (Thu, 21 Mar 2019)
Log Message:
-----------
increase ARGUMENT_MAX to 10240 (from 1024)
Modified Paths:
--------------
trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/ChangeLog
trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/mkind.h
Modified: trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/ChangeLog 2019-03-21 22:35:15 UTC (rev 50516)
+++ trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/ChangeLog 2019-03-21 22:38:30 UTC (rev 50517)
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-03-21 Karl Berry <karl at tug.org>
+
+ * mkind.h (ARGUMENT_MAX): increase to 10240 from 1024,
+ since can be used with glossaries, etc. Found by Nicola Talbot.
+
2015-07-10 Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>
* Makefile.am: Better dependencies for 'make check'.
Modified: trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/mkind.h
===================================================================
--- trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/mkind.h 2019-03-21 22:35:15 UTC (rev 50516)
+++ trunk/Build/source/texk/makeindexk/mkind.h 2019-03-21 22:38:30 UTC (rev 50517)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
* This file is part of
* MakeIndex - A formatter and format independent index processor
*
- * Copyright (C) 1998-2012 by the TeX Live project.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998-2019 by the TeX Live project.
* Copyright (C) 1989 by Chen & Harrison International Systems, Inc.
* Copyright (C) 1988 by Olivetti Research Center
* Copyright (C) 1987 by Regents of the University of California
@@ -302,19 +302,13 @@
consistent, or reasonable! Therefore, change them only with great
care.
-The array sizes should be made generously large: there are a great
-many uses of strings in MakeIndex with the strxxx() and sprintf()
-functions where no checking is done for adequate target storage sizes.
-Although some input checking is done to avoid this possibility, it is
-highly likely that there are still several places where storage
-violations are possible, with core dumps, or worse, incorrect output,
-ensuing.
+If any array overflows, please report to tex-k at tug.org.
======================================================================*/
#define ARABIC_MAX 99 /* maximum digits in an Arabic page */
/* number field */
-#define ARGUMENT_MAX 1024 /* maximum length of sort or actual key */
+#define ARGUMENT_MAX 10240 /* maximum length of sort or actual key */
/* in index entry */
#define ARRAY_MAX 1024 /* maximum length of constant values in */
More information about the tex-live-commits
mailing list