On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote:
I've been searching for this for a while but, so far, it's still unclear to me : Is there a width and height limit for pixmaps? Widht / height type is int but I'm wondering what's the maximum supported values.
I'm using GTK and I know GDK pixmaps and windows can't be wider than 65535. But I got a crash in a GTK app when trying to create a "big" pixmap, less wide than 65535 but wider than 32767:
The program 'my_app' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
So my question is: Is it an 'out of memory' error (returned by malloc) or a width value above a defined limit?
BadAlloc normally indicates an inability to malloc() the space. A 64K x 64K 32-bit pixmap would require 128GB which would need to be provided by a combination of real memory and swap space.
Marc. +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Academic Information and | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | Communications Technologies | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx | | 352 General Services Building +----------------------------------+ | University of Alberta | | | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply | | T6G 2H1 | | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
