On 04/21/2011 08:47 PM, Marc Aurele La France wrote: >> 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. Thanks. I've just been looking at the x11 protocol and xpixmaps width/height is stored as 16-bit unsigned int (CARD16.) Anyways, it just makes sense to run out of memory for really huge pixmpas. -- Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin <manutm007@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
