Re: [Scid-users] Bug in PGN-Parser

[Alexander W. <a.w...@ph...>]

On 11/19/10 19:04, Gerd Lorscheid wrote:

Hi!

> In the Chessbase database there is a game (Nataf-Schlosser) with a
> comment of around 30kbyte in one line.

Scid has some limitation for the length of commentaries. I wonder if you 
just hit that one. 30k is near at the limit.

> My scid, compiled with
> VisualStudio crashes when reading this from a PGN-file, because it tries
> to write outside of the heap. The released 4.2.2 Scid does not crash,
> which means it overwrites instead some data inside of the heap.

Are you sure about this point? While ago Pascal increased the size limit 
quite a bit to allow for longer commentary. This function is at least 
active in 4.2.2 and cvs. It indeed solved some problems I had 
experienced myself with two heavily annotated CC games.

cu
Alexander