[Gdal-dev] crash when reading an ASCIIGRID

[Stephane Routelous]

Hi Frank,

thanks,

I entered it in bugzilla (#766)

Stephane

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:55 AM
To: Stephane Routelous
Cc: gdal-dev at remotesensing.org
Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] crash when reading an ASCIIGRID


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:46:54 -0500, Stephane Routelous <route at cae.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a stackoverflow in GDAL when I read an asciigrid.
> the proble is that I have an asciigrid with ~2800 lines.
> I'm trying to access the last line (nBlockYOff = 2800 in
> AAIGRasterBand::IReadBlock )
> Because the other lines are not read (reading line 2800 is my only call),
> the function recusively read the other lines.
> And this causes a stack overflow.
> Is it possible to use another way in the AAIGRasterBand::IReadBlock
> implementation ?

Stephane, 

Ah yes, the risks of tail recursion. 

If you submit a bugzilla entry on this, I'll try and fix it promptly.

Best regards,
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