Re: amaya doesn't render <pre>

That page causes a crash in Amaya under Windows 98.
Amaya locks up and I had stop the Amaya execution.
There was not a GPF. 
Regards, Jim FitzSimons 

Fox One wrote:
> 
> For the page at
> http://www.carbonecho.com/html/amayaCrash.html
> 
> This page has errors. What does <P="CENTER"> mean?
> Anyway, neither this nor the extra </TR> on line
> 193 should cause Amaya to crash or enter an
> infinite loop. Unfortunately, that is what happens.
> 
> Using GDB under Linux-ELF, I was able to determine
> that Amaya recurses very deeply while processing
> this page.
> 
> I stopped the backtrace listing at around 1400
> frames (function-calls).
> 
> Amaya seems to repeat the following sequence
> of function calls:
> 
> CheckRowHeights()
> AttachAttrWithValue()
> AbstractImageUpdated()
> ChangeConcreteImage()
> ComputeEnclosing()
> HeightPack()
> ChangeDefaultHeight()
> ResizeHeight()
> UpdateCellHeight()
> 
> When I remove the extra </TR>, Amaya can
> display the page without going into the
> infinite loop.
> 
> I'm using Linux; however, under Windows such a
> deep recursion is likely to use all of the
> available stack space and cause a GPF.
> 
> For the page at
> http://www.carbonecho.com/html/amayaCrash.html
> 
> I fixed the <P="CENTER"> tags by hand, and I
> used HTML Tidy to fix up the page as much as
> possible. Even so, Amaya doesn't render this
> page properly.
>

Received on Wednesday, 19 July 2000 15:13:33 UTC