Number: 409
Title: Lefty printf / giving up on dot ...
Submitter: allan dystrup
Date: Fri Feb 27 07:37:18 2004
Subsys: Dotty/Lneato/Lefty
Version: 1.11
System: x86-Windows-2000, SP3
Severity: critical
Problem:
DOTTY, On loading an (BIG) dot graph: message boxes: 

1: Lefty printf / dotty.lefty: / OK
2: Lefty printf / giving up on dot / OK
3: Lefty printf / dotty.lefty: / OK
4: Lefty printf / graph that causes dot / OK
5: Lefty printf / dotty.lefty: / OK
6: to fail has been saved in file dottybug.dot / OK
7: Lefty printf / dotty.lefty: / OK
8: Lefty oprintf / please fill out a bug report at Http://...

Input file: b409.dot
Comments:
Is there an upper size on the #nodes and/or #edges that dotty can handle? I've 3GB free disk space, could that be a problem? -- no ideas, beyond that...

[erg] The immediate cause is a non-ascii character in the input file. For some reason, something then goes wrong in lefty and it gives up. On unix, an error message is printed about the parsing problem; on windows, no message is seen. So, there are two problems: why does an illegal character cause a problem, and how can parse errors be reported on Windows?
Owner: ek
Status: Fixed (12 April 2005)