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From: "Matt Verran" <matt@frktl.freeserve.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: font routine hangs
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:34:46 +0100
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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I had it set to 24000, but tried 70000 and it still crashes on that line
after 8 iterations???

the routine is in another file (font.c) from main.c. font.c #includes main.h
which provides
a definition for the ordering tables stuff but as 'extern' does this sound
right??


Scott Cartier wrote in message <3767F3C6.685D7D28@vmlabs.com>...
>Do you have enough packet space allocated?  Since you're using one
>sprite per character, if you're trying to display a lot of text it could
>overrun your packet area.  Try increasing it to some ungodly large
>number to see if that fixes it.
>
>Scott
>
>
>> the hang is caused by the following line:
>>
>> GsSortFastSprite(&spriteInfo,&world_ordering_table[output_buffer_index],
0);
>>
>> although I still have no ide why???