[mkgmap-dev] Splitter issue

Mon Feb 21 19:32:45 GMT 2011

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
>> OK, I think I have this one solved, or at least worked around.  The
>> original code used a character array to buffer up output before
>
> I've looked at this and I think that the cause is the same as the other
> problem with the NPE.  However I am not able to reproduce so I cannot be
> at all certain what is going on.  I am not able to see how it goes
> wrong, although I don't like the approach to batching up write that was
> added in r160.

What approach are you thinking of?

One constraint in my design is that I didn't want to have one thread
for each output file because there could be >5000 output files.

Scott