Buffer Overrun?

[Greek2me]

What's a buffer overrun? I keep getting an error, "Buffer overrun detected!", then the game closes. This only happens when I attempt to dump a scriptObject I'd made. Anybody know why this happens?

console just before crash:

==>exec("base/slayer/modules/map cycle.cs");
Executing base/Slayer/Modules/Map Cycle.cs.
==>Slayer.mapCycle.generateMissi onData();
==>Slayer.mapCycle.dump();
Member Fields:
  class = "MapCycleSO"
Tagged Fields:
  Enable = "1"
  missionData0 = "wakeisland\tWake Island\tWake Island"
  missionData1 = "Valhalla_Winter_Edition\tBoom\tValhalla Winter"
  missionData10 = "Spring_Canyon_Dark\tSpring Canyon Dark\tDogFight Canyon"
  missionData11 = "Spring_Canyon\tSpring_Canyon\tDogFight Canyon"
  missionData12 = "slopes\tThe Slopes\tSlopes"
  missionData13 = "slateSeaRevised\tSlate Sea Revised\tSlate"
  missionData14 = "Slate_Ocean\tSlate Ocean(For Strato\'s Boats)\tSlate"
  missionData15 = "slateDesert\tSlate Desert\tSlate"
  missionData16 = "Slate_Blue_Sea\tSlate Blue Sea\tSlate"
  missionData17 = "slate\tSlate\tSlate\t[ZAPT] Umm\t[ZAPT] Train Depot\t[ZAPT] Survival 1\t[ZAPT] Mountains\t[ZAPT] Dam\t[TW2] Trench Wars 4.1\t[TW2] Trench Wars 4.0\t[TW1] Trench Wars 3.1\t[TW1] Trench Wars 3.0\t[TW1] Trench Wars 2\t[TW1] Trench Wars 2.1\t[TDM] Warehouse\t[TDM] Lava Pit\t[TDM] Halo Sidewinder\t[TDM] Halo Icefields\t[TDM] Deadzone\t[TDM] Deadzone 4\t[TDM] Deadzone 4.1\t[TDM] Deadzone 3\t[TDM] Deadzone 2\t[TDM] Deadzone 1\t[TDM] Afghanistan DM- Dedicated TDM\t[Other] Themed Building Server\t[Other] The Bedroom\t[Other] TDM SPAWNS\t[Other] Badspot\'s Treasure Hunt\t[Other] Airport\t[L4B] Zombie Assault v2.0\t[L4B] Zombie Assault v2.0 (TEST)\t[L4B] Zombie Assault v1.0\t[L4B] No Mercy Subway v1.3\t[L4B] No Mercy Subway v1.2\t[L4B] No Mercy Subway v1.1\t[L4B] No Mercy Subway v1.0\t[L4B] L4D2 The Streets\t[L4B] L4D2 The Hotel\t[L4B] L4D2 The Hotel and Streets\t[L4B] L4D2 The Concert\t[DM] Deathmatch Dark\t[DM] Checkers DM\t[DM] Checkers DM v2.0\t[DM] Checkers DM - Dark Ambient\t[DM] Checkers DM - Dark Ambient v3\t[DM] Checkers DM - Dark Ambient v2\t[CTF] Capture the Flag Water\t[CTF] C.T.F. Battle Grounds\t[C\'er] Afganistan Creeper Arena\t[Box] Creeper, Checker DM\t[BoW] Cbrown towns\tTwo Ships\tSirrus Military Compound\tPyramid\tPYRAMID CREEPER\tMr.Block\'s Slides\tMaze\tIce Palace\tGolden Gate Bridge\tGazebo Garden\tFestung der Schwarzung\terhroiguhrieughlerg\tDemo Blockland Sign\tCrysta Castle\tC.T.F. Battle Grounds\tBuilding 6\tApartment\tAfghanistan DM 2\tAfghanistan DM"
  missionData18 = "Sage_Valley\tSage Valley\tSage Valley"
  missionData19 = "Roco_Island_Modified\tRoco Island - Modified\tRoco Island - Modified"
  missionData2 = "Valhalla_Night\tBoom\tValhalla"
  missionData20 = "Mountains of Excalibur\tMountains of Excalibur\tMountains of Excalibur"
  missionData21 = "valley\tLost Valley\tValley"
  missionData22 = "kitchenDark\tKitchen - Dark\tKitchen"
  missionData23 = "kitchen\tKitchen\tKitchen\t[Other] Castle\t[Other] Bunker\t[Other] Anthony\'s Airfield\tTown\tPirate World\tHorse Race\tHaunted House\tDemo Fort"
  missionData24 = "Island_Winter\tBoom\tIsland"
  missionData25 = "Island\tBoom\tIsland"
  missionData26 = "flatlands\tFlatlands\tFlatlands"
  missionData27 = "destruct\tDestruct\tSlate"
  missionData28 = "creek\tCreek\tCreek"
  missionData29 = "construct\tConstruct\tSlate"
  missionData3 = "Valhalla_dogfight_edition\tBoom\tValhalla DFE"
  missionData30 = "bedroomDark\tBedroom - Dark\tBedroom"
  missionData31 = "bedroom\tBedroom\tBedroom\t[Other] Extension Testing\t[L4B] Beta City 16 Commando Assault\t[L4B] ACM City Zombies [D]\tMansion\tKaje\'s Castle\tJetpuff\'s Towers\tFort Papa\tFacechild\'s House\tDM church\tDemo Pong\tDemo Midi Sequencer\tDemo House\tCottage\tBLOKO Blupo\tBeta City 16\tArch of Constantine\tACM City\tA.T.C. Fort"
  missionData32 = "Above\tAbove\tAbove\t[DM] Checkers v2.0"
  missionData4 = "Valhalla_Canvas\tValhalla Canvas\tValhalla Canvas"
  missionData5 = "Valhalla\tBoom\tValhalla"
  missionData6 = "tutorial\tTutorial\tTutorial"
  missionData7 = "tutorial\tTutorial\tTutorial"
  missionData8 = "spyglassfinal\tSpyglass\tSpyGlass\t[TDM] Giants"
  missionData9 = "SpringCanyonDark\tSpring Canyon Dark\tDogFight Canyon"
  notification = "The server is changing to a new map. The game will resume after the map is changed. Please wait..."
  numMaps = "0"
  numMissions = "33"

There is nothing after this, the console ends.

My guess is that it's because the bolded variable (missionData17) is EXTREMELY long. Is there a sort of limit on variable length?

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[rkynick]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow

[Greek2me]

So missionData17 is simply too large of a variable?

[Greek2me]

So missionData17 is simply too large of a variable?

No, that's not it, I can do echo(Slayer.mapCycle.missionData17); just fine, I only get problems when I dump Slayer.mapCycle.


Then again, I removed the missionData17 variable and everything worked fine.

[Destiny/Zack0Wack0]

I think torque has a character limit of something like 1024 for strings.
EDIT: nope
It could be on object fields though.

[Red_Guy]

A buffer overrun (and crash) happens when one of your echo'd lines is more than 4096 characters.
if you want to see the data, you will need to echo it to a file.

[Iban]

Make Slayer.mapCycle a ScriptObject.
Make every Slayer.mapCycle.missionData its own ScriptObject.
Make each field an element on an individual missionData.

Problem Sovled.

[Greek2me]

A buffer overrun (and crash) happens when one of your echo'd lines is more than 4096 characters.
if you want to see the data, you will need to echo it to a file.

Yep, 4096 is the character count of what it echoed before it crashed. Thanks, that explains a lot.


Warning - while you were typing...

Make Slayer.mapCycle a ScriptObject.

It already is a scriptObject, did you read anything?

Make every Slayer.mapCycle.missionData its own ScriptObject.
Make each field an element on an individual missionData.

Yep, that's what I ended up doing earlier.

[Iban]

Wow, thank you for nitpicking my post to try and insult me and end up using my idea anyways, you jerk.

[Greek2me]

Wow, thank you for nitpicking my post to try and insult me and end up using my idea anyways, you jerk.

What?

I asked if you'd read the OP, because I'd already stated that it was a SO there. Then I agreed that was a good way to do it and had done it that way.

Really, no offense intended in there, sorry if it came off that way.