bpaul-chess

commit 9b65fb6f2496f124db4ae84d1a2a0f0c421d0bf7
parent 295a8cb88f5fde3efa919fba89707107cbecab1c
Author: benjamin paul <bpaul@bpaul.xyz>
Date:   Fri,  6 Aug 2021 20:35:10 +1000

Long text about buffer size

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src/main.c
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diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
@@ -1,4 +1,19 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
 int
 main() {
+	/* If your computer does not have enough RAM to support a 2KiB buffer, it
+	 * probably wont be able to run the program.
+	 *
+	 * A 2048 character buffer may be too small for a position command, a
+	 * setoption command or a go searchmoves command. The position command is
+	 * the only command out of these which may actually be used of such size.
+	 * For it to be the case that the command is too big, there must be
+	 * (2048-17)/5 moves being the buffer size minus the length of "position
+	 * startpos" divided by the size of a move, being 4 characters and a space.
+	 * This means that with this buffer size, a game cannot go on for longer
+	 * than 406 moves. */
+	char buf[2048];
+
 	return 0;
 }