[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #13973: THE DIG: Crash - Error: convertMessageToString: buffer overflow!

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#13973: THE DIG: Crash - Error: convertMessageToString: buffer overflow!
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Reporter:  Bautler                          |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  defect                           |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal                           |   Component:  Engine: SCUMM
 Version:                                   |  Resolution:
Keywords:  The Dig, buffer overflow, error  |        Game:  The Dig
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Comment (by dwatteau):

 I think it's more related to the reply from the creature; its text has
 around 225 characters in English. It looks like we have a limit to 256
 characters, but German being quite a verbose language in comparison, I
 think the German translation might just overflow it (I can't get the same
 scene to crash in the French release). (And The Dig uses a translation
 table, while earlier games would just hardcode the translated strings into
 the original scripts.)

 I don't know how the original German interpreter behaved in that case.
 Maybe it has a higher limit, or maybe the buffer overflow wasn't
 triggered, just by luck. Or maybe the problem is unrelated to the length
 of that string, but that seems unlikely to me.

 I think someone from our SCUMM team is going to figure this out soon,
 don't worry :) Thanks for reporting this and testing every dialogue option
 in The Dig, because this may be a very old bug!
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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/13973#comment:6>
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