Re: [Fractdev] fractinf_len?

Jonathan wrote:

Since the current value of FRACTAL_INFO_SIZE is 504 as defined in fractint.h, we appear to be getting fractinf_len = 506. I have no clue why we do this.

This is very old code - one of the first things that happened when Bert and I started working together was to save fractal info in the GIF, first after the terminator, then later in a GIF extension block. We'll probably not be able to reconstruct the exact reason, but my recollection is that the seek-from-the-bottom logic was most robust with a little extra length. I believe if the calculation gives a larger result nothing bad happens, but that needs to be checked. Tim