From: Claudio Sacerdoti Coen <claudio.sacerdoticoen@unibo.it>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:07:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Printing extremely large terms no longer raises Failure.
X-Git-Tag: make_still_working~3347
X-Git-Url: http://matita.cs.unibo.it/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=03f203779699068d517f298fe31b511821cdd561;p=helm.git

Printing extremely large terms no longer raises Failure.
---

diff --git a/helm/software/components/ng_kernel/nCicPp.ml b/helm/software/components/ng_kernel/nCicPp.ml
index f608acc15..62dc58e4e 100644
--- a/helm/software/components/ng_kernel/nCicPp.ml
+++ b/helm/software/components/ng_kernel/nCicPp.ml
@@ -180,11 +180,14 @@ let ppterm ~formatter:f ~context ~subst ~metasenv:_ ?(inside_fix=false) t =
 ;;
 
 let on_buffer f t = 
+ try
   let buff = Buffer.create 100 in
   let formatter = F.formatter_of_buffer buff in
   f ~formatter:formatter t;
   F.fprintf formatter "@?";
   Buffer.contents buff
+ with Failure m ->
+  "[[Unprintable: " ^ m ^ "]]"
 ;;
 
 let ppterm ~formatter ~context ~subst ~metasenv ?(margin=80) ?inside_fix t =