[PATCH] Use global constants for initial tab count bounds checking

[Albert Thuswaldner]

Hi Kohei,
Sorry for double posting, forgot to CC the list.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 02:21, Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 00:41 +0200, Albert Thuswaldner wrote:
>> Hi Kohei,
>> This patch makes the bounds checking of the initial tab count more
>> consistent with the actual limits.
>
> Actually we intentionally limit the number of initial sheets to 1024
> even though the document can have up to 10000 sheets.
>
> This is to prevent users to accidentally set the initial sheets too
> high, since that could cause the memory usage of even a blank document
> to exceed the available system memory, and it becomes very difficult to
> revert the setting once it's set.

Ok, good to know. IMHO it is even more important to sort this thing
out. I've updated my patch with a new proposed solution.
/Albert
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