Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] Compresses? Error Messages
Date: Saturday, 07 Nov 2020, 12:27:57

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > What does it mean when the error messages for "Compresses?" sections look
    > like this?
    >
    > -------------- -m MAXBITS Compresses?
    > 0a1
    > > size(-m 13) = 195155 > 43000
    > Error: STDOUT differs from expected
    >   0 point   08. size(-m 13) in [34000,40000]?: Doc/malloc.ps
    >
    > I pass the "Correctness?" tests so my code is not ignoring -m.

size(-m 13) = 195155 is the size in bytes of the output
from running

  % ./encode -m 13 < /c/cs323/Doc/malloc.ps

and 43000 is the upper bound on the size that encode
is expected to meet.  The message indicates that the
bound was not satisfied.

--Stan-