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Fix buffer sizing for bigfmt.

    We were hitting the 1024 character limit and generating bad
    output.... oops.

--- a/libstd/bigint.myr

+++ b/libstd/bigint.myr

@@ -99,11 +99,21 @@

 }

 const bigfmt = {a

-	var buf : byte[1024]

+	var buf

 	var n

-	n = bigbfmt(buf[:], a)

-	-> sldup(buf[:n])

+ 	/*

+	allocate a buffer guaranteed to be big enough.

+	that's 

+		2 + floor(nbits/(log_2(10)))

+	or

+		2 + a.dig.len * 32/3.32...

+	or

+		2 + a.dig.len * 11

+	*/

+	buf = slalloc(2 + a.dig.len * 11)

+	n = bigbfmt(buf, a)

+	-> buf[:n]

 }

 /* for now, just dump out something for debugging... */