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The C stack used by Emscripten is quite small, so passing more than a few klilobytes of data on it tends to cause an overflow. Current versions of puzzles will only generate tiny preferences files, but this might change in future and in any case Puzzles shouldn't crash just because the preferences in local storage have got corrupted. To fix this, we now have JavaScript allocate a suitable amount of C heap memory using malloc() and stick the preferences file in there. This could plausibly fail if the preferences file were really big, but that's unlikely since browsers generally limit an origin to about 5 MB of local storage. In any case, if malloc() does fail, we'll just ignore the preferences file, which is probably the right thing to do.
This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>. The puzzle collection is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in the source directory: cmake . cmake --build . The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build; in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X application and for the web site. It is generated from a Halibut source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it, or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.