[vtkusers] GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = -858993460 !?

[Tim Hutton]

I'm getting a bad_alloc exception sometimes when I try to load a
textured surface in VTK. The error is due to the following line in
vtkopengltexture.cxx (167):

glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE,&maxDimGL);

which returns a value of -858993460. On other occasions it returns a
value of 4096 and everything works fine.

Have you come across anything similar before?

Platform:
vtk5.0.3
win xp
microsoft visual studio 7

Thanks,

Tim