Maximum length of ASCIIZ

[Semen Matusovski]

Lance, Dave --
I tried to understand performance of long ASCIIZ and found that, for example, following fragment generates GPF

#Compile Exe
#Register None
Function PbMain() As Long
Dim ab As Asciiz * 1040000
End Function

If to add some strings, GPF occurs with less length.
So, I have two questions/suggestions:
1) I'm not against restrictions, but they should be strictly defined in documentation.
2) If compiler is not agree, why it keeps silence ?

[Florent Heyworth]

Hi Semen

indeed you are right - I think that notwithstanding whatever is happening on the Linux/Com side of PB that we should slowly set our sights on a PBcc/PBDLL update.

My 0.02 rappen (swiss cents)

Florent

[Joe Speroni]

The value 1035940 is the largest one that will not cause an
error. No obvious truncation error. (2^21-1035940=12636 which
may be the length of something).

On my Windows NT 4.0 system I get a stack overflow error. Not GPF.

[Lance Edmonds]

I'll forward this to R&D... thanks guys.



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PowerBASIC Support
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