Error 406 clarification please

[Bern Ertl]

Hello PB,

I've finally run into the dreaded error 406 Compiler Out of Memory
(with PBDLL60).

I have started converting all the SUBs & FUNCTIONs which do not
access any GLOBAL variables into a DLL, but so far have been unable
to regain the ability to compile the main program.

The docs talk mainly about symbol space being the culprit. I'd like
to know if error 406 is mainly generated because of too much equates
/ Fn&var names OR too much code in one program.

I'd hate to spend a few days reworking my code to avoid GLOBALS to
make DLLs if that is not necessary....




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Bernard Ertl

[Lance Edmonds]

Bern, without seeing your source, I can only guess. For example, it could be that you have an excessive amount of literal strings in a given sub/function (ie, A$ = "lots and lots ot text", et al). It could also be too many DATA statements (the compiler currently has a limit of arouns 28-30kB for sub/function, rather than the stated 64kb).

If this does not help, email your code in a ZIP file, and I'll take a look for you.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Lance Edmonds]

Oh yeah! I forgot to state the obvious: it could be as simple as your PC is not providing enough memory! 16-bit apps (such as the compiler itself) are allocaated out of a pool of 16Mb of RAM - if you have other 16-bit processes running (other then the 16-bit subsystem of Win9x/ME), you may simply be starving the compiler of a lot of memory.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
mailto:[email protected][email protected]</A>

[Bern Ertl]

Hi Lance,

I've finally regained the ability to compile again. I
had to chop some major code into DLLs. I'm
assuming that I ran out of the 16K memory space.

If future versions of the compiler will continue to be 16bit ,
it would be REAL nice if the compiler could give statistics
indicating "used versus limit" for all the possible "out of
memory" conditions.

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Bernard Ertl

[This message has been edited by Bern Ertl (edited May 31, 2001).]