Program compiled by PBwin9 needs more machine memory than by PBwin8?

[Michael Mattias]

>But PB9-compiled on XP just quit.

Should not just "quit." Let me try it...

 #COMPILE EXE
#DIM ALL

FUNCTION PBMAIN () AS LONG
    
    LOCAL names AS STRING, S AS STRING
    
    names =  "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
    
    S =  STRING$((28-LEN(names)),95)
    
    MSGBOX USING$ ("ERR #  S '&'", ERR, S)
    
END FUNCTION

Interesting, sets error 7.
Possible errors documented for STRING$ function: NONE.
Error 7 is

Out of memory - (%ERR_OUTOFMEMORY) - Many different situations can cause this message, including dimensioning too large an array, or running out of virtual memory due to insufficient free disk space for the Windows swap file.

Methinks EITHER
A) The documentation for error 7 is incomplete.
B) The documentation for STRING$ is incomplete
C) The actually IS a bug in the compiler, setting the wrong error. I think the correct error should be error 5:

Illegal function call - (%ERR_ILLEGALFUNCTIONCALL) - This is a catch-all error related to passing an inappropriate argument to some statement or function.

Seems to me a passing a negative length to the STRING$ function would constitute "passing an inappropriate argument to some statement or function. "

I shall send in a bug report.

MCM