On 18 Feb 2013 at 22:18, Thomas Schneider wrote:
Garth:
Just to clarify the differences a bit.
Thanks for the explanation. I knew about val/var but wasn't so clear about the heap/stack allocation. I didn't know that global varibles go on the heap but did know that calling a procedure caused allocation of locals to the stack.
So I was making a huge allocation on the stack. That's fixed now by using a global. I'm somewhat unclear why the compiler crashed though. I would have thought that if it ran out of stack it would give a warning. But the odd thing is that when the program is being compiled it's not even using the stack yet of course ...
The compiler crash is a different issue from the program crash. There compiler should not crash - in other words, it is a bug. Unfortunately, it is a bug that seems unreproduceable elsewhere, and I am not sure where that leaves us ...
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