Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!memqa!r91400 From: r91400@memqa.uucp (Michael C. Grant) Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds Subject: Re: HP28 internals Message-ID: <4873@memqa.uucp> Date: 3 Aug 90 01:11:46 GMT References: <25590038@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM> Organization: Memory R&QA, Motorola SPD Lines: 20 In article <25590038@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM>, billw@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (William C Wickes) writes: > You are probably running into the dark side of HP 28 garbage collection, which > is at its worst when you decompose a list into its elements and leave > those elements on the stack. You should be able to solve the problem by > storing the list in a global variable BEFORE you use LIST-> (you can > purge the variable after you have finished with the elements). > > This is my best guess, without seeing your program. Oh, my, a calculator doing garbage collection--when will it stop? My father showed be a program he wrote in grad school that was several inches high--on FORTRAN punchcards! He said, "here you go Mike, if you want to use it, load it onto the mainframe and it will do Bode plots for you." . . . "No thanks Dad, I just programmed my calculator to do those." Michael C. Grant