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From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: TP overlays are not safe!
Keywords: tp, overlays, bug
Message-ID: <Sep.12.22.00.00.1990.5525@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 90 02:00:01 GMT
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I've encountered another bug in Turbo Pascal 5.5.  The program in
question was well withn TP's weenie memory requirements, and to be
sure I broke it up into three units (the main unit was under 10k!).
The problem:  when compiled, TP gives me a strange error (like "line
or and pos funct" file not found) and then proceeds to remove my
program from memory.  Apparently TP5.5 doesn't like the fact that
I'm doing 40 or so nested while-do loops; perhaps it has some type
of stack which keeps track of this nesting and which gets so large
that it offs a chunk of memory (which the main unit is in!).

Has anyone else had a similar problem?

-Chris