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From: bob@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Bob F. Breedlove)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Problems with Pascal Program
Summary: PASCAL Program Help
Keywords: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.161311.28252@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>
Date: 8 Mar 91 16:13:11 GMT
References: <3054@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
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In article <3054@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, smash@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Scott Mash) writes:
> I am writing a program in Turbo Pascal and I have ran into a roadblock.
> 
> The program is very large and passes a great amount of variables.  A 
> little ways into the program it starts call procedures that are not
> accessed in that part of the program and starts printing control   
> characters to the screen.  It just goes nuts.  I had to make the user
> stack larger because of the number of variables it uses.
> 
Without being able to see the program itself, it is difficult to
debug it, but have you thought of recursion problems?  That is a
procedure or function which is calling itself and building huge
amounts of data on the stack?
-- 
Bob Breedlove  SYSOP: BOBsBBS (916/929-7511)
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