Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!umbc3.umbc.edu!gmuvax2!mhovan From: mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mike Hovan) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 error message Summary: Still punching...... Keywords: Clipper Arghhhh Message-ID: <1991May13.223912.1975@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Date: 13 May 91 22:39:12 GMT Sender: mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. Lines: 60 Well I have been dueling with Tom in E-Mail, but to show my support for Mr. Deignan I am going to move further comments here. Anyway, I started this thread a while back with a question about an error message I recieved from clipper 5.01. I have NOT tracked down the problem although I am slowly digging up a little bit of Info about the new clipper release. A release which is STILL buggy, no matter what propaganda Mr. Leyland insists on spewing. Nantucket may have fixed the virtual memory problems from version 5.0 but they have added/revealed static memory problems with the latest release. (Not to mention the Overlay problems MR. Deignan reports) Here is a list of the Undocumented errors I have encountered: 668: Eval Stack Fault Possibly stack underflow ??? (Mr Leyland ?) This error is random, and has not been reproduced. 667: Eval Stack Fault Looks like it might have something to do with stack overflow. 650: Processor Stack Fault Again, it looks like something to do with stack overflow. 332: ??????? This error said something like Out of String/Array space. This error has not been reproduced. 667 & 650 are more limitations of DOS than clipper. (Although I think that a more elegant program termination would be nice. AND DOCUMENTATION SOMEWHERE TELLING ME WHY I SEE THESE ERRORS!) 668 and 332 are the ones that worry me, as they show up randomly. I can run a program 10 times on 4 different machines with identical key sequences, and it will crash 3 of 40 times; Recompile and it runs without problems. Has anyone been over on compuserve to see if anything interesting is showing up from those folks? Has anyone figured out how to get a recursive function to run in a "SEQUENCE" block? MIke ps. I think I just figured it all out. This is Nantucket's way of getting you to buy their support contract. (I know the first month is free.) pps. For anyone thinking about upgrading, 5.01 is faster at both compile time and run-time. It also really does have virtual memory. I actually dynamically allocated 160,000 elements in dozens of arrays. I wish I could have done it in one, but the 4096 limit got me. -- |X|X| "Women, Michael Andrew Hovan III |X|X| |X| Can't live with them, mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu |X| |X| Can't fry them in a WOK!" George Mason University |X| |X|X| -- MTV Half-Hour Comedy Hour Fairfax, Virginia, USA |X|X|