Memory limit in variables??

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:03 pm

I ran up against this in a thread on the use list, about populations of cities.

The following will fail if the repeat index is greater than 27:

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on mouseUp
   put "1234" into temp
   repeat 27
      put temp & return after temp
   end repeat
   answer the length of temp
end mouseUp

The barrier seems to be about a length of 1,000,000,000. OSX 10.9, LC 6.7.

Craig Newman

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:02 am

Confirmed on Mac. On Ubuntu in v6.7 I can go up to 28, but at 29 it throws an abort execution error.

With v7 on Linux I can go up to 29, but the resulting length shows as -1610612737.

At 30 it simply crashes on Linux, but at that point we're well past the 4GB limit of addressable space the current LC engine is able to understand internally.

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 4:31 am

Richard.

I had thought originally that I simply ran into the 4GB limit. But it is about a sixth of that. Should I inform Scotland?

Craig

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:23 am

dunbarx wrote:I had thought originally that I simply ran into the 4GB limit. But it is about a sixth of that. Should I inform Scotland?

Wouldn't hurt. They might be able to exceed that, or at very last we'll learn why it does this.

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:53 pm

Filed bug report 15041.

Craig

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