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Re: repeat() crash

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Sep 27, 2003
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Robert Elia wrote:
>     Has anyone ever seen this before?
> 
>         sequence s
> 
>         s = repeat(0,1073741823)
> 
>     I get a machine exception from ex.exe and exw.exe; 

If you try smaller or larger values you'll get
a normal error message. You've hit on a number that causes
C overflow problems when I call C's malloc(), leading to a
machine-level exception. You should still get a Euphoria
ex.err file. I'll add a test for this and give you a better message.

 > With ex.exe on XP, I didn't even get a Causeway error;
 > it just stopped running and returned to the command line.

That seems to be typical for CauseWay errors on XP for DOS.
Not much I can do, short of going into the CauseWay open source.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com