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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

2030.0. "Problem with Basic" by NLCFLS::ELLISM () Wed Dec 21 1988 08:36

    I'm writing a program in Amiga BASIC (don't laugh), and am hitting
    some problems. I hope someone may be able to help.
    
    I have to clear extra space for the program, because it is getting
    rather large.
    
    When I run the program first, it complains that a certain sub program,
    that I call, doesn't exist - but it does. So, I run it again and
    it works! However, if I run it again, When it tries to open it's
    4th window it complains that it is out of stack space.
    
    Any ideas anyone?
    
    Martin

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2030.1		SAUTER::SAUTER	John Sauter	`Wed Dec 21 1988 10:39`	3
	The best advice I can give is not to program in Amiga Basic. Consider C. John Sauter
2030.2		MTWAIN::MACDONALD	WA1OMM 7.093/145.05/223.58 AX.25	`Wed Dec 21 1988 17:03`	4
	The default stack is 25,000 I believe. Just increase it at the beginning of the program. Amiga BASIC programs compiled with the Absoft compiler run pretty darn fast. The ORBITS program in pauly"amiga":: was programmed in Basic and then compiled.
2030.3	Use the CLEAR command.	STC::HEFFELFINGER		`Thu Dec 22 1988 02:52`	1

2030.4	I can't...and I have!	HARDLY::ELLISM		`Thu Dec 22 1988 09:01`	16
	.1 I'm considering C for the future, but I'm writing this program for a friend - and he wants it like yesterday and I can't use C (Getting my manager to send me on a training course!) .2 and .3 I did say that I had tried CLEAR, maybe I just need to increase that but surely that doesn't cause the program not to find the sub program? Thanks for trying to help anyway Martin