Re: FW: Have you seen this?

Hi Stephen,

> Dear Sir or Madam,

You know that your message was posted to a public mailing list, right?
that it's going to hundreds of people, and will be archived in a public
place on the Internet?

> I'm define 507 fields at 6063 characters and the program compiles just
> fine.
> When I go to 508 fields at 6073 characters the program does not compile
> giving me the attached job log.

The error message in the job log is MCH4216, which states that you've
exceeded the maximum amount of automatic storage that a procedure can
have.

"Automatic storage" is the memory where a subprocedure's local variables
are stored.  (Variables that are not global to the entire program are
"local variables.")

I'm curious as to what you're doing that you need more than 16mb of RAM
that's local to a single subprocedure!

At any rate, here are some possible solutions:

a) If possible, make your code more efficient so that it doesn't need so
much space.

b) Split your routine into multiple subprocedures so that they're not all
active at once, and therefore not all using memory at once.

c) Store large variables each in their own user space.  Yes, this
complicates the code, but allows you to use shared storage, and if it runs
out of RAM, it'll use disk.  Each variable in it's own space will give
each variable 16mb of possible space, instead of 16mb total for the entire
procedure.

d) If necessary, allocate space manually with the %alloc() BIF or ALLOC
op-code instead of using automatic storage.  This is very similar to using
user spaces, but will hog more RAM, and use disk less.  Depends on how you
want to optimize your code, I guess.  Don't forget to de-allocate!

Good Luck