Re: Weird program errors that I can't duplicate. Maybe activation group problems?

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Normally, I would think this too. But a log out and log in "fixes" it. I am
thinking something is cached that I didn't expect to be cached.

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Monnier, Gary <Gary.Monnier@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Mike,
>
> It sounds like your receiving more data into a variable than it can hold.
>  I've run into this sort of thing when using the APIs.  In these instance
> I've set parameters incorrectly.
>
> Gary Monnier
>
>
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> Subject: Weird program errors that I can't duplicate. Maybe activation
> group problems?
>
> Two users have been reporting the same problem with one of my applications.
> I have a very complicated subprocedure that calculates the taxes on an
> invoice. I had one of the users try a few things, but I can't the program
> to crash on-demand (though it did several times though the testing). The
> error I get is "Receiver value too small to hold result." The user can log
> out and in again and retry it on the same invoice and it works flawlessly.
> Thus my thought it may be activation group problem.
>
> My modules are compiled with the H-Spec of
>
>     H nomain bnddir('ARBNDDIR') option(*srcstmt:*nodebugio)
>
> My programs are complied with the H-Spec of
>
>     H ActGrp(*caller) BndDir('ARBNDDIR':'MODULES') DftActGrp(*no)
>
> I am by no means an expert with activation groups. Should I change this to
> a named activation group? ActGrp(ARACTGRP)
>
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