[BUG] To many temps lead to crash or endless loop...

Stephan Rudlof sr at evolgo.de
Tue Dec 28 02:34:29 UTC 1999


Squeakers,

I have written an adHoc - not nice - testing method, which evolved from
workspace computation:
28 temps were OK, but with one dummy var more -> endless loop; with some
more -> crash!

I've searched a while for the reason of this problem, then I've
systematically reduced the complexity of this method and came to these
results.
After that I've taken a look onto the Squeak-ML and found a limit of 31
or so...

Does anybody know, if it is possible to avoid crashes and throw an
exception or simply an error message?

Sorry, I'm not a VM specialist... But I hate crashes!

Greetings,

Stephan

P.S.: I don't want to start a discussion about sense or nonsense of so
much temps: I've wanted to reduce them and will do so, but for quick
testing by copy and paste it was comfortable, but then I was punished...
-- 
Stephan Rudlof (sr at evolgo.de)
   "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis.
    You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.'"
    -- Kirk, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3





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