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Re: Stack Overflow
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Date:
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Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:41:26 GMT
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Original-From:
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Max Davies <mdavies@cam.[Spamless]org>
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William Sitch wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm trying to download a rather large chunk of code to the HandyBoard,
> and I'm having a problem when I exceed a certain number of instructions in a
> procedure I'm running. When I try to download the code, I get the error
> "yacc stack overflow" pointing to a line in a procedure that I spawn to be
> multitasked.
>
> I tried to increase the stack size of the process I spawn, but the error
> still exists. I think I might be getting a compile-time stack overflow - or
> something like that. The procedure it crashes for is a leg controller, and
> consists of many "if .. else if" statements.
>
> It would be bad design to move some of the code to another procedure, and I
> would like to avoid doing that. Does anyone know exactly why I'm having
> this problem, or what I could do to remedy the situation?
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> William Sitch
> 4th Year Electrical Engineering http://www.engsoc.carleton.ca/~wsitch
I'm pretty good at software and may be able to help you. But I need to see your
code: please send it to me privately and I'll see what I can do.
PS: What kind of hardware/software platform are you on? "Yacc" is typically a
Unix program that I thought had nothing to do with IC. (And yes, the real Unix
"yacc" can stack overflow with excessively nested if/then/else quite easily...
I just fixed a problem like that for my employer).
/Max
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