> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Eric Siu wrote:
>
> > I want to directly assign string to a array of charptr, like the
> > following,
> >
> > CharPtr line[1000];
> > UInt i;
> >
> > for (i=0;i<1000;i++){
> > line[i]=MemPtrNew(14);
> > StrCopy(Q9Word[i],"today is fine");
> > }
> >
> > when the i is up to 600, the emulator say "bus error", what's the problem?
> > or any other way to directly assgin a string to a CharPtr ?
>
> any chance you could be overflowing the stack? (remember, local
> vars are put on the stack)..
>
> the variable 'line' will take up 1000*4 bytes (assuming pointers
> are 4 bytes).. thats 4K.. then at 600, you have allocated
> 600x14 bytes... thats 8K.. so that gives me a figure around 12K.
>
> which is probably where you stack runs out.. :) [as a rough guess]
>
> the code here does not state where you are running this stuff from
> (local, global etc).. nor do you state what machine you are using
> Palm Pro, III, IIIx or V.
The 'line' is a global var, and the machine is IIIX. any other
good suggestion?
>
> try declaring the 'line' variable globally.. not locally - hence
> not using the stack.
>
> cheers.
>
> az.
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