Ah. Or "Recursion of macros exceeds..." I'll check my code.
-Alan
--- Olle Raab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 04-07-28 21.42, skrev Alan Mead följande:
>
> > As a I mentined earlier today in a different thread, I have
> upgraded
> > to 1.9.4 and I appreciate the greater checking.
> >
> > Most of the new warnings I get are clear but one of my units now
> > reports "Extension of macros exceeds a depth of 16". What does
> this
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> Actually I think the warning message is wrong..
>
> It should imo be "Expanding". I'll fix this.
>
> > warning mean and what is the rammification of ignoring it?
> >
> > The line number where it reports the warning is an {$if def ...}
> and
> > I would assume the warning had something to do with nesting
> compiler
> > conditionals... but that's not the case (unless the parser is
> really
> > getting lost... but since the code operates, I cannot imagne that
> > this is happening..). This conditional should be at the "top
> > level"--it is not nested under anything.
>
> It the recursive macro substitution which exceeds a depth of 16.
>
> This is probably due to a circular definition of a macro, e g
>
> {$DEFINE X = X}
>
> So that X is replaced by X, which is replaced by X etc. This is
> probably not
> what you want.
>
> After 16 replacements the recursion is stoped, thats what it is
> warned
> about.
>
> Olle
>
>
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