Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >IMHO it is definitely bad design. Regardless of input data size the program should not depend on "the more data at input the more memory" rule. Of course, if the program requirements does not depend on data size, then it's even more funny.
Agreed. 'memory hogs' are a bad design. If you can't rewrite the software, you can try to bypass the bad designs by re-selecting your input and hope for an useful output and ... ... 'program ends nicely without a nice message about memory'. :-[ ><Friday mode> >It's even more than new version Excel requires! ></Friday mode> Shhhh.... You will cause a memory leak! ( ugly bad pun intended! :-D ) Hmm: I wonder where does that faulty program of Mark got memory to moan and write about lack of memory? ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
