Hi Bruce,
Good news: if you have a look at the bug report, the last comment is a
link to the GitHub pull request in which the bug is addressed.
The milestone of the pull request is 7.1.0 RC 1, so in the next version
of LiveCode 7.1 that will be released, the bug will be fixed :)
Regards,
Sébastien
On 27/07/2015 01:43, Bruce Pokras wrote:
Update: this is bug report 15602. The response from the Livecode folks is that
7.0.x is using 16-bit numbers for the recursionlimit property, so Jacque hit
the nail on the head. However, in 6.x.x they were using 32-bit numbers, so my
setting a very high recursion limit actually did have an effect. They confirm
that this is a bug. No promise on the timing of a fix, though.
On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
On 7/13/2015 9:23 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote:
The first time I opened the stack in 7.0.6 that had been developed
under 6.0.2 I received an error message related to the “openstack”
command in the stack script. It said that the value to which I had
set the recursionlimit property “is not a number.” The value I used
was 20000000. Looks like a number to me! (I am on a Mac, so the
Windows issue does not effect me). I tried various numbers until I
finally narrowed it down. Attempting to set the recursionlimit
property to any number greater than 65535 gives me an error that that
value is not a number. Also, setting the recursionlimit to a low
number like 40 does not work as expected. After setting the
recursionlimit property to 40 I typed “put the recursionlimit” into
the message box and hit “return.” The number that it returned was in
the high 30-thousands!
I'm not sure about the 30,000 issue, but 65535 is the upper limit for a 16-bit
number. It may be that earlier versions of LC just didn't throw any errors if
you exceeded that.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65535_(number)>
"65535 occurs frequently in the field of computing because it is the highest number
which can be represented by an unsigned 16-bit binary number. Some computer programming
environments may have predefined constant values representing 65535, with names like
MAX_UNSIGNED_SHORT."
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HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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