Posted by Robert G Laurin on April 23, 2007 at 06:52:52: Uploaded files: 1
The IB Compiler summary page is pretty useless. I just compiled this program and it tells me that the total size is 3,920 (see attached screen shot). What I really need to know is the size of the data segment (28,880) and the program segment (40,576; for a total of 69,456).
I already know that I have a limitation of 56K for data and 64K for code. I often compile programs that are near or even larger than that. As my programs get more complex and tables are getting large I have a greater need to know how much more room do I have.
When I compile a program that grossly exceeds the limits, the compiler will tell. But if the program is just slightly larger than allowed, the compiler somehow compiles it fine and the run-time will generate the error. Shouldn’t the compiler give us an error if we exceed the allowed sizes? Shouldn’t it in the least give us a summary we can use? I don’t want to do the maths, give my totals I can use. And make the grand total more than 64k.
And why? Oh why! Does the compiler displays tons of blank lines at the ends that make all error message scroll off… Can’t the screen be resized to a more manageable size? Too often I have to compile to the spooler just to find this one stupid error that I couldn’t see on a regular compile. And why does the spooler keeps switching between page count and lines count? Or is that another story???
Also, why can’t the QTILITY-15 Filent gives us a memory usage summary for objects?