I believe that is the rule. Anything after the 8th can not be complex.


W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Bruneau [mailto:paul_bruneau@...]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:35 AM
To: futurebasic@...
Subject: Re: [FB] More than 8 fn parameters


On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 06:06 PM, Brian Stevens wrote:

> On Feb 19, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Paul Bruneau wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>>
>> I know there is something bad about having more than 8 parameters in 
>> a function, but I didn't think it was too too bad.
>>
>> But when I added a couple parameters to one of my functions which 
>> made it have 10, all kinds of weirdness occurred that seemed to trash 
>> memory or something. Mostly the app would just quit without any error 
>> or warning. The compiler didn't seem to mind, though.
>>
>> Can someone tell me where to look in the docs to see what badness I 
>> did?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>
> Paul,
>
> I remember PPC has a limit of 8 parms unless you have more than 32k of 
> parms in which case you are limited to 7 parms. I don't know if this 
> is documented anywhere. Then again my (alleged) memory could be wrong. 
> Hopefully, others will chime in.

Thanks, Brian-

No one else chimed in...

I thought one could have more than 8, but if one did, they could not be 
"complex". Oh well...for my problem I reduced it to seven and all is 
well.

Thanks again,

Paul

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