Re: Problems with temporary string storage space

Jun Nolasco wrote: > This is -4518 error is a known "feature" of Informix-4GL and New Era. > The best place to learn more about this topic is at the web sites of > both Informix and the International Informix User Group (IIUG). Don't > have the IIUG site address handy though. http://www.iiug.org/ Note: error -4518 is obsolete -- see below for an extended diatribe. > Ignasi Fosch Alonso wrote: > > I'v found a problem with a 4GL program running on an Informix SE > > with SCO Openserver. This machine is a AMD K6-2 300 MHz with 64 Mb > > RAM space and sufficient disk space. We have a program which > > unloads some data to ASCII files for a modem communication, but in > > this case, the program exits abnormally with the following error > > message: > > > > 4GL run-time error number -4518 > > The 4GL program cannot allocate any more space for temporary string > > storage. OK; which version of I4GL are you using? Hint: it is 4.11 or earlier. 4.12 and all later versions simply do not, under any circumstances, produce the -4518 error message. I know; I fixed the code and removed the only point in the product where the error message was generated. The same fix also eliminated -4517 as an error, too. > > I've checked this with other computers and the same configuration > > runs OK! The same version of I4GL? I doubt it. > > Maybe I think there would be any problem with the swap space..... No; there was a 5120 byte limit, and it was easily reached. Nothing to do with hardware limitations. The new code might, conceivably, run out of memory eventually, but that would produce an altogether different message (-4453?) and is pretty improbable. > > This machine was installed urgently and I think there is no > > sufficient swap space (I used to install three times the RAM > > space) and this machine's swap space is less than the RAM space. This is a pure software limit; upgrade to a current version. 4.11 was released in 1993; 4.10 in 1990 or 1989. They're ancient. The current versions are 4.20 and 7.20; 7.30 will be released soon. > > Folks, you'll be > > thinking "What is this guy doing!" Must I reinstall all the system? No, just upgrade your I4GL. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>