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We have caught a monster. My company recompiled our software from S87
to 5.01 but the new versons suffer intermitant crashes, either locking
up or giving an internal error excuse.
The rates increase and descrease with different system boards. We
were afraid that Taiwanese PC platforms were the main cause. Even a
virus has been a suggested. But now we have a monster in a bottle and
it shows that the trouble is not hardware and not a virus.
The clipper code and variations are attached. It seems that repeated
opening, searching and closing a file crashes after a few thousand
loops. Adjusting the code slightly changes the longevity. Moving the
"use" outside the loop solved the problem.
The little program has been fixed. However, we have several other
programs which continue to crash, and they are 25,000 lines long.
The general problem is a memory management related crash after
several successful iterations.
For example, one of our customers averages one crash per day. Screen
captures show four different lines are involved, all of them
"USE (P1)". They all call "DBUSEAREA(0)" and lead to a salad bar of
internal errors, but mostly "memory low", 5333, 670, 666.
What is going on here? Is it documented? Are there workarounds?