Recursion level has been exceeded

[jvanegmond]

Recursion level has been exceeded - AutoIt will quit to prevent stack overflow.:

For $x = 1 to _ArrayMaxIndex($maps)

What is this? Obviously, this is not what i want.

[Nomad]

Recursion level has been exceeded - AutoIt will quit to prevent stack overflow.:

For $x = 1 to _ArrayMaxIndex($maps)

What is this? Obviously, this is not what i want.

The program was terminated because the stack was too full. I'm not extremely familiar with manipulating the stack, but I do know that certain functions store information on the stack and if it gets too full...

I've hit a similar problem in the past because I was calling functions from inside of functions and never allowing a function to fully complete and return. Maybe _ArrayMaxIndex was called too many times without relieving the stack and this is what caused this. That's where I would start.

You have a lot of posts so I'm sure you are already aware of this information I am giving you. I'm just offering it incase you aren't aware.

Hope this helps,

Nomad

[neogia]

You should try something like this to see if it is truly this line causing the problem.

$maxIndex = _ArrayMaxIndex($maps)
For $x = 1 to $maxIndex

Edited June 1, 2006 by neogia

[jvanegmond]

The program was terminated because the stack was too full. I'm not extremely familiar with manipulating the stack, but I do know that certain functions store information on the stack and if it gets too full...

I've hit a similar problem in the past because I was calling functions from inside of functions and never allowing a function to fully complete and return. Maybe _ArrayMaxIndex was called too many times without relieving the stack and this is what caused this. That's where I would start.

You have a lot of posts so I'm sure you are already aware of this information I am giving you. I'm just offering it incase you aren't aware.

Hope this helps,

Nomad

Im also making a function call itself. So i'm getting a feeling it is that problem. I had a bit of a pause but i'm now stripping as many as possible from the function, so away goes the #include <array.au3>

Thanks for the help in advance and i'll let you know where it goes wrong again.

I stil don't have a answer though ! What is stack overflow exactly?

[edit] I'm just having the error now.. :

Recursion level has been exceeded - AutoIt will quit to prevent stack overflow.:

ListAllFilesToArray($maps[$x])

this line is inside the function ListAllFilesToArray()

Edited June 1, 2006 by Manadar

[DaleHohm]

Stack is special address space used by your program for calculations. You "push" values onto the stack and you pull them off again ("pop") in reverse order (LIFO - Last In First Out). If you've ever used an RPN calculator, every time you press Enter you push a value onto the stack... operators (+ - * /) pop values off and use them in calculations (and free their positions on the stack).

Understand that or not, you should untuitively understand that infinitely recursing is a bad thing. The system has to keep track of each previous context so that you can unwind back to it. Unchecked it can eat all the resources on your system, thus recursion limits.

Before you use recursion you need to think through how each level can know that it is done and exit back to the calling level - otherwise you find yourself at the bottom of a very deep hole with no means of getting back out.

Dale

Edit: typo

Edited June 2, 2006 by DaleHohm