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Re: Syntax Error in a compiled executable
« Reply #5 on: Jan 17th, 2015, 07:38am » |
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Richard,
Many thanks for your kind assistance in sorting this one out. Just a question on structure members and the REM!Fast compiler directive. Could you confirm or correct my understanding please, which is that this would all be acceptable:-
Member% +=0
MEMBER% +=0
DIM Structure{Member%,MEMBER%}
DIM StructArray{(10) Member%,MEMBER%}
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REM!Fast Structure{}, StructArray{()}, Member%
...but the addition of this line:-
REM!Fast Structure.Member%
.. would break things
Many thanks,
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Re: Syntax Error in a compiled executable
« Reply #6 on: Jan 17th, 2015, 09:27am » |
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on Jan 17th, 2015, 07:38am, JFS wrote:| REM!Fast Structure{}, StructArray{()}, Member% |
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It's OK to have Structure{} and StructArray{()} in a REM!Fast directive, but adding Member% will cause the program to fail at run-time with a Syntax Error (it's the name of a structure member).
This is called out in the documentation: "You must not include in the list the names of any structure members (even if they happen to share their name with a normal variable)".
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That is invalid syntax; I don't know exactly what would happen if you tried it but it won't be helpful! The docs state that REM!Fast "accepts a list of variable, array, structure, function and procedure names", and what you have there is none of those.
The REM!Fast directive should only be used if it provides a real benefit, and only after your program has been thoroughly debugged. Its incorporation makes the compiled code 'unreadable' and would have made the diagnostics I performed yesterday, to trace the cause of your problem, impossible to carry out.
Richard.
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Re: Syntax Error in a compiled executable
« Reply #7 on: Jan 17th, 2015, 12:52pm » |
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That's fine - many thanks for the clarification Richard.
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