Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-09-05 Thread Valiant Galaxy Associates
Hi. Aaron here. When working on Traders of Known Space free version I hit the stack limit a couple of times by accidentally creating a loop where the function I called ended up in a round-about manner calling the function that called it in the first place. Oopsy. Lol. The thing for one to

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-31 Thread john
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi, can you explain more of what you are trying to do? It is possible you can avoid your repeititious function calls with loops, return values, global variables or parameters. There is no way to increase or clear the call stack. You couldn't clear

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-31 Thread john
added, which would have driven that number up even further. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:17:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi John, I will answer your

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-31 Thread Aaron Baker
@audyssey.org Date sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:17:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi John, I will answer your questions as best I can but I think you have some confusion over what the call stack is, how it works, and therefore may be worrying about nothing. First

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-31 Thread shaun everiss
...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 22:17:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi John, I will answer your questions as best I can but I think you have some confusion over what the call stack is, how it works, and therefore may

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-31 Thread Aaron Baker
: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi John, I will answer your questions as best I can but I think you have some confusion over what the call stack is, how it works, and therefore may be worrying about nothing. First, as to your question there is no way to kill the stack with out killing

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-30 Thread Nicol
What is a call stack? And what will happen if a game have more than 1 functions? Will it take up too much CPU and memory? Is there any real danger if the call stack is increasing a lot? Unfortunately I do not have a solution for you as I am a very beginner with bgt myself. But this call stack

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-30 Thread john
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 10:39 AM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt What is a call stack? And what will happen if a game have more than 1 functions? Will it take up too much CPU and memory? Is there any real danger if the call

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-30 Thread john
@audyssey.org Date sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 17:53:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi, can you explain more of what you are trying to do? It is possible you can avoid your repeititious function calls with loops, return values, global variables or parameters. There is no way to increase

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-30 Thread Aaron Baker
: Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt Hi, can you explain more of what you are trying to do? It is possible you can avoid your repeititious function calls with loops, return values, global variables or parameters. There is no way to increase or clear the call stack. You couldn't clear the call

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi John, I will answer your questions as best I can but I think you have some confusion over what the call stack is, how it works, and therefore may be worrying about nothing. First, as to your question there is no way to kill the stack with out killing the entire program. If your function that

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Nicol, Quite simply put the call stack also known as the control stack or simply the stack is the way your memory is structured. Computer programs push the address for a function or a variable onto the stack, stacking them up like blocks, and when a function returns it pulls the address off

[Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-29 Thread john
HI all, As the subject suggests, I'm wondering if its possible to clear (or increase the size of) the call stack in bgt (or any programming language, for that matter). I'm having difficulty from keeping my projects from continually increasing the size of the stack, and while this would be just

Re: [Audyssey] clear call stack in bgt

2014-08-29 Thread Aaron Baker
Hi, can you explain more of what you are trying to do? It is possible you can avoid your repeititious function calls with loops, return values, global variables or parameters. There is no way to increase or clear the call stack. You couldn't clear the call stack, because then what happens if the