RE: [sqr-users] is there a limt to ARRAY Extents available using SQR 8.x

[Wendy Biggs <biggswl@vt.edu>]

OK... Thanks Peter!

so I won't worry about running out of array space... (I'll just have to 
worry about running out of space for the rest of my program to squeeze 
through <grin> )

out of curiosity, how do you know these things?  is there somewhere I 
should be looking?

--wb

At 11:03 AM 7/11/2003, you wrote:
>Wendy,
>
>The EXTENT keyword takes a value from 0 to 2GB.  There is no limit as to how
>many times the array is extended.  Of course the underlying limit is how
>much memory the process can acquire from the system.
>
>Peter
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wendy Biggs [mailto:biggswl@vt.edu]
>Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:44 AM
>To: sqr-users@sqrug.org
>Subject: [sqr-users] is there a limt to ARRAY Extents available using
>SQR 8.x
>
>
>
> >SQR 8.x allows you to set up incremental extents to the base array size
> >with an optional "extent= " parameter.  I can't find documentation
> >anywhere that says *how many* extents it will grant tho...  are extents
> >unlimited?  does anyone know? or know where I might find out?
> >
> >there MUST be a limit... either number of extents or total memory
>available...
> >
> >I set up a little test array (below) and built a loop to see if I could
> >figure it out myself... so far I've pushed the number of extents to 1200
> >so it seems to me that the limit must be memory size if one exists.
> >
> >create-array name=t_array size={T_ArrayMax} extent=5
> >    field=a:char
> >    field=b:char
> >    field=c:char
> >
> >any ideas?
> >
> >--wb
>
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