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**Crash (Should not happen)

 [1/1] from: larry::ecotope::com at: 8-May-2001 20:21


Hi all, I was trying to explore the ctx-edit object in View 1.1 on Win98. View was started by booting direct to the console with no user code in user.r. Here is the annotated console session. -------------------------------------------------
>> edit-ob: context ctx-edit >> print mold edit-ob
** Script Error: Not enough memory ** Near: print mold edit-ob
>> rebol/stats
== 8559840
>> recycle >> rebol/stats
== 3456224
>> b: third edit-ob
; Console cursor disappears, interpreter seems hung. ; I changed focus to another app window. Then there ; was a bell sound and a hilite dialog in the task-bar ; (only on Win98) with this title and msg: REBOL - Fatal System Error **Crash (Should not happen) - Corrupt datatype: 96 ; Clicking back in the console, I was still able ; to cut and paste the following == ** Script Error: Not enough memory ** Near: -------------------------------------------------------- In prior sessions, I established that with ctx-viewtop loaded into an object: print mold ctx-viewtop and print mold ctx-viewtop/dtc-face both lead to the out-of-memory error above when REBOL has used about 16.3 MB of Windows memory. rebol/stats shows about 11 Mb after the out-of-memory error. Recycle puts stats back to about 4 MB. I also found that b: third ctx-viewtop/dtc-face resulted in the same Fatal System Error as above. An important observation is that
>>print mold system/view
works ok. So there is something special about the way that ctx-viewtop and ctx-edit are written that causes important system functions like MOLD and THIRD to fail. I looked at ctx-edit because it is a small object. It is also true that
>>print mold system
worked in the later View betas without producing an out-of-memory error. As far as I can tell, the only parts of View 1.1 which produce the out-of-memory error are ctx-viewtop and ctx-edit, because if you boot to the console with these still in the form of spec blocks
>>print mold system
works just fine. Puzzled -Larry