rwp@dsl.eng.cam.ac.uk (Richard Prager) (11/10/90)
I am experiencing a problem retrieving storable classes when a very
large number of objects are being used. I have a program which grows
gradually and there comes a point where it is impossible to reload the
dump file. I am using the class storable rather than the environment.
Below I have listed an example header from one of the dump files which
would not work. The total number of linked_lists is given as negative.
Could this be a 16 bit signed number overflow, or have I made some
fundamental mistake? (apart from writing programs which use preposterous
numbers of linked lists).
Eiffel store file ss= 41
Special 328
input_stage 11 1 8
dimension 13 63 5
token 14 88 9
sorted_list 15 1 9
range 16 5544 7
linkable 17 11256 2
linked_list 27 -26904 9
array 34 328 5
total -1 56241 11
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Richard Prager
Cambridge University Engineering Department
Trumpington Street, Cambridge. UK.
rwp@uk.ac.cam.eng