GPF if we use STRING( somenumber, "0")

[Chris Chancellor]

Hello Charles

i found this problem when running a program, the code is as below
there is no problem during compilation

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' StTest.o2bas
'  Testing of the STRING function or macro
$filename "StTest.exe"
uses rtl64

string st,  mt , ut
Long  stLen


st="  How are   you   today            "
stLen = LEN(st)

mt = STRING( LEN(st) , "0")
print  " mt  " + mt

print "  stLen  "  stLen

' this will GPF
ut = STRING( stLen, "0")
print  " ut  " + ut




when we use
mt = STRING( LEN(st) , "0")

then there is no problem


but when we use
stLen = LEN(st)
ut = STRING( stLen, "0")

then the program will GPF !

maybe some macro problem ?

[Brian Alvarez]

Might be related...

https://www.oxygenbasic.org/forum/index.php?topic=1798.0

[Chris Chancellor]

Thanxx Brian

yup it's  the same problem with STRING() 
looks like we need to wait for Charles latest progress zip on this.

to bypass this problem we have to use

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mt = STRING( LEN(st) , "0")


[Charles Pegge]

Hi Chris,

This string(..) problem does not occur with the current OXSC, and Brian's macro bug is also fixed.

[Brian Alvarez]

...looks like we need to wait for Charles latest progress zip on this.

Charles was very quick to get this fixed.

[Chris Chancellor]

Hello Charles

in regards to  "current OXSC"    how do we get the co2.exe ?   

do we have to compile the stuff that are inside this download link zip ?

https://github.com/Charles-Pegge/OxygenBasic/blob/master/OXSC181217.zip

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Chris,

The recent OXSCs include oxygen.dll, RTL32 and RTL64 ready to use. The oxsc folder is only required for development and self-compiling.

[Chris Chancellor]

Thanxx a lot, Charles

as i won't be using JIT  then Oxygen.dll won't be used by me

i'm only interested in getting Co2.exe

so do you mean that i could compile the program "BuildCo2.o2bas"  located inside OXSC zip  file to get 
the latest  Co2.exe ?

[James C. Fuller]

Chris,
  In your current OxygenBasic folder just replace the oxygen.dll with the new one and replace the RTL32.inc and RTL64.inc in your OxygenBasic/inc folder with the new ones.
I suggest making backups.
James

[Chris Chancellor]

Thanxx a lot, James


Long time no hear from you. 

[Charles Pegge]

co2.exe is only a very thin shell for oxygen.dll

[Chris Chancellor]

Good to learn something here, Co2.exe is quite a good compiler as its output exe footprint or size is very small.

unlike those exe produce by C# which is quite chunky and it needs .Net framework to run.