[Oberon] System Freeze in Oberon System

[Patrick.Hunziker at unibas.ch]

(Lieber Pieter
ich moechte meine Mailinglist Teilnahme auf meine andere Email: 
Patrick.Hunziker at unibas.ch umbestellen, habe aber mein Passwort vergessen.)

System Freeze with stack overflow : 
All versions of Windows Oberon including the current release from 05/2001 are 
shot down by this module:

MODULE Temp;

PROCEDURE dosomething(a: ARRAY OF CHAR);
BEGIN
END dosomething;

PROCEDURE Do*;
VAR A:ARRAY 1000000 OF CHAR;
BEGIN
 dosomething(A)
END Do; 

END Temp.

Concerning state of the windows versions:
the 'current version' 05/2001 is very unconfortable to use compared to 12/2000 
because the new version of the 'Packages' module does not allow reinstallation 
of .oaf packages that are already registered in their current version, even in 
the case where small portion of the modules of the content of the package has 
been deleted. This is because packages do not check for consistency.
Loss/deletion of a single file thus leads to major problems, often solved only 
be reinstallation of the whole system. For the 05/2001 version, this is 
a "killer bug" in my opinion, which makes it preferable to use the 12/2000 
version for development although several improvements could be found in 
05/2001, and for running of applications only, I prefer the latter one.
Patrick

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