I get the following exception when my program is started.



I think its related somehow to the size of my program, but I'm not getting any kind of compiler warning about size.
I think its somehow size related because if I remove portions of the code that I'm not immediately using then it goes away.

@developers: what should I do about this?

Better than that, try posting your code...

While I can appreciate the technique of asking novice programmers to "post their code" to fix what is usually very simple logic or syntax errors... I am not a novice programmer and in this case suggesting that I post the code is almost comical.

I specifically mentioned I thought it was a size issue. The source code is 15+ files and 100+ pages of code. Do you really want me to post that in a mile long code block...

I was able to temporarily bypass the problem by refactoring the code to be a little more efficient (seems like <12K works fine).

I really need to know from the developers what would cause that runtime error (I can of course email the source tree for troubleshooting)

Is it raw program size? # of functions? # of structures/variables? or just a bug.

Actually, its definitely a bug even if its unavoidable...the COMPILER should error out not some obscure runtime error. If there ARE size restrictions, then the compiler summary needs to inform us of what % we are using. Otherwise we can only assume if it compiles and fits in the NXT it should run.

I don't know how to help you with your problem but just for your reference, our code has almost 4000 lines of actual code (excluding comments, 7000 lines if you count comments) in 34 files. This is not even counting Xander's library code. RobotC has a limit of 160 total subroutines. We had exceeded that and had to comment out some unused code in Xander's library to get around it. So I consider we have fairly good size code but we don't see the problem you are seeing. The only suggestion I have is to send email to support@robotc.net.

Umm... how does a FTC team have that much code? I've got nearly a thousand lines in my auto and 500 in teleop and I thought I had a lot.

We have a generic library containing code for PID control, cooperative multi-tasking, menu system, line following, event notification system, state machines and various sensors. That library has 2000 lines of code by itself. We may not use everything in the competition though depending on the task. This year's competition is a bit complicated. We have 7 autonomous strategies. So it adds up.

I've seen this error before, it can happen for all sorts of reasons. Issues that have caused errors like this in the past, include:

• A bad parameter to a function
• Struct member memory alignment
• Probably others, too

The compiler would not allow you to create a binary that is too big or has too many functions.


As for this comment, well, not everyone knows you're not a novice and your assumption about size may have been wrong. It is not wise to scold those who offer to help for going through the usual QA that probably solves 95% of the problems people have on these forums.

- Xander