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TSE: Error: Compile: Macro too large: How to circumvent the 'macro too large' message in TSE?

Nov 14th, 2001 12:19
Knud van Eeden,

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--- Knud van Eeden - 14 November 2001 - 10:01 pm -----------------------

Cause:

This might happen when you are exceeding the maximum macro filesize.

[Internet: see: 
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/12860/fid/903]

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Possible solutions:

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Reduce the size of your macro .s source file:

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e.g.

 -Split your program in functional parts (e.g. part 11, part 12,...)

 -Make a separate macro for every functional part (e.g. create files 
macro11.s, macro12.s, macro13.s,...)

 -Compile every macro  (e.g. load file macro11.s, compile 
macro11.s, ...)
  If you want to exchange parameter information between your macros:

 -Exchange parameters
   REPEAT
    -send exchange information via parameters (use e.g. the TSE 
MacroCmdLine() function)
    -execute that macro when necessary (e.g. ExecMacro( "macro11.mac", 
ExecMacro( "macro12.mac" ), ...)
    -receive exchange information via parameters (use e.g. the TSE 
MacroCmdLine() function)
   UNTIL stop

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e.g.

Use conditional compilation to compile only the relevant parts of your 
macro

 e.g.

    ...
    #DEFINE ...
    ...
    ...
    ...
    #IFDEF ...
     // do this
    #ELSE
     // do that
    #ENDIF

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PS reducing the string size (e.g. using
 STRING s[100]
   instead of
 STRING s[255]
 did not help, as this only influences the size of the macro when
 running in memory

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After all these possible changes, recompile the macro and check e.g. if
the filesize of your macro has reduced.

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