Forums Bug Reports * Error allocating stack memory [/scid]

I'm writing a little alias, just want to be away in all connections.
I tried:

But I'm getting * Error allocating stack memory (line 23, aliases.ini)

Tried again but long an the error continue.


My pc is not out of memory, I checked

This is a Windows error, not a mIRC bug.

Windows allocates a percentage of your total memory for stacks, and if those stacks become too full, you'll get that error message.

Additionally, since your alias is called away, and you had the away command in the alias, it would try to call itself.
This is referred to as recursive calling, which is not allowed in mIRC scripting.

The following code will do what it appears you want the alias to accomplish, while avoiding both problems.

Actually that's not true.

From help.chm
An alias cannot call itself recursively mainly because this seems to cause more problems for users than it solves.

/help aliases

Except in this case the alias does not call itself directly but through /scid, so the restriction mentioned in the help file doesn't apply.

The problem is indeed caused by recursion but it has nothing to do with Windows. The "error allocating stack memory" is just mirc's way of saying "you reached a recursion depth that exceeds the limit I have set" (which varies among versions and is currently 85 for /scid-mediated recursion - the most you can get is 255 by mutually recursive aliases called as commands, not as identifiers).

Ahhh I just missed one line in aliases help

Thanks.

How do you get 255 ? I can only do it 85 time like you said by using /scid

//set %i 0 | mutrec1

As you can see, to get the maximum (effective) depth you have to duplicate code (have two mirror aliases that call each other).

Oh ok, I thought you could do this with only one alias, thanks