Default value: 400

Allowed range: 25 to 2000

 

The purpose of this compiler directive is to avoid an accidental infinite loop while processing a macro.

 

Consider the following code :

nRunningDate = Today()
nNextMillenium = FirstDateOfMonth(3000, 1)
while nRunningDate <= nNextMillenium
   // do something …
endwhile

If you forget to increase the value of nRunningDate inside the while  loop, you will get an infinite loop. To protect you against this, every time you enter into a for or while loop, the macro evaluator keeps track of the number of times you have looped.

         

If that number exceeds the value of MAX_NUM_ITERATIONS, then an error message will be generated, detailing the value of the loop counter, and the assembler line where it occurred, and aborting the script.

 

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Topic 107016, last updated on 18-Apr-2020