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Newcomers DBPro Corner / 100% machine code with Line Numbers?

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MatriX
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Posted: 11th Sep 2006 10:17
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I asked a question a long time ago and I'm still not clear on it really.

If DBPro creates 100% machine code - how is it that a runtime error returns a line number error?

For example - "Runtime Error 506 - Could Not Load Image at line 200"

How does it know what line number the error was at after it was compiled into machine code?

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IanM
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Posted: 11th Sep 2006 23:02
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It's easy.

The code checks to see if an error occurred by simply checking if a certain memory location contains a non-zero value. If it does, the code moves the line number into another memory location and then jumps to the error-recovery code to end the program. Finally, the program uses the error number stored in the error memory location as a lookup into a table containing the error string.

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