Thread: Heap Limit?

I'm writing a fairly large game program and I just finished a section and was planning on updating the current release. But when I compiled it in MSVC++ 6 I got this error:

fatal error C1076: compiler limit : internal heap limit reached; use /Zm to specify a higher limit

I have barely any MSVC++ 6 experience. Assistance would be much appreciated Thanks.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...html/C1076.asp


that should help you a bit, there's many different things which could cause this.

Originally Posted by vasanth

just a comment.. by waht you are saying it looks like you are controlling the flow of the entire game using if else... am i right????

No. Just which abilities/moves the enemy uses. And the move list is so huge, it's confused the program.

Originally Posted by Salem

Seems to me like you're trying to compile the whole project as a single source file, because you have
#include "class.cpp"
for all the classes you have, instead of putting all the source files in the project.

Actually I have 4 header files and 2 CPP files but I think I've almost gotten this solved.

is there any way to simplify your coding using constants and loops?

example:

constants.h:

Code:

enum ItemTypes { POTION, BOTTLE, BOX, THING, TABLE, NUMITEMS };
 
const char ItemNames[NUMITEMS][32]=
{
	  "Potion",
	  "Bottle",
	  "Box",
	  "Thing",
	  "Table"
};
 
const int ItemPrices[NUMITEMS]=
{
	  50,
	  25,
	  5,
	  1,
	  20
};

game.cpp

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <constants.h>

int main()
{
	  cout << "Items you can purchase and their prices: " << endl;
	  for(int a=0;a<NUMITEMS;a++)
			  cout << ItemNames[a] << "  Gold: " << ItemPrices << endl;
	  getch();
	  return 0;
}

might be some bugs in that code, i just now wrote it, but you should get what i'm trying to say. This allows you to easily add new items just by adding one more ID and updating the names and prices. Kind of like a database. I'm not sure if you've already done this or know about it, cuz i haven't seen your code, but it sounds like you could benefit from doing something like this...Most programs shouldn't really have that many if-else statements as to overflow the stack

or just use a switch statement

Yeah I see what you are saying. The toughest part for me is the fact that I am just creating a 'game mod' so to speak. Or basically I am trying to make complete the work of someone else. But I'll try to work all of this out. Thanks a lot for the tips. This has in fact helped me know now, how to deal with larger programs. SO when I make my own I won't make the same mistakes that are in this one.