Large string constant causes C# compiler crash - Page 2

Gnik

I created a C# application with some large string constants and whenever I
try to build the solution the compiler crashes with no error message. On
further analysis the problem seems to occur when the string constant has
around 2100 character. I tried changing the constant declaration to a string
variable declaration and it works fine.

Any ideas?

The following code can be used to reproduce the error:

const string TEST =
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890" +
"12345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 012345678901234 567890123456789 01234567890";

Regards
Gnik

Nov 16 '05

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Mark Broadbent

Excellent Daniel, always good to know.

I'm guessing that using constants the way gnik wanted to is probably quite a
rare scenario anyway, because the only reason you would want to put it's
declaration inside a class member is if it is unlikely to be called
(therefore having a slight potential benefit over declaring as a private
class const).

Thanks for your input too.

Br,

Mark.

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Having spent a bit of time with this there are several clear things.
1. Compiles ok when const is a class member.
2. Falls over when large string const is within Class member (have tried
methods and properties -static or not does not make a difference)
3. Length of const IS making a difference as to whether falls over or
not.
4. Your statement IS VALID.

This seems to be a bug in visual studio since your project will compile
with the command line util csc.

On the plus side, it appears that its fixed in whidbey, atleast for up to
three times the length of the repo case.

Nov 16 '05 #11

Gnik

Thanks for the suggestions, it's a relief to know it's not a problem with my
setup. I'll recode to put the constants at class level as in this case it
makes no difference in this particular application.

I was actually using the constants for SQL statements, bad practice I know,
but I had some issues with passing parameters to Access stored queries. I
need to go back a revisit that, but I'll save it for another thread when I
have more time.

Thanks again.

Gnik

"Mark Broadbent" wrote:

Excellent Daniel, always good to know.

I'm guessing that using constants the way gnik wanted to is probably quite a
rare scenario anyway, because the only reason you would want to put it's
declaration inside a class member is if it is unlikely to be called
(therefore having a slight potential benefit over declaring as a private
class const).

Thanks for your input too.

Br,

Mark.

Nov 16 '05 #12

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