Microsoft KB Archive/33628

= LINK &quot;Too Many Groups in One Module&quot; with 30+ Named COMMONs =

Article ID: 33628

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006



This article was previously published under Q33628



SYMPTOMS
If a program has more than 30 named COMMON blocks, it will give the following error at LINK time:

fatal error L1050: too many groups in one module

The program runs correctly inside the QuickBasic editor.

In QuickBasic version 3.00, the error message is as follows:

Too many GRPDEFS in one module



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in QuickBasic versions 3.00, 4.00, and 4.00b; in Microsoft Basic Compiler versions 6.00 and 6.00b for MS OS/2 and MS-DOS; and in Microsoft Basic Professional Development System (PDS) versions 7.00 and 7.10 for MS OS/2 and MS-DOS. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.



MORE INFORMATION
LINK.EXE is limited to support only 21 GRPDEF records per .OBJ module; Basic needs to be better optimized to produce a minimum number of GRPDEF records per .OBJ module when using named COMMON blocks. This feature is under review and will be considered for inclusion in a future release.

The following code example duplicates the problem: COMMON SHARED /Ann/ a1  COMMON SHARED /Brent/ a2   COMMON SHARED /Bill/ a3   COMMON SHARED /Darren/ a4   COMMON SHARED /Jeff/ a5   COMMON SHARED /Jim/ a6   COMMON SHARED /John/ a7   COMMON SHARED /Kyle/ a8   COMMON SHARED /LiKai/ a9   COMMON SHARED /Michelle/ a10 COMMON SHARED /Mike1/ a11 COMMON SHARED /Mike2/ a12 COMMON SHARED /Nancy1/ a13 COMMON SHARED /Nancy2/ a14 COMMON SHARED /Rich/ a15 COMMON SHARED /Sholeh/ a16 COMMON SHARED /Teri/ a17 COMMON SHARED /Terri/ a18 COMMON SHARED /Terry/ a19 COMMON SHARED /Todd/ a20 COMMON SHARED /Tom/ a21 COMMON SHARED /Greg/ a22 COMMON SHARED /Ziggy/ a23 COMMON SHARED /Dudley/ a24 COMMON SHARED /Beowulf/ a25 COMMON SHARED /Daffy/ a26 COMMON SHARED /Yoda/ a27 COMMON SHARED /Peewee/ a28 COMMON SHARED /Desslok/ a29 COMMON SHARED /Mel/ a30 COMMON SHARED /Harrison/ a31 PRINT &quot;OK!&quot;

Additional query words: QuickBas BasicCom buglist3.00 buglist4.00 buglist4.00b buglist4.50 buglist6.00 buglist6.00b buglist7.00 buglist7.10

Keywords: KB33628

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