Cycling 74 » Topic: [MAX 4] stack overflow made easy http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-4-stack-overflow-made-easy/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:05:05 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-4-stack-overflow-made-easy/#post-48792 <![CDATA[[MAX 4] stack overflow made easy]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-4-stack-overflow-made-easy/#post-48792 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:43:42 +0000 Guillaume Evrard hi,

i know this won’t be fixed in the future but i would like to understand why it occurs.

if you click the button… biiiim :)

#P window setfont “Sans Serif” 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#N thispatcher;
#Q end;
#P newobj 168 151 61 196617 thispatcher;
#P message 168 125 73 196617 clean , dispose;
#P user jsui 168 80 86 34 1 0 0 jsui_textbutton.js button;
#P connect 1 0 2 0;
#P connect 0 0 1 0;
#P window clipboard copycount 3;

cheers,

g

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-4-stack-overflow-made-easy/#post-175352 <![CDATA[Re: [MAX 4] stack overflow made easy]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/max-4-stack-overflow-made-easy/#post-175352 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:54:31 +0000 seejayjames I think the idea is that you can create abstractions on-the-fly from your main patch, for example one which plays a big buffer~, and you may want to get all that memory back at some point. Simply closing the patch with the buffer~ won’t work, but “dispose” will kill it and free the memory.

You definitely wouldn’t want to use it in your main patch…

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