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author | murf <murf@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b> | 2006-10-04 15:49:20 +0000 |
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committer | murf <murf@f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b> | 2006-10-04 15:49:20 +0000 |
commit | fc3792cdf87523d34ac5198fce53959c9308d678 (patch) | |
tree | b841bf993490e14a30abde33f594dfec7eb12ae0 | |
parent | 0a73226dee659edfb767d94caa161c5eb1770efc (diff) |
In response to bug 7776, a Warning has been added to the doc string for Macro().
git-svn-id: http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4@44337 f38db490-d61c-443f-a65b-d21fe96a405b
-rw-r--r-- | apps/app_macro.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/apps/app_macro.c b/apps/app_macro.c index 21c2b7c62..ac1d766f3 100644 --- a/apps/app_macro.c +++ b/apps/app_macro.c @@ -60,7 +60,15 @@ static char *descrip = "If you Goto out of the Macro context, the Macro will terminate and control\n" "will be returned at the location of the Goto.\n" "If ${MACRO_OFFSET} is set at termination, Macro will attempt to continue\n" -"at priority MACRO_OFFSET + N + 1 if such a step exists, and N + 1 otherwise.\n"; +"at priority MACRO_OFFSET + N + 1 if such a step exists, and N + 1 otherwise.\n" +"WARNING: Because of the way Macro is implemented (it executes the priorities\n" +" contained within it via sub-engine), and a fixed per-thread\n" +" memory stack allowance, macros are limited to 7 levels\n" +" of nesting (macro calling macro calling macro, etc.); It\n" +" may be possible that stack-intensive applications in deeply nested macros\n" +" could cause asterisk to crash earlier than this limit. It is advised that\n" +" if you need to deeply nest macro calls, that you use the Gosub application\n" +" (now allows arguments like a Macro) with explict Return() calls instead.\n"; static char *if_descrip = " MacroIf(<expr>?macroname_a[|arg1][:macroname_b[|arg1]])\n" |