Failed invoking <symbol>, Stack Overflow Error - a method with many local variables

Hello, I have a looong draw method in my Weathergraph app and I got to a point, where adding a single more variable (like var xyz = 1;) causes the following error on all devices, just as they run a said method:

Failed invoking <symbol>
Stack Overflow Error

Is this a known limit? Is it documented somewhere? Are there known workarounds?

I had an idea of moving these variables from method to module or global scope, would that help? Thanks!

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Is this in the sim or if sideloaded to a device? If sim, what version? It could be the sim's stack.
How many variables?

Maybe post the method here or email it to Garmin.

Former Member over 8 years ago

This is the application stack. It is statically allocated and works a lot like the stack on any other platform.

Grouping these variables in classes, or generally moving things to any scope other than local will move them off of the stack and into another scope.

tomaskafka over 8 years ago

Thanks, it seems that moving some variables from a method to a class (and calling them with self.<name> to speed up lookups) helped. I was confused as this is a first time I run out of stack space :).