[asterisk-users] Macro vs sub

[Sammy Govind]

Yes I've personally experienced issue with nested macros and eventually
asterisk failing to process call any further. So I moved onto using GoSUBs
and everything worked perfectly. Since then I'm using GoSUBs happily.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Jonas Kellens <jonas.kellens at telenet.be>wrote:

> **
> Can someone confirm that the nesting of macro's or the continuous and
> simultaneous use of different macro's, can lead to stack-problems and cause
> an Asterisk spontaneous reboot/restart ?
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Jonas.
>
>
>
> On 01/17/2012 03:02 PM, Bryant Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Jonas
>
> >From what I understand they are trying to phase out Macros. We are slowly
> removing them from our dialplans as time allows for testing.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bryant Zimmerman (ZK Tech Inc.)
> 616-855-1030 Ext. 2003
>
>
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> *From*: "Jonas Kellens" <jonas.kellens at telenet.be><jonas.kellens at telenet.be>
> *Sent*: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 5:53 AM
> *To*: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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> *Subject*: [asterisk-users] Macro vs sub
>
> Hello list,
>
> can I conclude that it is better to use sub's in stead of macro's ?
>
> I read the following in an Asterisk-book :
>
> GoSub() works in a different manner from Macro(), though, in that it
> doesn’t have the stack space requirements, so
> it nests effectively. Essentially, GoSub() acts like Goto() with a memory
> of where it came from.
>
> Is it then not better to use a method that does not stack ?!
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jonas.
>
>
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