Safety mechanism for loops

There is a safety mechanism to prevent report processing from hanging due to an infinite loop. Any one evaluation of a formula can have at most 30,000 loop condition evaluations per formula evaluation. For example:

Dim i
i = 1
Do While i <= 100000
   If i > {movie.STARS} Then Exit Do
   i = i + 1
Loop
formula = 20

If {movie.STARS} is greater than 30,000 then the loop condition (i <= 100000) will be evaluated more than the maximum number of times and an error message is displayed. Otherwise the loop is OK.

Note:    The safety mechanism applies on a per formula base, not for each individual loop. For example:

Dim i
i = 1
For i = 1 To 10000
   formula = Sin (i)
Next i
Do While i <= 25000
   i = i + 1
Loop

The above formula also triggers the safety mechanism since the 30,000 refers to the total number of loop condition evaluations in the formula and this formula will have 10001 + 25001 such evaluations.