Trying to run LabVIEW 3.0.1 in Mini vMac on my 3DS and it's crashing on startup

[Sparkette]

Does anyone know how to fix this error that appears when starting up LabVIEW 3.0.1?

Failure: "units.c", line 334
LabVIEW version 3.0.1
Please record the preceding information
and contact National Instruments for
Technical Support

I don't plan on contacting NI because I doubt this version is still supported, at least not without a contract.

[ensegre]

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Mini_vMac_3DS

why? why? why?

[Sparkette]

1 hour ago, ensegre said:

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Mini_vMac_3DS

why? why? why?

For fun. 😄

"Science isn't about why; it's about why not!" - Cave Johnson

[Sparkette]

Here are the contents of LV_Fail.txt (I am aware the year is set wrong):

---
Wed, Jan 24, 1996 2:43:05 PM
Failure : "units.c", line 334
LabVIEW version 3.0.1
Please record the preceding information and contact National Instruments for Technical Support
0x001A8F4E MacStackCrawl+204
0x001AA17A Die+38
0x001AA118 DBAssert+128
0x0021C436 InitUnitManager+298
0x001BA1B6 InitApp+1860
0x00198406 WBackground+78
0x00187080 main+32766

 

[ShaunR]

21 hours ago, ensegre said:

why? why? why?

Great song.

[hooovahh]

On 1/24/2026 at 1:22 PM, Sparkette said:

"Science isn't about why; it's about why not!" - Cave Johnson

"I don't want your damn lemons!"

[Mefistotelis]

On 1/24/2026 at 8:45 PM, Sparkette said:

0x0021C436 InitUnitManager+298

This is clearly the assert just after `DSNewPClr()` call.

Anyone knows what packer tool was used to decrease size of LabVIEW-3.x Windows binaries? It is clear the file is packed, but I'm not motivated enough to identify what was used. UPX had a header at start and it's not there, so probably something else.

Anyway, without unpacked binary, I can't say more from that old version.

Though the version 6.0, although compiled in C++, seem to have this code very similar, and that I can analyze:

 

  if (gTotalUnitBases != 9)
    DBAssert("units.cpp", 416, 0, rcsid_234);
  cvt_size = AlignDatum(gTDTable[10], 4 * gTotalUnitBases + 18);
  gCvtBuf = DSNewPClr(cvt_size * (gTotalUnits - gTotalUnitBases + 1));
  if (gCvtBuf == NULL)
    DBAssert("units.cpp", 421, 0, rcsid_234);

The 2nd assert seem to correspond to yours, even though it's now in line 421. It's clearly "failed to allocate memory" error.