You have a GSM shield that has wires?
I think it is beyond the scope of the subject to comment on my choice of boards unless you can point me to the page where it is stated that they are not compatible. But to make things clear: the project I am working on, monitors a burglar alarm, sends out (wired) once a day a status report by mail and when an alarm condition occurs sends out a SMS. That's the goal anyway and that is why I selected these boards.
To test the hardware in combination with the GSM library, I used an example from the website. I can not imagine that I am the only one out here with this combination of boards and the only one facing the reported problem.
There you are wrong. I expect undefined behavior when running out of memory.
I don't agree. I also expect undefined behavior when running out of memory, but that should occur after the same number of program lines. And that is not wat is happening.
Mr. Igoe may be a pioneer in the Arduino field, but he is NOT a programmer, and some of his examples are crap.
So when can the Arduino community expect your proposal for an improved example?????