My C arrays are too large
Jose Isaias Cabrera
jicman@outlook.com
Fri Sep 13 19:01:00 GMT 2019
Achim Gratz, on Friday, September 13, 2019 02:39 PM, wrote...
>
> Blair, Charles E III writes:
> > My apologies for failing to reply on-list. I don't know how :(
> >
> > My machine is 64 bit, and I hope I installed the correct version of cygwin.
> >
> > This program:
> >
> > #include<stdio.h>
> > int main(){char *a[50][8192];
> > return 0;}
> >
> > compiles with gcc (no special options) but gives "Segmentation fault".
>
> You are creating an automatic variable that's larger than the default
> stack. You need to enlarge the stack, either during link time or later
> e.g. via
>
> peflags -x0x800000 a.out
This is great! Thanks.
But, let's talk about this a bit... Shouldn't the compiler provide some warning, and also, it should never blow up with a "Segmentation fault". I believe there should be some type of Out Of Memory error, or something like it. But now just blow up. Anyone thinks like me? Just my 102 Dominican cents ($1 = $51 Dominican). :-)
josé
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