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  1. Oct 23rd, 2001, 11:46 AM #1
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    Exclamation Urgent question!!!

    Hello everyone!
    This is for a project that I am currently working on:

    Compiler: GCC
    OS: Sun Solaris 5.6 (Unix)

    What is the maximum size of an array?

    Code:
    const maxArray = 10 meg ?? 50 meg??

int b[maxArray]
    I am also using: malloc => i am sure that amount is reserved.
    One side effect though, the program crashes more frequently than before.

    Thnx!
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  2. Oct 24th, 2001, 07:56 AM #2
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    the theoratical maximum depends on stack size. I don't know for Unix, but for windows the default is 1 MB (you can override this). But if you use up the whole MB, nothing else can be done - function calls, other stack variables etc. will cause your program to crash.
    malloc can reserve more space.
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  3. Oct 24th, 2001, 11:01 AM #3
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    thnx...
    But i figured it out when i was at work..
    the program runs "smoothly" now (with some minor adjustments)
    thnx anyway
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