From: Charles Sandmann Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: allocating big chunks with djgpp Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 10:13:54 CST Organization: Rice University, Houston TX Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3e467e42.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: clio.rice.edu X-Trace: joe.rice.edu 1044807377 29607 128.42.105.3 (9 Feb 2003 16:16:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT rice DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Feb 2003 16:16:16 GMT X-NewsEditor: ED-1.5.9 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > with 16-bit DOS compilers, char buffer[30000][81] seems unrealistic and > infeasible. Now with Djgpp, how do I allocate such a big buffer in terms of > what syntax is used? or leave that code snippet intact and the linker will > function okay? The code snippet should work intact if it is a static variable and not an automatic variable. If it is an automatic varaible (inside a function for example) it would be put on the stack - and that's too big for DJGPP's default stack. You can change the stack size to work around this, but other ways are to make it a global/static variable or to use malloc() to allocate it.