From:	rpolzer AT www42 DOT t-offline DOT de (echo 'Rudolf Polzer'>/dev/null)
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Subject:	Re: Hunting Sigsev Errors
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Greg Donnells <gad AT donnesys DOT com> wrote:
> Would declaring the variable as a global (thus moving it's storage
> allocation to the data segment as opposed to the stack segment) also correct
> this scenario?

yes

> 
> 
> > This is, as you suspected, your problem. You've just allocated
> > ARRAYMAX times 516 bytes, or 516 KB of memory, on the stack. That's
> > more than the default size of the whole stack, and will, indeed, cause
> > a solid crash.


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